The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-29


harmony and vigor Of administration
require its policy to be represented,
but permitting all others to be filled
Dy persons selected with sole reference
to the efficiency Of the public .ervice
and the right OF all citizens to share in
| the honor of rendering faithful service
! to their country.
Sixth. We rejoice in the quickened
conscience of the people concerning
political affairs, and viii hold all pub,
lie officers to a rigid responsibility, Y, and
engage that the prosecution ana pun
isament of all who betray officia rusts
shall be speedy. thorough and u..spar-
ing Cheers.
Seventh. The public school system
of the several States is the bulw trk of
the American Republic, and y it'll a.
view to its security and permunence
We recommended an amendment to
tie Constitution of the United States
forbidding the application of any pub
lie funds or property for the bel. lit of
any schools or institutions und-r sec
tartan control.
Great cheering, continued for sever
al minutes. In response to repeated
calls. General Hawley read the blank
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
ly derived from duties on iinporta
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 reaffirm our opposition
to further grants of the public lands to
corporations and monopolies, aud 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 80 the adopted American
citizen that is given to the l.i:tiye
bOrn, and that all necessary laws should
he passed 70 protect immigrants in the I
absence Of power in the State for that !
purpose.
Eleventh. 1t is the immediate duty
of Congress to fully investigate the et- |
fects OF the immigration and irnporta-
ton of Mongolian upon The moral and |
material interests of the country Ap-l
plause.
Twelfth. The republican party rec
Ognizes with approval the substantial
advance recently made toward the es-
of equal rights for women,
by the many important amendments
effected 10y Republican Legislatures in
the laws which concern the personal
and prop rty 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
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 it is the right
and the duty of Congress to prohibit
and eXtirpate in the Territories tina
relic of barbarism. polygamy, and we
demand such legislation as shall secure
his end and the supremacy of Ameri,
,an institutions in all the Territories.
Applause.
Fourteenth. The pledges which the
nation has given 20 our soldiers and
sailors must be fulfilled. The grateful
people will always hold those who per
led their lives for the country's prcsef
yation in the kindest remembrance.
Fifteenth. We sincerely Geprecatel
III sectional feeling aad tendencies.
We there fore note, with deep solitude,
hat the Democratic party counts, rs
Is chief hope of success. upon the eiec ,
oral vote of 4 united South, secured
through the efforts of those who were
'ecently arrayed against the nation.
md we invoke the earnest attention II
he country to the grave truth that 7
success thus achieved would reopen
ectionai strife and innperil national
honor and human rights.
Sixteenth. we charge tlle Demo !
;ratic party Is being the same in char
Icter and spirit as when it sympathized
With treason; with making its control
# the House of Representatives the
riUmph ami the opportunity of the
Iation'S recent foes; with reasserting .
nd applauding in the National Capt.
oil the sentiments of unrepented re- !
'ellion; with sending Union soldiers to
lie rear and promoting Confederate I
oldiers to the front: with deliberately
TO repudiate the pligiIted
aith of the government; with being
qually false and imbeCile upon the
financial question; with
hwarting tie ends of Justice by its
'artisan mismRnagement and obstrUc !
ion of investigation; with providing
tself, through the period of its ascend =;
ncy in the lower House of Congress,
Utterly incompetent to administer The :
government. We warn the country
gainst trusting a party thus alike ]
recreant and incapable.
Ulcers. Il
Seventeenth. The National Admin
stration merits COMMUNICATION for its
honorable work III the management Of I
and foreign affairs, and Pres i
dent Grant deserves the continued and c
hearty gratitude OF the American peo- !
,le for his patriotism, and his immense
eryices in war and in peace. Cheers.
That we present as our candidate for
President and Vice President of the
United States, two distinguished states
nen of eminent ability and character,
nd conspicuously fitted for those two
ligh offices. We confidently appeal +,
o the American people TO entrust the
of their public affairs
0 Rutherford b. Hayes and William