The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-28

assembled at your Capital so grand an assem-
blage of the leading and representative men,
votes, as 1 see assembled on this occasion.
You are from all over the State; from the
Queen City on the South, circling around on
ward up into the great Northwest, where we,
down in our region, so often watch and wait
and listen, and so are seldom disappointed in
hearing the grand od Democratic thunder
here to the regenerated, disenthralled, grand
old Cuyahoga; bright faces flushed with tri-
gem on the waves s'o On p blue Eries sea: and then
come along to this wheat belt where the url-
dersigned and others reside, where they raise
and along through the mines, workshops. on
hill and in dale, wherever industry strikes
e hammer % or agriculture turns its tlow,
ing each in the earnestness which! betokens
Democratic gentlemen. determine to hurrah
for the victorious candidate, and buckle on
the armor, for his election when the battle
bathe anew the grand old party in the spirit
Of the fathers, in the spirit of the immortal
Jefferson and jackson, in that spirit which is
constantly struggling for popular right and
the enlargement of popular freedom, and is
continually vigilant in the restriction of gov
ernmentai interference with any form OF
law and order, a spirit which relies upon the
economy and frugality, instead of onerous
taxation, exacting burdens under whatever
name, as the true basis of national, as it is of
relies upon the cultivation of personal
endeavor, personal control, as distinguished
from external force, as the true basis of
manly temperance and all the other cognate
virtues.
And now, fellow-citizens, that same spirit of
the fathers of which / have been speaking,
and which has made our homes pleasant here,
answered in the spirit of true philanthropy
that great question: Am 1 my brothers
keeperf' when that question was asked of the
down-trodden and oppressed of other lands:
keeper; or in that spirit of the old Democratic
party which goes forth in sympathy across
the oppressed wherever the tyrant's rod is
raised, whether it be over some poor bleeding
back beneath the Russian knout, or over in
the green island of the sea, where, under
fold and step off to glory. Wherever oppres-
Oppressed ODD falls and his hand is uplifted G to u.s. us,
thy for him. We are going to nominate the
ing through no sham performances. The vic
tory this fall will be the forerunner of what is
to come and will M tend to Permanently perm trans
publican roll over to the Democratic, and let
us see if we can't do better with it. We are SO
determined that in the printing of our Demo
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The report of the Committee on Platform
was then read as follows, and Immediately
adopted amid great enthusiasm:
THE PLATFORM.
The Democracy of Ohio in convention as
sembled hereby reaffim the principles of the
party as expressed in primaries, State and
National platforms, in regard to personal lib
erty, the true functions of 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 publication of the public service, the
punishment of the robbers of the public treas
ury, the equalization of all public bur-
dens, the arrest of the proficacy and extrav
public affairs, and total change in the policy
tnat has SO long been pursued by the Repub-
ican party, favoring individual and class in
terests at the expense of the labor1ng and
wealth-producing people of the country; and
we re-announce our previous declarations for
stable money, the gradual extinction of the
public debt, and the payment of pensions to
2. We favor a tariff for revenue limited to
the necessities of government economically
administered, and so adjusted in it's applica-
ton as to prevent unequal burdens encour-
age productive industries at home, afford just
compensation to labor, but not to create or
foster monopolies.
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,
discriminating in favor of monopoly and
against the agricultural interests of the
country, and ought to be corrected; and we
heartily approve the action of the Democratic
members of the Ohio delegation in Congress
In voting against that increase.