r 'he Eugene City Guard. SUPPLEMENT. DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM- KeMlatlona Adopt bjr the Domorralle Party at tha Natloaal Canveu- tiaa r iNM. The Democratic party of the Union, through its representatives in National Convention assembled, reooguizes that, as the nation grows older, new issues are born of time and progress, and old issues perish; bat the fundamental principles of the Democracy, approved by the united voice of the people, remain, and will ever remain, as the best and the only security for the continuance of free government, the preservation of personal rights, the equality of all citizens before the law. The reserved rights of lhe States and the supremacy of the Federal Government, within the limits of the Constitution, will ever form the true basis of our liberties, and can never be surrendered without de stroying that bulauoe of rights and powers which enables a continent to be developed in peace, and social order to be maintained by means of local self-government. But it is indispensable, for the practical appli cation and enforcement of these fundamen tal principles, that the Government should not always be controlled by one political party. Frequent change of administration is as necessary as constant recurrence to the popular will. Otherwise abuses grow in the Government instrumentality for im posing heavy burdens on the rcany, who are governed for the benefit of the few who govern, and publio servants thus become arbitary rulers: This is now the condition of the country hence a change is de manded. The Republican party, so far as principle is concerned, is a reminiscence; in practice it is an organization for enrich ing those who control its machinery. The frauds and jobbery which have been brought to light in 'every department of the Government are sufficient to have called for reform within the Republican party; yet those in authority, made reck less by the long possession of power, have sucoumbed to its corrupting iufluenoe and have plaocd in nomination a tioket against wbtoh the independent portion of the party are in open revolt. Therefore a change is demanded. Such a ' change was a like necessity in 187C, but the will of the peo ple was then defeated by a fraud which can never be forgotteu nor condoned. Again in 1880, the change demanded by the peo nle was defeated br the lavish use of money, contributed by unscrupulous con tractors and shameless jobbers, who had bargained for unlawful profits or for high office. The Republican party, during its legal, its stolen and its bought tenures of power, has steadily decayed in moral char acter and political capacity. Its platform promises are now a list of its past failures. It demands the restoration of our navy; it has squandered hundreds of millions to create a navy that does not ex ist; it calls upon Congress to remove the burdens under which American shipping has been depressed; it imposes and has continued those burdens; it professes a preference for free institutions; it organ ized and tried to legalize a control of State eleotions by Federal troops; it professes a desire to elevate labor; it has subjected American workingmen to the competition of convict and imported contract labor; it professes gratitude to all who were disabled or died in the war, leaving widows and orphans. It left to a Democratic House of Representatives the first effort to equal ize both bounties and pensions. It proffered a pledge to correct the irregularities of our tariff; it created and continued them. Its own Tariff Commission confessed the need of more than 20 per cent reduction; its Congress gave a reduction of less than 4 per cent. It professes the protection of Amerioan manufacturers; it has subjected them to an increasing flood of manu factured goods and a hopeless competition with manufacturing nations, not one of which taxes raw materials. It professes to protect all American industries; it has im poverished the many to protect a few. It professes the protection of American labor; it has depleted the returns of Ameri can agriculture, an indnstry followed by half of our people. It professes the equal ity of all citizens before the law; attempting to fix the status of colored citizens, the Acts of its Congress were overset by the decisions of its Courts. It " accepts anew the duty of leading in the work of progress and reform;" its caught criminals are per mitted to escape through contrived delays or actual connivance in the prosecution. Honey-combed with corruption, outbreaking 'exposures no longer shock its moral sense. Its honest members, its independent journals no longer maintain a successful contest for authority in its counsels or a veto on bad nominations. That change is necessary is proved by an existing surplus of more than 1 100,000,000, which has yearly been collected from suffering people. Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. sxcnsrvB this. We denounce the Republican party for having failed to relieve the people from crushing war taxes, which have paralyzed business, crippled industry and deprived labor of employment and of just reward. The Democracy pledges itself to purify the Administration from corruption, to restore economy, to revive respect for law, and to reduce taxation to the lowest limit con sistnnt with due regard to the preservation of the faith of the nation to its creditors and pensioners. Knowing full well, how ever, that legislation affecting the occupa tions of the people should be cautious and conservative in method not in advance of publio opinion, but responsive to it the Democratic party is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests, but in making a reduction in taxes it is not proposed to injure any domestio industries but rather to promote their henlty growth From the foundation cf this Government, the taxes collected at the Custom-house have been the chief source of Federal rev euue, and so they must continue to be. Moreover, many industries have come to rely upon legislation for their successful continuance, so that any change of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and capital thus involved. The pro cess of reform must be subject in its execu tion to this plain dictate of justice. All taxation shall be limited to the requirements of economical government. The necessary reduction in taxation can and must be ef fected without depriving American labor of the ability to compete successfully with foreign labor and without imposing lower rates of duty than will be amplo to cover any increased oost of production which may exist in consequence of the higher rate of wages prevailing in this country. Suffi cient revenue to pay all expenses of the Federal Government, economically admin istered, including pensions, interest and principal of the publio debt, can be got under our present system of taxation from custom-house taxes on fewer imported arti cles, bearing heaviest on articles of luxury and bearing lightest on articles of necessity. We therefore denounce the abuses of the existing tariff and demand that it bo sub jected to these limitations. We demand that Federal taxation shall be exclusively for publio purposes and shall not exceed the needs of Government, economically admin istered. INTERNAL BEVEMUI. The system of direot taxation known as the " Internal Revenue," is a war tax, and so long as the law continues, the duty de rived therefrom should be sacredly devoted to the relief of the people from the remain ing burdens of the war, and be made a fund to defray the expense of the care and comfort 'of worthy soldiers disabled in the line of duty in the wars of the republic, and for the payment of such pensions as Congress may from time to time grant to such soldiers, a like fund for the Bailors having been already provided, and any surplus should be paid into the Treasury. A BBOAD CONTINENTAL POLICY. We favor an American continental policy, based upon more intimate commercial and political relations witn the fifteen sister republics of North, Central and South America, but entering into alliances with none. COIN AND CUBBKNCT. We believe in honest money; gold and and silver coinage, and a circulating medium convertible into such money. EQUAL JUSTICE TO ALL. While asserting the equality of all men before the law, we hold that it is the duty of the Government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all citizens of whatever nativity, race, color or persuasion, religious or political. NO TBOOF8 AT TBI POLLS. We believe in a free ballot and a fair count, and we recall to the memory of the people the noble struggle of the Demo crats in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, by which a reluotant Repub lican Administration was compelled to as sent to legislation making everywhere il legal the presenoe of troops at the polls, as the conclusive proof that a Democratic Ad ministration will preserve liberty with order. TIBRITOBUL omclBS. The selection of Federal officers for the Territories should be restricted to citizens previously resident therein. We oppose sumptuary laws which vex the citizen and interfere with individual liberty. We favor honest Civil Service reform in the compensation of all United States offi cers by fixed salaries. CHUBCH AND STATE SI PA SATS. We favor the separation of Church and State and the diffusion of free education by common schools, so that every child in the land may be taught the rights and du ties of citizenship. BIGHTS OP PBOPIBTT PBESEBVKD. While we favor all legislation which will tend to the equitable distribution of prop erty, to the prevention of monopoly and to the strict enforcement of individual rights against corporate abuses, we hold that the welfare of society depends on a scrupulous regard for the rights of property, as defined by law. BIOHTS OP LA BOS. We believe labor is best rewarded where it is freest and most enlightened. It should be Joetered and cherished. We ft be Joateredi vor the repeal of all laws restricting the free action of labor and the enaotment of laws by which labor organization may be increased, and all such legislation as will tend to enlighten the people as to the true relations of capital and labor. PBEHEBVATION OP PUBLIO LANDS. We believe that the publio lands ought, as far as possible, be kept as homesteads for actual settlers. That all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to the publio domain and no more grauta shall be made to corporations, or be allowed to fall into the ownership of alien absentees, AOAINST CENTRALIZATION. We are opposed to all propositions which, upon any pretext, would convert the General Government into a machine for the collection of taxes to be distributed among the Slates or the citizens thereof in repeating the declaration of the Demo cratic platform of 1856 that, "The liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence and sanc tioned in the Constitution, which make ours the land of liberty and tho asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been the cardinal principles iu the Demo emtio faith. We nevertheless do not sanc tion the importation of foreign lalior or the admission of servile rnoes, unfitted by habits, training, religion or kindred, for absorption into the great body of our peo ple, or fear the citizenship which our laws confer. American civilization demands that, against the immigration or imports tion of Mongolians to these shores, our gates be closed. BIOHTS OP NATURALIZED CITIZENS, With the Democratic party we insist that it is the duty of the Government to protect with equal fidelity and vigilance the rights of its citizens, native and natural ized, at home and abroad, and to the end that this protection may be assured, United States papers of naturalization, issued by courts of competent juris diction, mutt be respected by the execu tive and legislative departments oi our own Government, and by all foreign pow ers. It is an imperative duty of this Gov ernment to efficiently protect all the rights of her sons and the property of every Am erican citizen in foreign lands, and demand and enforce full reparation for any in vasion thereof. An American citizen is only responsible to bis own Government for any act done in hiB country or un der her flag and law, and oan only be tried therefore on her own soil and according to her laws; and no power exists in this Gov ernment to expatriate an American citizen to be tried in any foreign land for any such act. This country bas never had a well-defined and educated foreign policy, save nnder a Democratio Administration That policy has ever been, in regard to foreign nations, so long as they do not act detrimental to the interests of the country, or hurtful to our oitizens, but let them alone. As the result of this policy we re call the acquisition of Louisiana, Florida, California, and of the adjacent Mexican territory, by purchase alone, and contrast these grand acquisitions of Democratic statesmanship with tho purchase of Alaska, the sole fruit of a Republican administra tion of nearly ft quarter of a century. The General Government should care for and improve the Mississippi river and other great water-ways of the Republio, so as to secure for the interior States easy and cheap transportation to tide water. DECAY OP COMHEBCB Under a long period of Democratio pol icy our merchant marine was fast over taking, and on the point of outstripping that of Great Britain. Under twenty years of Republican rule and policy our commerce bas been lost to the British, and almost has the American flag been kept off the high seas. Instead of the Republican party's British policy, we demand for the people of the United States an American policy. Under Democratic rule and policy our merchants and sailors were flying the stars and stripes in every port, successfully searching out markets for the varied pro ducts of American industry. Under a quarter of a century of Republican rule and policy, despite our manifest advan tages over all other nations in high-paid labor, favorable climates and teeming soils despite freedom of trade among all these United States despite their population of the foremost races of men and the annual immigration of the thrifty and adventur ous of all nations despite our freedom here from the inherited burdens of life and industry in the old world monarchies, their costly war navies, their vast tax-consuming standing armies despite twenty years of peace, the Republican rule and policy have managed to surrender to Great Britain, along with our commerce, the con trol of the markets of the world. Instead of the Republican party's British policy we demaSd, on behalf of the American Democracy, an American policy; instead of the Republican party's discredit, shame and false pretense cf friendnbip to American labor expressed by imposing Iiim wi demand, in behalf of the Demo cracy, freedom for American labor, by re ducing taxes, to the end that those United States may oompeto with unhindered Pow ers for the permanency, among nations, of all the arts of eace and fruits of liberty. TU.DKN. With profound regret we hnve been ap prised by the venerable statesman through whose person was struck that blow at the vital principle of the republio, acquies cence in the will of the majority, that he cannot permit us again to place iu his hands the leadership of the Democratio hosts for the reason that the achievement of reform in the administration of the Federal Government ia an undertaking now too heavy for his age ' and failing strength. Rejoicing that his life bas been prolonged until the general judgment of our follow countrymen is united iu the wish that that wrong was righted iu his person, for the Democracy of the United States we offer to him in his withdrawal from the canvass, not ouly our respectful sympathy and esteem, but also that best homage of freemen, the pledge of our de votion to the principles: and the course now inseparable in the historv of this re publio, from the leadership aud the name of Sam lei J. Tilden. SUBMITTED TO THU PEOPLE. With this statement of the hones, prin ciples ' and purposes of the Democratio party, the great issue of reform arid change iu the Administration la submitted to the people, in calm oonfldenoe that the popular voice will prououuoe in favor of new men and new aud more favorable con ditions for the growth of industry, the ex tension of trade, the employment and due reward of labor and of capital, and the general welfare of the country. CLEVELAND'S LETTER Arreptlnc Ilia Nomination of th Dcme- rratlr Party. Gentlemen: I have recoived your communication dated July 28, 1884, informing me of my nomination to the office of President of the United States, by tho National Democratic Convention, lately nssemblod at Chicago. I accopt the nomination with grateful appreciation of the supreme honor conferred and a sol emn sense of the responsibility which, in its acceptance, I assume. I have carefully considered the plat form adopted by the convention and cordially approve the Banie. So plain a statement of Democratic faith and the principles upon which that party appeals to the suffrages of the people noods no supplement or explanation. It should be re- momberod that the office of Presi dent is essentially executive in its nature. The laws enacted by the legislative branch of the Govern ment the Chief Executive is bound faithfully to enforce. Whon the wisdom of the political party which selects one of its members as a nom inee for that office has outlined its policy and declared its principles, it seems to me that nothing iu the character of the office or the neces sities of the caso requires mere from the candidate accepting such nomination than the suggestion of certain well-known truths so abso- utely vital to the safety and wel 'ure of the nation that they cannot be too often recalled or too soriously enforced. OUB GOVERNMENT. We proudly call ours a Govern ment by the people. It is not such when a class is tolerated which arro gates to itself the management of public affairs, seeking to control the people instead of representing them. Parties are the necessary outgrowth of our institutions, but Government cannot be by the people whon one party fastens its control upon the country and per petuates its power by cajoling and Botraying the people instead of serv ing them. A Government is not by the people when a result which should represent the intelligent will of free-thinking men is or can be determined by the shameleBsness of their suffrages. When an election to office shall be the selection by the voters of one of their number, to assume for a time a public trust, in stead of his dedication to the pro fession of politics; when the holdors of ballots, quickened by a sense of duty, shall avenge truth betrayed and pledges broken, and when the suffrages shall be altogether free and uncorrupted, the full realization of a Government by the people will be at hand. nvoa or okk term. And of the means to this end, not one would, in my judgment, be more effective than an amendment to the Constitution disqualifying tho President from re-election. When we considor the patronage of the great office, the allurements of power, the temptation to retain pub lio placo onco gained and more than all, the availability a party finds in an incumbent whom a horde of offico-holdors, with a zeal born of bonofits received and fostcrod by the hope of favors'yet to come, stand ready to aid with money and trained political service, we recognize in the eligibility of the Presidont for re election a most serious danger to that calm, deliberate and intelligent political action which . must charac terize a Government by the people. LAHOU AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY. A true Amorican sentiment rocog nizes the dignity of labor, and the fact that honor lies in honost toil makes coutentod labor an element of national prosperity. Ability to work constitutes the capital and the wages of labor the income of a vast number of our population, and this interest should be joalously pro tected. Our workingmen are not asking unreasonable tornis, but, as intelligent citizens they sock the same consideration which those do mand who haveothor interests at stake. They should, receive the full Bhare of the care and attention of those who make and execute the laws, to the end that the wants and the needs of the employers and employees should alike bo subserved and tho prosperity of the country, the common heritage of both, be advanced. As rolated to this sub ject while we Bhould not discourage the immigration of those who come to acknowledge allegiance to our Government and add to our coun try's population, yet, as a means of protection to our workingmen, a dif ferout rule should prevail concern' ing those who, if they come or are broughj to our land, do not intend to become Americans, but will in juriously compete with those juatly entitled to our labor. CARE FOIt TU8 WORKINOMEN. In a lettor accepting he noraina tion to the offico of Govornor, nearly two years ago, I made the following statement, to which I have steadily adhered: "The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in thoir efforts peaceably to assort thoir rights when endan gered by capital, and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil, and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingmen, a proper caro for the working mon being inseparably connected with the integrity of our institutions. None of our citizens are more interested than they in guarding against any corrupting influences which soek to pervert the bencficont purposes of our Government, and none Bhould be more watchful of the fearful machinations of those that allure them to self-inflicted injury. In a free country, the curtailment of the absolute rights of the individual should only be such as is essontial to the peace and good order of the community. The limit between tho proper subjects of governmental con trol and those which can be more fittingly left to the moral sense and self-imposed restraint of the citizens should be carefully kept in view. Thus laws unnecessarily interfering with the habits and customs of any one of our people which are not of fensive to the moral sentiments of the civilized world aud which are consistent with good citizenship and the publio welfare are unwise and vexatious." COMMERCE AND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. rri m ine commerce oi a nation to a great extent determines its suprem acy. Cheap and easy transportation should therefore be liberally fostered within the limits of the Constitution, and the General Government Bhould so improve and protect its natural waterways an will enable the pro ducers of the country to reach a profitable market The people pay the wages of the publio employees, and they are en titled to the fair and honest work which the money thus paid should command. It is the duty of those entrusted with the management of affairs to see that such publio service is forthcoming. The selection and retention of subordinates in govern ment employment should depend upon their ascertained fitness and tho value of their work, and they Bhould be neither expected nor al lowed to do questionable party sor vico. The interest of the people will be better protected, the estimate of publio labor and duty will be im mensely improved, if publio employ ment bo open to all who demonstrate thoir fitness to enter it Then the unseemly scramble for office undor the Government with the con sequent importunity which embitters official life will cease, and the publio departments will not be filled with those who concoive it to be their first duty to aid the party to which they owe their place, instead of ren dering patient and honest return to the people. AN HONEST. PLAIN ADMINISTRATION DEHIRED. I believe that the publio temper is such that the voters of the land are propured to support the party which gives the boat promise of adminis tering the Government in the honest, simple and plain manner whioh is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that myatory and conooalment in the management of their affairs cover trioka and betrayal. The statesman ship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the noods of the people as they arise, and the vigilant protection of all thoir varied interests. If I should be called to the Chief Magistracy of the nation by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens, I will assume the duties of that high office with a solemn determination to ded icate every effort to the country's good, and with an humble reliance upon the favor and support of the Superior Being who, I believe, will always bless honest human endeavor in the conscientious disoharge of publio duty. G rover Cleveland. To Col. William Vilas, Chairman, and D. P. Bostor and others, meni bors of the Notification Committee of the Democratic National Conven tion. HENDRICKS' LETTER AertBtlag the Nomlaatlaa af tha Danta (ratio Party, Indianapolis, August 20, 1884. Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication notifying me of my nomination by the Democratio Con vention at Chicago as a candidate for the office of Vice-President of the United States. I repeat what I said on another occasion, that it is a nomination which I had neither ex pected nor desired, and yet I recog nize and appreciate the high honor done me by the convention. The choice of such a body, pronounced with such unusual unanimity, and accompanied with so generous an expressioh of esteem and confidence, ought to outweigh all my personal desires and all preferences of my own. It is from a aecp sense of public duty that I now accept the nomination, and shall abide by the judgment of my countrymen. I have examined with care the declar ation of principles adopted by the convention, a copy of which you have submitted to me, and in their sum and substance I heartily en dorse and approve the same. I am, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, T. A. Hendricks. To the Hon. Wm. F. Vilas, Chair man, Nicholas M. Bell, Socretary, and others of the Committee of the National Democratio Committe,