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Show LATEST MflK GENERAL. Louisiana Democrats. Baton Rouge, G. The democratic state platlorm recommends tbe levee system, calls for aid to the Pacific railroad and Brazilian ateamship line, endorses tbe Nicholls government, approves the fraud investigation by tne federal house, asserts that tbe in-, terest of the industrial, weatth-pro j ducing classes is oi paramount interest to the people of tbe Unite J states; those whose labor and enterprise enter-prise produce wealth, should be se cured in ile enjoyment; r xpresct sympathy for the laboring class, s who have been thrown out ol employment by the ruinous financial policy and unjust legislation of the republican j party, aud pledgee the democratic 'party to reform these wro.-y upon ita ascendancy to power: demands I that the national banking system should be abolished and national bank notes retired and iu lieu thereof government should issue an equal amount of greenbacks; and it also de mands th& unconditional repeal of laws imposing a tax upon the cir culation of state banks. Demands the immediate and unconditional repeal of the resumption act, opposes tbe ruinouB policy of the republican party, whereby the volume of cur rency has been contracted far below the business requirements of the country, and failures, depression of business, scarcity of labor and pauper wages have been entailed; all bonds and obligations of the national government gov-ernment should be paid in tbe legal tender greenback notes of tbe United States, except where otherwise pro vided for in the original law; damauds the repeal of all lawa passed subsequent subse-quent to the original law creating tbe public debt by which the obligations of the contract have been made more onerous. |