| Show I 0 political Platforms of the Last Forty Years Declaration of Principles of the Two Great parties I tl presidential fir conven uJ nap nr n ear nt at hand and the lira Voice once of tho thoo ti platform maker both bolls o T J 1 und and mma 4 tour IH is again heard In iu nj pt tho land At such n 11 tRue time It may l ho o 0 Inter tn la recall briefly soma mo of or the Uie plat I i l i i by iha the two politIcAl f ru ts together With a II Iran IcAl l parties Inthe in the theby past PaM fru of Dt the tho lean lew Important one onci belong the other to 10 s Ill r The Tle year 1860 1860 wa was ft n 1 great year for parties und and platforms In 11 view of f tho the aspect lI of tho the political den i I It Is III not like likely that the tho northern ot of the Democratic party would hAve hare chosen cho cn Charleston HH nil Its It convene conven lI lien n city ell but brit tho limo locution md pad been axell four Cour years before Tho Tha conven convention convention tion assembled April A 28 23 3 and ond at nt once n a platform committee ono one member from hom f nm each state stilt It was agreed that no ballot for tM candidates should bo ho bol l taken laken k n until the tho platform had hull been beon fixed On April 37 27 three platforms were re tho southern the Iho Douglas and jt the puller Juller The southern platform contained seven loven resolutions re arid tho the six lit Jour Four of ot both bolh were alike and nd advocated protection of citizens at lit homo home and abroad approved nF r ved a 11 Pacific railroad favored the th acquisition of Cuba Cub and condemned I any attempt to defeat the tha execution ol tho the fugitive sure law The ho distinctive southern solutions rf were to the tho effect that con congress congress congress gress could not prohibit slavery In a territory arid and that tho the question of ot slaw slav only be settled by byn a state The Theother Theother other Douglas resolutions declared that the Democratic doctrines of tho past poet were Vero unchangeable but that tho the par parr party ty Iy would abide by the decisions of ot the tho United States supreme court Tho The northern delegates were willing to oc nc the tho Dred Scott decision tempo temporarily fully but hut tho the element wanted wonted the party part lo to accept It for tor all tune time to conic The TIle Butler Dutler platform w was ae tho the fame came as ns that of ot 1858 US It t was Ignored The Tile Douglas document WAS adopted by byi bya i a free state majority The minority was wu tho t e slave state vote vole ote with Oregon California end part of Pennsylvania and New Jersey On the tho following day the southern delegates withdrew to re memble at ut Richmond on Juno 11 The original convention adopted tho the two thirds third rule and began to ballot billiot nut Hut the convention though It had accepted accept d the tho platform could cold not then Hiett make IMke up Its mind to Indorse Its Ina chief exponent H It adjourned adJourn cd to meet again nt It Haiti wore on Juno 18 8 There It Il nominated Stephen A Douglas of Illinois to lend lead the ticket Some Homo time afterward the national committee chose cho o e V Johnson of Georgia O for his he running mate On n June 20 the separatists nt at Richmond adopted tho the southern plat platform platform platform form mud and nominated John C ridge of ot Kentucky and Joseph Joeeph Lane Lana of Oregon May stay 9 of ot that Paine year yent the Constitutional Union party tho the northern rom rem Mat of tho the Whigs met nt tit Baltimore and nominated n 1 John Hell Dell of ot Tennessee and Edward of ot Massachusetts d The T e platform denounced l platforms In lit general and asserted that patriotism should recognize only the constitution union of ot states stales and tho enforcement of ot ltv law I It carried Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia The fhe Republican platform for that thai ye ear r adopted at Chicago May 16 was wan much like the document of oC thE tha previous campaign though It dropped the con Junction of polygamy and slavery de demanded de demanded a n homestead law i hd protection Ion tion for tor domestic manufactures res and de lie denounced der pounced threats of secession U It also reasserted Its i to tG slavery to the tho repeal of tho the Missouri compromise c and sad the tho refusal to admit Kansas ni nil n a free tree tale state H Jt declared for tor a 1 Pacific railroad Its candidates Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and Hannibal of Maine obtained the tho votes voles of at all alt tho the free freu states except ept throe three e from New Nev Jer Jersey Jersey sey The rhe Democratic platform of nt 1501 ISH adopted at Chicago Aug 29 20 contained nix Ix resolutions nil all but hut ono Oil attacking tho t he of ot the mho war nr U it tho the adherence to tho the Union and demanded n I cessation of ot hostilities it 11 likewise denounced national Interference once ence with elections tho the suspension of lp C fi the writ of habeas h beas corpus In states stales not In Insurrection mid find the refusal to ex exchange ex exchange change prisoners Tho rho most Important resolution rend as an follows follow This Thill convention does explicitly declare as on tho the sense of ot the American A people that hilt t after tour four years of ot failure to restore the Union by the lie experiment of war justice humanity liberty and the tho welfare demand that an Immediate effort be made mads for tor a n 0 cessation of or hostilities 8 to the tho end nd that at the very earliest practicable mo moment meet ment peace may ho hI restored on the basis of the tho federal union of ot the tho states George McClellan of New NelV Jersey and George 11 II Pendleton of ot Ohio were nominated May 31 11 of at that year a II convention of radicals met nt at Cleveland and ond nomi nominated noted John C Fremont and John Coch CochraM rune rant Tho The platform demanded n a more prosecution of line tho war con confiscation confiscation of southern property properly and Its distribution among soldiers and actual settlers Tho The candidates accepted but hut withdrew later In a n curious political situation arose The Tho assassination ul of Lincoln April H li brought the vice president Andrew Johnson Into the political fore tore forefront forefront front His Ills policy which he ho lost no notime time lime In announcing was not the doc doe doctrine trio trine ot of the party which had elected him Several S vernl mate conventions de declared lI Blared I his hll views of ot reconstruction Ion tion and assorted that lint It must be ef et effected effected by the lawmaking branch ot of the government The Tha Democrats united with the presidents friends and the lime war tear In a n national 1 gathering lit at Philadelphia Aug H U This Thin was wn called tho the arm lit ht 11 arm aria convention from the in which tho ho and Houth Carolina H entered tho the hall Tho The attempted Impeachment of or President Johnson was WaR one of or the She Inci Inel Incidents dents of this period The fill rh national Democratic convention of or July Jul 4 t 1868 at lit New liew York adopted a II series of resolutions resolution I concerning Ilse he heI t ti it tit f w I 1111 1 f L fur situation expressed sorrow over the tha lamentable fate of oC Lincoln und and ly Iy criticised criticisM tho the poloy of or reconstruction A tariff lard for far revenue on foreign Imports was RB demanded It also declared against negro and far fa favored erell the payment of at tha the national debt I In hr legal tender Horatio Seymour of nC if New York and Prank Frank P lair of Mis Missouri Bourl nominated The Chicago platform of oC 1868 approved the lie reconstruction plan of congress declared for tor liquidation of 1 the tho public 11 debt and denounced tho tiro acts I of at Johnson Johnon Tho Tim tariff was I not mentioned S 3 Oran Gran won win nominated on the tho first ballot hallot I Colfax of Indiana woe was made his hi run running runnIng ning fling Under this thin administration the fifteenth nth amendment a was IVUS passed The next national decla declo declaration ration of political faith Judo madu at lit Phila Philadelphia Philadelphia I delphia June 5 G 1872 revl reviewed wed the past pant I achievements of tho the party demanded liberty nod exact equality tor for all com corn commended comm mended m the president and un congress for their RUpp es of In tic tit th II south Houth and promised to tho tariff This Thin was tho the Ural first avowal II Ou I of protectionist Ideas since the war Urn Gen General I oral eral Grunt Grant was una d by b necla II lion awl nn Henry Wilson Nilson of or Macsi Massa ta s was wan named for second place Ince I In this year the HIP Liberal assembled In Cincinnati and Horace Greeley of ot Now York und and U n I Grins Gratz Drown of Missouri This tie la I was WUN composed nf of He Be who believed that the na Till national donut police pollee had been exercised too freely reel Iree In hl tho mho south Tho nt at Baltimore on Juno June 9 rOllI r Ill tho mho Cincinnati platform and all accepted Its candidate r f 5 k l f f n j fl I About Aboul votes vot Were that year car for tor Citation Charles of ur New liSI York and John Johll Quincy Adams of or Massachusetts ot or n II straight out Demo Democratic cratic crake convention at Louisville Sept 3 Doth Hoth candidates declined to serve nerve Grant and lleon elected Tim fhil Republican national platform of ot 1870 1876 announced eel ed nt lit Cincinnati Juno JUliO 14 wan ns n a plea for tor civil service reform It 11 recommended n 1 steady progress toward town Id specie pa payments inputs and denounced toll and l the solid south It 11 also nd lid the visions exorcise exercise of the powers of tho the president and congress Jones James 0 O Blame was tho tue favorite at ut the start On Oil tho the seventh bullot ballot his hll vote wan Mas Then the op opposition opposition position dulled and on l transferred Its vote vole to l n R Hayes JlII ot or Ohio That him Almon Wheel Wheeler er or of or Xv New I York became his hili companion on tho the ticket The ticket won Wall but hut It required the famous anions electoral commis commission slur sion to decide deride It Other questions how however however however ever soon appeared to divert the public attention The Tho Ih currency matter conic came actively to the tha front had hall been failing fulling bold wits was the 10 only specie of or the country except fur for sub nub subsidiary coinage Finally the tho Bland hill bill to the silver sliver dollar lo legal al tender tonder for tor nil ill debts wets uis paH punned ed by h both bath houses and over the veto of ot President Mayes The rite Rt St Loula Democratic platform of ot 1870 the three II en 18 denounced the unlit tariff and demanded that custom ou house heuM taxation be for tor revenue only It also ad advised adI I wised due for tor the i t r JJr I f I Cheater A Arthur of New York Will was for tor place luring During this campaign the time famous forgery known as nil the Morey letter I which purported to tn be he by h I Garfield In III favor flor nf of Immigration appeared The rite stalwart and rains came Into active use Uee u The Iho platform t that j I the boundary between powers rH delegated t l land and those reserved should be he deter by hy national and not by b state stale tribunals that hunt duties levied for COI revenue should American labor no further grant of public land bo ho made to or other cori corpora or anti that lint polygamy must taunt cense cease In Inthe Inthe inthe the territories Tho The Democratic platform of ot 1880 for formulated formulated nt at Cincinnati on Oil Juno June 3 de tie declared elated rule honest money and anda I a It tariff tD only The remainder I UT vw 0 c s sC i ti C i tt rr I 1 4 r 1 r y t l l l R RN RI i ir i 1 a N I I Il IlAND PHYSICIANS AND PATIENT ion of ot specie p III Before tho mho thos second s ballot hallot wile was over ever Samuel J Til Tilde Tilden den de n of ot New York wits was nominated Ills His loading lending competitor Thomas A lion Han ot of Indiana was named for vice president The Tho platform for 1880 was put forth At nt Chicago June Julie 10 It was wan wasell us well ell understood that mi no effort would ho be tanto to b Giant t rl a II third hint term In III fact tact a n plurality ot or the delegates come canto pledged edged p to support him flume was Willi n 1 strong strong favorite ollIe again amid John Slier Sher loan had hUll ninny many friends On Oil the thirty fifth ballot Grant had votes and aull BlAine On tho the A of ot Ohio had hall the seventeen votes of Wisconsin On the tho the forces stampeded to the tho Ohio Ohl statesman and he tie was Ivan nominated I was Willi devoted to a 0 denunciation of ot tit the e electoral commissions Win Nun Winfield field S Hancock of ot Pennsylvania was wn a nominated for tor president William 1 H II 1 of Indiana was ivon named for tor sec lee second ond place pInel In III 1880 there thoro were nt lit least leant three e other r tho hor tit tho o Prohibition and ail the Tho Th S tit si was t represented t by hy J II 11 f t Weaver 1 l ea cavor a e r of or Iowa and 11 II J Chambers of ot Texas Neal lieal Dow of Maine Malno aillo anti A M Thomp Thompson son Sol of ot Ohio stood l for tor time the second The Tim 0 haRe chose J W Phelps of oC Ver Vcr Vermont mound mont and C of or Kan Kansas sas sae rule Tho lending features of ot the tho re platforms are arc plainly indicate d by II their nines names Before another call for far n II I convention President Garfield met hl Ills his H untimely fate The vice president Ch Chester bt r A Arthur Aithur succeeded J The floe lh an poll Need creed ore d for tor I ill Int was L adopted at Chicago June Jun 3 It was WaH reported by ty William Jr of ot uhl It urged the i of ot an all International moor mon money ey sy c and 1111 advocated civil service reform Mr was warn chosen Chili on the fourth ballot John A began of ot Illi 1111 Illinois illinois nois WAS wall m nude made Ills his running mat matThe The Iho Democrats that year rear most met at lit Chi Chicago cago and nominated drover rover Cleveland of ot New York and Thomas Thoma A Hendricks of f Indians Th lime termed the time lIAr I a mere nce It advocated rite aided free Cree trade honest noon mon y of at gold and silver lIver pledged l t lf to reform taxation favored civil service reform and promised public Im Int h It In Is worthy of or lint hat nt lit the convention General Ilen t min F I Butler returned a 1 minority report r re port tort protection At let least four more platforms wore ware adopted In 1881 the Antimonopoly bor Peoples and Inti Prohibition As All already Intimated their go far toward revealing their political Thin period was by b the remarkable growth of ot the Independent vote vot to use a term cart applied In derision to non by hy the stalwarts became an active force foree mid Its 1111 influence was wan apparent ap op parent In the platforms of the time Mr Cleveland hUll hud no nn opposition In 1984 lit at St HI Louis Allen II n O Thurman was wan nominated for Cor second place rhe The platform was a n practical of or tho limo principle principia of Its pm The Time platform of ot 1888 adopted ut lit Chicago June Iune 19 1 cam out unreservedly I for tor protection declared Its Ita hostility to labor taut and ChIne Chines Im Immigration migration condemned thus the de da log ing of or aliver and smith the In Increase increase crease of the tho th navy Benjamin h Harrison arrison oll ollof of Indiana nod Levi Lev I l I Morton of New Sew NewYork NewYork York wore ware mimed and they the were elect elected elected elected ed edThe Tho The tenth national platform of ot the Republican party was nn launched at Min Mill Minneapolis neapolis Juno June 7 1892 It declined declared for tor protection In stronger terms than titan ever ever advocated 1 reciprocity bimetallism free treo ballot 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