The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-08-18

The recent Ohio Democratic State
Convention adopted the following plat
form of nrincipIes:

The recent Ohio Democratic State
Convention adopted the following plat
form of principles:
ssembled, hereby reaffirrn 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
by the great founder OF the Democratic party
Thomas Jefferson The application OF these
principles to our present condition demands
ishment of the robbers of the public treas
ury, the equalization of all public burdens,
the arrest of the pronigacy and extravaganza
fairs, and total change in the policy that has
20 long been pursued by the Republican party
-favoring individual and class interest at the
people Of the country; and We resiirm our
previous declarations for stable money, the
gradual extinction Of the public debt and the
payment OF pensions to disabled soldiers.
2 We favor tariff for revenue limited to the
necessities Of the Government, economically
administered, and g adjusted Y its application
productive industries at home, AFFORD Just
compensation to labor, but not to create or
3. The act Of the Republican Congress 70
ducing the tariff on wool, while 1t the same
time increasing II on WOODEN goods, already
highly protected, was Ubiquitous legislation,
against the agricultural interests of the !coun-
try, and ought to be corrected; and We heart
lily approve the action OF the Democratic
members Of the Ohio delegation IN Congress
In voting against that increase.
T. The Democratic party ia. as it always has
been, opposed to sumptuary legislation and un-
equal taxation in any form, and IL In favor of
tent with the public welfare and the
rights OF others, and Of regulating the liquor
trafic and providing against the evils result
ing therefrom by q judicious and properly
graded license system. ~
s. The abuses OF the present contract system
in our State Penitenffary, by which the pro-
ducts of the labor of conyicts are brought In
competition with the products OF honest labor
to the great detriment of the latter, are injuri-
GUS and unwise. and ought to be corrected,
abolish this system are shown to be false and
hypocritical by its failure to do 80 while 1t has
8. The protection of the Government Il due
to all American citizens, native and foreign
born. abroad as well as ut home.
Conventions of Ohio in 1880, 1881 and 1855, and
and Of the Democratic National Conventions
of 1872 1870, and 1880. demanding thorough
reform and publication Of the civil service,
and charge that the Republican party has vio-
lated lated every pledge IT has hhereto-
and has failed during it's long administration
of the Government to correct even the
most crying abuses; and we demand. there
fore, a change In the executive administration
of the Government itself as the reform first Of
all necessary las made still more manifest by
the recent Star-route trials, thereby BUSTING
corrupt rings, confederated to protect crime
and prevent the punishment of criminals, and
by so doing to make IL possible again to pun
ish fraud and theft In the public service.