The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-17
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION AND PLAT
FORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF VIRGINIA.
Plan of Organization.

,as of such precinct; to organize and make ELI
,ient, Republican club; TO procure list OF reg
stored and legal voters, and TO do all in their
bower before registrations and at the polls, to Sc
,ure the success of the Republican party, rms
Committee shall select one member OF the Coun-
Ly 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
ected by the voters Of the township. The said
committee shall have the general snperntend-
ence of the precincts and shall see that
canvass is made of each precinct.
The Township Committee shall report to the
County Committee, which shall consist of one
member from each precinct. rms County Com
mittee shall have general and supreme control OF
the organization and systematic canvass OF the
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 tho 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 (3) members from each Con-
gresslona District to be selected by the delegate
thereof, and one member at large, 10 De erected l
by the Convention, and be chairman of the Com
The Committee thus constituted shall elect a
secretary and treasurer, and providefor the pay
ment of the latter. rs-.
The State Central Committee shall select ;rl
Executive Committee TO consist Of such number
as they may elect, and to be located SO as To DO
most conveniently assembled
RAsls OF REPRESENTATION.
In all State Conventions, and State Nominating
Conventions the basis of representation shall be
the same provided by the State Constitution, OF
in that proportion.
In ali 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 Gubernatorial or Com
gressional 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 or Congressional election: pro-
yided, that in cases where nominations are to be
made for a city or county alone, the Executive
Committee of such county or city shall call a
Convention to make such nominations.
In a District composed of more than one county
or city where no District Committee exists, Con-
yentions 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-
fcient to give authority TO such calls.
Platform.
| The Republican party of Virginia, in Conycn-
| ton assembled reallirm their devotion to the
principles of the National Republican Party OF
| the United States, as enumerated IN the Chicago
| platform at 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 nl-
| duStrV.
A national banking system, that shall give us a
| safe and uniform currency, and absolute security
| 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
TIE national debt to convince the world OF our
determination to ultimately extinguish 1t, while,
at the same time, we carefully avoid burdenlng
4 the people with onorous and unnecessary taxa
| That we heartily endorse the administration OF
President Grant, and are unanimously IN favor
of his denomination in 1872.
| STATE POLICY.
l. 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
ority has passed oppresslv;e ana iii
inent Under its provisions taxation on the pro
perty of the State will be double what IT is now
| not less tfldn one uOudT Ul EVERY nuhuitu
Worse still, because it IS unnecessary, they have
compelled the people of Virginia to raise money
either by sacrificing their property, or products
or by paying enormous rate OF lnie est TO pay
| these onoro1s taxes by the LIST day of September
1871 or forfeit five per cent, While we arc nov
officially informed by the Treasurer of the stat
thatthe money so collectedis not needed until Jan
uary and July 1872, and is lying in the banks o
the city of Richmond drawing only four per cent
interest. presenting the astonishing spectacle OF
State forcing its citizens to loan wealthy corpora
tjons more than million dollars at the low rat
! of four per cent per annuin, while at the sam
tnne under this extraordinary combination
circumstances, our citizens are thus compelled 4
, borrow their own money at the rate of lively
i per cent. per annum. ~
The passage of such acts in Virginia by
Democratic Legislature is only in keeping Wit
. democratic legislation wherever that party oh
tains power, as exemplified by thai great leadin
! 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 provision
= OF the constitution placing the execution OF Tn
: laws establishing common schools IN partisa
: and unfriendly hands, and have violated almos
1 every pledge made by their authorized represer
4 tatiyes when pleading for the admission OF tn
o State to Federal representation.
They have created partizan judiciary, an
: | given the county judges created by caucus nom
nations, unprecedented and unheard OF powe
n They have reestablished that relic of barba
Gus past the whipping-post, and by giving til
y Judges power TO select the juries in all case
Q have enabled them TO do, as they have done in
= vast majority OF lnSlatuctsj tAciudo SploAe
n man from the jury-box, and deprive MN OF u
right so dear to ALL OF defence before a jury OF
! peers. The Republican party invite the coope
J. alton of all good citizens in correcting the'
# abuses, and do hereby vi.
= 'sResolUe, That we are opposed TO ieVyn
u upon our citizens any further tax than is niece
IS sary to a strictly economical administration
~ | the State government, and demand tiat OF
= representatives in the Legislature shall 40 q
} in their power to alleviate to the greatest e
le tent possible, the burdens of the people, and
| decrease the expenses of the State.
y "Resolue, That we demand the honest al
Y, scrupulous enforcement of the constitution
in tho State in all its parts, and such legislan'
wi as will secure the equal rights to all, qua
" anteed by that instrument, equitable taxhto
~ the benefits of the homestead act, thoroui
I'd system of common school education, and an IL
Il. partial and non-partisan judiciary"
U, Resolutions.
rk Resolped. That the battle of universal freedc
n and universal suffrage having been fought a
!, won. and those amendments TO the CONSTITUTE
," of the United States designed to secure III peri
eS tuty the rights Of man, accepted by large p;
w | of ti.a Democratic party, and tney pledged
ne abide forever thereby, and these issues nav
p been thus soleinnly and finally Determined, IN.
Ill remains no excuse for our natural ana SYM
ce thetic friends, the Wings of Virginia, 10 conth
NJ in any degree their cooperation with the Den
- cratic party, -. .,4.,
~ RESOLVED. That the Wings of Virginia, in stai
I'd ing by the faith of their fathers, and agreel
m with us in all that relates TO our government
W organization-the protection of American ma
"a, try and manufactures, the system OF natio
cir banking the right of Congress'to appfopri