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preciated silver dollar a legal tender for all public 

 and private indebtedness a violation of the rights of 

 property, a repudiation of government contracts, and 

 a wrong done to labor, criminal in its nature and 

 dishonorable to the nation ; and we call on the Pres- 

 ident to use the veto if it becomes necessary, as did 

 his courageous predecessor, to shield the national 

 honor from legislation that threatens to wound aud 

 blast it. 



Resolved^ That a free and unobstructed passage to 

 the ballot-box is the constitutional right of every 

 citizen, of whatever race, color, or condition ; in ac- 

 cording and defending that right, the Kepublican 

 party has proved that it is the true national party, 

 while the Democratic party, opposing and denying 

 that right through intimidation and violence, has 

 shown that it is the real sectional party. 



Resolved, That universal education, aided and en- 

 forced by legal authority, is the only safe and endur- 

 ing basis on which republican governments and in- 

 stitutions can rest ; therefore, we demand of Congress 

 and the Legislature the institution of means, com- 

 pulsory if need be, which shall secure the children 

 of the republic primary education, so that every 

 voter shall be able to understand the ballot that he 

 casts. 



Resolved, That we are opposed to money subsidies 

 and land grants to private corporations and interests, 

 and we demand that our Senators and Representa- 

 tives in Congress shall sturdily oppose all schemes 

 to rob the Treasury and injure the public credit. 



Resolved, That the unchallenged purity, economy, 

 and efficiency of all departments of the present Ad- 

 ministration, the continued reduction of the public 

 debt, the refunding of bonds at a lower rate of in- 

 terest, and the wise and hopeful efforts to restore 

 prosperity at home and extend the field of American 

 commerce and manufactures abroad, deserve and 

 receive an unqualified approbation. 



Resolved. That we condemn as factious and mis- 

 chievous all attempts to reopen the Presidential 

 controversy or to question the title of the President 

 to his high office. 



At the conclusion of the reading of this plat- 

 form, a delegate moved to strike from the third 

 resolution the word u Democrat," since the at- 

 tempt to debase the currency by speech and 

 vote is not confined to Democrats, but includes 

 large numbers of Republicans. He contended 

 that the condemnation of the Convention should 

 fall on every person guilty of such attempts. 

 His motion was opposed by several delegates, 

 and lost. 



The nominations for State Councilors were 

 made at local conventions in the respective dis- 

 tricts, as follows : District No. 1, Joshua B. 

 Smith, of Durham ; No. 2, Hiram A. Tuttle, of 

 Pittsfield ; No. 3, Edward Spalding, of Nashua ; 

 No. 4, Francis A. Cushman, of Lebanon ; No. 

 5, George W. Libby, of Whitefield. 



The Democrats met in convention at a later 

 day, and made the following nominations : for 

 Governor, Frank A. HcKean, of Nashua ; for 

 Railroad Commissioner, Hadley B. Fowler, of 

 Bristol. The following platform was adopted : 



Resolved, That we cordially reaffirm the national 

 Democratic platform of 1876 as an authoritative ex- 

 position of the principles of the Democratic party, 

 and we congratulate our political brethren of the 

 whole country that these principles were endorsed 

 in the national canvass by the suffrages of a majority 

 of more than a quarter of a million of the American 

 people. 



That we denounce upon the Kepublican party stern 



retribution for the great crime by which the people 

 were defrauded of their right to be governed by 

 rulers of their choice, and hold up the criminals to 

 universal execration ; and we demand of the present 

 Congress the adoption or initiation of such measures 

 of legislative enactment or constitutional amendment 

 as shall render impossible the consummation of an- 

 other such outrage. 



That we congratulate all good citizens upon the 

 happy results which have ensued through the adop- 

 tion of Democratic principles by the national Admin- 

 istration in reference to the Southern States, and 

 trust that hereafter there will be no Southern policy, 

 no Northern policy, but one common policy for the 

 whole Union in the equality and duties of all States 

 and of all men before the law. 



That we are in favor of a stable currency, honest 

 payment of the public debt, and are opposed to all 

 measures by which the public credit may be im- 

 paired. 



We reassert our unqualified opposition to all 

 schemes for depleting the public Treasury or bestow- 

 ing the remnant of the public lands in aid of private 

 corporations or monopolies ; and we congratulate the 

 people upon the professed eleventh-hour concession 

 of the Eepublicans of New Hampshire to this stand- 

 ard Democratic doctrine. 



That we declare our abiding faith in the doctrine 

 of the fathers that the United States is a federal re- 

 public of free and independent States, as set forth in 

 the Declaration of Independence, united under a gov- 

 ernment of limited powers for mutual protection and 

 advantage, and leaving to the States respectively and 

 to the people entire control under the Constitution 

 of all matters pertaining to their civil governments 

 and social, moral, religious, and educational prosper- 

 ity and progress. 



That in the interests of American commerce, which 

 Kepublican misrule has banished from the seas, in 

 the interest of the great body of the American peo- 

 ple outrageously taxed for the benefit of favored 

 classes, we demand a thorough revision and reform 

 of the Federal tariff, so that it shall operate to stim- 

 ulate rather than restrict trade between our and for- 

 eign countries, and to the production of an honest 

 revenue rather than oppression of the masses for the 

 aggrandizement of a few monopolists. 



That we return our thanks to the Democrats and 

 Conservatives in the Forty-fourth Congress, and 

 commend their example to the present Congress, for 

 reducing expenditures in the various departments of 

 the Government more than $30,000,000, and for their 

 refusal to apropriate money for the army while used 

 in illegal and despotic oppression of citizens in any 

 portion of the republic. 



That the public interests demand a thorough re- 

 vision of the laws relating to taxation, that the per- 

 sonalty of the State shall bear an equal share of the 

 public burdens, and that no property shall be sub- 

 jected to double taxation. 



That we demand more complete protection for the 

 savings of the industrial classes by stricter supervi- 

 sion and control of savings banks, insurance compa- 

 nies, and other institutions in which the people's 

 money may be invested, and the enactment of laws 

 providing more severe and certain punishment of 

 all official neglect or fraud by which the people's 

 savings may be endangered or lost. 



Another resolution omitted related to the 

 temperance movement in the State, and advo- 

 cated a license system as a substitute for the 

 prohibition law. 



The Democratic candidates for Councilors 

 were as follows : District No. 1, Lorenzo M. 

 Carpenter ; No. 2, Warren Clark ; No. 3, Clark 

 Hadley ; No. 4, Lyman Rounsevel ; No. 5, Jo- 

 seph Burrows. 



