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Democratic I'latform Adopted at St. Louis*
We, the delegates of the Democratic
party of the United States, in National
Convention assembled, do hero
declare the administration ot the Federal
government to be in urgent neod
of immediate reform, do hereby enjoin
upon thi nominees ot this Covention,
and of the Democratic party in each
Stato a zealous effort and co operation
to this end, and do hereby appeal lo
our fellow citizens of every termer
political connection to undertake with
us the first and most pressing patriotic
lllltv iVnr ! lin 1 ? lw.
?, V I I ? VI kdv i/v;iiiv^v>i > Ui II1U
whole country, wo do hero reaffirm our
faith in the permanency ot the Federal
Union, our devotion to the Constitution
of the United States with its
amendments universally accepted aa a
final settlement of the controversies
that engendered civil war, and do
hero record our steadfast confidence in
the perpetunity ot republican sell-government.
In absolute acquisition in
the will of the majority, the vital
principle ot tho Republic; in the supremacy
of the civil over tho military
authority; in the total separation ol
Church and State, for the sake alike of
civil and religious freedom; in tho
equality ol all citi/.ens before just laws
of their own enactment; in the liberty
ot individual conduct unvoted by compulsory
laws; in the failh'ul education
of the rising generation, that they
may preserve, enjoy and transmit
these best conditions of human happipincss
ami hope, wo behold the noblest
products of a hundred years ol changeful
history; but while upholding thu
bond of our union and the great charter
of those our rights, it behooves a
free people to practice also that eternal
vigilence which is the price of liberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild
and establish in the heatlsof the whole
people the Union eleven years ago,
happily rescued, to save it from the
danger of a corrupt centralism which,
after infecting upon ten States the rapacity
of carpet-bag tyrannies, |?as
honeycombed the offices ol the Fed
uiai government iiroii with incapacity,
waste ami fraud, infected Slates ami
municipalities with the contagaion of
misrule, and locked fust the prosperity
ol an indusliious people m the paralysis
ol Hard Times. Keforin is
necessary to establish a sound currency,
restoro the public credit ami
maintain the national honor.
VVe denounce the failure for all
these eleven years to niako good the
promise of the legal tender notes which
are a changing standard of value in
the hands ol the people, and the nonpayment
of which is a disregard of the
plighted faith of the nation.
Wo denounoo the improvidence
which in eleven years of peace has
taken from the people in Federal taxes
thirteen times the whole amount of
the legal notes, and squandered lour
Limes this sum in useless expenies,
without aocumlating any reserve
or their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbccili,y
and immorality of that party which
luring eleven yeais of peace has made
to advance toward resumption, that <
unload has obstructed resumption by
vastiug our surplus income, and while
mnuallv protessimr to intend a snee.lv <
mm # w ( J
elurn lo specie payments, lias annual- i
y enacted fresh hindrances thereto, f
Vs such a hindrance we denounce the t
CHumpUon clause of the act of 1875, I
lid we here demand its repeal. We i
lemand a judicious system of prepara- |
ion, by public economies, by olticial I
etrenehinents and by wise finance, |
rhich shall enable the nation to assure t
he whole world of its perfect readiness I
o meet any of its promises at the call of a
he creditor entitled to payment. We
elievc such a system, well devised, p
nd, above all, entrusted to conipe- t
cut hands for execution, creating at
o lime an artificial scarcity of curren- t
y, and at 110 time alarming the public 1
nnd into a withdrawal of that vaster ^
lachinery of credit by which ninety- 0
ve per cent, of all busincs transactions ii
re performed, a system ouen to the n
ublio and inspiring general conti- t
ence, would, from the day ol its adop- a
on, bring healing on its wings to all y
ur harassed industry, and sat in :no- a
on tho wheels of commerce, inanufac- s
ires and mechanical arts; restore em- p
loymeut to labor, and renew in all its ii
ational sources the prosperity ot the k
eople. c
Reform is necessary in the sum and Ii
lode of Federal taxation, to the end b
lat capital bo set free lrom distrust, ti
nd labor lightly burdeued. We de- a
ounce tho larilt' levied upon nearly a
>ur thousand articles as a masterpiece r;
1 injustice, inequality and ta'se pre- ti
nee. It yields a dwindling, not a p
early rising, revenue. It has iin- n
overished many industries to subsi- si
izc a few. It prohibits imports that tl
light purchase tho products of Amer? Ij
an labor. It has degraded Amori- g
in commerce trom the first to an ei
lienor rank upon the high seas, h
> has cut down the sales of American n<
lauufaoturers at home and abroad, tl
id depleted the returns of American tl
grioultare or industry followed by ai
lit our people. It costs the people pi
re times more than it produces to p
to treMury. It obstructs tho process l ol
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of production and wastes the (mils of
labor. It promotes fraud and fosters
smuggling, enriches <lishonest ofliciaU
and bankrupts honest merchants. We
demand that all cusiomhou.se fixation
shall be only lot revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
public expense, Federal, State and
municipal. Our Federal taxation has
swollen from $60,000,000, gold, in
1SOO, to $ 150,000,000 currency, m 1870;
our aggregate taxation, from $184,000,000
gold, in i860, to $700,000,000 in
i 1870; or in one decade from less than
five dollars per head to more than
eighteen dollars pel head. Since the
! peace the people have paid to their
l&x-gaterers more than thrice the sum
of the national debt and more than
twice that sum for Federal goverment
alone. We demand a rigorous I'urgality
in every department from every
! officer of the government,
t Reform is necessary to put a slop to
the profligate waste of public lands
and their diversion lrom actual settlors
by iho party in power, which has
squandered millions of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than
luriee mat aggregate lias disposed of
less than a sixth directly to tillers ol
the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct tlm
omissions of Republican Congresses,
the errors of our treaties and our diplomacy,
which have stripped our fellowcitizens
of foreign birth and kindred
race rccrossing the Atlantic of the
shield of American citizenship, and
have exposed our brethren of the I'aci
fie coast to the incursions of a race
not sprung from the same great parent
stock, and, in fact, now, by law, denied
citizenship through naturalization, as
being neither accustomed to the traditions
of u progressive civilization nor
lilted for the exercise of liberty under
equal laws. Wo denounce the policy
which thus discards the liberty-loving
German and tolerates the revival of
the Coolie trade in Mongolian women,
imported tor immoral purposes, anl
Mongolian men hired to perform servile
labor contracts; and we demand
such a modification of the treaty with
the Chinese Empire or such legislation
by Congress, within a constitutional
limitation, as shall prevent the further
importation or immigration of the
Mongolian race.
lti'torm is necessary, and can never
We effected Wut Wy making it the controlling
issue ol the elections, lilting it
above tho false issues with which the
office-holding class and the party in
power seek to smother it?the lalse
issue with which they would enkindle
the sectarian wtrile in respect to the
public schools, the support ol which
belongs exclusively to the several
Stales, and which the Democratic party
has cherished from their foundation
and resolved to maintain without partiality
or preference for any class, sect
or creed, and without contributing
from the treasury to any; the false
issues by which they seek to light
anew the dying embers ol sectional
hate between kindred peoples, once
unnaturally estranged, hut now reunited
in one indivisible republic and a
common destiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil Beiviee.
Experience proves that efficient,
economical conduct ol the government
is not possible if its civil service he
I object to change at every election, be
i prize fought lor at the hulloL
jox, bo a brief reward of party zeal
ti8tead oi posts of honor assigned lor
rroved competency and held loi fidelty
in the public employ; that the distensing
of patronage should neither
te a tax upon the lime of all our pubic
men nor thu instrument oi their
mbiliori. Here again promises, falsi,
ied in the performance, attest that the
lurty in power can work out no pracieal
or salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in
he higher grades of public service,
'resident, Vice-President, Judges,
icnators, Kepresentu lives, Cabinet
(licers, these and all others in authorly,
are the people's servants. Their
dices are not a private perquisite;
hey arc a public trust. When the
unals of this Kopuhlic show the dis;racc
and censure oi a Vice President
late Speaker of the House oi Repreentalives
marketing his ruling as a
residing officer; three Senators prolit?g
secretly by their votes as law-ma- :
ers; five chairmen of the leading j
ruiimSf fnoo i\i flirt -.4
UIU?UI%VVV0 V? ??IV lilVU 1 luurc U1 J
lepresenlatives exposed in job- j
cry; a late secretary of the j
ie usury forcing balances in the public t
ecounts, a laic attorney general mis- j
ppropriutmg public funds; a see ret a- |
y of the navy en ricked or enriching i
'iends by percentages levied oil' the l
rofits of contractors with his depart- |
tent; an ambassador to Kngland cen- i
j red in a dishonorable speculation; r
ie President's private secretary bare- t
r escaping conviction ou a trial for c
uilty complicity in frauds on the revnue;
a secretary of war impeached tor c
igh crimes and confessed misdemea- i
org?-the demonstration is complete |j
lat the first step in relorm must he u
io people's choice ol honest men irom j,
a other party, lest the disgrace of one i
olitical organization infect the body u
olilic, and thereby, taking no change
f men or party, we can get no change 0
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ndont Journal.
ITURDAY, JULY 8,
ot measures ami no reform. All these !
abuses, wrongs and m imes are the pro. '
duet ol sixteen years ascendency <>l J
thn Republicans themselves; but their
reformers are voted down in conven- 1
lion and displaced from the cabinet; i
the party's masses <>l honest voters is
powerless to resist the eighty thousand ,
j otiiec-holders, its leaders and guides. I
i Reform cun only die had by a pi-ucelul
ei vil revolution.
We demand a change of system?a
change of administration? a change ol
parties, thai we may hare a change
of measures and of men.
Platform of Hie Republican Party, Adopted
by the National C'ouveiilioa'at I'iuciunati.
When in the economy of providence j
| this land was to be imrired of hnm;?o
I o
slavery, am) wlmn the strength ol the
people, lor the people, was to he demonstrated,
the republican parly oiino
into power; its deeds have passed into
history, and we look hack to themwith
pride. Incited by their memories
and high aims lor the good of our
country and mankind, and looking to
the future with unfaltering courage,
Itopo and purpose, we. the representatives
ot the party in the national con*
veiition assembled, make the following
declaration ol principles:
Fiust?The United States of America
is n nation, not a league, by the
combined workings of the national
and state governments under their
respective constitutions. The rights
of every citizen are secured at home
and protected abroad and the common
welfare promoted.
?3kconi>?The republican party lias
preserved these governments to the
hundreth anniversary ol the nation's
birth, and they are now embodiments
ol the great, truths spoken at its cradle,
that all men ari created equal; that
they are endowed by their creator
with certain i'lalienable rights, among
which are life, liberty and the pursuit
ot happiness; that for the attainment
ot these ends governments have been
instituted among men deriving their
just powers from the consent of the
governed until those truths are clioeriuily
obeyed, if needed vigorously
enforced, the work of the republican
party is unfinished.
Till P II 'I'll., iiniii.nn.i..! :
. ..V, |/\. t III.IIIV IH |/il< I lliTill IWI1
of the souther n section of the union,
ami the
COMl'I.KTK l'KOTUCTION OV ALL ITS
<11 l/.KNS
In the free enjoyment o( all their
rights, are the duties to which the
republican party are sacredly pledged.
The power to provide lor the enforce- I
meul of the principles embodied in the 1
recent constitutional amendments is
vested by those amendments in the :
congress ol thu United States, and wo
declare it to be the solemn obligation 1
ol the legislative and executive de- 5
partmcnts ol the government to put '
into immediate and vigorous exercise 1
all their constitutional powers for '
removing any just causes ot discontent 1
on the part ot any class and securing 1
every American citizen complete 1
liberty and exact equality in the ex- fl
cruise ol all civil, political and public a
rights. To this end wo imperatively 1
demand a congress and ehiel executive
whose courage and fidelity to these '
duties shall not falter until the results *
are placed beyond dispute or recall. [
ruuurn- -in the iirsL act ol congress 1
signed by President Crant the national 1
guverniuent assumed to remove any c
doubts ol purpose to discharge all just "
obligations to public creditors, and 1
solemnly pledged its (aiili to make 1
provision, at trie earliest practicable *
period lor redemption ot the United I
.States notes in coin. Commercial *
prosperity, public merits and 0
<!
national crkdits .
Demand that these promises he ful- i
filled by a continuous anil steady pro- t
gress to specie payments' ii
Fifth?Under the constitution the <1
president and heads ot departiucntM u
are to make noniiuatians IV.r ollice, the i
senate is to advise and consent to ap- o
poiulments, and the house ol rcpre* u
lentatives is to ante???
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faithless officers. The best interests u
>1 public service demand that this it
listinotncss he respected; that senators o
ind representatives, who may be I1
udgcs and accusers, should not dictate hi
ippointmentH to olfice. The invariable pi
ule lor appointments should have m
elerence to the honesty, fidelity and
sapaciiy ol appointees, giving to tlio
nirty in power these places where
larinouy and vigor ol administration
equire its policy to be represented, ^
>ut permitting all others to he tilled 'u
>y persons selected with sole reference oc
o ellicienoy ol public service and the
ight ol citizens to share in the honor 111
d rendering tailhiul service to the
ountry. ht
fiJixxu? We rejoice in the quickened
on science ot the people concerning w
toliiical affairs and will hold all pub. I''
ic officers to a rigid responsibility, 1X1
nd engage that the prosecution and t'1
lunishuient of all who betray official *,iJ
rusts shall be speedy, thorough and
itispanng.
.Skvknih?The public school system ro
if the several states is the bulwark of I
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tho American republic, and with a
view to its security and pcrmancnco
U'o recommend an amendment. to tho
constitution of tlx? I'uitcd States forbidding
tlic application oi
ANY ihlHt.tr .K.UNOS
Or -properly lor tho benefit ol any
school or institution under ructniian
control.
rile;11111 ? -The it venue necessary for
current expenditures and Alio obligations
of J he public debt must bo largely
derived front duties on importation,
which, so far as possible, should bo
adjusted to promote the interest of
American labor, aud advance the prosperity
o! the whole country.
X I V i ii \\'?? n<.'? 115 rm mil' iiiinnii'lrti'
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to further urn:ia of t lw jmtdic lands
to corporalmans and mtiin>| <>1 ics, and
demand -tint the national domain be
devoted to Ircc homes for Ihe .neoplc.
Tenth?It i* the imperative duly of
the government to modily existing
treaties with Kuropeun gov. rnniehls
that ill*? same protection shakl he,
afforded to adopted American citizens
that is given to native born, and all
necessary laws be passed to protect
emigrants, in the absence ot jipwcr in
the state lor the purpose.
Klkvkni??Jt is the immediate
duty of congriKjj to fully investigate
the ellect of the emigration of Mongolians
on the moral and material
interests of the countryTwki.itii?The
ie|>uhlienn partj'
recognizes whith approval the substantial
advances recently made towards
the establishment oT equal rights for
women by the many important amendments
effected by republican legists- '
lures in the law .which concerns the
personal and property relations of
wives, mothers and widows, and hy
llic appointment and election ot wonum
to the HtiperinUuid. nce ol education,
charities and other public trusts.
The honest demands ol this class of
citizens for additional rights and privileges
and immunities should be treated
with respectful consideration.
Tiiihtkuntii?The const it utiom-conic
r 8 upon congress sovereign powor
over the territories ol the United
States lor their government and the
exercise ol their power. U is the right
and duly ot congress to prohibit and
extirpate in the territories tlt.it relic
ol barbarism, polygamy, and we demand
such legislation as shall secure
this end and the supremacy ol American
institutions in all the territories.
Folktkkntii?The pledges which
the nation has given to our soldiers
and sailors must he lullilled, and the
giatelul people will always hold tboso
who periled their lives lor the country's
preservation in the kindest rememberii
nee.
Fiktkkntii?We sincerely deprecate
ill sectional feeling and tendencies.
We, ihwrolorc, note with deep soliciudc
that the democratic party counts
is its chief hope of success upon the
doctoral vote ol a united south, secur;d
llnough the eflbrts of those who
iV<rc recently arrayed against the
national government, and we invoke
lie earnest attention of the country to
he grave truth that a success tlras
ichieved would reopen sectional strife,
ind imperil national honor and hw.
nan rights.
Sixticicntii ? We ehargo the demo*
ralic party as Wring the same in
shuraolcr and spirit as when it sympalily
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Is control ol the house ol representaivos
the 11itim|>li siml opportunity
>f the nation's recent Joes, with ?e*
isserting ami applauding in the
national capilol the scnliuieiil ol unrou-nted
icbellion; with sending union
oldicrs to the rear; w ith deliberately
imposing to repudiate the ?digh'.ed
nilli ol the government; with being
qtially false and iinhecile upon the
vurshadowing tinancial ijuestioir; with 1
hwaiting tin? ends of justice h?y .i.ts '
artisan mismanagement and oh^inrc- ,
ion ol investigation; with proving
IsolJ through thepeiiod oJ its asoen - '
loncy in the lower house of congress '
Itereily incompete.nt to administer i
lie government. We wttnn the coun- ,
iy against trusting a party thus alike
nworthy, recreant, atnl incapable.
Si;\ KN'i'KKN'iU?The national ad- '
linistralion merits commendation tor '
s honorable work in the? m.niaoi.im.i.f
I douie.-tic and foreign iiK'nics, anil {
'resident (Irnnt deserves the e.on inned
ml hearty gratitude oi the American
eople tor his patriotism and his .im '
tense service in war ami in peace.
African Ituynlty. | '
Tin* Journal do Paris contains a let- t
r front an eye-witness giving the lot- iy
wing particulars ot the atrocities > j
ununited on the occasion of the luiral
oi Kamraski, King ol Oiuiyoro, c
Central Atrica: ^
An immense grave pit, capable of di
>lding keveral hundred people, had
en <1ug, at the bottom of which the
ivea ot the defunct King had been
uced in the form ol a ring, to ho in ^
adincus to recivo upon their knees n
e corpse of their lato tyramcal and 'I
n harous master. Several regiments ^
the royal guard had been sent on ~
e proceeding night to silently surand
eomo ol the neighboring ^jWtrn
gos. The first human boina ' Jnl/1
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I A I) V L^ I ISEMEN
I .Inserted at 1.'H> por sputra for tirst, And
tifty cents tor each ?uhscquont insertion.
One Inch .space will constitute -a, sqtiar*
* bother in brevier or display tyjmj; low tUaa
an inch will bo charged fur u.s a sqiuio.
Marriage ionics froo.
Death* ami Funeral notices firec.
Religious notices of one square, free.
A liberal discount will be made to those
whoso advertisements, Jare to be kept in lor
three months 01 longer.
man, woman or child that made its ent
from tho Hum on tiding huts was forcibly
seized and carried off, and 'the
captives entrapped in this manner
conducted towards tho pit prepared
ior tho funeral., llcro there began the
rnont horrible scone.
Tho limbs of those poor creature*),
arms atid logs, woro broken by 'the
soldiers. Tho lamentations and crios
of deqpair of tho victims intermingled
with tlic shouting of tho hui ututti
orowd, and 0110 by ouo ithoy wwtvi
thiown into tho gaping gull b 1 vv.
Then began tho heating of drums, tlaj
flourish of tho trumpets, the piercing
sound of the whistle ami pipe, w'hn'ti,
together with the violent \ mciIimwUums
of tho crowd, drowned the cries ??l Urn
victims. The soil dug out oJ the,-pit
tho previous day was then >tltiow*i
hack into the monster grave. 'I Uo
fanatical spectators of tho dismal drn|
ma, as hood as it was filled up, e??iu?
| monccd to dance on the summit <>1 llio
grave, stamping the soil down ?vith
I all their might, so as to form a hard,
j compact layer above those in?i i?iil
j alive. All tho lamentations 'having
censed, nothing was left to indicate the
ceremony of the abominable sepulture;
tho noise of the iuHtrmnontn had ceased
also, and the assembled crowd ru|
tired, satisfied with themselves, and
admired the greatness ot the king
whose lnancs demanded Bitch Baorrtices.
llo Didn't .Want the 'Script iou.
(Worcester iPreeaJ]
lie wae an old man, and he had a bit
of conductor's pasteboard Htnek in hi?
hat. lie walked into the drug atore
aud inquired: "Have you got nay
good wlriskey?"
"Yes, sir," replied the gentlemuuly
druggiwt.
"Gimnio half a pint?'
"Have you got a doctor's prescript
tiort?'
"No."
"Can't scll it, then, sir. Jury in session;
must be strict."
"Where can 1 gut a doctor?' sadly
inquired the aged inebriate.
"I'm a physician, sir,' win ninety responded
the druggist.
"Can't you give mo that?what you
call it, 'eci iptiuii?'
"Well, 1 might.' And the l^oetor
wrote out a prescription blank, calling
for so many ounces of'$]>irUus furtnenti.
lie fillod a snug looking bottle
with the article, pasted a luble *011
it, numbered to correspond with the
paper, and presenting the bottle to the
vonerable roysterer, remarked in the
most business like way imaginable:
"A dollar and a half, sir"
"A dollar and a hall!' gasped his astonshed
customer.
"Ain't that prutiv hi^h, niUtor?"
"It's our price?a dollar for tho proscription
and fifty cents for the medicine.'
"Yes, well,'slowly replied the wicked
old duller, as he slowly buttonet^
up the half pint fin his overcoat pocket*
"I guess, boss, that 1 don't want.the
'scription. Here's your halt a dollar,"
and he stuok his tongue in one side of
his month Sw.~lI i.J ?
...v?.v| n ?ni?vm in 11 v/ ft j i v>?? 11 y ai l II III
of mortar and pestle, and walked
out.
Carrying Elections by the lhiyonci.
Wo learn on responsible authority
that an arrangement has boon coin plated
by which, a.couple.of months hence,
when the political campaign get* 'hot
in the Southwest, Liout.-Uen. Sheridan
will take the active command of 'the
troops there, with his headquearts iti
New Chileans. This arrangement, as
wo are assured, is made with the approbation
of Bheridan, Wi.o 'enter*
lieartily into the idea. Me must naturally
relish tho work of decisively
crushing the class of citizens whom he
nneo denounced as banditti because
ihey would not look tamely on while
ho Louisiana carpet-baggers stniMl
he ballot boxes wrtb fraudulent votes,
ind threw out legal votes, and tried
,o cover the rascality with .forged attiIfVVTtfl.
Tho intervention by tho bayonet in
>oulhern election? baa been ao emphat
c-ally repudiated by tho Bobor Ronse of
he country, that we can hardly boievo
that Grant's Administration will
laro to rovivo it; and we ehould .not
red it the report did it not come to u*
rora a very credible eource. Hut
owever Uiie may be, it hi alwaye *
roper to declare that an attempt to
arry the reconstructed State* for the
tepublicaoe at the point of tho bayoet
will reooil upon the oon?^:
hey might succeed 1
rand in eoci}{iff?ffOY?jfj*
tales* u OF kvert i>*ajlkw _
. -* lnvH?d. Ptie* l.itt ?ad Out
Mt?n to FtJ.Lk*, Waiiiik a Co. SM B
t. N?w York.