The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-21

remind us that as long as we follow
their examples and initiate their
virtues SO long shall we have bril-
liant leadership and our cause and
party be preserved.
"Taxes should not be collected
beyond the needs of government
economically administered; and we
hereby reaffirm the principles laid
down in our last State and national
platforms upon the tariff question,
and demand thorough and just
revision of existing tariff laws in
accordance with these principles.
1--WE heartily approve the policy
of paying out the surplus revenues
heretofore accumulated in the
Treasury on the interest-bearing
debt and pensions to disabled SOL
diers and their widows.
Every dollar of unnecessary
taxation, State or national, is rob-
berry, and in derogation of the
rights of the people; an unnecessa-
ry surplus in the Treasury is an
incentive to corruption and Con-
gressional jobbery, and an oppres-
sion of the people, whose money is
thus locked up beyond their con-
troll.
1--WE denounce the attempt to
change the measure of values in
the face of the worlds vast debts,
from gold and silver to gold alone,
as an act of monstrous injustice,
and demand that both gold and
silver, as established by the Con-
sitution, shall be maintained as
the basis of our money system.
1--WE approve the action of the
Democratic House Of Congress on
forfeiting and restoring to the pub
lie domain for homesteads for act
ual settlers nearly hundred mil
lions of acres of unearned lands
heretofore granted by Repub-
lican Congresses to railroad corpo-
rations, and we also approve the
act preventing alien ownership in
large tracts of public lands in the
United States. We approve the
prompt, firm and vigorous action Of
the State Department and the pres
ent Democratic Administration in
the protection of American citizens
in foreign countries.
"In common with the Democracy
Of the country, we express our SYM
pathy with Ireland in her great
struggle for Home Rule. The
friends of liberty throughout the
world are deeply interested in this
effort which the supporters of Glad
stone and Parnell are now making
to give the right to govern them
selves to the long-suffering and
greatly wronged Irish people, and
we sincerely hope the struggle of
Ireland for her just rights shall be
crowned with complete success.
1--WE denounce the Inscriptions of
the Republican Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor and less than quorum of
Republican Senators of the State
Senate as an act of revolution and
| a grave crime against the Consti-
tuition of Ohio and precedent too
dangerous to permit to pass un-
condemned by the people of the
State.
1--WE demand that every safe
guard of the ballot shall be main
tanned; that the. votes of the peo-
pie shall be honestly cast and hon
estly counted, and that every crime
against the purity of the ballot-boX
shall be promptly and vigorously
punished, by whomsoever commit.
ted.
"We denOunce and condemn the
partisan reorganization of the
penal and benevolent institutions
of the State, not made with view
to increase the efficiency of Their
management, but for the purpose
of controlling their revenues and in.
cidental powers for partisan pur'
: poses, thus dragging down to the
basest uses the willing gifts of the
people for the amelioration of the
unfortunate.
"We hereby express our un
bounded confidence in the integri
ty and Democracy of the Demo
cratic members of the Senate of the
. Sixty-seventh General Assembly o.
Ohio.
"Believing that evils growing
. out of the traffic in Intoxicating
liquors can best be provided against
by a well-regulated license system
we renew our declaration in favor
. of an amendment to the COnstitu
. tion that will permit judicions reg
ulation of the traffic and repress the
, abuses growing out of it withou'
destroying the principles of person
al liberty or the right of private