7. Upon these declarations we invite the cooperation of all honest citizens who with us, desire the re-establishment of honest government. Greenback, May 18; 1882.

Resolved, 1. That we are against the monopoly of money by the National Banking System, and are in favor of the Government issuing all currency and making it full legal tender.

2. We are against the monopoly of transportation and telegraphy, and declare that corporations, the creation of the State, shall be governed by the State in the interests of the people.

3. We are against the monopoly of land, and demand the reservation of all public lands, including the vast amount now forfeited by the great corporations, for actual settlers.

4. We are opposed to all monopolies and in favor of equal rights, equal burdens, equal benefits, and special privileges to none.

5. We demand such a revision of the tariff as shall fully protect American labor and invested capital against the pauperized labor of foreign

countries.

6. We demand that the Government shall im

mediately do justice to the soldiers of the late war, by equitably adjusting and paying the pensions and other claims due them; and,

WHEREAS, The right of labor to organize for the discussion and enforcement of its rights in this State has been assailed by combined monopolies; therefore,

Resolved, 7. That this legal and constitutional right shall be maintained, and that associated labor shall have all the rights and privileges permitted to associated capital.

8. We call upon all good citizens, without distinction of party, who believe in the foregoing declaration of principles, to unite with us in the impending struggle and assist us in carrying it to a successful issue.

A resolution was added, that all pay should be on the basis of eight hours as constituting a day's labor.

TENNESSEE.

Democratic (Regular), June 22, 1882. The Democracy of Tennessee, in State convention assembled, declare :

That the Democrats of Tennessee, with their majority of the popular vote, are the rightful guardians of the honor and good name of the State, and that they willingly accept the duty and responsibility of preserving them from taint or suspicion, and that it is equally their right and duty to settle its indebtedness.

That while we accord to all an honest difference of opinion, we regard the enactment of the 60-3-4-5-6 as unwise, because it is, in our opinion, not in accord with the views of the people.

That there is a portion of the State debt, such as the bonds issued for the building of our Capitol, for the purchase of the Hermitage, etc., and commonly known as the State debt proper, with accrued interest, the validity of which has never been disputed by any portion of our party, we consider as a valid and sacred obligation of

That we tender to our creditors a settlement of the remainder of the State debt by paying one-half the principal and accrued interest, by issuing the bonds of the State bearing interest at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum.

That the twenty-nine bonds held by Mrs. JAMES K. POLK shall be paid like the State debt proper, in full.

That we are in favor of paying in full all bonds held on the 1st day of January, 1882, by educational, charitable and literary institutions.

That we are opposed to the calling of a Constitutional convention at this time, because the principal object of the same, as declared by the Republican party, through its executive committee, was to make coupons receivable for taxes, and this we forever oppose.

That we are unalterably opposed to every species of monopoly, as destructive of liberty and the best interest of the people, and to this end we favor the establishment of a commission, the object of which shall be to regulate the tariffs charged by the railroads of the State, so as to put an end to the unjust discrimination by said roads in favor of through as against local freights; and we are in favor of such a system of taxation as will force railroad companies to pay their just proportion of the taxes of the State according to the real value of their property.

That the Democratic party is opposed to all unequal taxation upon the mercantile and manufacturing interests, or any other person in Tennessee.

That we favor the time-honored doctrine of instruction and recognize the right of the people at all times and upon all questions to communicate their views to their representatives.

That we favor an efficient public school system, and the liberal education of all the children of the State.

We arraign the Republican party for its venality and corruption in the administration of the State and Federal Governments, and for its total disregard of all civil service reform; and do hereby declare our unqualified opposition to the practice of said party in levying upon the employés of the Government a tax for political purposes.

Democratic (State Credit), July 11, 1882. We, the Democratic Party of Tennessee, in convention assembled, do declare:

1. That we are unalterably opposed to the repudiation of our State or national obligations, and are in favor of maintaining inviolate the public faith.

2. That we recognize the recent settlement of the State debt made by the present legislature as in accord with the platform of the Democratic Party of 1880, both State and national, and as just and honorable both to the people and the creditors of the State, and declare that it should not be disturbed or readjusted.

3. That we are opposed to all class legislation and partial laws, and to all law the tendency of which is to impair the obligation of contracts. 4. We are in favor of a liberal system of pub

lic schools, so that every child in Tennessee may have a good common school education, and recognizing the good effects of what is known as the four-mile law, by which the number of schools has been increased and crime and vice diminished, we are opposed to its repeal.

5. We favor a policy that will compel railroad corporations as well as all other corporations and individuals in the State of Tennessee to bear their equal part of the burden of taxation.

6. We favor the establishment of a Railroad Commission to regulate freights and tariffs so as to prevent unequal discrimination, with such powers as shall protect the rights of both the people and the railroads.

7. We are opposed to a constitutional convention at this time, believing that the necessities for such convention do not justify the danger of opening the organic law to amendment in these times of unsettled political opinions.

8. We arraign the Republican party for its reckless extravagance with public funds, the issuance of subsidies to the favored few, the disregard of the organic and fundamental law of the land as set forth in the Constitution, for its growing and increasing advance to centralization; and for its system of protection to the strong corporations, thereby imposing additional burdens upon the laborer, producer, and mechanic. Greenback, June 12, 1882.

WHEREAS, The State debt question is one of vital importance to the people of Tennessee at this time; and

WHEREAS, The members of the National Greenback-Labor party of Tennessee, in convention assembled, would be clear and explicit in regard to a question of so much importance: therefore be it

Resolved, That the Constitution of 1796 and 1834, under which the bonds outstanding were originally issued, did not authorize the issuance of a bond for any purpose.

2. That all bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness, either absolute or contingent, hitherto issued, purporting to bind the people of Tennessee, are void as against the State, because there was no constitutional authority for those acts of the generel assemblies which assumed to create the indebtedness and authorize

the issuance of such bonds.

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3. That the amount of actual benefit that has accrued to the State as a commonwealth, from the proceeds of said so-called State debt proper, should be ascertained by the next general assembly, whether relating to bonds known as the Capitol bonds," the "Hermitage bonds," as well as such others the avails of which were applied to the proper use of the State as a commonwealth; and when this amount is thus accurately ascertained, the general assembly ought to submit to the voters of the State the question as to the payment of the same; and we pledge ourselves to favor throughout the payment of the sum thus found to be justly due-the whole and not a part only of this sum, principal and interest to be paid.

4. That it would be unfair to those who hold bonds for a debt that ought to be paid, to require them to accept only a part of their debt,

because other bonds are for an indebtedness that is wholly unjust, and no part of which ought to be paid; and that we favor the payment of all that is just, but not a cent of that which is unjust.

5. That as the holders of the bonds, for the benefit of railroads, have confessed that the people of Tennessee do not owe the debt created on account of constructing railroads, and are now litigating before the Supreme Court of the United States to compel the railroad companies to pay them the debt which they do owe, all propositions looking to a so-called compromise and settlement of said railroad debt, by the people of Tennessee, are made in the interest of the railroad companies which owe the debt, hoping thereby to get the people to agree to assume and pay a debt for which they are neither legally nor morally bound; and to that extent both the Democratic and Republican parties are instruments in the perpetration of a gigantic fraud upon the toiling masses of Tennessee.

II. That we are opposed to monopolies, to class legislation, to private corporations and national banks controlling the currency of the country, to refunding United States bonds, to the continuance of the bond system, to rechartering national banks, and to all measures which are not conducive to the public welfare.

TEXAS.

Democratic, July 19, 1882.

1. That all men are politically equal, and that the objects of government are subverted when legislation recognizes distinction between persons, or favors one class of business pursuits at the expense of another, and by any means impoverishes the many to enrich the few.

2. We oppose centralization and that dangerous and growing spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the power of all the departments of government in one, and thus create a real despotism whatever be the form of government.

3. That we are opposed to the present system of national banks and all banks of issue; that we favor the free and honest coinage of gold and silver, and are in favor of a paper currency, consisting of the treasury notes of the government, gold and silver certificates, based on bullion, deposited sufficient in volume with gold and silver to answer all of the business commercial purposes of the people; and a strict maintenance of the public faith, state and national.

4. We are opposed to a protective tariff; believe it unjust and detrimental to the best interests of our people, and are in favor of a tariff for revenue only.

5. We favor the subordination of the military to the civil powers of the government, and a genuine and thorough reform in the civil ser

vice.

6. We declare that the right of a full and free ballot is a right preservative of all rights, and should be sacredly maintained in every part of the United States.

7. We favor free ships and a living chance for American commerce in the seas, and on land

no discrimination in favor of transportation lines or monopolies.

8. The Democratic party proposes to protect labor and the laboring men of our country, and pledges itself to protect them alike against the cormorants and commune.

9. We declare that a liberal provision should be made to endow, with the public lands set apart for the payment of the public debt or the proceeds of the sale of the same, the State University and its branches, but in no case should any portion of the common school lands or funds be used for this purpose. We further declare that the debt due the university and common school funds of Texas, denominated as of doubtful validity, should be recognized and paid, with the interest due thereon.

10. We favor the fullest education of the masses, white and colored, in separate common schools, and the advanced education of the youths of the country in our higher schools and the State University, and favor the maintenance of normal schools for the instruction of teachers.

11. We favor the submission to the people of a constitutional amendment authorizing the levy and collection of a special school tax, separate from the general revenues, to the end that an efficient system of public free schools may be maintained, and that the state taxes may be reduced to the actual necessities of the state gov

ernment.

12. We favor the protection of the public school lands of the state from waste and sacrifice, and pledge ourselves to secure returns from said lands commensurate with the real value of the same.

13. We declare that the railroads and other corporations are subordinate and subject to the control by the political power of the states and of the general government in their respective spheres of constitutional authority by such conservative legislation as will protect the rights of the people and enforce the provisions of our constitution without injury to the just interests of those corporations.

2. That the Democratic party has betrayed its trust. It has doubled the debt. It has exempted the lands of the International railroad from taxation, in violation of the constitutional provision that taxation shall be equal and uniform, and exempted said railroad company from the constitutional requirements of locating alternate sections for the benefit of the common school fund. It has issued land certificates to railroads, irrigating companies and pretended canal companies, to the amount of many million acres in excess of the public domain. It has robbed the public school fund and our people of homes; established gigantic land monopolies in our midst by granting to four Chicago capitalists 3,000,000 acres of public domain to build a state-house. It has inaugurated a system of class legislation in favor of the rich, by refusing to sell the public domain in tracts less than 640 acres, thus depriving other men of the opportunity to acquire homes in our State. It has sold State bonds at 85 cents, and bought them back at $1.40. It has persistently refused to exercise the constitutional prerogative of State control over railroads. It has withdrawn from circulation in this State over a million and a half dollars, and piled it up in the treasury as a useless cash balance, save for electioneering purposes, and at the same time has refused to make the constitutional appropriation for the support of public schools upon the false plea of insufficient revenue. It refused to submit to a vote of the people the question of prohibition, though petitioned so to do by a large and respectable portion of the citizens of this State, thus practically denying the inalienable right of petition. Under the pretense of favoring the laboring men, it has exempted from taxation the cotton and sugar crops of the wealthy, and at the same time has taxed the mechanic's tools. In redistricting the State it resorted to shameless and outrageous gerrymandering which is odious to all honest people and contrary to the principles and teachings of true Democracy. In short, the Demo-. cratic party of Texas has ceased to be Democratic, but has become a close corporation run by and in the interest of a syndicate of machine politicians.

Greenback, June 30, 1882.

We suggest a change in the wording of the Greenback national platform so as to read as follows: The bonds of the United States should not be refunded, but should be paid when due, or when declared due by law, in any lawful money that the Government may have on hand.

STATE POLICY.

I. We declare that the Democratic party was put into power to right the wrongs inflicted upon us by the Republican party, which wrongs consisted in part in involving the State in debt and in granting enormous subsidies to corporate monopolies.

worthy of support now than when driven from power by a righteous wrath of an indignant people; that we call upon all true Democrats tions, and join with us in an attempt to establish and Republicans to abandon these old organizain this State an administration in opposition to the exactions and oppressions of corporate monopolies, state debt, competition of convict with honest labor, political gerrymandering. property suffrage, occupation taxes upon occupations that are local in their nature and useful to the people, and in favor of an efficient system of public free-schools and the appropriation of one-fourth of the general revenue therefor, and an increase of the scholastic age from seven to eighteen years, and in favor of an honest, economical, and progressive administration.

prescribing an oath for grand and petit jurors in the courts of the United States be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

But no vote was reached.

Union Soldiers to be Preferred as Policemen and Watchmen.

IN HOUSF.

Pending H. R. 3575, “to increase the police force of the District of Columbia and for other purposes," the second section of which was in these words:

"That so much of section three hundred and fifty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia as requires that no person shall be appointed as policeman or watchman who has not served in the Army or Navy of the United States and received an honorable discharge' be, and the same hereby is, repealed."

The Committee on the District of Columbia reported the following as a substitute for the above:

In the appointment of policemen under this act the District commissioners shall, when all other qualifications are equal, give preference to those applicants who have been honorably discharged from the volunteer service of the Union Army. No appointment shall be made to the police force of any person who has not been a resident of the District for three months immediately preceding his appointment.”

Mr. ROBESON moved as an amendment to strike out section two from the bill; which was agreed to-yeas 104, nays 77:

YEAS Messrs. W. Aldrich, Beach, J. H. Brewer, Briggs, Browne, Buck, J. C. Burrows, J. H. BURROWs, Butterworth, Camp, Campbell, Cannon, Carpenter, Caswell, Chace, Chapman, Colerick, Crapo, Cullen, Curtin, G. R. Davis, Dawes, De Motte, Dezendorf, Dingley, Dunnell, Dwight, Ermentrout, S. S. Farwell, Godshalk, Guenther, J. Hammond, Hardenbergh, Harmer, B. W. Harris, I. S. HASELTINE, Haskell, Hawk, Heilman, Hepburn, J. Hill, Holman, Houk, Humphrey, Jacobs, Jadwin, P. Jones, Joyce, Ketcham, Lacey, Leedom, Le Fevre, Lewis, insurrection or rebellion, or to resist with force of arms, the laws of the United States.

SEC. 821. At every term of any court of the United States, the district attorney, or other person acting on behalf of the United States in said court, may move, and the court in their discretion may require the clerk to tender to every person summoned to serve as a grand or petit juror, or venireman, or talesman, in said court, the following oath or affirmation, namely: "You do solemnly swear (o affirm) that you will support the Constitution of the United States of America; that you have not, without duress and constraint, taken up arms or joined any insur.. rection cr rebellion against the United States; that you have not adhered to any insurrection or rebellion, giving it aid and comfort; that you have not, directly or indirectly, given any assistance in money or any other thing, to any person or persons whom you knew, or had good ground to believe, to have joined, or to be about to join, said insurrection or rebellion, or to have resisted, or to be about to resist, with force of arms, the execution of the laws of the United States; and that you have not counseled or advised any person to join any insurrection or rebellion against, or to resist with force of arms, the laws of the United States." Any person declining to take said oath shall be discharged by the court from serving on the grand or petit jury, or venire, to which he have been summoned.

may

| Lord, Mason, Matson, McClure, McCoid, McCook, McKinley, S. H. Miller, Moore, Neal, Norcross, O'Neill, Orth, Payson, Peelle, Peirce, Pettibone, Pound, Prescott, Ray, Reed, T. M. RICE, Rich, D. P. Richardson, G. M. Robeson, G. D. Robinson, J. S. Robinson, T. Ryan, Scranton, Sherwin, Skinner, A. H. Smith, D. C. Smith, Sparks, Spaulding, G. W. Steele, Stockslager, E. F. Stone, Strait, W. G. Thompson, Tyler, J. T. Updegraff, T. Updegraff, Urner, Van Aernam, Van Horn, Walker, Washburn, Webber, J. D. White, T. L. Young-104.

NAYS Messrs. Aiken, Armfield, Atkins, Barbour, Belmont, Blanchard, Bland, Blount, Bragg, Buchanan, Buckner, Cabell, Caldwell, Cassidy, Clardy, J. C. Clements, Cook, S. S. Cox, W. R. Cox, Covington, Cravens, Culberson, Davidson, Dibble, Dibrell, Dowd, Dunn, Ellis, Evins, J. J. Finley, Forney, FULKERSON, Garrison, Gunter, N. 7. Hammond, Hatch, Herbert, Herndon, A. S. Hewitt, G. W. Hewitt, Hoblitzell, Hooker, G. W. JONES, 7. K. Jones, Kenna, Klotz, Latham, McLane, McMillin, Money, Morrison, Moulton, Mutchler, Oates, PAUL, Phister, Reagan, J. S. Richardson, E. W. Robertson, Scoville, Shackelford, Shelley, Simonton, O. R. Singleton, Speer, Talbott, Tillman, H. G. Turner, O. Turner, Vance, R. Warner, Wellborn, Wheeler, Whitthorne, Willis, Wilson, G. D. Wise—77.

The section reported by the Committee was, then disagreed to, and the bill, which, as amended, provided merely for an increase of the force, was passed-yeas 117, nays 66:

YEAS-Messrs. Aiken, W. Aldrich, Bingham, Bowman, J. H. Brewer, Briggs, BRUMM, Buck, Buckner, J. C. Burrows, J. H. BURROWS, Camp, Campbell, Candler, Cannon, Carpenter, Caswell, Chace, Chapman, S. S. Cox, Crapo, Cullen, G. R. Davis, Dawes, Dezendorf, Dibble, Dingley, Dowd, Dunnell, Errett, Evins, S. S. Farwell, FORD, Garrison, George, Godshalk, Guenther, Gunter, Hall, J. Hammond, Hardenbergh, | Harmer, B. W. Harris, I. S. HASELTINE, Haskell, Hawk, Heilman, Hepburn, J. Hill, Horr, Hubbell, Hubbs, Humphrey, Jacobs, Jadwin, G. W. JONES, P. Jones, Jorgensen, Joyce, Lacey, Lewis, Lord, Marsh, Mason, McCoid, McCook, McKinley, S. H. Miller, Moore, Morse, Neal, Norcross, O'Neill, Orth, Parker, PAUL, Payson, Peelle, Peirce, Pettibone, Phelps, Prescott, Ranney, T. M. RICE, Rich, D. P. Richardson, E. W. Robertson, G. M. Robeson, G. D. Robinson, J. S. Robinson, W. A. Russell, Scranton, Sherwin, Skinner, Á. H. Smith, D. C. Smith, Spaulding, Spooner, G. W. Steele, E. F. Stone, Strait, W. G. Thompson, Tillman, A. Townsend, Tyler, J. T. Updegraff, Urner, Van Aernam, Van Horn, Van Voorhis, Walker, Ward, Washburn, Webber, J. D. White, M. R. Wise, T. L. Young-117.

NAYS-Messrs. Armfield, Atkins, Barbour, Beach, Belmont, Bland, Blount, Bragg, Buchanan, Cabell, Caldwell, J. B. Clark, jr., 7. C. Clements, Colerick, Converse, Cook, W. R. Cox, Cravens, Culberson, Curtin, Davidson, Dibrell, Dunn, Ermentrout, J. F. Finley, Flower, Forney, FULKERSON, Gibson, N. J. Hammond, Hatch, Herbert, Herndon, G. W.