The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-08-09
Ohio Republicans.

| said that the Republicans of Ohio have . ground
| hog case. They are in great danger of being de-
| featd, because of division on Hayes policy, and
il vas ahsolately necessary 40 endorse that poll
cy, or they wsrc gone up aisyhoN. In selecting
| delegates, they used great cssE 1ickisg nsa
who would vote To endorse the blicy, and Of
course that part Of it wasz rl1tbough theirs
were lively aghts In many a tbe Countiss. The
tiskst = svery strong one, ana g It sunpot Be
elected, they could not succeed with any. W. II.
West, very able man, formerly Attorney Gen
eral of the State, is the candidate for Governor.
Judge TAR weald have beea tho nomiaee, bat
he declined to be q candidate upon platform
endorsing the Presidents policy.
And now, as to the platform. II Hayes has
any sensibilty in his composition, every Repub-
lican platform must read like q terrible rebuke
or bitter safc4sm. ffthey wUuid simply endorse
his policy, and there stop, it would be all nice
but after this, they go on to re-afirm certain Re-
publican principles wti4tA he has repudiated and
betrayed in adopting the policy SO endorsed.
This is the resolution endorsing his policy:
Resolred That the Republicans of Ohio reafirm
their unfaltering confidence In Rutherford b. Hayes
a statesman patriot and Republican, and cordially
approve and support bis efforts for the pacicaticn Of
tie country and establishment of its civil service up
basis of purity an emciency.
And the very next resolution reads thus:
'Resoired, That We reaffirm it as the unalterable
purpose of the Republican party to maintain and
force the provisions of the recent amenments to the
Federal Constitution, GUARANTEEING the eoual rights of
all citizens before the law irrespective of race or color
and to insist upon the full and eectua performance
by the Federal Government in the execution of all
its powers OF its constitutional obligations in that be-
half
By the policy endorsed in the first resolution,
Hayes has thrown the power, in the solid South,
in the hands of the party that tramples under
foot the provisions of the recent amendments to
the Constitution, guaranteeing the equal rights
of all citizens before the law irrespective of race
or color, and who have practically disfranchised
thousands of voters in every Southern State be-
cause Of their politics; and he has willfully and
deliberately refused, Chief Executive, to al
low the Federal Government to perform its Con-
stitutional obligations in that behalf
Here is another plank of the platform:
..Resolped, That in favor of both silver and
gold as money; that both shall be legal tender for
the payment of all debts, except where otherwise
specially provided by law with coming and valuation
SO regulated that our people shall not be placed ut
disadvantage in trade with foreign nations and
that both metals shall be kept in circulation as the
money of the nation, contemplated by the Consti
tution and we therefore demand the demonstration
of silver
John Sherman, of Ohio, the head of the finan-
cial department of Hayes Administration, by an
outrageous fraud. smuggled the clause into bill
demonetizing silver. In endorsing the Admin
istraton, the Ohio Republicans endorse the au-
thor of that fraud, and then demand the repeal
of the fraud, asserting that the demonstration
Of silver was violation of the intent of the Con-
stitution. Two years ago, the Republicans of
Ohio made resumption the main issue of their
campaign. They dodge the issue now; but this
same man, Sherman, is stubbornly bent upon
enforcing resumption, when the cry comes up
from everybody except the bond holders, that
immediate resumption will be disastrous to the
country.
Another resolution reads:
"Resoirrd That We are opposed to any further
grants Of public lands or subsidies or the extension
of the public credit of the general government to aid
in the construction of railroads."
Here is another slap in the face of the man
whom they endorse. When Hayes Commission
sold out the Republicans of Lon isana, one of the
terms of the contract was gigantic subsidy to
the Southern Pacific Railroad We have never
before seen a man endorsed with SO many kicks
as the Republicans of Ohio bestowed upon Hayes.
Had it come from any other State but his own,
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condition of the c"mntrv as avderre h
the extensive strikes of workingmen and followed by
II .e Q, me anu proPery IN aieIent parts
cry resort to violence and disorder and cordially ap
prove the action OF our national and State authorities
vet We do most heartily sVmpatbze with the e conJ
lion of the honest and industrious laborers who are
oyed az wages lnadequate 10 comfort and lndepend-
for their condition, we recommend:
FIrst.Ihat Congress establish National Bureau
SecondGTbat Congress exert its authority o,sr al
national highways of trade, by prescribing and en-
orcis saen @ rsasonaple M regulations as Will tend to
he capital invested and fair wages to employees pre-
venting ven M, mlsman,agement improper determinations
shippers. and EMPLOYEES. >p'"'o
!hirl-That provision be made for statutory arii-
,ontroyerses reeonp ipsersats aa n Ss 70 anss
md equity between them"
For the past fifteen years, the legislation of |
Ton has heep almost il, r.ro-