The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-25


bic rule for appointments should have
reference TO tie honesty, fidelity and
capacity of the appointees, giving to
the party IN power those places where
harmony and vigor OF administration
require its policy to be represented,
but permitting all others to be filed
by persons selected with sole reference
to the efficiency Of the public service
and the right o. al citizens to share ia
the honor OF rendering faithful service
20 their country.
Sixth. We rejoice il the auickened
conscience Of the people concerning
political affairs, and will hold all pub
lie officers 10 "A rigid possibility, and
engage that the prosecution and pun
ishment Of all who b"tray official trusts
shall be speedy, thorough ana unspar-
ing. Cheers.
Seventh. The public school system
of the several States - the buIwark OF
the American Republic, and with q
view 20 it, security and peTnauence
we recommended an amendment 20
the Constitution of the United States
forbidding the application of any pub
lie funds or property Tor the benefit of
any schools or institutions under sec
tartan control.
Great cheering, continued for sever
al minutes. In response 10 repeated
calls. General HawIey read the plank
the second time, and the delegates and
audience repeated their cheers.
Eighth. The revenue necessary for.
current expenditures and the obliga-
tions of the public debt must be large
Iy derived from duties on importa-
tions, which, so far as possible, should
be adjusted to promote the interest of
American labor and advance the pros
perity of the whole country. Cheers.
Ninth. We reafiirm our opposition
to further grants of the public lands to
corporations and monopolies, and de-
mand that the national domain be de-
voted to free homes for the people.
Tenth. 1t is the imperative duty of
the government so to modify existing
treaties with European governments
that the same protection shall be
afforded to the adopted American
citizen that is given to the native
born, and that all necessary laws should
be passed to protect immigrants in the
absence of power III the State for that
purpose.
Eleventh. 1t is the immediate duty
of Congress to fully investigate the Ell
fects of the immigration and importa-
ton of MoDgolian upon the moral and
material interests of the country. Ap-
plause.
Twelfth. The republican party rec
ognizes with approval the substantial
advance recently made toward the es
tablishnent of equal rights for women,
by the many important amendments
effected by Republican Legislatures in
the laws which concern the personal
and property relations of the wives,
mothers and widows, and by the ap
pointment and election Of women to
the superintendent of education,
charities and other public trusts. The
honest demands of this class of citizens
for additional rights and privileges and
immunities should be treated with re-
spectful consideration. Applause.
Thirteenth. The Constitution con
fers upon Congress sovereign power
over the Territories of the United
States for their government, and in
The exercise of this power il is the right
and the duty of Congress to prohibit
and extirpate in the Territories that
relic of barbarism. polygamy, and we
demand such legislation as shall secure
this end and the supremacy of Ameri-
can institutions in all the Territories.
Applause.
Fourteenth. The pledges which the
nation has given 10 our soldiers and
sailors must Toe fulfilled The grateful
people will always hold those vino per
lied their lives for the country's prescr-
vation in the kindest remembrance.
Fifteenth. We sincerely deprecate
all sectional feeling and tendencies.
We therefore note, with deep solitude,
that the Democratic party counts, as
its chief hope of success, upon the cleo
torai vote of Il united South, secured
through the efforts OF those who were
recently arrayed against the nation,
and We invoke the earnest attention of
tie country TO the grave truth that a
success thus achieved would reopen
sectional strife and imperii national
honor and human rights.
Sixteenth. We charge the Demo
craft. party as being the same in char
actor and spirit as when it sympathized
with treason; with making its control
of the House of Representatives the
triumph and the opportunity of the
nations recent foes; with reasserting
and applauding in the National Capt.
tol the sentiments of unrepented re
belIion; with sending Union soldiers to
the rear and promoting Confederate
soldiers to the front; with deliberately
proposing to repuGiate the plighted
faith OF the government; with being
equally false and imbecile upon the
overshadowing financial question; with
thwarting the ends of justice by its
partisan mismanagement and obstruc
ton OF investigation; with providing
itself, through the period of its ascend
ancy in the lower House of Congress,
utterly incompetent to administer the
government. We warn the country
against trusting q party thus alike
unworthy, recreaut aud Incapable
Cheers.
Seventeenth. The National Admin
istration merits commendatiOn for its
honorable work in the management Of
domestic and foreign affairs, and Pres
ident Grant deserves the continued and
hearty gratitude of the American peo-
pie for his patriotism, and his immense
services in war and in peace. Cheers.
That we present as our candidate for
President and Vice President of the
United States, two distinguished states
men of eminent ability and character,
and conspicuously fitted for those two
high Offices. We confidently appeal
to the American people to cntrust the
ADMINISTRATION Of their public affairs
to Rutherford Is. Hayes aud William
a Wheeler