The Democratic Press

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

The Democratic party of Ohio in convention assembled, reaffirm the great principles which are the foundation of the government, among which are equal rights to all, special privileges to none, protection of the weak against the encroachments of the strong, equal taxation, free speech, free press, free schools, and first of all, a free and uncorrupted ballot.

Resolved, That we favor an honest reform in the civil service, and denounce the extortion of money from office holders to corrupt the ballot and control elections, as a most threatening, as it is the most insidious, danger that besets free government; and the shameless resort to such methods by the party in power to carry its corrupt arrangements, affirms the total abandonment of principle for place and spoils under "boss" rule.

We denounce the reckless extravagance and profligacy of the Republican party in the appropriation of the public treasure, which should be applied to the extinction of the national debt, and we believe the time has come when, by an honest and economical administration of the government, the burden of war taxes which the people have so long borne and which in the end fall upon labor, may and ought to be reduced; but we denounce the attempt of the Republican Congress to reduce taxes on those articles which will inure to the benefit of the rich.

RESOLVED, That we favor a tariff levied to meet the actual needs of the government, and so adjusted in its details with a view to equality in the public burdens as to encourage productive industries and afford labor a just compensation without creating monopolies.

RESOLVED, That stability in the value of money is a primary requisite to industrial and commercial prosperity. This can only be secured by maintaining both gold and silver as money as provided by the Constitution, and subjecting the issue and regulation of paper money to established principles which will prevent fluctuations in the value of the currency.

RESOLVED, That the growth of monopolies is such as to seriously threaten the rights of individuals, and the public welfare, and ought to be provided against by proper legislation.

Resolved, That the Democratic party has ever maintained and still steadfastly adheres to the doctrine of the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others and the public welfare, and is opposed to legislation merely sumptuary.

RESOLVED, That it is the duty incumbent upon our government to protect its citizens, native born and naturalized, at home and abroad, and we demand a searching inquiry into the alleged outrages committed against citizens of the United States in foreign countries.

During the last fiscal year whisky yielded $67,153,974 revenue to the government, and tobacco $42,858,981.

The New York Stalwarts, it is said, have got the cards stocked to render certain the nomination of Secretary Folger for Governor of that State.

It should be borne in mind that Ohio's Republican Senator and seven Ohio Republican Representatives, voted to pass the river and harbor robbery over the veto of the President.

If the Republican party is as dishonest and corrupt as the leaders of the two factions are showing it up to be, isn't it about time that it should be retired from power and the control of public affairs entrusted to other hands? The experiment is worth a trial.

The army of office holders required by the internal revenue system of the country is said to number 4,000. There are those who think that while the government is raising $150,000,000 annually, this expensive luxury might be dispensed with, but they are, doubtless, "disloyal," and their advice worthless.

The Democracy of the whole State are interested in maintaining at the State Capital an able and efficient daily Democratic paper, devoted to the advocacy of the principles and measures of the party. The Daily Times just fills the bill, and deserves and should receive a liberal support from the Democrats of Ohio.

Messrs. Thomas & Clark have disposed of the Youngstown Vindicator to Dr. T. Patton, who has assumed editorial and business control of the paper. Under its late management the Vindicator has been among the ablest and most successful newspapers in Ohio, and under its new proprietor it bids fair to maintain its well earned reputation. Success to it.

S. T. Everett was nominated for Congress by the Republicans in convention at Cleveland on Saturday. The Republicans of that district deem it injudicious to nominate a wholesale liquor seller who voted for the River and Harbor plunder, while the leaders of the party are making a semblance of piety and temperance.

The government employes are anxiously searching for Jay Hubbell to "voluntarily" pay in their little two per cent. of their salaries to the Republican campaign fund for securing "an honest ballot and a fair count."

A WIDE-AWAKE gentleman interviewed at Cincinnati the other day Charles W. Baker boiled down the issues in Ohio this Fall after the following fashion:

The truth is, by hasty and illy-digested legislation, the Republican party has alienated the liberal German element, that has always heretofore been its staunch and faithful ally, and Republican leaders are seeking to repair the loss by appealing to those Democrats in the Reserve and elsewhere who are temperate in their living and devout in their religion, by alleging that to be an issue, which is, and can be in this campaign, no issue at all. The humorous phase of this canvass is the spectacle of a half dozen Republican politicians, with rubicund noses, drinking gin-slings in a corner gin-mill, and declaring to each other that the liquor traffic must be suppressed.