The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-06-25
ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS,

Aiiiholh hepuDllcan state Con
Vention met at Springfield on the
l1th, and nominated Thos. s. Ridge
way of Gallatin, for Governor.
and W. P. Powell of D ane for Supt.
of Public Instruction. Hon. F. w.
Palmer of the Chicago Inter Ocean,.
formerly Congressman from the 5th
Iowa District, as chairman of the
committee on resolutions, made the
following report
We, the delegates and representa-
tives of the Republican party of Illi-
nois, declare the following to be SUBJ
stantially our political belief
lst. That emancipation and en-.
reimbursement having been secured
by the thirteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, and by appropriate
Legislation for their enforcement, and
the equality of the civil rights bill
having been guaranteed ty the four.
teenth amendment such guarante
should be enforced by the appro-
pirate statutes, SO that the broad
Agis of freedoms power may be
over white and black citizens alike.
I'd. That as one of the consequen-
ces Of the late civil war, about three
hundred and eighty-two millions of
dollars in interest bearing treasury
notes, were issued to and are now
held by the people as safe, conve-
nient currency, and it would be un-
wise and inexpedient in the present
financial condition of the people to
attempt the policy of the immediate
cancellation of any ortion of such
treasury notes.
Sd. That laws for the establish
ment of national banks having recured
to States and Territories the best
system of bank circulation ever be-
fore offered to the people, its assur-
ance should be no longer confined to
privileged class, but should be
free to all alike, under equal laws
the aggregate volumn of currency to
be regulated by the untrammelled
laws of trade.
4th. That we reaffirm the declara-
tions of the National Republican Con-
vention of 1872 in favor of a return to
specie payment at the earliest practi-
cable day; that we are opposed to any
increase in the amount of legal ten
der notes and favor the gradual re-
tirement of the same as the volume
of the National Bank notes shall be
increased.
5th. That we commend the meas.
ures which have passed the popular
branch of Congress looking toward
the perfection of inter State way
transportation aud the improvement
of navigation at the mouth of the
Mississippi.
9th. That we favor the amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States providing for the elecs
ton of the President and Vice Presi
dent by the direct vote of the people
without the Intervention Of the
Electoral College.
7th. That the Republican party
propose to respect the rights secured
by the people to themselves as care
fully as the powers delegated them by
the State and Federal Governments,
and it will aim to secure the rights
and privileges of citizens without re-
gard to nationality or creed, and it is
opposed to interference by law with
the habits, tastes or customs of indi-
yiduals, except to suppress licen-
tiousness or to preserve the peace
and safety of the citizens of the
State.
sth. That while we accord to the
railway companies of the State the
fullest measures of property rights,
we also demand for the people rea-
sonable charges and rigid impartial
ity in the transportation of passen-
gers and freights, such government
to be secured by appropriate State
and National legislation.
Relying upon the foregoing decla-
ration of principles and policy, and
upon the broad, clear record of the
Republican party from its fifteen
years of State and federal ad-
ministration, we appeal once more
to that silent yet conclusive tribunal,
the ballot box, confident that the
people will endorse overwh helmingly
the action of this Representative
Convention.