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Show HOVEL PARTY. - I -a i xl iu. 'Viuplf; -t"' t ti..s L'i.K.ii, but it, Anii-Muii"p.Jy L'ijijV nti-jii, rt-t-jtU-i! in y--ati;niay lr,,.,t, wiiii.tiong uni'illt; lJl---";rv" rnor-: thai, pi-n eun-iideration. ,;,,IulJ.;.,I f"K.-pubiirun and letn- .,. MUr ' ' C.JIivriil.oll tho ,1, , Uf.tt.uli of prili'-ipb -1 U MIC uf tho iiK.nl novel yt b'lC.jh V tl.o puilic. IL, f.anth r.-.-ol'itlon a'juar. Iy vAy-a I'n'md.-Ht (irant's vto of tiie c-xpan-.-.iuil bill; ltd fifth (rulur.-jii the old leiii'j:ratc pUuk of "taxation only lor n venue" ; iti eighth is d.-e d.-d!y unti l iraut, l-eing dirin.'lly opposed Uj anylnh: but a oue-li rui Preaid- i. -ui'v; itd ninth would rob inventors j uf the righto which th'-y have of re-I re-I '(iiiring a t-nreentagu on their inventions inven-tions by the patent laws; in tenth de-(rliin-s in favor of a prohibition law; j wule- the eleventh expresses the usual I gratitude to suldierj and sailor-, j Coiiibming numcruua good point-, j it is an ill-digr.H:i d platfurin, because ii. eungnious. First, the. Convention 'calla itself an anti-monopoly one, and ' len.ai.Js "ouch a mod.tication of the i pali tit laws as will de.-tr.y the I monopoly in agi ienhund imple- iiieut.i and ( tuer laljor saving n.aehinery;" whieh is etuleavorinc to (itaplish a monopoly On ihrn'.hir ?ide, nod to destroy the tlleets of inventive in-ventive minds, no special monopoly monopo-ly exists in those tilings further than haB been denned proper to give in ventors a fair bench t of the results of I their thought and labor, j To at the same time condemn I I haul's administration, which these resolutions do for Ids " interference in the domestic affaii-s of several States," and endorse it in other matters mat-ters by direct resolution, is a queer way of snyinn whether they endorse it or not. H looks like a compromise between the Republicans and Ileum- ! crats, the latter getting the best ol it. I And yet incongruoiid as the platform is, there is m much likelihood of its I being adopted nationally as anything ' yet placed before the countryalways j excepting tho resolution regarding the one-term Presidency, The present pres-ent incumbent of tho Chief Magistrate's Magis-trate's chair will stand no such nonsense non-sense as that. |