Year: 1874


Economy in Nation, State, County


aud City the Task Before Us.


COLUMBUS, o., Ang. 26.-The Demo
cratic State Convention, in session here TO-
day, have adopted the following platform
with great unanimity:


First-That the Democratic party OF
Ohio adheres to its ancient principles OF
securing equal rights and exact justice to
all the States and communities Of the
American people; of maintaining the indie
pendence of the coordinate departments OF
the Federal Government, the Legislative,
the Executive and the Judicial, condemn
ing all encrOachments of either upon the
functions of the others, and resisting every
attempt TO usurp any Of the powers re-
served by the Constitution to the States re-
spectively and to the people; therefore,


Financial


Resolved, Tha, a sound currency is in
dispensible to the welfare of a country.
Its volume should be regulated by the ne
ceSsities of business, and all laws that in
teIfere with such natural regulations are
vicious in principles and detrimental in
their effects. We are in favor Of- -saelsssa
increase of the circulating medium as the
business interests Of the country may from
time to time require; that sound policy and
Justice require that not less than one-half
the custom duties should be payable in the
legal tender notes of the United States,
commonly called greenbacks; that the pow
er of national banks to issue and loan their
rates upon interest is q power to draw in
tereSt upon their debts, while the people
pay interest upon all they own; that this
special and unequal privilege ought
not to exist unless it is manifest
that in no other way can sound paper
currency be supplied. Believing that a
better system can be devised and one that
will be free from unjust privileges, We are
in favor of abolishing the franchise of the
national banks to issue a paper currency as
soon as the same can safely aud prudently
be done, and that the notes so Withdrawn
by the banks be. substituted by the Govern
ment with a legal tender currency, that
the Democracy of Ohio reiterate their de-
claration that five-twenty bonds, by the
letter and the spirit Of the law, and the
general understanding of the community
were payable in legal tender notes, and the
act of March, 1869, which pledged the faith
of the nation to their payment in cOin,was
an unnecessary and wicked sacrifice Of the
interests Of the tax-paying laborers for the
benefit Of the nOn-tax paying bondhOlder.


Tax the Bonds.


That without equality of taxation there
can not be equality of rights and the ex-
emption of the public bonds from bearing
their due proportion in supporting the
Federal government and maintaining the
laws is unwise and unjust.


A Tariff for Revenue Only.


That we are friends of all the industries
of the country, whether agricultural, me
chanical or commercial and believe that
these industries thrive best when no un-
equal privilege is conferred by law upon
one over the others. We are therefore op-
posed to the unjust and oppressive features
of the existing tariff laws and mission their
repeal or modification, so that a revenue
tariff shall be substituted for them.


The Railway Problem.


We are opposed to all combinations and
devices of whatever character that tend TO
increase the cost of transportation beyond
a fair remuneration to the carrier, and We
demand the exercise of all constitutional
powers TO remedy existing evils in this re-
spect, and to prevent their occurrence IN
the future.


Cheap and Simple Government.


We are opposed to excessive taxation.
the deadly foe, as all experience proves, Of
every industry: and we insist upon the
strictest economy IN every department of
government, federal or stale, county or mu-
nicipal.


Public Lands.


We are opposed to grants of the public
domain to railroad corporations, and we re-
joice at the fact that the determined OppOsi-
tiOn of Democratic senators and representa-.
tives in Congress and the unequivOcal cOn-
demnatiOn of the people have put a stop to
4 scheme of legislation that but laIely
threatened to beStOw upon great corpora
tions, comparatively few in number, the
whole body of the public lands. We favor
the policy that looks TO the ownership Of
these landsby actual settlers, and therefore
approve the principle Of the homestead set
tlement law.


Gag and Sedition Laws.


That the freedom Of the press is essen
tial to the preservation of public liberty,
and We denounce the attempts made by the
Radicals at the last session of Congress to
subject the prOprietOrs of the principal
newspapers of the United States to indict-
ment and trial in Washington city for al
legged libels, as Efforts 10 revive and embOdy
in legislation the spirit of the gag and sedi-
tiOn laws of the elder Adams administra-
tion, and which We're overthrOwn as it was
hoped forever by the election of Thomas
Jefferson.


Civil Rights.


That while we admit the equality of all
persons before the law, We protest against
the attempt that is being made by the Radi-
Gals in Congress to force equality by uncon-
stitutional pains and penalties, and we call
the attention of the voters of Ohio to the
fact although our Supreme Count unani-
mOusly decided that our statute which pro-
videS for separate schools for white and
cOlOred children is a constitutional law.
and this decision is supported by recent
judgments of the Supreme Court of the
United States, yet the Civil Rights bill. So
called, which passed the Senate at its last
session, and is now pending in the House
OF Representatives, seeks TO overthrow our
statute in this regard and in defiance of it
compel mixed schools in Ohio by the in
fiction of severe criminal punishment
and civil penalties upon all who resist that
unconstitutional attempt.


The Third Term
that we have seen with alarm and regret,
the advocacy in influential quarters, of the
election of the President of the United
States for period beyond that which to
he traditions and usages of the country,
have almost given the sanction of fuda-
mental law, that such an election would
be a long strike on the road TO prac-
-ical monarchy and personal despotism, and
we are decidedly in favor of establishing
he One-term principle by an amendment to
he Constitution.


Liquor.


We favor the submission TO the people
by the General Assembly of an amend
nent TO the Constitution authorizing the
1aSsage Of licnese laws.


Radical ROttenness.


That with this declaration of our princi- |
Dles and policy, We arraign the leaders of |
he Republican party for their extravagant |
and profigate waste of the |
'eople's money; for their oppressive, unjust |
md defective system of taxation. finance |
md currency; for their continued tyranny |
md cruelty to the Southern States of the |
mon; for the squandering of the public |
andS; for their continuance In ofioa of /