The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
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The Ohio Democratic Platform.
The recent Ohio Democratic State
Convention adopted the following plat
form of principles: @

Convention adopted the following plat
form of principles: 's f
The Democracy OF Ohio, in convention as
sembled, hereby reaffirm the principles of the
party, as expressed in the primaries and State
and National platforms in regard to personal
liberty, the true functions of government, and
as embraced in the political creed expounded
oy the sre # es Of
principles to our present condition demands
the publication of the public service, the pun
ishment of the robbers of the public treas
ury, the equalization of all public burdens,
the arrest of the profigacy and extravagance
that corrupt the administration OF public al
fairs, and total change in the policy that has
SO long been pursued by the Republican party
-favoring individual and class interest at the
people of the country; and we reafirm our
previous declarations for stable money, the
gradual extinction OF the public debt. and the
payment of pensions to disabled soldiers,
their widows and orphans. ". afi.IlIi,B ~
2. We favor tariff for revenue limited to the
administered, and SO adjusted in its application
as to prevent unequal burdens, encourage
productive industries at home, afford Just
compensation to labor, but not to create or
foster monopolies 5H So 1tfs &a5f
8. The act of the Republican Congress re-
ducing the tariff on wool, while at the same
time Increasing it on woolen goods, already
highly protected, was iniQuitous legislation,
against the agricultural interests of the coun7
| try, and ought to be corrected; and we heart
/ fly approve the action of the Democratde
/
| in voting against that increase . s.r, E.,,.
4 The Democratic party is, as it always has
been, opposed dtosumptuaryleg legislatio and un-
equal taxation in any form, and is in favor of
| the largest liberty of private conduct consis-
| tent with the public welfare ana the
1 rights of others, and of regulating the liquor
traffic and providing against the evils result
/ ing therefrom by judicfous and properly
| graded license system: 4atyat. ast&4at
1 8. The abuses of the present contract system
| In our State Penftentiary, by which. the pro
ducts of the labor of convicts are brought I'm
| competition with the products of honest labor,
to the great detriment of the latter, are fnJur1-
GUS 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 so while 1t has
| had the power.
g. The protection of the Government is due
1 to all American citizens, native and foreign
| born. abroad as well as at home. 10 - ,
/ .. We reaffirm the resolutions of the State
| Conventions of Ohio in 1880, 1881 ano 1852. and
/ and of the Democratic National Conyentiops
of 1872. 1876, and 1880, demanding a thorough
1 reform and purffcationof the civil service
and charge that the Republican party hasvio
lated every pledge 1t has hereto
fore given for I, the reform thereof,
i and has failed during its long administration
of the Government to correct even the
fore, a change in the executive administration
| of the Government itself as the reform first Of
all necessary (as made still more manifest bJ
Il the recent Star-route trials) thereby oustine
corrupt rings, confederated to protect cr1ms
| and prevent the punishment of criminals, ant
4 by so doing to make it possible again to pun
il ish fraud and theft in the publieservfce.k =