The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-07-22
THE PIrATIORM.

THE PLATFORM.
The committee on resol lutions present.
ed majority and minority reports. The
majority report was presented by Hon.
E. B. Finley, of Bucyrus. If was as
follows: After a session which COM
menced at ten o'clock Tuesday night and
lasted with slight interruption until six
o'clock this morning, the committee on
resolutions evolved both a majority and
minority report. The majority report
read:
eve most heartily endorse the honesty
and economy of the administration of
James E. Campbell. and commend the
Sixty-ninth general assembly for its
business qualifications, economy and re-
form, and especially for having provided
for a secret ballot by which every voter
in Ohio can cast his ballot in
secret as he desires, and have his
vote counted as cast; and we invite at
tention to the fact that the Republican
party through hypocritically processing
to favor "a free ballot and fair count"
yet opposed and voted against the bill
for providing for free and secret bal
lot, thus demonstrating its professions to
be insincere and for political effect only;
and we cordially endorse and approve
the act Of the legislature regulating the
compensation of county officers by pro-
viding for fixed salary--
WE are UPpUseu to all Utoss Of loeieior-
tion and believe in q tariff levied for the
sole purpose of producing revenue
sufficient to defray the legitimate ex-
penses Of the government economically
administered. We raccept the issue ten
dered to us by the..Republican party on
the subject of the tariff as rep
resented by the so-called McKin-
ri m n
verdict of the people of Ohio will be
recorded against the iniquitous policy of
so-called protection championed by the
Republican party in the interest of ia
vored classes against the masses.
''We favor a graded income tax. We
denounce the demonetization of silver in
1873 by the party then in power as an
inquitous alteration of the money
standard in favor of credi-
tors and against debtors taxpayers and
producers and which by shutting off one
of the sources of supply of primary money
operates continually to increase the
value Of gold. repress prices, hamper in
dustry and disparage enterprise, and we
demand the reinstatement Of the consti-
tutional standard of both silver and gold
with the equal right of each to free and
| unlimited coinage.
''We denounce the Republican billion
dollar congress which, by its extravagant
| expenditures, exhausted surplus In the
national treasury left there by Demo
cratic administration, and created a
| deficit which substituted despotic rule
| for free discussion in the house of repre-
sentatives, and we congratulate the peo-
| pie in the defeat of the odious Force
| bill demanded by Republican
president and championed by the
Republican party for the purpose Of per-
petuating its rule by preventing the con-
stitutional powers of the government,
| destroying free elections and placing the
ballot box in the hands of unscrupuIous
partisans, in order as declared by
Speaker Reed to register the voters,
supervise the elections, count the ballots
and declare the result.
''We are opposed to the enactment oi
all laws which unnecessarily interfere
with the habits and customs OF any oil
our people whicn are not offensive to the
moral sentiments of the civilized world
and we believe that the personal rights
Of the individual should be CONTROLLED
only when 1t is essential to the rnainten
ance Of the peace, good order and wei
fare Of the community.
"We favor the passage Of such laws by
the general assembly as will give US s
system for the government of our munic
ipalities uniform throughout the state q;
the constitution requires, in which the
executive and legislative power shall be
separated, the former to be lodged in 6
mayor and the latter in a council, boN
to be elected by the people, thereby real
izing the principle of home rule, safe
from the dangers and evils of special leg
islation.
''We favor closer commercial relation.
with our Canadian neishbors and the re
moval OF the embarrassing and annoy
ing restrictions which only vex our peo
pie without yielding any substantial
revenue to the government.
1--WE favor liberal and just pensions t.
deserving and disabled soldiers and sail
ors who fought for the maintenance o.
the government and like pensions t.
their widows and orphan children. TIL,
persecution of the Jewish people by thu
Russian government justly deserves ant
receives our unqualified censure. w,
extend to them our sincere sympathie!
and believe that this government in con
nection with enlightened governments o
Europe, disposed to unite with US, shoult
take proper steps to alleviate the wrong
oppressed race"
Mr.. German, of Cincinnati, presented
the minority report, which was as fol
lows:
1--WE, the undersigned members Of tn,
committee on resolutions recommend th,
adoption of the following resolution Al
q substitute for the plank in the plat
form on the free and unlimited coinag,
of silver.
''Wo believe In honest money, tn,
coinage OF gold and silver and circulating
medium convertible into such none,
without loss, and we oppose all legisla
tion which tends to drive either gold O.
silver out of circulation, and we believ,
in maintaining in coinage both metal
on a parity.
''We also recommend that the resolp
tion declaring for graduated tax on In
comes be stricken from the platform.
"James d. Ermston, First district; T
NJ. German, Second; Michael Donnelly
Sixth; r. o. Farrell, Seventh; Manu-
| O'Donnell, Ninth; S. A. Harter, Six
teenth; G. N. Schwick, Eighteenth; p
G. Goldman, Nineteenth; James Law
renee, Twentieth"
There was long argument over th'
coinage question, Mr.. Corner urging tn,
committee to leave it alone and Mr.
Ffndlay advocating free silver. Th,
question was put to vote and the ma
| jority report was adopted by yeas 59eH
nays 300x. A shout of applause wen
up from the free coinage men.
AN ERIE WRECK,