The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-05-28
THE PLATFORM.

Col. THOMPSON said The COMMITTEES ia
whom the subject of preparing resolutions
! for this Convention VAS referred have in.
structed me to submit to the Convention
the following report:
The Union Republican party of the Uni
ted States, assembled in National Couven
ton in the city of Chicago on the goth o.
May, 1868, make the following declaration
of principles:
| |. We congratulate the country on the
assured success of the restoration policy o.
| Congress, as evinced by the adoption of all
the measures of Congress for the reconstruc-
ton of the States lately in rebellion-the
Constellation securing equal civil and poll
| teal rights of the people-and we regard il
as the duty of the Government to sustain
these States, and to prevent the return in
them of anarchy and misrule.
H. The guaranty by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men of the South was
demanded by the considerations of the pub.
lie safety-of gratitude aud of, justice, and
must have meaning. Still the subject of
suffrage in all the loyal States properly be-
longs to people of those States
Ill. We denounce all forms of repudia-
ton as a national crime. The nation re-
quires the payment of the public indebted
cess with the utmost good faith to all the
creditors both at home and abroad, not on
ly according to the letter, but the spirit of
the law under which it was contracted.
". 1t is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be reduced, as far as
the public interest will permit.
" The national debt, contracted as it
has been for the national salvation, should
be extended over a fair period for re-
demption, and it is the duty of Congress to
reduce the rate Of interest thereon, whenever
it can honestly be done.
VI. The best policy to diminish our bur-
den of debt is to improve her credit, so that
capitalists shall loan US money at lower
rates of interest than that now paid-a
most imp ortant benefit-to pay as fast as
possible consistent with our agreements
to ward off all reputation, threatened or
suspected.
VII. The Government Of the United
States should be administered with the
strictest economy and the corruptions
tostered by Andrew johnson call loudly
for radical reform
VIII. We deplore that the untimely and
tragic ucatu Vi ADTdudtn 1iuCOlu SbOulu
require the accession of Andrew johnson to
the Presidency he has acted treacherously
to the people who have elected him aud to
the cause he was pledged to support-has
usurped high legislative and judicial
functions he has refused to execute the
laws, and has used his high office to in
fuence other officers to ignore and violate
the laws; has employ ed his Executive
power to render insecure the proper peace,
liberty and life Of all citizens; he has'abused
the pardoning power has denounced the
National Legislature as unconstitutional !;
has perslstently and corruptly resisted, by
every means in his power, every attempt
at the restoration of the States lately in re-
bellion, and bas perverted the public pat
ronage into an engine of wholesale corrup-
ton, and has been justly impeached of high
crimes and misdemeanors, and properly pro-
nounced guilty by the united votes Of
thirty-6ge Senators.
TX. The doctrines of Great Britain and
other European powers, that because man