The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-18

| appointments to Office. The invaria-
| be rule fcT appointia= MS should have
| reference 70 the honesty. fidelity and
capacity cf the aPpointees, giving 10
| the party ~ power those places where
| harmony and vigC- II administration
require is policy To- be represented.
| but permitting ali Others TO Ge filed
By persons selected with sole reference
to rle efficiency Of the public service
| and the right of all citizens TO share in
the honor OI rendering faithful service
to f'-tir country.
Sixth. We rejoice in the gUickened
conscience Of the people concerning
| political affairs. and viii hold all pub
lie officers 10 rigid possibility, and
engage that the prosecution and pun
ishIu@nr OF AL WHO h.tray official trusts
! sha.l nr speedy. thorough aud unspar-
| iny Cheers
Seventh The PubiIc school syste1n
OF tlIn S-yeral States is the bulvark of
the American Republic and with
view 20 it, security and permanence
We recommended al amendment 70
tie Constitution OF the United States
torbidding the application Of any pub
lie tuuds or property for the benefit of
any schools or institutions under sec
tartan control.
threat cheering. continued for sever
al minutes. In response To repeated
calls, General HawIey read the plank
the second time, and the delegates and
audience repeated their cheers.
Eighth. The revenue necessary for
4 a II.
tioas of the public debt must be large
ly derived from duties on importa-
tIons, which, 50 Jar a. possible, should
be adjusted 10 promote the interest of
American labor and advance the pros
perity Of the whole country. Cheers
Ninth. We reaffirm our opposition
10 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 i'll the State for that
purpose.
Eleventh. 1t is the immediate duty
of Congress to fully investigate the Ell
feets of the immigration and importa
ton of Mongolian upon the moral and
material interests OF th" country. Ap-
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 propcrty 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 i'll
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. poiygamy, and we
demand such legislation as shall secure
this end and the supremacy of Ameri-
can institutions in ail 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-
torai vote of united South, secured
through the efforts of those who We're
Recently arrayed against the nation,
aDc we invoke the earnest attention of
the country TO the grave truth that a
success TINS achieved would reopen
sectional strife and impeTii 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 appianding 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
overshadowing financial question; with
thwarting the ends Of justice by its
partisan mismanagement and obstruc-
tion 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 tie management Of
domestic and foreign affairs, aud Pres
ident Grant deserves the continued and
hearty gratitude of the American peo-
pie for his patriotism. and his immense
services III war and in peace. Cheers.
That We present IS our candidate Tor
President and Vice President of the
United States, two distinguished states
men of eminent ability and character,
and eonspicuousiy 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
\. Wheeler.