The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-11

conscience OF the people concerning
political affairs. and will hold all pub
lie officers to rigid responsibility, and
engage that the prosecution and pun
i-hment of all WHO betray official trusts
sllall be speedy. thorough and unspar-
in. Cheers.
Seventh. The public school system
OF the several States i the bulHark of
the American Republic, and with a
view 10 its security and peTmanence
We recommended an amendment to
IT, Constitution Of the United States
lor'idliug the application or any pub
lie funds or property for the benefit of
any schools or institutions under sec
tartan control
Great cheering. continued for sever
al minutes In response to repeated
calls. General Ia ley read the plank
the second time. and the delegates and
audience repeated their cheers.
Eighth. The revenue necessary for
current expenditures and the obliga-
tion> OF the public debt mast be large
Is derived from duties on importa-
tons, 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 mouopOlies, and de-
mand that the national domain be de-
voted TO free homes for the people.
Tenth 1t il the imperative duty OF
! the government so TO modify existing
treaties with European governments
that the same protection shall be
! afforded 10 the adopted American
| citizen that j. given to the native
| born. and that all necessary laws should
| Ie passed TO protect immigrants in the
| absence % power i'll the State for that
purpose
Eleventh. II is the immediate duty
| of Congress TO fully investigate the et-
fects of the immigration and importa-
| ton of Mongolian upon the moral and
material interests of the country. APP
| plause.
Twelfth The republican party rec
! ognizes with approval the substantial
! advance recently made toward the es
tablishment 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
imluunities 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
i 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 to our soldiers and
sailors must be fulfilled. The grateful
people will always hold those vino per-
lied their lives for the country's preser-
walton 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
toral vote of united South, secured
through the efforts of those who were
recently arrayed against the nation,
and we invoke the earnest attention of
the country to the grave truth that a
success thus achieved would reopen
sectional strife and imperil national
| honor and human rights.
Sixteenth. We charge the Demo
cratic party as being the same in char
acter and spirit rs when it SyInpathizcd
| with treason; with making its control
| of the House of Representatives the
triumph and the opportunity of the
| nations recent foes; with reaSsertiDg
| and applanling 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 repudiate the plighted
| faith of the government; with being
equally false and imbecile upon the
overslIadowing financial question; with
thwart:Ug the ends of justice Ey its
partisan misrnanagement 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 a party thus alike
unworthy, recreant and incapable.
Cheers.
Seventeenth. The National Admin
istration merits .commendation for its
honorable work III 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 conspicuousiy fitted for those two
high offices. We confidently appeal
TO the American people to entrust the
administration Of their public affairs
to Rutherford B. Hayes and William