Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-06-28

other changes, and the ballot was finally
announced:
Hoadly ...-.--- -.... S5Z
| Ward e. e.........-. 245
Scattering NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 64
A committee WAS appointed to notify
the nominee, and while they were alb
Sc Mt the platform was read:
THE PLATFORM.
The following is the full text of the
platform:
The Democracy of Ohio, In convention
assembled, hereby reafiirm the princi
pies of the party, as expressed in the
primaries, State and National platforms,
in regard to personal liberty, the true
functions of government, and as embra .
ced 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 pu-
rification of the service; the punishment
of the robbers of the public treasury
the equalization of all public burdens
the arrest of prohigacy and eXtrava-
gance that corrupts the administration
of public officers and total change in
the policy that has 50 long been pursued
by the Republican party-fayoring indi-
vidual and class interest at the expense
of the laboring and wealth producing
people of the country-and we renew
our previous declarations for stable mon
ey, the gradual extinction of the public
debt, and the payment of pensions to
disabled soldiers, their widows and Or
| phans.
| III Eav fnr-f For mo
limited to the necessities of the Govern
ment, economically administered, and
SO adjusted in its application as to pre-
vent unequal burdens, encourage pro-
ductive industries at home, afford just
compensation to labor, but not to create
or foster monopolies.
| Third-The act of the Republican Con-
gress reducing the tariff on wool, while
at the same time increasing it on wooden
goods already highly protected, was in
iquitons 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 Con-
gress in voting against that measure.
Fourth-The Democratic party is, as
it always has been, opposed to sumptu
airy 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 system.
Fifth-The abuses of the present con-
tract system in our State Penitentiary.
by which the production of the labor of
convicts are brought in competition
with the products of honest labor, to the
great detriment of the latter, are inju-
riouS and unwise, and ought to be cor
rected, and the promises of the Republi-
can party to abolish this system are
shown to be false and hypocritical by its
failure to do so while it has had the
| power.
Sixth-The protection of the Govern
ment is due to the American citizens,
native aud foreign born, abroad as we'll
as at home.
Seyenth-We reaffirm the resolutions
of the State Conventions Of Ohio in 1880.
1881 and 1892, and of the Democratic
National Conventions Of 1872, 1876 and
lOOu, uOuouuluk q tlOiOuSu tclUi III anu
publication Of the civil service, and The
charge that the Republican party has vi
olated 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, change in the executive ad-
ministration of the Government itself,
and the reforms first of all necessary (as
made still more manifest by the recent
star rote trials) thereby ousting corrupt
rings, confederated to protect crime and
prevent the punishment of criminals,
and by 80 doing to make it possible
again to punish fraud and theft in the
public service.
Without intermission for dinner, or
supper, the convention continued It's
work of making ticket, and was in ses-
sion until l:I5 a, m. the principal feat