The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-06-02
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ed the following excellent plat
form;
l. Equality of all men before the
law, equal justice to all and special
fayors to none.
2. Harmony of National and
State governments Both are parts
of one system, alike necessary for
the common prosperity, peace and
security.
3. Unity of the nation. We are
one people; the Constitution of
the United States forms a govern
ment, not a league.
4. Faithful execution of the laws,
an economical administration of
the government, integrity in office,
honesty in all branches of the civil
service, and a rigid accountability
of public officers.
8. Protection to home industry,
and home market for home pro
ducts
6. Right of the laborer to pro
lection and encouragement, and
pr emotion Harmony between la
Dor and capital.
7. Cheap transportation and
closer intercourse between all parts
of the country
s. Free banking, safe and uni
form national currency adjusted to
the growing wants of the business
interests of the country, and a
steady reduction of the national
| debt.
g. The public domain, being the
heritage of the people, should be
reserved for actual settlers exciu
sively.
10. Equalization ofithe bounties
of soldiers, and speedy settle
nnent of all just claims arising out
| of the late war.
IL Honest men in office; men
with brains enough to know dis
honesty when they see it, and
courage enough to fight it wherev
er they find it.
The feeling in the convention
was decidedly hostile to third
term, and when the resolution in
the platform was read, spectators
and delegates joined in demanding
a second reading. The opinion is
expressed that there was 40 neces-
ity for such an emphatic express
ion, but anti-third term men de
manded that the resolution on the
subject should not be misunder-
stood. The following is its text:
Resolved, That we declare firm
and unqualified adherence to the
unwritten law of the Republic;
which wisely, and under the sane
ton of the most venerable of exam
Piles, limits the presidential service
of any citizen TO two terms, and
we, the Republicans of Pennsylya
MIA, in recognition of this law, are
, unalterably opposed to the election
to the Presidency of any person
| for o third term,
The remaining resolutions, fully
| indorse the administration of Presi-
| dent Grant, and characterize it as
among the most brilliant achieve
ments in tho annals of the nation.
The new Cardinal is not being
crowded with marrying people as
much as he was at first. It is be
ing generally learned that his set
fee is $500.
The Northern Indiana Agricul
tural Society, at Fort Wayne, offers
$4,000 in premiums, which is
| $4,000 more than offered Lass
year.
The number of shipwrecks lie
corded for the month of February
this year is i2S. of which seventeen
were steamers Fifty six were
| English and eleven American.
The grasshoppers of Nebraska
have found q foeman worthy of
their steel Tor steaD. 1t is a
small red bug which is attacking
them and Strengthening them by the
million. That is a good bug.
The ceremonies of the laying of
the corner stone of the new Mason
ic Temple, at Indianapolis, occurred
Monday, May "a. The new temple
is situated on the corner of Wash
ington and Tennessee streets.
Newspapers can be sent after
July l from the United States to
any part of Europe at the rate Of
two cents each. if they do not weigh
over four ounces.
Sallie Taylor, of Evansville, had
q presentment that something
world happen to her brothers, who
are in the saloon business at Vim
/ cennes, and wrote a note urging
| them to come home. Lewis, the
| elder. fell dead of heart disease,
and the note was found in his
;pocket.
4 The House of Refuge at Plain
field now contains three hundred
and ten of the bad boys of the
State This is the youngest, and,
with the exception of the Ohio
House of Refuge, the largest open
reformatory in the United States.
| Walter Davy, an Indianapolis
typo, whose veracity has never
been questioned in that community
reports that while on O fishing ex
| cursion lately he saw a monster
red eye, three fourths of a yard in
length, standing on his caudal fin