Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-03

and all voters, and we deprecate as
and hurtful all at.
tempts by employers, whether repre-
senting capital or political power to
encroach upon or coerce others in the
enjoyment of any rights or exercise
of any duties of citizenship in the
State of New York.
The whole number of national Of
ficeholders, including clerks and sub
ordinates of every degree, is 70, 465
This is one national official or subor
dinate to $50 voters. OF the State
county and town officials there are il
this State 1858. This is one State
county and town official to every
eight and one-half voters. When
potential functions of local officers
are taken into account, their nearnest
to citizens and their power over his
property, taxes and interest, their rel.
alive influence becomes even create,
than these numbers indicate. The
exclusion of public servants from DO
litical action would disfranchise {
great body of our fellow-citizens.-
The laws mean no such exclusion
and we deny, as an imputation upor
the people of New York, that they
are or have been denominated by Tho
nations subordinate officials, and WI
can conceive of no condition of affair.
short of the extinction of manhood
and patriotism in which postmaster
or clerk could subdue to his partisan
will l52 other electors, or exert any
other influence beyond such as hi
character might give him.
9th. Public faith, honest industry
and general prosperity demand i.
sound currency of coin and paper con
vertiblc into coin, and the alrcad,
near approach to specie payments en-.
forces the wisdom and duty of faith
fully pursuing necessary steps to full
resumption within the time now fixet
by law.
9th. We oppose any further LAND
grants or subsidies to corporations OF
monopolies, and hold that the publ
domain should be reserved for fire.,
homes of industrious settlers.
7th. That we regard with alarm
and disapproval the demands comm,
from the promoters Of variou
schemes, that profuse appropriation
and grants shall DO made, and nation
al credit used to carry on works O
various kinds, local and sectional il
character, and not of urgent nationa
importance. We call upon the bur
dened taxpayers Of this State 4
watch and defeat all attempts, how
ever specious, to increase the publ
debt or to obtain their money for re
mote and questional purposes.
We recognize equally the rights O
property and the manliness and dig
nifty of labor, deprecating any resor
to violence in none of either, at al
times upon supremacy of law an,
the maintainance of public order.
The remaining resolutions arraig
the Democratic party for false pre-
tences, for perpctuating existin
abuses and for slavish subservience /
a most corrupt and dangerous influ
ence, and pledge the Republican part
of the State to renewed and unyield
ing efforts for the correction of mt
nicipal abuses and for economy an
reform in every branch of the admir-
istration.
When the reading was complete
Geo. William Curtis was called TO
Upon the reading of the I'd section I
the platform, he moved to amend i
substituting the following resolution
which he read, having been called
the platform amid great applause. i
"That the title Of Rutherford
Hayes to the Presidency ls as Gle,
and perfect as that Of George Was
ington. We gladly recognize his II
minent patriOtism-proved on Il
field and in civil life. We hearti
commend his efforts toward the pc
manent pacification of the Southel
section OF the Union, and for the co
rection Of evils and abuses in the civ
service and he has strictly conforme
to his own pledges and to the decla
ations of the convention that nom
mated him, and as tending to the pr
motion OF the public welfare. Re
ognizing that the work is but begu
we shall hail with satisfaction j
prompt and vigorous prosecutio
In which the president may contidcl
TALLY rely upon the cordial support!
the country"
The Convention reassembled att !:
, and Q long and sharp debate ensu,
-Iupon Curtis amendment in whi
= Conkling took part, strongly urgil
I the adoption Of the platform just
reported, and concluded by novi,