New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-26


Platform Of the New York Republicans.
1. The faith of the payment of the
public debt and the redemption of public
promises, according to the spirit and
letter of the law, and our well.being re-
quires that the nations honor shall be
kept as inviolate as the nations life.
2. Under the management of succeed
ing Republican administrations, the coun-
try has advanced to the point of specie
resumption, and the highest interests of
business, no less than the plighted faith
of the republic, demand that there shall
be no steps backward and no postpone
ment. With this steady progress we have
the suspicious signs of revivIng trade and
industry, and congratulate the people
upon this practical evidence that if the
good work shall be completed the de-
preston which grew out of the financial
disorders, forced upon US by the war of
the rebellion, will give place TO returning
confidence and permanent prosperity,
which can rest alone on the fixed none
tary standard of the commercial world, on
solid values and full security and certain
ty for the future,
8. Standing unalterably for the eonsti-
tutionAl principles of hard money, we
insist that the greenback, instead of being
dishonored and deprecated, shall be
made as good as honest coin; that the
labor dollar shall mean q real dollar; that
the fluctuations and uncertainties which
rob toll and paralyze trade shall cease;
that our currency shall be made the best
currency by making all parts of il, wheth-
er paper or coin, equivalent, convertible,
secure and steady, and all public servants,
whether executive officers, Senators or
Representatives, whose acts and votes
conduee to the high object, desesve our
appreciation. 81
l. The Electoral Commission was
wise and honorable mode Of settling Q
dangerous dispute; all parties were bound
to abide its decision, and any attempt to
undo or impair the conclusion it estab-
lished is unpatriotic and revolutionary.
s. While sincerely seeking fraternal
relations in all Just efforts and aspirations,
we summon the people to renewed vigi-
lence and unfinching warfare against the
vast horde of claims and raids on the
Treasury which count for sue cess on
Democrat rule, under the mastery OF a
solid South, and which would fall with
special hardships on New York, as the
chief taxpaying State in the United
States.
6 We demand free and unintimidated
elections in the South as in the North,
and the full recognition and observance
Of all the rights aud the liberty of all
citizens Is ordained by the amended con-
stitution, and until they shall be secured
the work of the Republican party to pro-
tect human rights will be unfinished.
z, We renew our declaration for the
elevation of the public service on the basis
of secure tenue during the faithful per-
formAnce of official duties, for q fixed
term, for the frugal and efficient admins
trasion of national, State and local affairs,
for unyielding resistance to any further
land grants as subsidies to corporations or
monopoIies, for grateful recognition of the
brave soldiers and sailors Of the republic.
and for common schools, free from Sec
tartan influence and unmenaced by secta-
rian appropriations.
8. While recognizing with satisfaction
that many patriotic Democrats do not
share it's spirit and impulse, we arraign
the dominant force of the Democratic
party as q constant distuIber of public
tranquility and confidence, as the wanton
foe Of public security in its persistent as
saultE on the authority and stability of the
established gOyernment, as attempting to
weaken the nation by crippling the army
in time Of uncertainty and danger, as
guilty Of false pretenses in claiming for
the Democratic House q reduction in pub
lie expenditure, whose fraudulent char.
acter is proved by the necessity for q
heavy deficiency bill, as dependent on Q
solid South and thereby subserVient to all
its demands, IS aRgrayating the troubles
of the county by misehievous agitation
throughout the period Of its supremacy in
the House Of Representatives, as faithless
TO the obligation Of national honor and
the chief support of wild schemes Of inha-
ton, reputation and utter financial dis
order, which imperil public credit and
business security, and It's further or greater
success would be national calamity.
8. An emergency in the history Of .
great country, second only TO the great
struggle for It's existence, now eonfFonts
rs. As theh, the Republican party was
the sole organized political protection
against national disruption and patriotic
citizens OF whatever patty name rallied
under its standard Cor The dsfsnss Of The