The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-31
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION AND PLAT
FORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Plan of Organization.

PRECINCT ORGANIZATION.
LIST. There shall be an Executive Committe in
each voting precinct, consisting of seven men,
bers to be selected by the voters of said precinct,
whose duty II shall be to make n thorough can |
vas of such precinct; TO organize, and make efli-
cient, Republican club; to procure list ofreg- |
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 |
report to the
TOWNSHIP coMMITrgE
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 see that
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
It 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
a member to represent said county in the Con-
gressional District Committee to whom the
County Committee shall report.
CITY ORGANIZATION.
In the cities the organization shall exist as at
present constituted but subject to the modifica-
ton and control of the State Central Executive
Committee as to the system OF organization.
THE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
shall consist of three (s) 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
The Committee thus constituted shall elect
secretary and treasurer, and provide for the pay
ment of the latter.
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 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 ali Conventions for the nomination of can
| didates for Congress, State Senator, or Conven-
tons of Congressional or Senatorial Districts,
each county in said District shall have repre-
sentaton in proportion to the Republican vote
cast at the last preceding Gubernatorial or Con-
gressonal election except in counties or districts
| where Conventions have already been ordered.
In 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 Congressional election: pro-
yided, that in cases where nominations are to be
made for city or county alone, the Executive
Committee of such county city shall call
Convention to make such nominations.
In a 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 a majority of each committee shall be suf-
| ficient to give authority to such calls.
Platform.
The Republican party of Virginia, in Conyen-
ton assembled, reafiirm their devotion to the
principles of the National Republican Party of
the United States, enunciated in the Chicago
platform Mt the last National Convention.
We are in favor OF, and support as national
principles
A tariff, which, while securing the necessary,
shall give incidental, protection to American i'll
dustry.
A national banking system, that shall give
safe aud uniform currency, and absolute security
to billholders.
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 sufficient yearly reduction of
the national debt to convince the world of our
determination to ultimately extingush it, WHILE
at the same time, we carefully avoid burdening
the people with onorous and unnecessary taxa
That we heartily endorse the administration of
President Grant, and are unanimously i'll favor
{ 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-
You'd the limits of human endurance, and the
Democratic Legislature, with its two-thirds ma
jority, has passed oppressive and 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 dollar every hundred.
Worse still, because 1t rs unnecessary, they have
compelled the people of Virginia to raise money,
either by sacrificing their property, or products,
or by paying enormous rate OF interest 10 pay
, these onorous taxes by the LIST day of september,
1871 or forfeit five per cent, while WE are now
officially informed by the Treasurer of the State
that the money collected is not needed until jan
uary and July, 1872, and is lying in the banks OF
bn pit of Riphm ~ 1plC
interest presenting the astonishing spectacle of a
State foreing its citizens to loan wealthy corpora
tons more than 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 thus compelled to
borrow their own money at the rate OF twelve
4 per cent per annum.
The passage of such acts in Virginia by a
! Democratic Legislature is only in keeping with
! Democratic legislation wherever that party OBJ
}. tains power, as eXemplfed by that great leading
: Democratic organization of the United States
the Tammany ring of New York. This Legis-
lature has passed laws neutrazing and render
ing void and of no effect the homestead provisions
OF the constitution; placing the execution of the
u laws establishing common schools in partisan
t and unfriendly hands, and have violated almost
h every pledge made by their authorized represen
: tatives when pleading for the admission of the
State to Federal representation.
They have created q partizan judiciary, and
:, | given the county Judges created by caucus nom
nations unprecedented and unheard of power
: They have reestablished that relic of q barbar-
. GUS past, the whipping-post, and by giving the
!, judges power to select the juries in all cases
!, have enabled them to do, as they have done in |;
d vast majority OF instances, exclude the colored
man from the jury box, and deprive him of the
right dear TO ALL of defence before jury of his
G peers. The Republican party invite the cooper
4 alton of all good citizens in correcting these
abuses, and do hereby
!. ''Resolre, That we are opposed to levying
/, upon citizens any further tax than is neces
a sary to strictly economical administration Of
, the State government, and demand that oui
II representatives in the Legislature shall do al
in their power to alleviate to the greatest ex
tent possible the burdens OF the people, and te
u decrease the expenses of the State.
n "Resotce, That we demand the honest and
: scrupulous enforcement of the constitution o.
. the State in all its parts, and such legislation
5 will secure the equal rights to all, guar
S anteed by that instrument equitable taxation
= the benefits of the homestead act, Il thorough
. system of common school education, and an i'm
Ii partial and non bipartisan judiciary"
. Resolutions.
4 Resoiced, That the battle of universal freedom
and universal suffrage having been fought ant
won. and those amendments to the Constitution