The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-06-29
The Ohio Democrats.

The Democracy of Ohio last week
nominated Judge Hoadly for Governor.
He is strong candidate, and the con
test in that state will be hotly fought
with the chances in favor of the demo-
Gratis. The platform adopted is sound
one, and the tariff plank is not what
was expected or hoped for by the op-
position.
The platform adopted is as follows !:
The Democracy of Ohio, in conven-
tion assembled, hereby affirm the prin-
c'ples of the party as expressed in the
primaries and in the state and national
p atforms, in regard to personal liberty
the true function of good government,
and as embraced in the political creed
expounded by the great founder of the
Democratic party-Thomas Jefferson
The application of these principles to
our present condition demands the puri.
fication of the public service, the pun.
ishment of the robbers of the public
treasury, the equalization of all public
burdens the arrest of the prohigacy and
extravaganza that corrupt the admins
tration of public affairs, and a total
change in the policy that has so lo.e
been pursued by the Republican party,
of favoring individual and class inter.
est at the expense of the lsboring and
wealth-prc ducing people ofthe country,
and we reannounce our previous decla-
ration for stable money, and the grad
ual extinction of the public debt and
the payment of pensions to disabled
soldiers, their wives and orphans.
SecOnd-We favor tariff for reve-
nue. limited to the necessities OF a
government economically administered
and so adjusted in its application as to
prevent unequal burdens, encourage
productive interests at home and afford
just compensation to labor, but not to
create or foster monopoly.
Ihird-The act of the Republican
Congress reducing the tariff on wool,
while at the same time increasing it on
woolen goods, already higily projected
was iniquitous legislation. discriminat-
ing in favor of monopoly and against
the agricultural interests of the coun.
try, and ought not to have beel carried,
aud we heartily approve the action of
the Democratic members of the Ohio
delegation in Congress in voting against
the increase.
FOHth-The Democratic party is,
as it always has been, opposed to sump-
tuary legislation and unequal taxation
in any form, and is in favor of the
largest liberty of private conduct con
sistent with the public welfare and the
rights Of others, and of regulating the
liquor traffic and proyiGIng against
evils resulting therefrom by judicious
and properly graded license system
FVth-The abuses of the present
contract system in our State Peniten-
tiary, by which the products of the
labor of convicts are brought into com
petition with the products of honest
labor, to the great detriment of the lat
ter, are injurious and unwise and ought
to be corrected, and the promises of the
Republican party to abolish this system
are shown TO be false and hypocritical
by its failure to do 30 while il has had
the power.
Sirth-The protection of the Govern.
ment is due to ali American citizens,
native and foreign born, abroad as well
as at home.
SeUe,sth- We reaifilm the resolutions
of the State Convention of Ohio in $50,
1881 and 1882, and of the Democratic
National Conventions of 1872, 1876