Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-31
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Fob 1874.


great Presidential Campaign will soon COM
mence, That struggle will determine whether the
Government of the United States shall continue
to be administered by the party which preserved
1t from ACKNOWLEDGMENT, or by the men who en-
deavored to destroy refused to help save it, in
order that Slavery might be maintained
Those who desire the Republican party to re-
main in power cannot more efficiently contribute
to that end than by increasing the circulation of
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takes higher rank or will WELD more potentiaI
influence in the next Presidential Campaign Ev-
cry intelligent citizen will find it indispensable
Tor the facts and arguments it will contain.
THE TRIBUNE'S PLATFORM
On the leading measures before the public THE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE holds the following views be-
lieviug them to be right as well as Republican:
]. A eform of the Currency, making it as
stable and good AS gold and silver, without injury
to the debtor classes.
q Reduction of direct State, and indirect Ma
tional Taxation.
3. Economy and Retrenchment in Public Ex-
pendtures; no Bounties or Subsidies of Public
Moneys for Private Schemes. or Payment OF Rebel
Losses out Of the National Treasury.
a. An honest maintenance of Public Credit,
and Condemnation of Reputation in any form
shape.
5. State Control and Supervision over Common
Carriers and Corporate Monopolies not to Cypress
them but to protect the people
d. Exposure and Punishment of all Official
Corruption and Frauds on the Revenue. Let no
guilty man escape
z. Honest and Fit Men for all OfIices-aiving
good Unionists preference over former Secession
lists.
8. Sovereignty of the Union in all National Mat
tiers; State Rights and Independence in all Local
Matters
9. Election of President by direct vote of the
People, without the clumsy and dangerous inter
vention Of Electoral Colleges which may some day
cause a Civil War.
10. A Constitutional Amendment prohibiting a
division of the Public Schoy Funds OF any State
for Sectarian Purposes.
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ny excellent features of THE TRIBUNE on which
is based its claims as q superior
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