The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-20

IN 1876, that the duties Levied Tor the
purpose of revenue should so discrim-
mate as to favor Ameican labor; that
no further grant of the public domain
should be made to any railway, or
other corporation; that slavery having
perished in the States, the twin bar
barity- olygamy-must die in the
Territories; that every where the pro
lection accorded to citizens of Ameri-
can birth must be secured to citizens
by American adoption, and that we
esteem it the duty of Congress to de-
velop and improve our Watercourses
and harbors, but insist that further
subsidies to private persons or cor
porations must cease; that the obliga-
tions of the Republic to the men who
preserved it's integrity in the hour of
battle are undiminished by the lapse
of the fifteen years since their final
victory-to do them perpetual honor
is, and shall forever be, the grateful
privilege and sacred duty of the Ameri-
can people.
Sixth Since the authority to regu-
late immigration and intercourse be-
tween the United States and foreign
nations, rests with Congress, or with
the United States and it's treaty making
powers, the Republican party, regard
ing the unrestricted immigration of
the Chinese as an evil of great magni-
tude, invoke the exercise of those
powers to restrain and limit that i'm
migration by the enactment of such
just, humane and reasonable provisions
as will produce that result.
1880.
DEMOCRATIC, CINCINNATI, JUNE 22D.
The Democrats of the United States,
in convention assembled, declare:
First-We pledge ourselves anew to
dibions of the Democratic party as
illustrated by the teaching and example
of long line of Democratic statesmen
and patriots and embodied in the plat
form of the National Convention of
the party.
Second-Opposition to centraIiza-
tionism, and to that dangerous spirit
of encroachment which tends to con
solidate the powers of all the depart
ments in one and thus to create, what
ever be the form of government, real
despOtism. No sumptuary laws; sepa-
ration of Church and State for the
good of each common schools fostered
and protected
Third-Home rule, honest money,
consisting of gold and silver and paper
convertible to coin on demand. The
strict maintenance of the public faith,
State and National, and tariff for
revenue only.
Fourth-The subordination of the
military to the civil power, and a gen
eral and thorough reform of the civil
service.
Fifth-The right of a free ballot is
the right preservative of all rights, and
must and shall be maintained in every
part of the United States.
SiXth-The existing administration
is the representative of conspiracy
only, and its claims of right to surround
the ballot boxes with troops and deputy
marshals to intimidate and obstruct
the electors, and the unprecedented
use of the veto maintain it's corrupt
and despotic power, insults the people
and imperils their Institutions
Seventh-The great fraud of 1876-77,
by which, upon false count of the
electoral votes of two States, the can
didate defeated at the polls, was de-
Clared President, and for the first time
in American history the will of the
people was set aside under threat of
military violence, struck a deadly blow
at our system of representative govern
ment The Democratic party, to pre-
serve the country from the horrors of
a civil war, submitted for a time in
firm and patriotic faith that the people
would punish this crime in 1880. This
issue proceeds and dwarfs every other.
It imposes more sacred duty upon
the people of the Union than was ever
addressed to the conscience of a nation
of free men.
Eighth-We execrate the cou. Sc of
this administration in making places
in the civil service reward for politi-
cal crime, and demand reform statute
which shall make it forever impossible
for the defeated candidate to bribe his
way to the seat of a usurper by billet
ing villains upon the people.
Ninth-The resolution of Samuel J.
Tilden not again to be candidate for
the exalted place to which he was
elected by majority Of countrymen,
and from which he was excluded by
the leaders of the Republican party, is
received by the Democrats of the United
States with sensibility, and they de-
clare their confidence In his wisdom,
patriotism and integrity, unshaken by
the assaults of common enemy, and
they further assure him that he is fol-
lowed into the. retirement he has chosen
for himself by the sympathy and re-
spect of his fellow citizens, who regard
him as one who, by elevating the stand
ard of public morality, and adorning
and purifying the public service, merits
the lasting gratitude his country and
of his party.
Tenth-Free/ ships and living
chance for American commerce on the
seas and on the land No discrimina-
tion in favor of transportation lines,
corporations or monOpolies
Eleventh Amendment of the Burlin
game treaty. No more Chinese imndi-
grafton, except for travel, education
and foreign commerce, and therein