The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-02

Through all this the Tammany men IN the
aisle sat grim and silent, neither kissing Clevc-
land nor cheering Hill. Its thunderous disap
proval, held perfectly in leash, challenged ad-
miration even from those who opposed the
Manhattan Indians. Finally, at 6:4s, Mr.. Villas
again resumed tine reading OF the report Of the
platform committee, which is as follows:
PLATFORM As RBPoRTED.
Section 1.-The representatives OF the demo
cratic party of the United States, In national
convention assembled, do reaffirm their ale
glance to the principles of the party as formu-
lated by Jefferson and exemplified by the long
and illustrious line of his successors In demo-
cratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland; we
believe the public welfare demands that these
principles be applied to the conduct OF the fed
eral government through the accession to power
OF the party that advocates them; and we
solemnly declare that the need OF return to
those fundamental principles of q free popular
government based on home rule and individual
liberty, was never more urgent than now, when
the tendency TO centralizo all power at the fed
eral capital has become q menace OF the re-
served rights OF the states that strike at the
very roots OF our government under the consti-
tuition as framed by the republic
Sec 2. We warn the people Of our common
country, jealous for the preservation of their
free institutions, that this policy OF federal con-
troll of elections to which the republican party
has committed itself is fraught with the gravest
dangers, scarcely less momentous than would
result from q revolution practically establishing
monarchy on the ruins Of the republic 1t
strikes at the north rs well as the south, and
Injuries the colored citizen even more than the
white; II means horde OF deputy marshals at
every polling place, armed with federal power;
returning boards appointed and controlled by n
federal authority; the outrage of the electoral
rights of the people in the several states; the
subjugation OF the colorcd people to the control
of the party in power, and the reviving of race
antagonsm, now happily abated, of the utmost
peril to the safety and happiness OF ALL
measure deliberately and justly described by
leading republican senator as the most infnm-
Gus bill that ever crossed the threshold OF the
senate" Such n policy, II sanctioned by law,
would mean the dominance of q self.per-
petuating oligarchy Of ofice-holders, and the
party first intrustcd with its machinery could
be dislodged from power only by an appeal to
the reserved right of the people to resist OPP
preston which is inherent in all sef-governing
communities. Two years ago this revolutionary
policy was emphatically condemned by the peo-
pie at the polls; but, in contempt OF tnat YER
diet, the republican party has dcnantly de-
clared in its latest authoritative utterance that
its success in the coming elections will mean
the enactment of the force bill and the usurpa-
tion of despotic control over elections in all the
states.
Believing that the preservation of republican
government in the United States is dependent
on the defeat of this policy of legalized force
and fraud, We invite the support of oil citizens
who desire to see the constitution maintained in
its integrity, with the laws pursuant thereto,
which have given our country q hundred years
of unexampled prosperity and we pledge the
democratic party, if It be entrusted with
power, not only to the defeat of the force bill.
but also to relentless opposition to the repub-
lican policy of prohigate expenditure which, in
the short space OF two years. has squandered
an enormous surplus and emptied an over
flowing treasury, after piling new burdens Of