Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-06-12
THE RESOLUTIONS

Tue Democratic party of Nlr.
ginia, IN convention assembled,
declares as follows:
1st. We adhere to the principles
of Democracy as announced by
j, fferson, Madison, Monroe and
Mason and the patriots of their
day that this is a government OF
and forth people, and We depre-
cate the growing influence of trusts
and great combinations of capital
as dangerous to the welfare OF or
people and fraught with disaster
TO our institutions.
2Ld. We are opposed to McKin'
lryism, which proposes to tax tue
poor man for the benefit of trusts
and capitalists; and we favor a
tariff tax for revenue. limited to
the necessities of an economically
admlnistrated government and
adjusted 50 as throw its burdens
most lightly upon the great prOdut-
ing classes of our country.
3rd. We oppose the Republican
party because, while protesting TO
protect our labOriug men and mt.
chanics they are in practice fIllng
their mines and factories with
pauper labor from Europe, foreign
TO our laws and leglslatlons. We
point to the tact that that party
was the author of all the acts OF
financial legislation which stlmu.
lated the panic and brought on
hard times to the country, aud
that it has utterly failed to sug'
gests any measure of rellet.
4'b. 1t Is the unwrltten law OF
this republic establirhed by the
custom End usage of a hundred
ears and sanctioned by the eX-
ample of the greatest and wisest
OF those who haYe found aud
maintained our government, that
no man should be eligible for
third term of the Presidential
office.
9th. We denounce as false aud
slanderous the charges made by
Repubicansagainst the Democrats
OF Virginia as to the reasons which
actuated the General Assembly OF
the S,ate in submitting TO the
People the question of having a
Constitutional Convention. We
point to the Public School system
of the State. to the settlement OF
the Public Debt, and to the good
will that exists among all the
different races aud sections of th"
Commonwealth as eyid, nces Of the
wisdom of Democratic rule.
9th. We are for sound money
the sOundest that the world has
ever had or can have; the money of
our constitution, the money of the
people, the money of civilization
through ages past and destined to
be such, as we believe; tor ages TO
come. 1t can not be that this great
nation, the foremost Of the eaIth I'D
riches and power is unable to
frame a financial system OF It's own
and while we should welcome an
ioterna ;ional agIeementthat would
settle the vexed quettiOn we are
unwilling to defer action or make
the interest OF our own people de-
pendent upon the course OF others
We hold to the use OF both gold
and silver as the standard money
of the country, and to the coinage
of both gold and silver without
discriminating against either metal
or charge tor mintage. The In
mediate and complete restoration
of the bimetaIlic system OF money
which existed IN the United States
from 1892 until 1873 is, IN our
opinion, demanded by the interests
of commerce, manufactures and
agriculture, which are alike SUI
fering from the continuous fall ol
prices and the consequent embar'
rassment or bankruptcy OF those
engaged therein. And in order SO
to restore it we demand the Tree
and unlimited coinage OF both
gold and silver at the ratio OF IL
to l without waiting for the assent
or any other nation.
7th. This sound money shonlo
consist OF silver and gold, and o.
paper redeemable IN silver at the
option of the payor, the unit OF the
whole mass of metallic money to b'
kept at parity by equal colnaS'
rights and equal legal teuder func
! tions-the only method by which
the parity OF the two metals hat
ever been continuously aud sue
cessfully maintained.
9Th. We warn our country tina
unless silver be upheld as money
of redemption, nd sustained a
parity with gold by equal priv!l
eyes at tue mint and by eqna