The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-10-20


require its policy to be reprr>. lted.
Out permitting all others to be filed
oy persons selected with sole reference
to the efficiency OF the public .ervice
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 ana pun
ishment of all who betray official trusts
shall be speedy, thorough and u:ispar.
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 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 iInporta
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. 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-
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 J
relic of barbarism. polygany, 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 l
nation has given to our soldiers and
sailors must be fulfilled. The grateful
people will always hold those who per ,
led their lives for the country's preser- q
vation in the kindest remembrance. c
Fifteenth. We sincerely deprecate
Ill sectional feeling and tendencies.
We therefore note, with deep solitude,
hat the Democratic party counts, as {
is chief hope of success, upon the elec- ?
oral vote of a united South, secured c
through the efforts of those who we're ?
ecently arrayed against the nation,
md we invoke the earnest attention of +.
he country to the grave truth that a
uccess thus achieved would reopen
ectional strife and imperil national
lonor and human rights.
Sixteenth. We charge the Demo 7
ratio party as being the same in char
cter and spirit as when it sympathized
Tith treason; with making its control
f the House of Representatives the
riumph and the opportunity of the /,
ation's recent foes; with reasserting a
nd applauding in the National Capt. |.
oil the sentiments of unrepented re- a
'eliion; with sending Union soldiers to a
he rear and promoting Confederate a
oldiers to the front: with deliberately a a
to repudiate the plighted L
aith OF the government; with being a
qually false and imbecile upon the 4
financial question; with A
hwarting the ends of justice by its -
artisan mismanagement and obstruc- =
ion of investigation; with providingl
-self, through the period of its ascend
ncy in the lower House of Congress, L
tterly incompetent to administer the /,
overnment. We warn the country L
gainst trusting a party thus alike = =
n nworthy, recreant and incapable. Z
heers. 4
Seventeenth. The National Admin A
traticn merits comm endation for it's !.
onorable work in the management of A
omestic and foreign affairs, and Pres a
lent Grant deserves the continued and A
earty gratitude of the American peo-
lie for bis patriotism, and his immense
,rvices in war and in peace. Cheers.
That we present as our candidate for
resident and Vice -Presid ent of the
nited States, two distinguis he'd states
en- of eminent ability and character, 7,
Id conspicuously fitted for those two L
gh offices. We confidently appeal u
the American people to en- trust the a
Of their public affairs A
Rutherford B. Hayes and William
Wheeler. -