The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-01

appointments TO Office. The iuvaria-
bic rule for appointments should have
reference TO the 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 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 will hold all pub
lie officers to rigid responsibility, ,and
engage that the prosecution and pun
ishment of all who betray official trusts
shall be speedy. thorough and unspar-
ing. Cheers.
Seventh. The public school system
Of thc several States is the bulwark of
the American Republic, and with a
view 10 its security and permanence
we recommended an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
forbidding the application of 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 Hawley 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
ly derived from duties on ilnporta-
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, 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 in the State for that
purpose.
Eleventh. 1t 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
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 it 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 to our soldiers and
sailors must be fulfilled. The grateful
people will always hold those who 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 elec-
toral vote of united South, secured
through the efforts of those who we're
recently arrayed against the nation,
and We invoke the earnest attention of
the country to the grave truth that
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 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-
bellion; 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
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 a party thus alike
unworthy, recreant and incapable.
Cheers.
Seventeenth. The National Admin
istration merits commendation for its
honorable work in the management of
domestic aud 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 ana 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 entrust the
administration of their public affairs
to Rutherford B. Hayes and William
A. Wheeler.