Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-26
AFTERNOON SESSION.


man, Harlan, called the convention to
order, and said that the first business
in order was the report of the Com
lnittee on Credentials. G. p. Clark
son reported from that committe that
all the counties in the state except
O'Brien, Dickinson and Hancock
were represented. The committee
recommended that the delegates
from county be empowered to cast
the whole vote of the county they
represent. Report Adopted.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
President-Geo. G. Wright. of Polk
county.
LIST Vice President. S. Sloan, of
Van Buren, county.
2d-Waldo M. Potter, of Clinton
county.
3d-A. BLEEDING, of Clayton coun-
ty.
4th-D. w. Poindexter, of Mitchell
county.
5th-William Brocksmidt, of Linn
county.
6th-Wm. o. B. Ayers, of Marion
county.
7th-Hon. Fred. Teale, of Decatur
county.
sth-Hon. Eli Clayton, Pottawatta-
ME county.
9th-Captain T. c. Mccall, of Story
county.
Secretaries-Capt. w. V. Lucas and
Mr.. j. Fred. Meyers.
On motion q committee was ap-
pointed to notify the Hon. G. g.
| Wright of his election and attend him
to the platform. Mr.. Wright came
forward and made speech, saying
81 return my thanks for the great
honor bestowed. We are met to-day
as republicans, not as Hayes republic
cans (applause), not as hard money
republicans, not as soft money re-
publicans, but as republicans
standing upon the old platform
and urging the old principles
which have won US such glory. The
platform that was good enough for
the afterward martyred Lincoln, is
good enough for us. There was a
time when the administration repre-
sented the dominant faction, but as a
republican 1 am glad to say to-day,
that that is no longer the case. Gap
plause.) The work of the republican
party is not done. While the attempt
is likely to be made to Mexicanize
this government we have a duty
Let us talk in no uncertain sound
this day, and put none but "stalwart"
republicans on guard.
| At the conclusion of the address he
called the Vice-Presidents to the plat
form.
j. C. Jordan, of Polk, asked if the
committee on resolutions was ready
to report. 1t was announced as ready.
Hon. James F. Wilson read as fol-
lows:
PLATFORM.
The republican party of Iowa, in
State convention assembled, de-
clare:
l. The United States of America
is q nation-not league. BY the
combined workings of the national
and state governments under their
respective constitutions, the rights of
every citizen should be secured at
home and abroad, and the common
welfare promoted. Any failure on
the part of either the national or
state governments to use every posi-
BILE constitutional power to afford am
pie protection to their citizens. both
at home and abroad, Is criminal neg
lect of their highest duty.
III. Against the assaults of traitors
and rebels, the republican party has
preserved these governments, and
they represent the great truths spo-
ken to the world by the Declaration
of Independence, that "all men are
created equal !" that they "are endow-
ed by their creator with certain ina
lienable rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness !;
that for the attainment of these ends
governments have been instituted
an ong men, deriving their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed"
which consent is evinced by major
ity of the lawful SURFACES of the citi-
zens determined in pursuance of law
and in order that this end may be
Justly and fully reached, the republic
can party of Iowa demands that ev-
cry qualified elector, in every State,
North and South, democrat or repub-
lican, white or black, shall be permit
ted, undisturbed by force and unawed
by fear, to vote at all elections at the
place prescribed by law, and NO
where else, just once, and no more
than once and that every vote so cast
shall be honestly counted, and that
every person chosen by such votes to
any Office shall be freely indicted
into it, and effectively supported in
the discharge of his duties and every
well informed person knows that
with such freedom of elective action
and honest administration as are here
in demanded, at least five of the
Southern States are republican by
large majorities, and that they are
now in the hands Of the democratic
party solely through force, fraud, in
timidation and failure to enforce the
principles herein set forth.
III. The permanent pacification
of the southern section of the union,
and the complete protection Of all its
citizens in all their civil, political,
personal and property rights, is a
duty to which the republican party
stands sacredly pledged. In order to
redeem tkis pledge it placed the re-
cant amendments In the constitution