, 1876-05-29

TIE SPRINGFIELD JOURNAL ON THE PLATF0RM.
The Springfield journal r. not pleased with
the mess Of trash dIshcd up hy the Convention
Committee, aud called the Illinois Republican
platform. It speaks Of ts literary character rs
"j.tyne, sham1ing ungrdn,matienl, Jnu Of nd-
jectires and hYr1o'e, to tgrne scareey 1ortlosa-
ate.'t The Journal proceeds to ann!yze tue mess
Of ungrarn,nattcal stuff by sections:
The statement that "thc Inherent sovereignty Of
nlnn 1cads 70 republican form nf government, ~
that forn furnishing the surest guaranty # Impair
pearl to be nal sravesty Upon the stirring words
Of jcaerson and d!.1nal fnl1u,c In the effort to
state, in terac and we'll .eho~eu language, phio.
enph(oal proposition In the science 0f government.
The concluding sentence Of the aeetton simply If.
pcnts with Increased verhoslty. the language Of
The Conrtftnt!on Of The United s.atcs; aud il would
puzzle any one To tell Why we should be called
upon To formally ret ont the organic law Of tie na
tlHn or Any part Of IT, TO he adopted OF rejected BY
State Convention.
In regard to the bloody shirt plank 1t says:
!. We submit. t the Republican policy Of the ?a.
tion has resulted. logically iu the dcath. by yo-
and black that i Il most nus1srons policy. and
ought to he abandoncd ?. opse: Bn; e ths state.
a.saredIy moi. Tho murders ;hat i've reduced tho
Southern states % something Hike the dnrkctt days
Of ltal'en crime hare uot serultea from 1cpublran
trsitors Vhn. falling 10 deeroy the Government by
open remittance, hare resorted TO the knife, Tie
ss ssso s"S a s AL 5sS 5 not T4s Ss :. M :
tu thc control Of THO citizen. thereof Il that n any
eense at war With human rights and the rights Of
See 3 il most remarkable in its assumption
not 10 see that It /, psn daty q enforce The awr
made nndc. tis fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend-
n,cnts Of the Federal Con.tituton;, 1t wpnld sccm
TINT, under the thin dfsEulrc Of this scctlon m
,rovnding s,e1dary n,tsfo'r, by fastening en hina
he n I'D n Of e
In the sixth sectIon proper praise ID mcted out to
sefree; s 5s nhy ~ did tas coal,t 70 II stso".s
" ignore ali a1su.ions 70 ~ faithful. hont:t.
Sonst sss'ss s = q m s' psS Il 4 q M e.
hardly earned and well deserved praise, and wholly
transfer the works OF Ills hands and credit therein
Secretary BrIstow came into ONCE. robbery and
hngs we're far TOO prevalent n The public .sryies:
rsht s o . i:sns erdo1s =. 10 VIZ ass!l o. shall
aaainst thu aovcrnmens, in the courts Of the
try. than policeman IN the CHI, Of Springfield has
70 s 's ss'ss s1h ag at
not execute tho threo Amcndmcn,s of the consti-
susd and unworthy tho time md the place. II ia
safe 10 cay that the honesh tn'tht1l Secretary
would, II made President, discharge hif duty nm
der the Consultation. even though he waE unfor-
tunAtely born III kentucky. It nsay be safely In
fc!rea. further, that acn. Drissow during The was
aided TO sa1e the country with far more .'alacrty
wrak rhetoric at bis expense. and VIC venture 10
further re1nafk that. when ha undertakes to exc
cute the laws he will nut bc guilty Of the snlecls,
10 describing tic enforcement Of tile law, Of speak
Ing OF tie Amendments Of the Consultation and the
enactnsenta OF Congress- t1crcundcs, regulating the
Tie platform, taken together, shows that
thcse were on the Committee tHst reported 1t
that. generally. the eight seetion* nErccd to.
and aome one nppolntel to put them togcthcr In
| tntell'Eible English; shst whoever undertook this
Of It, and managed mainly IL Inject hin own bag
style and weak malice into oil but two sections,
be safely said, ''is is dangerous to stand un The
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