Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-12
THE OHIO PLATFORM.

good o,d ring, and one would thlnK Ie
read it that the country was in the midst
of war and rebellion. The Democratic
party i denounced in right good style
The pIbtform calls for the security of the
right tb vote at all hazards, and says
that tie sacred guarantees of the right
must he maintained, and additional legis-
lation had to maintain it if necessary.
This inay mean more power to the
United States Marshals to swear in
deputits to keep order on election days.
The SO enes at Cincinnati last November
show How salutary a measure the grant
ing of lhis power is when there is pros
pect OF close election and of the party
in power being ousted. Most people will
think that the Democratic victory of last
fall WIS owing to the fact that the people
desireE change, and in accordance with
their desire voted for a change. But this
is not The case at all, if we may believe
the Oh bio Republicans. The true cause,
say they, was the willful suppression
of thb ballot by the Democrats.
They Neglected to locate the place where
the b llots were suppressed. Possibly
they rffer to Georgia, where there is such
prepbnderance OF Republicans.
Thqplatform favors such legislation as
will Id 4rmonize the relations of labor and
capital, very curious kind of legislation,
judging from the samples that the
counti y has seen heretofore. The chief
objectof this legislation this fall is to get
the vdtes OF the workingmen under the
prete3t of being specially their friend.
For tile State to undertake to harmonic
the rel lations of labor and capital, is for
the Sttte to verge on to socialism. The
wholeIplatform is tendency to centrali.
zation and the control of private affairs
by thd State. One plank enunciates this
strongly centralized doctrine:
"We favor the establishment of a ma
tional bureau of industry, enforcement of
the eld dht-hour law, and adequate appropria-
tlons from the public revenues for general
education, wheyer the same is needed
1t is the doctrine that to the General
Government belong the control and regu-
lation bf the internal affairs of the States;
1t is tte most pernicious doctrine that
this cfuntry will have to fight in the
futuret In its tendency it is as fatal to
Amer ban institutions as founded as was
the dottrine of secession. If the General
Government may establish a national
bureau of industry, and enforce an eight
hour tw, it may say what the compen-
sation for eight hours labor shall be.
And it may determine these things,
why MAY it not say what manufactures
that Ia Por shall be devoted to the pro-
ductiot Of? 1t is the doctrine that the
citizenIis created for the State and not
the tte for the citizen.
Following this, the Ohio Republicans
favor 4 protective tariff which shall en-
COURAGE American development, and fur
nlsh 1emunerative employment to Am
erica4 labor. Whether the products of
American labor can command market
and ptice to make it remunerative or not.
seemi not to enter into the consideration
of thd question at all If an industry is
not remunerative it must be made so.
and If 1t cannot stand the expense itself,
some pne else must. On the top of this,
the platform declares that eve are op-
poseqto the British policy advocated by
the | fmocratic party under the guise of
tariff for revenue only" 1t was a for
tunatf phrase to term the doctrine of
free trade ''the British policy"
The phrase has the merit of being
both dubious and deceitful, and to
many the only thing that the phrase
British policy" will suggest, will be the
TACT bat the British were once dominant
on THIS continent, and that America had
sev4n years war with the British to
throw off their yoke, To the Irish it will
doubtless suggest the Coercion Act and
the Grimes Act. The British policv''
has M tade London the center of the COM
mercit world, and has made English
commerce the biggest commerce of the
worldI The beneficent results of protec-
ton tnay be seen to good advantage in
the ptSent condition of the iron trade.
and tile shutting down of mills in Pitts
burg.
Thd Administration of President Cleve- |
land + denounced, and one might think !
that was an active arch traitor. The
denu1 1ciation is based on the fact that
President Cleveland has selected Demo-
Gratis Tor office instead of Republicans. |
and sbme of the Democrats so selected
have been Confederates in former times
Ihey fccept the result of the war, and
are A Inericans to-day and not secession /
lists. General Grant also selected some |
such Ihen, among whom were General
Longs}reet and Colonel Mosby; their pol
ltlcs after the war were Republican, while !
the Holltlcs OF Secretary Lamar are
Demotratic. Then comes a censure of
the "A ADMINISTRATION for its disregard of
the clIll service plank in the Democratic
pIatiofm. This is amusing in view of the
compf flnt which some Democratic ma
pers Rre making against the inactior
of thd Administration in not "turninp tbe
rascal out" Only the other day son
of He bry Ward Beecher was nominated
for S mall Office, and the nomination was
denounced by some Democrats as a
MugwImps or Republican one. OF course
the Cd Invention thought all the nomina-