The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-08-29

CicCG uilu upon ING principle lnaI one
good term deserves another. He has
redeemed all his pledges. His Admin
istration has been q success and the
people will triumphantly endorse it at
the polls on the fifth of November.
The Rev. p. p. Ingalls,, of Des
Moines, invoked the Divine Blessing.
The Convention then appointed
Committees on Credentials P Permanent
Organization, Resolutions, &c., land
adjourned until O'Clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention was called to order
at 2 o'clock, by Gov. Walden, Tempo
rary chairman, who stated that the first
thing in order would be the report of
the Committee on Credentials.
That COMMITTEE, through Mr.. Blan-
chard, reported nincty-four counties
represented and seven unreprcsented.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The Committee ON Permanent Or
ganization, through Senator Patterson,
of Floyd, made the following report !:
President--Hon. Robert Lowry, of
Scott county.
Vice Presidents.---W. s. Kremer,
Louisa; Hon. Samuel Written, Van
Buren, Hon. e. Z. Smith, Taylor; l..
.. Raymond, Cherokee B. r. Murray,
Madison; Chas. II. Spencer, Powe-
sheik j. A. Bishop, Muscatine; John
Mexican, Jones G. B. Clarkson, Grun-
dy III. Hamilton, Clayton; j. l., Ged-
des, Story Jno. E, Burke, Bremen; r.
Il. Stockton, Fremont.
Secretaries.--Ja Rich, Dubuque /;
II. III. Dutton, Linn; F. w. Eichelber-
ger, Davis Geo. II. Case, Jefferson j.
d. Ainsworth, Crawford.
The temporary Chairman appointed
Senator Patterson and Col. Thorington
as a committee to conduct the pe.ma-
nent Chairman to the platform.
Mr.. Lowry, said:
GENTLEMEN 81 thank you for this
distinguished compliment. / trust
your deliberations will be harmonious ;
that You will II inmate 1T representa-
tivcs of the great party, whose mission
it has been to put down rebellion and
place all men upon the place of equal
justice. They say Horace Greeley is
father ofthe Republican party. This
deny. He opposed Abraham Lin
coin. He avowed that slave States had
a right to secede in 1861. One month,
he was urging on to Richmond. AT
another he was negotiating with
Thompson and Sanders. 1t is no Sc
cret who is the father of the Demoera-
tic party. Eighteen hundred years ago
there was Judas; there has been a
Benedict Arnold:~there has been an
Andy johnson, and now there is a
Horace Greeley. When Satan took
Horace Greeley upon into high
mountain and showed him the White
House, he could not resist the tempta-
ton. He has deserted both friends
and party. He has gone to the men
whom he denounced in every way.
When the Democratic party could find
no other leader, it took Horace Gree
ley.
RESOLUTIONS.
The Committee on Resolutions,
through its Chairman, Col. Corkhill,
made the following report:
The representatives of the Republic
can party of the State of Iowa assem-
bled in State Convention on the 2lst
day of August A. d. 1872, declare
their unceasing faith in the principles
and platform adopted by the National
Republican Convention at Philadel-
phia, on the 9th day of June, 1872, and
with honest pride refer to the history
of the party in this State and the ma
ton, and announces an abiding faith in
its present integrity and future .supre-
macy. Under the control of this or
ganization, a gigantic rebellion has
been crushed, four millions of slaves
not only released from bondage, but
elevated to oil the rights and duties of
citizenship; freedom of speech has
been secured, the national credit sus-
tanned; the taxes reduced and the
commercial interests ofthe whole coun-
try nurtured and protected, producing
a condition of individual and national
prosperity heretofore uncqualled. So
marked, decisive and unmistakeable
has been the judgment ofthis country,
that the maintenance Of the principles
Of the Republican party are the only
true guarantee of national prosperity
and national security throughout the
country; that at last the Democratic
party have nominally abandoned the
principles which they have heretofore
maintained and announce their adhe-
sion to the principles ofthe Republican
party, and are endeavoring to steal in
to power by nominating recreant Re-
publicans. But with full confidence of
our glorious triumph in the present
campaign, both in this State and the
nation, we hereby reiterate and reaffirm
the great principles that have governed
and controlled the Republican party in
the past and pledge to the people their
maintenance in the future.
Resolccd, That the nomination of our
present able, earnest and incorruptible
Chief Magistrate, Ulysses s. Grant, for
reelection to the Presidency OF the
United States, and of Henry Wilson, of
Massachusetts,, for Vice President,
meets our unqualified and hearty APP
prevail.
Resd7ced, That we are in favor of the
most rigid economy in the administra-
ton of the affairs of this State and the
Natios.
Resolved, That we are opposed to
any legislation, state or national, that
tendsto unjustly discriminate between
individual interest and the interest of
believing that property.
held by individuals or corpo-
ations, should bear their equal and
lust proportion of the public burdens.
Resotced, That we are opposed to all |
tlrther grants Of land 10 railroad or
,thcr corporations, and that the public
domain which is the common heritage
Of the people of this country should be
'acrcdly held by the government for
he use and benefit of actual and bona
fde settlers.
RcsoIued. That we hereby endorse
he recommendation of President
rant that cmigrants be protected by
ational legislation, and that all efforts
il the part of the government Of the
tate or Nation to encourage emigra-
on from foreign countries meet our
pproval, and we hereby commend the
bors of the officers OF this State in !
.eir efforts to encourage and secure
migration to the State Of Iowa.
Resoleed, That we cordially endorse
e nomination made by this Convcn-
on and pledge to the nominees our
,arty, active and earnest support rs
AS the resolutions were being read, G
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