The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-20
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION AND PLAT
FORM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF VIRGINIA.
Plan of Organization.


each voting precinct, consisting of seven men,
bers to be selected by the voters of said precinct
whose duty it shall be to make thorough can
vas of such precinct; to organize, and make ELL
Gent, Republican club TO procure list OF reg
istered and legal voters, and TO do all In their
power before registration, and AT the poils 10 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
lected 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
a member to represent said county in the Con-
gressional District Committee, 10 whom the
County Committee shall report.
CITY ORGANIZATION.
In the cities the organization shall exist as at
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-
gressional 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
secretary and treasurer, and provide for the pay
ment of the latter.
The State Central Committee shall select an
~ nf no
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
the same as provided by the State Constitution, or
in that proportion.
In ali Conventions for the nomination of can
ddates for Congress, State Senator, or Conven-
tons of Congressional or 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-
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 a representation in proportion to
the Republican vote cast at the last preceding
Gubernatorial or Congressional election: pro
vided that in cases where nominations are to be
made for city or county alone, the Executive
Committee of such county or city shall call a
Convention to make such nominations.
In District composed of more than one county
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 Conven-
ton assembled, rcaifirm 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 as national
principles
shall give incidental, protection to American in
dustry.
national banking system, that shall give us a
safe and uniform currency, and absolute security
! to bil-hoders.
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 oul
determination to ultimately extinguish it, while
| at the same time, we carefully avoid burdenine
the people with onorous and unnecessary taxa
| ton.
That we heartily endorse the administration o
President Grant, and are unanimously in favor
| of ais denomination in 1872.
STATE POLICY.
No honest man can deny that the tendency o
the Legislation of the past year in Virginia ha:
been to depress all the material interests OF the
people. Taxation has been increased almost be
| You'd the limits of human endurance, and thu
Democrats 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 one dollar every hundred
Worse STILL because it 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,
these onorous taxes by the LIST day of September
1871, or forfeit five per cent, while we arc nov
officially informed by the Treasurer or the Stat
that the 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
tions more than million dollars at the low rat
of four per cent. per annum, while at the sam
time, under this extraordinary combination O
circumstances, our citizens are thus compelled t.
borrow their own money at the rate OF lively
per cent. per annuln.
The passage OF such acts IN Virginia by
Democratic Legislature is only in keeping witt
Democratic legislation wherever that party oh
tains power as exemplified by that great ieadin
Democratic organization of the United States
the Tammany ring of New York. This Legis
lature has passed laws neutralizing and renuei
ing void and of no effect the homestead provision
OF the constitution placing the execution OF tn
laws establishing common schools in parrish
and unfriendly hands, and have violated almos
every pledge made by their authorized represer
tatives when pleading for the admission Oh IN
State to Federal representation.
They have created a partizan judiciary, an
given the county judges created by caucus nom
They have reestablished that relic of a barbal
Gus past, the whippng-post, and by giving til
{ Judges power TO select the juries in all case
have enabled them to do as they have done in
vast majority OF instances, exclude the colore
man from the jury-box, and deprive him of tn
right so dear to ALL of defence before jury of h
} peers. The Republican party invite the coope
alton of all good citizens in correcting thes
abuses, and do hereby
tReSolue, That we are opposed to leyyin
upon our citizens any further tax than is niece
! sary to a strictly economical administration
the State government, and demand that OF
representatives in the Legislature shall do a
in their power to alleviate TO the greatest e.
r tent possible the burdens of the people, and
decrease the expenses of the State.
''ResoIpe, That we demand the honest an
scrupulous enforcement of the constitution
a tho State in all its parts, and such legislatic
!, as will secure the equal rights to ALL qua
anteed by that instrument, equitable taxatlo
| the benefits of the homestead act, u thoroug
system of common school education, and an III
/, partial and non partisan Judiciary
! Resolutions.
Ressloed, That the battle of universal freedo
I and universal suffrage having been fought al
won, and those amendments to the Constitute
of the United States, designed to secure III perp
tuty the rights Of man, accepted by large pa
, of the Democratic party, and they pledged
abide forever thereby, and these issues havif
been thus solemnly and finally determined the
+ remains no excuse for our natural and symp
f thetc friends the Wings of Virginia, to eontinl
: in any degree their cooperation with the Dem
cratic party.
2 Resoiced, That the Wings of Virginia, in stan
,. ing by the faith of their fathers, and agreeii
: with us in all that relates to our government
organization-the protection of American indu
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