New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-05
Platform of the New York Republican.

Platform of the New York Republicans.
l. 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.
3. 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 pighted 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 revivlng trade and
industry, and congratulate tine 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 mvne-
tary standard of the commercial world, on
SOLID values and full security and certain
ty for the future.
3. Standing unalterably for the consti-
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 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 it, wheth-
er paper or coin, equivalent, convertible,
secure and steady, and all public servants,
axoof1Aiua Offfnnru Copoforo ~
Representatives, whose acts and votes
conduce to the high object, desesve our
appreciation.
4. The Electoral Commission was a
wise and honorable mode of settling a
dangerous dispute; oil parties were bound
TO abide its decision, and any attempt to
undo or impair the conclusion II estab-
lished is unpatriotic and revolutionary.
5. While sincerely seeking fraternal
relations in all just efforts and aspirations,
we summon the people to renewed vigi-
lence and unhinehiDg 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
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 uninti1nidated
elections in the South as in the North,
and the full recognition and observance
of all the rights and the liberty of all
citizens as 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.
Torrance of official duties, for a fixed
term, for the frugal and efficient admins
tration of national, State and local affairs,
for unyielding resistance to any further
land grants as subsidies to corporations OF
monopolies, for grateful recognition Of the
brave soldiers and sailors of the republic
and for common schools, free from sec
tartan influence and unmenaeed BY seeta'
rian appropriations. ull..ua
8. While recognizing with satisfaction
that many patriotic Democrats do mo-
share It's spirit and impulse, we srraigT
the dominant force of The Democratic
partyas constant distulber OF public
tranquility and confidence, IS the wantoI
foe Of public security in its persistent a.