A Good Platform

The following is the platform promulgated by tha Democracy of Connecticut, conveued in State convention on the 23d uit. It is good enough to be taken for a modul for other conventions to work after : The Deinocratic-Liberal party of Connecticut, in convention assenibled, pledge themselves anew to the principies they have repeatedly adopted, and which the people of this State have approved. The Coustitution and Union shall be maintained, with the supreinacy of civil over military authority ; and we demand for the individual tho largest liberty consistent with public order tor State self-governinent, and for the Federal Government a return to the methoda of peace and constitutional litnitations of power. Second - The civil service of the government has become alarmingly corrupt. It is an instrument of personal ambition, and the object of self-greed. It bas benome a reproach to f ree institutious. We therefore regard a thorough reform of the civil service as one of the most pressing necessities of the hour, and believing that honesty, capacity and fidelity constitute the only valid claim of public employnient, we demand that publio station shall beoome again a part of party and honor. Third- The public credit of the Union must be maintained. Federal tuxation should provide the means necessary to pay the expenses of the Government, economically administered, and for a steady reduction of the national debt, while tariff laws should be administered tor the purpose of revenue only. Fourth - The publio lauds must be preserved for actual settlers, and subsidies of money or lands to corporations and speculators should cease entirely. Fifth - The Democratio majority in tho House of Ropresentatives are especially deserving of popular eapport in their policy of reducing the expenditures of the Fedoral Government to the actual needs of the public service, thus cutting off the supplies which has tor eleven years invited corruption and fud an army of plunderers. Sixth - The only currency known to the Constitution of the United States is gold and silver, and coin tonus the only stable basis for the commercial necessities of the world, The Democratie party of the Union has never failed to reoognize and support this essontial principie, but, following the great and costly war we ñnd an irredeemable cnrrency at our doors. It is, tberefore, the duty of Uongre8 to adopt such measures as shall lead to the early resuniption of specie payments, while guarding its acts by that prudence whicb the instincts of the commercial, manufacturing and industrial pursuits imperativeIv demand. " Seventh- That the act of the last Congress passed by a Republican majority declaring that there shall be specie payments on the first day of Jauuary, 1879, was a scheme of mere party expediency, supported by no measure to secure resumption. lts results have been injurious, as the business interests of the country could not be shaped and conducted to harmonizo with an ineffective and deceptive act. We respectfulljaesk Congress to substituto for it well defined and practical legislation, tending to the accumulation of coin as a basis for resumption, and the funding and cancellatiou of a portion of the greenback circulation in a convertible bond, bearing a low rate of interest. Eighth - TÍint this convention, having confidence in the ability and integrity of the Senators and Represen tatives in Congress from this State, rely upon such action at their hands as will lid in placing the finances of the country upon a constitutional basia.