The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-06
A Ringing Platform.

The following resolutions were adopt
ed at the Republican Convention Ia the
First Congressional district of Iowa
RESOLVED, That the wisdom of the financial
policy of the Republican party is made mani
fest by the results which it has produced in
bringing specie and paper practically together
months before the date fixed for resumption of
specie payment by the Government, giving to
all classes money of the same value, and pro
noting the refunding of the public debt at
low rate of interest.
That the revolutionary attempt Of the Dem
ocratic members of Congress, with the approval
of the Democratic National Committee, to va
cate the Presidential Office, is an audacious,
dangerous, illegal and unconstitutional attack
on our system of elective Government.
That the organized raid on the treasury by
the Southern Democratic members of Congress
for the payment of hundreds of millions of
dollars of rebel war claims is an unparalleled
| impudence, and a present danger, against the
| success of which the triumph of the Republic
can party is our only security.
| That the armed conflict between the traitors
and rebels who sought to destroy the republic,
! and the patriots who defended it and pre-
served it, was more than mere trial of physi-
| cal force between the (" Greeks" It was q
struggle of right against wrong, of true civil
ization against a false one, of good govern
ment against anarchy, of patriots against
traitors, wherein the Republican party was the
| defender of right, the champion of true
civilization, the promoter Of good government
and in whose ranks patriots marched against
and overcan1e traitors, and whoever fails to re-
gard the Republican party from this stand
| point, and in this light, fails to comprehensive
| character, its achievements, its purposes, and
/ its duties, and whoever treats with the Demo-
cratic party from any other standpoint mani
| tests incapacity to understand palpable facts,
/ and will tie overwhelmed with disaster.
| That the Republican party IS the friend OF
| order, and maintains that laws are made to as
sure order that order in society involves all Of
the political, civil personal, and property rights
| of the citizen that these rights must be pro-
tected in every part and section of the republic
| and for every citizen, for high and low. for
rich and poor, for black and white, for all
| thoroughly and completely.
That to the Republican party alone can the
citizen safely intrust the enactment and execu-
ton of laws for the maintenance of order on
the foregoing basis for this party only viii
enact such laws, and if you want law faithfully
and fairly administered, intrust power only to
its friends
That the soldiers who fought the battles of
the republic are entitled to special credit for
the heroism which they displayed, for the hard
ships they endured, for their unselfsh devo-
ton to liberty and order, and for the great fact
that the war turned out as it did, and discredit
in like degree attaches to the traitors and reb-
els who fought to destroy the nation. Who
ever fails to appreciate these facts comes short
of Republican duty.