The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-01


be1s tobe sg,edted by the voters of said precinct,
whose dutyH shalfbe TO make a thorough cam
v;is of such precinct; to organize, and make effi-
cient, Republican club to procure list OF reg
istered and legal voters, and to do all in their |
power before registration and at 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 shah |
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE
which shall be composed of five members Sc |
lected by the voters of the township. The said |
committee shall have the general superintend-
ence of the precincts and shall gee that 1
thorough canvass is mnde 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 systematie 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 ii.f ~ ~ "fl-
From the general County Committee there
shall be selected a County Executive Commit
| tee, not exceeding five in number.
| Each general County Committee shall select
| a member to represent said county in the Con
gressional District Committee, TO whom the
| County Committee shall report.
| ilal -ii4 ilitf CRY ORGANIZATION.
In the cities the organization shall exist as at
present constituted but subject TO the modiiiea-
| ton and control of the State Central Executive
/
e2' THE Stair CENTRAL coANirrBE
shall consist of three 49, members from each Con
gressiona 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
| mittee. II i il.f .Nl. ui .af.lHst lllN
The Committee thus constituted shall elect
secretary and treasurer and provide for the pay
ment of the latter. iiiitA 'l
The State Central Committee shall select an
Executive Committee TO consist of such number
| as they may elect and TO be located so as to be
most cont eniently assembled. f'ffi
llH e4' BASIS OF REPRESENTATION. g i'is.
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 20 iitlE ttti. FL
In ali Conventions for the nomination of can
ddates for Congress, State Senator, or Conyen-
tons Of Congressional Senatorial Districts,
each county in said District shall have repre-
sentation in proportion TO the Republican vote
cast at the last preceding Gubernatorial or Con
gressional election except in counties districts
where Conventions have already been ordered.
In all County and City Conventions, each
township OF the county, ana each ward 81 me
the Republican vote cast at the last preceding
Gubernatorial or Congressional election: pro-
yided, that in cases where nominations are to be
made for u city or county alone, the Executive
Committee of such county or city shall call a
Convention to make such nominations. ,s
In District composed of more than one county
| or CITY where no District Committee exists, Con
MENTIONS shall be called by the joint action of the
Executive Committees of said counties and cities,
u
iicient to give authority to such calls.
Platform. H.5, saa.
, The Republican party of Virginia, in Conyen-
ton assembled, realrm their devotion to the
principles of the National Republican Party OF
, the United States, as enunciated in the Chicago
platform at the last National Convention
We are in favor Of and support rs national
principles ..,.sf. t,fa -st.ia.u efa 1at
A tariff, which, while securing the necessary
shall give incidental, protection to American in
dustry. tiu1 f siii
A national banking system, that shall give us Il
safe and uniform currency, and absolute security
to bill-hoders. ia II t'i' s t'+
4 The policy of extending government aid to the
States in improving their rivers and harbors:
b, The absolute payment Of all obligations of thu
4 government, and sufficient yearly reduction o
: the national debt TO convince the world of on
u determination to ultimately extinguish it, while
ut the same time, we carefully avoid burdenn,
the people with onorous ana unnecessary taxa
= ton. Gis lir. Tfst4f t4.r
That we heartily endorse the administration o
It President Grant, and are unanimously in f.lyo
:, of his denomination In 1872
1iirA STATE Policy. ',eit,
No honest man can deny that the tendency O
= the Legislation OF the past year in Virginia hil
e been to depress all the material interests OF tn
- people. Taxation has been increased almost be
S yond the limits of human endurance and tn
Democratic Legislature, with its two-thirds ma
l. jority, has passed oppressive and unnecessar.
# laws, among which the funding bill stands prom
u nent. Under its provisions taxation on the pre-
perry of the State win be double what it is now
. or not less than one dollar ON every hundred
) Worse still, because 1t Is unnecessary, they hav
. compelled the people OF Virginia to raise money
either by sacrificing their property, or products
or by paying an enormous rate OF interest to pa
y, these onorous taxes by the LIST day of September
1871, or forfeit live per cent, while We are no,
o officially informed by the Treasurer of the Stat
: that the money SO coectedis not needed until Jan
IL uary and July, 1872, and is lying i'll the banks
10 the city of Richmond drawing only four per cent
~ interest presenting the astonishing spectacle of
State forcing its citizens to loan wealthy corpor
tons more than million dollars at the low rat
> of four per cent. per annum, while at the sam
A. time, under this extraordinary combination {
: circumstances, our citizens are thus compelled t
e borrow their own money at the rate of twelv
~ The passage of such acts in Virginia by
al Democratic Legislature is only in keeping wit
!. Democratic legislation wherever that party oil
IL tains power exemplified by that great leadin
Democratic organization of the United States
the Tammany ring of New York. This Legi'
ii lature has passed laws neutializing and render
ing void and of no effect the homestead provision
OF the constitution; placing the execution of tn
= laws establishing common schools in partsa
= and unfriendly hands, and have violated almos
70 every pledge made by their authorized represel
,s tatiyes when pleading for the admission Of tn
- State to Federal representation
Id They have created a partiZai judiciary, an
given the county judges created by caucus nom
;, nations, unprecedented and unheard of powe
If They have reGstablished that relic of a barbal
Gus past, the whipping post, and by giving tn
L judges power to select the jures in all case
have enabled them to do rs they have done in
y vast majority OF instances, exclude the colore
Is man from the jury-box, and deprive him of til
right dear to all of defence before jury of HI
le peers. The Republican party invite the cooper
r., alton of all good citizens in correcting thes
y abuses and do hereby liegfN3In fiflisHi
,r "Resolce, That we are opposed to leyyin
upon citizens any further tax than is neee
al sary to strictly economical administration
- the State government, and demand that OF
IL representatives in the Legislature shall do Il
N in their power to alleviate to the greatest @,
" tent possible, the burdens of the people, and
+ decrease the expenses OF the State. Itt ~
"Rrsolce, That we demand the honest an
scrupulous enforcement OF the constitution
E. the State in all its parts, and such legslatio
as will secure the equal rights to all, qua
nc anteed by that instrument, equitable taxation
~ the benefits of the homestead act, n thoroug
: System OF common school education, and an in
s. partial and non-partisan Judiciary"
t4, Resolutions. l..l si4t
I'd PessJped That the battlp of mi yersal fraeflol