Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-07-23
Eictions and Shams.

The Democratic platform is so long,
its verbiage is so wearisome, and It's
organizations are so numerous, thatto
do it full justice would be too great a
task for one day OF for many days. 1t
can be criticised only in detail and by
sections. No newspaper which consid-
ers the comfort of the reading public
will attempt, during dog-days, to ex-
pose all the contradictions, lotions,
sinuosities, tlatulencies and decelts
which it contains. An occasional spec
linen must answer as an illustration OF
logic, false differences and false con-
illusions can be exposed only as a peri
patetic salesman disposes of his wares
by sample.
What the trainers of this platform
doubtless regarded as a series OF very
forcible propositions includes denun-
citation of Republican policies, or,
rather, of series of phantoms which
it described as Republican policies.
The Democratic platform denOunceS
grants of public lands to railroads as a
Republican measure. The first grant
of land for railroad purposes was pro-
posed by Stephen A. Douglas, and
voted by a Democratic COngress-it
was to aid the Illinois Central Railroad.
Lands for aiding the construction OF
railroads were first granted to the
States as a system in 1856, under the
Democratic Administration of Frank
lin Pierce. The Democrats in Congress
have favored and supported every sub
sequent grant of public lands to rail-
road corporations. The opposite pol,
icy, that of giving the land to actual
Fn, dc &C.
Republican policy, adopted by a he
publican Congress under the Admins
tratiOn of Abraham Lincoln.
The platform describes the dimlnu-
ton of American commerce as the re-
suit of Republican measures. Amerl-
can ships and shipping were swept OH
the high seas" in the language OF the
Democracy, not as the result OF Repub-
lican policies, but by Democratic rebel
cruisers and privateers. 1t was Demo-
cratic piracy, not Republican legisla-
ton. which destroyed American COM
merce. But American commerce has
partially recovered from the attacks OF
its rebel enemies and is again thrifty
and growing element OF national pros
perity.
This lying platform declares that Re
publican policy has surrendered TO
Great Britain "Cn6 markets. VI CHc
world" The United States furnishes
to the markets of the world their wheat,
their corn, their cotton, their beef, their
pork, their agricultural implements,
their sewing machines and ten thou
sands of other articles produced by
American ingenuity and industry I'M
der the protection of Republican tar
iff.
The platform denounces the financial
and revenue system which produces a
surplus in the Governments Treasury
of 800, 100000 year. The Democratic
policy of horizontal" tariff reduction
would, by stimulating the Importation
of dutiable goods, double or treble this
snnual surplus and at the same time
would cripple and debase American in
dustry.
In its very sympathies the Democracy
is fraud. Its pathetic adulation OF
Samuel J. Tilden is sham and false
pretense. If they wanted to vindicate
Tilden, why did they not renominatee
him in 1880? Because he knew and
they knew that the history of the "ci-
pher dispatches" was then too fresh IN
the public mind, and that Overwhelm-
ing defeat on that Infamous record was
then inevitable.-Chicago Journal.