The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-10-27

harmony and vigor Of administration
require its policy to be represented,
but permitting all others to be filled
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 a 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 the several States is the bulwark OF
the American Republic, and with a
view to its security and pernanence
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 importa-
tions, which, 50 far as possible, should
be adjusted to promote the interest of
American labor and advance tie 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 eft
fects of the immigration and importa-
ton of Mongolian upon the moral and
material interests of the 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 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-
'pectful consideration. Applause.
Thirteenth. The Constitution con
fers upon Congress sovereign power
over the Territories of the United
States for their government, and in
he exercise of this power it is the right
and the duty of Congress to prohibit
ind extirpate in the Territories that
'elic of barbarisn, polyga,ny. and we
demand such legislation as shall secure
his end and the supremacy of Ameri- !
IAN institutions i'm all the Territories. |
Applause.
Fourteenth. The pledges which the
nation has given to our soldiers and |
ailors must be fulfilled. The grateful
people will always hold those who per
led their lives for the country's prcser- |
-ation in the kindest remembrance.
Fifteenth. We sincerely deprecate
III sectional feeling and tendencies. !
We therefore note, with deep solitude,
hat the Democratic party counts, as
is chief hope of success, upon the cleo
oral vote of g. united South, secured
through the efforts of those who we're
ecently arrayed against the nation,
nd we invoke the earnest attention of
he country to the grave truth that a
uccess thus achieved would reopen
ectional strife and imperil national
ionor and human rights
Sixteenth. We charge the Demo
ratio party as being the same in char
cter and spirit as when it sympathized
With treason; with making its control
f the House Of Representatives the
riumph and the opportunity OF. the
ation's recent foes; with reasserting
nd applanding in the National Capt.
ol the sentiments of unrepented re-
eliion; with sending Union soldiers to
ne rear and promoting Confederate
oldiers to the front; with deliberately
10 repudiate the plighted
nth of the government; with beingl
lually false and imbecile upon the
vershadowing financial question; with
lwarting the ends of justice by its
artisan mismaDagement AID obstruc
On of investigation; with providing
self, through the period of its ascend
ncy in the lower House of Congress,
tterly incompetent to administer the
overnmept. We warn the country
yainst trusting a party thus alike
nworthy, recreant and incapable.
heers.
Seventeenth. The National Admin r
tration merits commentator for its )
onorable work in the management of !
omestic and foreign affairs, and Pres. i
ent Grant deserves the continued and
earty gratitude of the American peo- {
e for his patriotism, and his immense
rvices in war and in peace. Cheers.
That we present as our candidate for
and Vice-President of the
nited States, two distinguished states
EN- of eminent ability and character, 7
ID conspicuously fitted for those two [
gh Offices. We confidently appeal L
fine American people to entrust the 4
of their public affairs A
Rutherford B. Hayes and William