The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-08-14
Democratic Platform.

RESOLVED First, That the Dem
ocracy of Ohio. in convention re
affirms its Platform of 1883 as fol
l,ws: 1t indorses the principles of
the party expressed in previous
State and National platforms in re
gard to personal liberty, the true
functions of the government, and as
embraced in poll ical creed. ex
pounded by the founder of the Dem
ocratic party, Thomas jefferson
The application of these principles
to our present condition demands
the purlfication of the public serv
ice. the punishment of the robbers
of the public treasury, the eqnali
zation of all public burdens. The
arrest of the prufiigacy and extrav-
agance that corrupt the admins
tration of pubic affairs. and a to
tai change in the policy that so long
has been pursued by the Republi
can party tavoring individual and
class interests at the expense of the
laboring AND wealth producing peo
PIE Of the country; and we renew
our declarations for stable money,
the gradual extinction of the pub
lie debt and the payment of pen
sions to disabled soldiers, their wild
ows and orphans.
Second, We favor tariff for
revenue, limited to the necessities of
the Government. economically ad
ministered and so adjusted in its ap-
picatlon as 60 prevent unequal bur
dens, encourage productive indus
tries at home. afford just cOmpen-
sation to labor but not tc create or
fos er monopo'ies.
Third. That the just demands of
the wool growers of the State and
country for an equitable readjust-
ment of duties on wool (unjustly
reduced by a Republican Congress)
so that the industry shall he fully
and equally favored with other
industries, ought to be complied
with, and we endorse the action of
The Democratic members of the
Ohio delegation in Congress in
their effort to accomplish this re-
suit.
Fourth Democratic party
is and ALWAYS has been OppOsed to
sumptLary legislation and unequal
taxation in any form, and is in ia
vor of the largest liberty of private
conduct consistent with public wei
fare and rights of others; and of
regulating the liquor traffic and pro
viding against the evils resulting
by a judicious and prop
F:fth-That We commend the ac
ton of the Democratic Legislature
in its abolition of the contract
'abor system and its reforms of
prison management, and we endorse
the legislature and executive in
their economical and wise admins |
tration of the affairs of the State.
Sixth-The protection of the
Is due to all American
native aud foreign horn,
abroad and at home.
Seventh-We reafirm the resolu.
lions of the State Conventions Of
Ohio in 1880, 1881 and 1882 and of
the Democratic National Conven,
lions of 1872, 1876 and 1880, de
a thorough reform and
of the Civil Service. and
charge that the Republican party
mas violated every p'edge it has
given to the reform there
If. and has failed during its long
of the government
% correct even the most patent
lbuses, and we deem therefore a
change of the executive admins
ration of the government itself
is the reform first of all necessary
as made more manifest by the
Star route trials and other iniqui-
ies) thereby ousting corrupt rings.
to protect crime and
prevent the punishment of criminals,
md by so doing make it possible to
punish fraud and theft in political
ervlro |