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Show TELEGEAPHIG KOI THEBX SOl'HDS. TennesHpe Thnndcr ior Republican Re-publican Ears. .V Surage Arrafcnuient ol ilie 1'ttriy ol Frauds and Itosnery. NaahTiile, Tenn., 16. The Ten-esate Ten-esate democratic conreation re-itfseQibltd re-itfseQibltd at 9 o'clock acd adopted ibe following resolutions: We tjolcmnly arraign the radical repabli- I can parly, national and state, before! I ibe bar oi public opinion, aa the author of a!I misfortunes which dow oppreea slJ threaten the people. Protesting Pro-testing ita fnendsaip for ibe federal union, it Bought to destroy it in centralizations. cen-tralizations. Declaring its purpose to establish justice, it trampled it under ila feet. To insure domestic tranquility tran-quility waa it3 proclaimed mission, but it preached the gospel of hate and filled the land with blod, misrule and anarchy. Pretending Pre-tending to provide for common defence, it fruitlessly squandered I luiiiiuna oi tue peoples money. Afiecting to promote the general welfare, wel-fare, it betrayed the public weal. Afiirming its design to Eecure .the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity, it forged for the people chains of perpetual slavery. Ostensibly the financial agent of the people, it was in fact the pliant tool of the money power. It betrayed its trust when it converted the non interest-bearing interest-bearing debt into an interest-bearing debt, which is blighting the public course. It betrayed its trust when it repudiated a contract dischargeable in treasury notes and substituted a coin contract to the prejudice ot the people. It betrayed its trust when it demonet'zed silver and forbade payment pay-ment to public creditors in the cheaper metal provided for in the contract. It betrayed ita trust when it organized a privileged class into a close .banking corporation and usurping all banking corporate power to destroy the business and property of the people. It betrayed be-trayed us power when it fixed an arbitrary period for resumption. I It has squandered the public wealth j by donations to powerful corporations. It haa wrung enormous taxes from people and applied them to unworthy un-worthy partisan purposes. Under pretenco of protection to hone in-dustre, in-dustre, it has systematically rubbei the many in the interest of the few by unfriendly legislation. It has driven American ships from the high sets and utterly destroyed our foreign commerce. It made the army an instrument in-strument in the annihilation of republican re-publican government in the Boutu, : By the use of the army it put the people ol the United Slates in fear and robbed them of the presidency. It insults the laboring peoplo of the country by demanding an increase of the army for the avowed purpose of a standing menace to them. By the Ieyof excessive excise duties upon tobacco and alcoholic productions it has encouraged violations of the revenue laws, and under the false pretence of protecting the revenue service it has turned loose upon the people, irresponsible, blood-thirsty men, who kill and. destroy property at will, and confessing the want of jurisdiction in the federal courts to punish them, yet it refuses fo allow these enemies to society to be chal lenged anywhere tor their crimes. Acquiring power by accident, it has perpetrated it by fraudulently deceiving deceiv-ing Iho ignorant blacks of the south aud misleading credulous masse3 ol the north, aud it baa unilarmly abueed its power by administering government in the interest of creditors and against tbe debtor class; in the interest uf the tax consumer and against the tax payer; in the interest of the rich and against the poor; in the interest of tbe strong and against the weak. For these crimes against humanity and good government we denounce the radical republican pArty aa mi worthy of the trust and coutideuce of tho intelligent and patriotic people. We congratulate tbe people that our party has at last woa a victory over the radical republican party and its allies, monopoly and money power. Through tho democratic party domestic dom-estic governments have been restored in the southern states and those given coequal rights with other members of the Union. By tho success of tho democratio policies tbe sord was eliminated from its internal administration, adminis-tration, centralization arrested and lue ancient terms anu memwis ui mui federal system re-established. We denounce an interest-bearing public debt as a public curse. We demand the return of the federal government to constitutional limits; a repeal of the declaration that the curreucy bonds of tho government shall be paid in coin, aud the payment in treasury notes of so much of said bonds as may bo found due after deducting the difference between the value ol gold paid aud the currency due thereon according to the contract; the unconditional uncon-ditional repeal of tho resumption act; that tho odious national banking act be repealed and greenbacks be substituted sub-stituted for the circulation of the national banks; that the treasury notes be mado receivable for ail pjv-orunient pjv-orunient due?; that no mre interest bearing Winds be issued; U'.a1. coinage- of silver bo mad.: unlir.r.'.ed and bo paid to tho public creditor exclusively upon all bonds justly payable pay-able in coin; that the valua of ad foreign silver coins be made recoiv- il.ln f, ll micprnnidnt fi:ir9 tn bp reeoiutd by toe government and paid out to its creditor-; that capital io every form be required to bear the burdens of government equal with lAbor and production; that toe present financial policy of government to contract toe circulation of treasury notes, dijiparape silver, magnify gold aud ualional banknotes, be reversed aud every legitimate mode adopted to swell the volume of our currency it!i silver and treasury notea. Alter tbe adoption of the platform, the l.'ilow.ng names were put in nomination ior governor: Alfred iiid well and John M. Filming, of Kc.oxville; J.Kin H. 8av,;e, o( Mc-M;nntille; Mc-M;nntille; Arthur S. Coyar, of Nashville, Nash-ville, and John A. Gardner, of WeU ley county. |