The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-07-01
THE PLATFORM
Upon Which the Democrats of Ohio
Will Certainly Win This
Fall.

Columbus, June Especial. )-Tht
platform, which will undoubtedly carry
the Democrats to vicotry this fall, is sf
follows:
The Democrats of Ohio, in convention
assembled, rcatiirm and endorse the dec
laration of principles contained in the
platform adopted by the Democratic
party in the national convention at Chi.
Cago in 1895, which platform declares the
money question paramount to all others
at this time and Is as follows:
Recognizing that the money question
Is paramount to all others at this time,
we invite attention to the fact that the
constitution names silver and gold to.
gether as the money metals of the United
States and that the first coinage law
passed by congress under the constitu-
tion made the silver dollar the money
unit, and admitted gold to free coinage
at ratio based upon the silver dollar
unit.
We declare that the act of 1878, de-
mOnetizing silver, without the knowledge
or approval of the American people, has
resulted in the appreciation of gold, and u
corresponding fall in the prices of com
modties produced by the people; heavy
increase in the burden Of taxation and of
all debts, public and private; the enrich
ment of the mOney-lending class at home
and impoverishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to mon
ometallism, which has locked fast the
prosperity of an industrial people in the
paralysis of hard times. Gold monometal-
lism is a British policy, and its adoption
has broght other nations into financial
servitude to London. 1t Is not only un-
American but anti-American, and it can
be fastened on the United States only by
the sitting of that spirit and love of liber-
ty which proclaimed our political indie
pendenCe in l776 and won it in the war of
the revolution.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of Is to l without wait
ing for the aid or consent of any other
nation. We demand that the standard
silver dollar shall be a full legal tender,
and private, and we favor such legislation
as will prevent for the future the de-
monetizatiOn of any kind of legal tender
money by private contracts.
We are opposed TO the policy and prac-
tice of surrendering to the holders of the
obligations of the United States the OPP
tiOn reserved by law to the government
for redeeming such obligations in either
silver coin or gold coin.
We are opposed to the issuing of inter
est-bearing bonds of the United in time
of peace, and condemn the trafficking with
banking syndiCates which, in exchange
for bonds and at an enormous profit to
themselves, supply the federal treasury
with gold TO maintain the policy of gold
recommendation.
Congress alone has the power to coin
and issue money and President Jackson
declared that this power could not be del
egated to corporations or individuals. We
therefore denOunCe the issuance of notes
intended to circulate as money by ma
tional banks as in dcrogatiOn of the CON
stitution and we demand that all paper,
which is made a legal tender for public
and private debts or which is receivable
for duties to the United States, shall be
issued by the government of the United
States and shall be rcdeemable in coin.
In support of these principles we invite
the cooperation of all men who love
liberty and hate corruption, oppression
and tyrrany.
All the resolutions on Cuba, tariff and
everything else We're thrown away. The
Chicago platform is reaffrmed, and that
part of it which refers to the financial
question is reincOrpOrated in the same
language as used at Chicago.