Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-01
REPUBLICAN.



NEW ORLEANS, May 3l.-The State
Republican convention met at noon.
Judge Taylor Beattie, OF Lafourche par.
ish, was elected permanent chairman.
The following res buttons were adopted {:
rendering the thanks of the Louisiana
Republicans to the Republicans Of the
nation for the es .ablishment of the ma
tiOnal sovereignty; fayoriHg the nomi-
nAtIOn OF a Candidate for President
whose personal character will afford a
guarantee OF an honest, able, economical
and effective administration of the ma
tional government upon Republican
principles, but leaving the delegates to
Cincinnati free and untrammelled by
instructions; favOring the es .abIishment
Of system OF Federal finance which
will insure the collection of the reve.
nuss, punish sll officis or other frauds
upon the treasury, and bring about a
steady, speedy and permanent return TO
the payment ef specie into and out Of
the treasury in sli Federal transactions;
advising a jIst apportionment OF all
Federal apr r0priations for national
works or internal Improvements, taking
into account the immense advances re-
ceived by our more fortunate sister
States at period when Dsmo.
cratic domination denied to the
southern States their just share
of a common f0nd-such q measure OF
equalization would justify national aid
to southern PIcific railroad and
branches, to the prOtection.by levees OF
the capital and labor employed in the
culture Of cotton, su gar and rice, and to
the effsctusl navigation of the Missis-
sippi river, its principal tributaries and
its outlet; fSvoring protection of certain
national interests against destructive
competition of foreign protection; re-
solving that the assassination Of many
hundreds of Prominent Union men in
the south Is, like the massacre Of thou
sands of inofftnsi ge c0lored citizens, on
account OF their political principles; the
relegation Of nearly all the southern
States to the control of the disloyal ele-
ments whose treason brought on the
war, and the election of national con-
gress largely composed OF ex.leaders of
the Confederate army, indicate grave
national dangers, which demand the en-
actment OF such additional laws, and
the enforcement Of such a policy, as
shall secure 10 every citizen of the
United States, in fact az well as in
name, the inaiiensble rights oflife, liber-
ty anu the pursuit Of happiness, ,lrrespec-
tive of his views, ana irrespective OF
race, color or previous condition Of SER
vitude.
Governor w. P. Kellogg, Hon. s. B.
Packard, P. 3. S. Pinchback, and w.
G. Brown, were elected delegates to
Cincinnati.
Judge Beattie is now judge OF the If
teenth judicial district, having besn
elected TO that Office by the Democrats.
Rhode Island.
PROVIDENCE, May 3l.-The Republl-
can mem srs Of the 5neral assembly in
caucus to-day nominated Henry B. An.
thony for United States senator.
Iowa.
DEsMOINEs, May 3l.-The Republican
State convention met at eleven O'Clock
this morning, H. w. Rathel, of Keokuk,
iu the chair. Seven hundred aud fiiiy.
five delegates are present, making the
largest political convention ever held in
this STATE. In the morning session the
com mittees were appointed. That on
resolutions is as follows: John II. Gear,
r. M. Barret, NJ. G. Woodruff, A. Con-
verse, a. Herdig, E. II. Stiles, Martin
Reed, NJ. V. Powell, Robert Buchanan.
The caucuses of the delegates OF the
various congressional districts selected
district delt g ates to Cincinnati. All the
delegates CHOSEN are for Blaine, and
nearly all were pledged for him before
or after selection.
At two o'clock the convention reas-
sembled. Hon. J. F. Wilson Fairfield
was chosen president. Hon. j. II. Gear,
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tiens, presented the following platform,
which was unanimously adopted:
First-We are for maintaining the
unity Of the nation sacred and invIOlate; /;
for the just and equal rights OF all men /;
for peace, harmony and brotherhood
throughout the nation; for men of un-
sullied honesty and purity of character
foT public trusts, and for the swift pur-
suit and unsparing punishment Of all
dishonest officials, hlgn or low.
Sec0nd-That we are Ia favor of and
we demand rigid economy in the ad.
ministration Of government affairs, both
State and national.
Third-That we favor the attainment
of currency convertible with coin, and
therefore advocate the gradual resump.