The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-06-28

Hon. Geo. HoadIey of Cincinnati
was nominated for governor of Ohio
last Thursday on the second ballot
by the largest state convention ever
assembled there. 1t is spoken of
on all hands as a strong nomina-
ton and the universal opinion is
that he will be elected. Ohio
leads the van this year and the
result will be indicative of what is
to be the outcome in the presiden-
tial canvass. If democracy shows
up strong there and it is shown
that the great democratic sweep
last year came to stay, it will put
the republicans to route all over
the country. AS so much is pre-
Dictated upon this issue, we give the
platform, which sounds the key
note to the next national cam
paign:
PLATFORM.
The democracy of Ohio, in convention
assembled, hereby reafiirm the princi-
Piles OF the party, as expressed in the
primaries, and state and national plat
forms, in regard to personal liberty, the
true functions of the government, and
as embraced in the political creed eX-
pounded by the great founder of the
democratic party-Thomas j efferson.
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 protligacy and
extravaganza that corrupt the admins
tration of public affairs, and a total
change in the policy that has so long
been pursued by the republicans, favor
ing individual and class interest at the
expense of the laboring and wealth
producing people of the country; and
we reannounce our previous decla-
rations for stable money, the gradual
extinctions of the public debt and the
payment of pensions to disabled SOL
diers, their widows and orphans.
9 We favor tariff for revenue limi-
ted to the necessities of the government
economically administered, and so adj
| justed in its application as to prevent
unequal burdens, encourage productive
I industries at home, afford just compen-
sation to labor, but not to create or
foster monopolies.
3. The act of the republican congress
reducing the tariff on wool, while at the
samestime increasing it on wooden goods
already highly protected, was iniqui-
tous legislation, discriminating in favor
of monopoly and against the agricul-
tural interests of the country and ought
| to be corrected, and we heartily ap-
prove the action of the democratic
mem bers of the Ohio delegation in
congress in voting against that increase.
4. The democratic party is, as it
always has been, opposed to sumptuary
| legislation and unequal taxation in any
form, and is in favor of the largest
| liberty OF private conduct consistent
with the public welfare and the rights
of others, and of regulating the liquor
traffic and providing against the evils
resulting therefrom by judicious and
properly graded license system.
3. The abuses of the present contract
system in our state penitentiary, by
which the products of the labor Of the
convicts are brought in competition
with the products OF honest labor, to the
great detriment OF the latter, are inju-
rious, unwise and ought to be cor
rected, and the promises of the re-
| publican party o abolish this system
are shown to be false and hypocritical
| by its failure to do so while it has had
the power to do so.
6. The protection Of the government
is due to all American citizens, native
and foreign born, abroad as well as at
home.
z. We reaffirm the resolutions of the
state conventions of Ohio in 1880, 1881
and 1892, and of the democratic national
convention of 1872, 1876 and 1880, de-
handing the thorough reform and
publication of the civil service, and
charge that the republican party has
violated every pledge it has heretofore
given for the reform thereof, and has
failed during its long administration of
the government to correct even the
most crying abuses; and we demand
therefore, a change in the executive
administration of the government itself,
as the reform first of all necessary and
made still mOre manifest by the recent
star-rout trials, therby ousting corrupt
rings, confederated to protect crime and
prevent the punishment of criminals,
and by so deing to make it possible
again TO punish fraud and theft in the
public service.