10 6 6 3 15 35 35 10 22 3 29 12 8 5 11 5 10 2 : : : : : : :*::::::::*:*: i5 15 11 5 12 12 8 7 :: 5:ཌའ :@ :::;::°གླ ::::༅ རྩེ 3 Immediately after the election the charge of false returns was made in several states, and Congress, in consequence, passed the act approved January 29, 1877, which provided. for the Electoral Commission to decide all disputed returns. The counting of the electoral vote began on February 1, 1877, and continued until a little after four o'clock in the morning of March 2, 1877. Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President and William A. Wheeler as Vice-President. During this period Congress was divided politically as follows: Forty-fifth Congress. Senate 36 Democrats, 39 Republicans, 1 Independent..Total, 76 293 Forty-sixth Congress. Senate 43 Democrats, 33 Republicans. Total, 76 House-150 Democrats, 128 Republicans, 14 Nationals, 1 vacancy 293 Election of 1880 Democratic National Committee: Chairman, WM. H. BARNUM, of Connecticut. This convention was organized so quickly, that balloting began on the second day, when General Hancock was nominated on the second ballot, as follows: For Vice-President, William H. English, of Indiana, was nominated by acclamation. Richard M. Bishop, of Ohio, had been mentioned, but his name was later withdrawn. The convention adopted the following platform: DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. The Democrats of the United States, in convention assembled, declare 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the Constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party, as illustrated by the teachings and example of a long line of Democratic statesmen and patriots, and embodied in the platform of the last national convention of the party. 2. Opposition to centralizationism and to that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever be the form of government, a real despotism. No sumptuary laws; separation of church and state, for the good of each; common schools fostered and protected. 3. Home rule; honest money-the strict maintenance of the public faith-consisting of gold and silver, and paper convertible into coin on demand; the strict maintenance of the public faith, state and national, and a tariff for revenue only. 4. The subordination of the military to the civil power, and a general and thorough reform of the civil service. 5. The right to a free ballot is the right preservative of all rights, and must and shall be maintained in every part of the United States. 6. The existing Administration is the representative of conspiracy only, and its claim of right to surround the ballotboxes with troops and deputy marshals, to intimidate and obstruct the electors, and the unprecedented use of the veto to maintain its corrupt and despotic power, insult the people and imperil their institutions. 7. We execrate the course of this administration in making places in the civil service a reward for political crime, and demand a reform by statute which shall make it forever impossible for the defeated candidate to bribe his way to the seat of the usurper by billeting villains upon the people. 8. The great fraud of 1876-77, by which, upon a false count of the electoral votes of two states, the candidate defeated at the polls was declared to be President, and, for the first time in American history, the will of the people was set aside under a threat of military violence, struck a deadly blow at our system of representative government; the Democratic party, to preserve the country from a civil war, submitted for a time in firm and patriotic faith that the people would punish this crime in 1880; this issue precedes and dwarfs every other: it imposes a more sacred duty upon the people of the Union than ever addressed the conscience of a nation of free men. 9. The resolution of Samuel J. Tilden not again to be a candidate for the exalted place to which he was elected by a majority of his countrymen, and from which he was excluded by the leaders of the Republican party, is received by the Democrats of the United States with sensibility, and they declare their confidence in his wisdom, patriotism, and integrity, unshaken by the assaults of a common enemy, and they further assure him that he is followed into the retirement he has chosen for himself by the sympathy and respect of his fellowcitizens, who regard him as one who, by elevating the standards of public morality, merits the lasting gratitude of his country and his party. 10. Free ships and a living chance for American commerce on the seas and on the land. No discrimination in favor of transportation lines, corporations, or monopolies. 11. Amendment of the Burlingame Treaty. No more Chinese |