Litchfield enquirer., 1876-06-22
The Resolutions

The Republican platform is pretty long, but on the whole good one. We give below the most important of it's seventeen resolutions;
 Fourth.-In the first act of congress signed by President Grant, the national government assumed to remove any doubts of its purpose to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors and solemnly pledged it's faith to make pro vision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes Tn coin. Commercial prosperity public morals and national credit demand that this promise be fulfilled by a contin uous and steady progress 60 specie pay ment Noud and long-continued applause and cheers.)
 Fifth.--Un nder the constitution the Pres ident and heads of the departments are to make nominations for office, the senate is to advise and consent to appointments, and the house of representatives is to ac- cuse and prosecute faithless officers. The best interest of the public service demand that these distinctions be respected, that 1 the senators and representatives who may be judges and accusers should not dictate appointments to office. The invariable rule, for appointments should have refer ence to the honesty, fidelity and capacity | oi the appointees, given to the party in those places where harmony and vigor of administration require its policy to be l represented, but permitting all others to I be filled by persons selected with sole ref erence to the efficiency of the public ser vice and the right of citizens to share in the honor of rendering faithful service to l their country.
 Seventh.-The public school system of the several states is the bulwark of the American republic and, with view to it's security and permanence, we recommend an amendment to the constitution of the United States forbidding the application of any public funds or property for the benefit of any schools or institutions un- der sectarian control.
 Twelfth. republican party recog- nizes with approval the substantial ad- vance recently made towards the estab- l1shment of equal rights for women by the many important amendments effected by republican legislatures in the laws which concern the personal and property rela- tions of wives, mothers and widows, and by the appointment and election of wo- men to the superintendence of education, charities and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class of citizens fos additional rights, privileges and im- munities should be treated with respect full consideration.
 The resumption resolution is perhaps a little more vague than desirable but IS pretty we'll perhaps, for a political conven- tion. The fifth is a splendid hit at the abuses of congressional patronage. The women suffrage resolution promises we'll. but Republican politicians should not forget that sometimes. when respectful consideration" is unnecessarily prolonged, some prompter suitor gets the lady hand.
 Conventions are queer concerns. They seldom do what any one wants them to do, or what they want to do themselves. Blaine, Bristow, Morton, and Conkling are either of them men of vastly greater influence in their party, and of wider rep utation in the nation than Hayes. Yet the friends of either are better satisfied with the selection of second-rate than they would have been by the choice of any first-rate but their own favorite. The Ohio delegates, therefore, showed much shrewdness in making little of their man in advance, and in thus avoiding the jeal- ousy that would have destroyed him. It seems evident, too, that Don Cameron killed Blaine; and Judge Hoar. Bristow. Had the thirty Pennsylvania delegates who preferred Blaine, declared for him early, he would have been nominated against. any possible combination of hos tile elements. Massachusetts sent deci- dedly the best delegation present and, had that delegation worked hard and un1- tedly for Bristow from the first, they would have carried everything before them. The hesitation of Judge Hoar par alyzed the lot, and by the time they finally settled on Bristow the time for effective action had gone by. It is more the mo- naentuna than the absolute weight of a delegation that tells at political conven- tions. and the Massachusetts crowd gave
 
 motion which gives momentum.
 The legislative committee on the School Fund have found things in a very unsatis- factory condition. In many cases specu- lative values have been put on the lands mortgaged as security, and in others there has been steady depreciation, so that there is no doubt that the fund has suffer ed serious diminution. The fact is a State government is not likely to do a good banking business. The School Fund Commissionership is given to some ser. yicabls politician. and he makes the most money hs can out of it. The wonder is that under such system the State does not lose more than it is likely to do. The sensible plan would be to call in the Fund. pay off the State debt, and collect