The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-16
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION AND PLAT
FORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF VIRGINIA.
Plan of Organization.

bers to be selected by the voters of said precinct
whose duty il shall be TO make q thorough can
vas of such precinct to organize, and make eff
Gent, a Republican club to procure q list of reg
istered and legal voters, and TO do all in their
power before registration and ut the polls, TO Sc
cure the success of the Republican party, This
Committee shall select one member of the Coun-
ty Executive Committee to represent the precinct
in that body. The Precinct Committee shall
report to the
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE,
which shall be composed of five members Sc
leeted by the voters of the township The said
committee shall have the general superintend-
ence of the precincts and shall see that n
thorough canvass Is made of each precinct
The Township Committee shall report to the
County Committee, which shall consist of one
member from each precinct. This County Com
mittee shall have general and supreme control of
the organization and systematic canvass of the
county.
1t shall be the duty of the secretary of the
County Committee to report Immediately upon
organization, and regularly every Monday the
condition and wants of the party in their re-
spective counties.
From the general County Committee there
shall be selected County Executive Commit
tee, not exceeding five in number.
Each general County Committee shall select
member to represent said county in the Con
County Committee shall report
CITY ORGANIZATION.
In the cities the organization shall exist as at
present constituted; but subject to the modiiicl-
lion ana control OF tle StslJe central EXeCuLiYe
Committee as to the system of organization.
THE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEES
shall consist of threet3) members from each Con-
gressonal District to be selected by the delegate
thereof, and one member at large, to be elected
by the Convention, and be chairman of the Com
mttee.
The Committee thus constituted shall elect u
secretary and treasurer, and provide for the pay
mcnt of the latter.
The State Central Committee shall select IN
Executive Committee to consist of such number
as they may elect, and TO be located SO as to be
most conveniently assembled.
BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
In all State Conventions, and State Nominating
Conventions, the basis of representation shalt be
the same as provided by the State Constitution, or
in that proportion.
In all Conventions for the nomination of can
didates for Congress, State Senator, or Conven-
lions of Congressional or Senatorial Districts,
each county in said District shall have q repre-
sentation in proportion to the Republican vote
east at the last preceding Gubornatorial or Con
gressional election: except in counties districts
where Conventions have already been ordered
II all County and City Conventions, each
township of the county, and each ward of the
city, shall have representation in proportion to
the Republican vote cast at The last preceding
Gubernatorial or Congressional election: pro-
vided, that in cases where nominations are 10 be
made for city or county atone, the Executive
Committee of such county or city shall call a
Convention to make such nominations.
In q District composed of more than one county
OR city, where no District Committee exists, Con
ventions shall be called by the joint action of the
Executive Committees OF said counties and cities,
and majority of each committee shall be suf-
ficient to give authority to such calls.
Platform.
The Republican party of Virginia, in Conven-
ton assembled, reailirm their devotion to the
principles of the National Republican Party of
the United States, as enunciated i'll the Chicago
platform at the last National Convention.
We are in favor of, and support as national
A tariff, which, while securing tho necessary
shall give incidental, protection to American in
dlIstTy.
A national banding system, that shall give us 81
safe and uniform currency, and absolute security
to bill-holders.
The policy of extending government aid TO the
States in improving their rivers and harbors:
The absolute payment of all obligations of the
government, and a sufficient yearly reduction of
the national debt to convince the world of our
determination TO ultimately extinguish it, while,
at the same time, we carefully avoid burdenng
the people with onorous and unnecessary taxa
ton
That we heartily endorse tho administration of
President Grant, and are unanimously in fayer
of his denomination in 1872.
STATE POLICY.
No honest man can deny that the tendency of
the Legislation of the past year in Virginia has
been to depress all the material interests of the
people. Taxation has been increased almost be-
yond the limits of human endurance, and the
Democratic Legislature, with its two-thirds ma
IOrI1y, mas pitSScQ oppressive ana unnecessary
laws, among which the funding bill stands prom
inent. Under its provisions taxation on the pro-
perty of the State will be double what it is now,
or not less than one dollar ON every hundred
Worse still, because ii rs unnecessary, they have
compelled the people OF Virginia to raise monty,
either by sacrificing their property, or products
or by paying an enormous rate of int est TO pay
these onorous Etxes 10y the list day OF September
1871, or forfeit five per cent, while we are now
officially informed By the Treasurer of the State
thatthe money socolleced is not needed until Jan
mi 1rtta in hon he of
the city of Richmond drawing only four per cent
interest. presenting the astonishing spectacle of
State forcing its citizens to loan wealthy corpora
tons more than q million dollars at the low rate
of four per cent. per annum, while at the Same
tIme under this extraordinary combination of
circumstances, our citizens are thus compelled to
borrow their own money at the rate OF twelve
per cent. per annuIn.
The passage of such acts in Virginia by q
Democratic Legislature is only in keeping with
Democratic legislation wherever that party OBJ
tains power, as exemplified by that great leading
Democratic organization of the United States
the Tammany ring of New York. This Legis-
lature has passed laws neutralizing and render
ing void and of no effect the homestead provisions
OF the constitution; placing the execution of the
laws establishing common schools in partisan
and unfriendly hands, and have violated almost
every pledge made by their authorized rcpresen-
tatiyes when pleading for the admission of the
State TO Federal representation.
They have created partizan Judiciary, and
given the county Judges created by caucus nomi-
nations, unprecedented and unheard of power
They have reGstablished that relic of 4 barbar-
Gus past, the whipping-post and by giving the
Judges power TO select the uries in all cases,
have enabled them to do, Us they have done in a
vast majority OF instances, exclude the coored
man from the jury-box, and deprive him of the
right dear to ALL of defence before jury of his
peers. The Republican party invite the cooper
alton of all good citizens in correcting these
abuses, and do hereby
"RasoLoe, That we are opposed to levying
upon our citizens any further tax than is neces-
sary to u strictly economical administration of
the State government, and demand that our
representatives in the Legislature shall do all
in their power to alleviate to the greatest ex-
tent possible, the burdens of the people, and to
decrease the expenses of the State.
"ResotUe, That We demand the honest and
scrupuous enforcement of the constitution of
the State in all its parts and such legislation
as will secure tho equal rights to all, guar
anteed by that instrument, equitable taxation,
the benefits of the homestead act, q thorough
system of common school education, and an i'm
partial and non-partsan judiciary
Resolutions.
I Resolved That the battle of universal freedom
and universal suffrage having been fought and
won, and those amendments to the Constitution
of the United States, designed to secure i'll pelpe
tuity the rights Of man, accepted by large part
of the Democratic party, and they pledged to
abide forever thereby, and these issues having
been thus solemnly and finally determined, there
remains no excuse for Our natural and sympa-
t.a4tn xtt.tA