The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-20

I" VIM. Butler, ~
. l. G. Gordon, 40 ="
On the eleventh ballot Isaac G.
Gordon, of Jefferson County, re-
ceived II votes and was declared
nominated. After which the follow
ING exhaustive and unexceptionable
PLATFORM
was adopted:
We, Republicans of Pennsylvania, in
convention assembled, renew our eX-
preston of confidence in and devotion
to the principles of Republicanism, and
declare:
1st. That we heartily endorse and re
adopt the Republican Nationaland State
platforms of 1872.
2d. That the National administration
commands our continued confidence,
and is entitled, by its promotion OF the
best interests and prosperity of the ma
tiOn, to the earnest support Of the people.
Sd. That the administration of Cover
nor Hartranft calls for our Warmest ap-
probation. During the short time he
has been in the Executive department
he has established State policy which
has Justly endeared him to the people Of
this Commonwealth and has amply just
flied the confidence we have placed in
him.
4th. That while earnestly in favor of
constitutional reform, and Of such re-
vision of our State constitution as Will
make it an effective instrument in pre-
venting and punishing the corrupt abus-
es that have crept III under the present
system, we demand emphatically and es-
pecially that, whatever is done or left
mdone, the main purpose for which the
Constitutional Convention was called
tile absolute prevention Of special le-
gislation-shall be SO placed before the
people as to secure their separate and
decisive expression thereon.
5th. That the reduction of the State
debt from S41 600, 600 to S2G, ,O00, 600, the
repeal of all State taxes on real estate,
the establishment of schools for the sup
port of soldiers orphans, the mainte-
nance of our excellent and prosperous
system Of common schools and the es-
tablisllment Of the policy Of paying of
our debt at the rate Of s., 600 900 year,
together with the generally lourishing
condition of our prosperous Old Com
mOnwealth, are evidences that the Re
publicans, during theirtwelyeyea CON
troll in Pennsylvania, have faithfully ad-
ministered her affairs and the reins of
government may be safely left in their
hands.
9th That there should be rigid econO-
my in the State and National admins
trations, and the taxes should be reduced
in both as rapidly as is consistent with
good management, the maintenance of
the public credit and certain eXtmguish-
ment of the State and National debts.
7th. That the public lands belong to
the people and should be sacredly re-
served for homes for actual settlers and
we pronounce against all further grants
of these lands to corporations.
8th. That adequate provision should
be made by law for the protection of
persons employed in mining and other
hazardous forms of labor.
9th. That retrenchment is required
to tighten the burden of taxation, and
to continue the reduction of the public
debt, an increase of salaries is unwise,
and we condemn, without reserve, vot-
ing for or receiving increased pay for
services already rendered, whether in
State or Nation, and demand that the
| provisions of the late act of Congress,
by which the salaries were increased,
should promptly and Internationally be
repealed
10th. That we heartily denounce cor
ruptiOn wherever found and are sincere
ly desirous for honest economy and po-
litical purity in al official administra-
tions. To secure this is the duty of
every citizen, and TO this end every good
man should feel bound not only to par
ticipate in politics but to labor actively
to see that none but good men secure
party appointments or nominations.
11th. That the practice Of loading the
appropriation bill, essential to the sup
port Of the Government, with objection
able legislation in the shape Of amend
mentS, towards the close Of the session,
is prolific source Of abuse aud a fraud
upon the people, and its reform is ur-
gently demanded.
18th. That, as the country and home
industry have both uniformly prospered
under a tariff so arranged as to afford
both revenue and protection, the pres
ent tariff should be left mdistGrbed,
and as all tariffs are levied primari-
" for revenue, it would be a poor gov
ernment indeed which could not at
ford to arrange its details so as to en-
courage the growth Of home manufac-
tures and the creation of a remunera-
tive home market for all the products
of our soil.
18th. That order and security in the
States lately in rebellion must come
through the stern enforcement Of laws
enacted to protect life, liberty and the
freedom of thought, and cannot be Sc
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