Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-09
The President on the Chinese Ques.
tiOn.
TALK WITH REPRESENTATIVE LUTTREL, OF
CALIFORNIA.

CALIFORNIA.
Representative Luttrell, of California, has
been in the city for few days. He leaves for
home tomorrow. One Of the objects of his
visit is connected with the subject of Chinese
immigration to this country, which is always
of paramount importance to the people of
California He has had long and full consul
In conversation with a reporter OF The STAR
to-day, Mr.. Luttrell said that this consultation
had been very satisfactory. He was not at
President held regarding i s'o the Chinese. II
Will say, however," continued Mr.. Luttrel,
that | am perfectly satisfied with the posi-
nf tion fth Wnicn o the President takes and am one
he IS perfectly alive to the great evils result
ing to the country from the inflow of the Chi.
1aS nese; S When go back to California, if cou d
said to me on this subject, it would send
thrill through the whole Pacific slope. We are
perfectly safe in trusting to the President to
us" The reporter asked Mr. Luttrell what
effect the neWly-arrived Chinese embassy
would have I've IN in determining the course to be
the reply. that after they come here and
have an interchange Of opinions with the Pre-
sldent and ascertain exactly how he stands,
must be made in the emigration of their coun-
trymen to the United States, which now con-
tains by far too many of them for its good"
SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
At its session in Columbia, 5. c., yesterday,
the republican convention adopted platform
declaring that the principles of equal civil and
political rights can only be enforced by the
republican party; denouncing the practice of
the democrats in attending republican meet
violence and intimidation in 1876, for assassi-
nations and murders during that campaign,
and Tor the subsequent violent seizure Of the
state government; and reattirming their belief
election n
The ninth article of the platform is as follows:
we deem it inexpedient to nominate candi-
because. owing to the condition of affairs in
this state, OcoasiOned by rifie-club rule and
two years of democratic supremacy, it is i'm
possible for the republican voters in many
counties, without incurring great personal
danger, to organize for the campaign, or to
vote at the election when held,'
THE COLORADO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
met at Denver yesterday and adopted a plat
form, asserting that the government should
provide and be responsible for honest nation
the country; that the interest bearing debt of
the nation should be, as soon as possible, re-
converted into popular loan, represented by
every citizen; that national honor and credit
demands that the national debt be held sa
cred, TO De paid as agreed upon at the time it
mands economy in the management OF the
affairs of the government, and declares that
the republican party is committed to unremit-
ting efforts to secure all the legitimate results
Of the late civil war, the sovereignty of the
Union, equal rights for all citizens. untram-
meled suffrage, and the redemption of every
pledge made by the government to those who
furnished means or gave their services to save
the Union. The following ticket was nOmin-
ated, the nominees for governor, Congress,
and superintendent of schools having been
Pitkin; lieutenant governor, II. A. w. Tabor;
Congress, James B. Belford: secretary of
state, N. II. Meldram; treasurer, U. s. Culver:
auditor. E. X. StlmSOn: attorney general, G.
W. Wright: superintendent of schools, j. C.
Shattuck, and regent Of the state university,
II. M. Hale.