The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-15
State Conventions.

ton August 6, adopted q platform which
recommends a levee system calls for aid
to the Pacific Railroad and Brazilian steam
ship line; indorses the Nichols Govern
ment; indorses the State Funding Laws;
approves the fraud investigation by the
Federal House. The resolutions favor the
next Legislature calling a Constitutional
Convention; asserts that the interest of the
industrial, wealth-produeing classes is of
paramount interest to the people of the
United >tates-those whose labor and enter
prise produce wealth should be protected
in the enjoyment of it; express SYM
patty for the laboring classes who
have been thrown out of employment by
the erroneous financial policy and unjustleg.
islation of the Republican party, and
pledge the Democratic party to reform
these wrongs upon its ascendencyt to power;
demand that the National banking system
should be abolished and National Bank
notes retired, and in lieu thereof the Gov
eminent of the United States should issue
an equal amount of Treasury notes, COM
monty known as greenbacks; and also de-
mand the unconditional repeal of laws inn
posing a tax upon the circulation of State
banks, and the immediate and unconditional
repeal of the Resumption Law.
At the Colorado Republican State Con.
v%ention, on August s, the nominees for
0ONOihOAy SOh6iCocy duU superintendent VI
Schools, were chosen by reclamation: For
Governor, F. W. Pitkins; Lieut.. Governor,
d. A. w. Tabor; Congress, James B. Bel.
ford; Secretary of State, F. H. Meldrum;
Treasurer, N. 8. Culver; Auditor, E. K.
Stemson; Attorney General, C. W. Wright;
Superintendent of Schools, Jas. C. Shat
tuck; Regent State University, h. NJ. Hale.
Among the resolutions passed, the first
afirms the nationality of the General Gov.
eminent; the second demands equality and
justice for all men; the third opposes all
subsidies by Congress to private corpor-
atoms, and demands strict economy in pub
lie affairs. The fourth asserts it to be the
primary and sacred duty of the Government
to protect and maintain every citizen in all
civil and political rights, and afirms that
this principle must be fully accepted before
the work of the Republican party is fin.
ished. The party is committed to unre-
hitting efforts to secure all the legitimate
results of the late civil war, the sovereignty
of the Union, equal rights for all citizens,
untrammeled suffrage, and the redemption
of every pledge made by the Gov
eminent to those who furnished the
means or gave services to save the
Union; the fifth deprecates any legislation
that will further u~nsettle values and bring
the labor of the country in competition
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also demands that the duties on imports be
so adjusted as to offer the greatest protec-
ton to American labor and productions not
burdensome to the consumer; the sixth
asserts that the government should pro-
vide and be responsible for honest ma
tional money sufficient for all the legiti-
mate needs of the country with god,
silver, and paper, and alike receivable
for all public and private debts,
that the interest bearing debt of the nation
should be, as soon as possible, %reconverted
into a popular lean, represented by small
bonds or notes, within the reach of every
citizen; the seventh asserts that the ma
tional honor and credit demand that the
national debt be held sacred, to be paid as
agreed upon at the time it was contracted;
the eighth approves the action of the Sen
ate IN attempt, g to make greenbacks re-
ceivable in payment of government dues,
and %denounces the action of the House in
defeating the measure.
The Republican State Convention of
South Carolina met ON the 9Th, and was in
secret session the greater part of the day.
The platform declares that principles OF
equal, civil, and political rights can only be
enforced by the Republican party; reiter.
ates the adherence of violence, intimida.
ton, or frauds in the election; denounces
the practice of Democrats attending Re,
publican meetings; charges Democrats with
being unfaithful to the pledges of 70; de-
Dounces Democrats for frauds, violence, and
intimidation in 1876, for assassinations and
murders during that compaign, and for the
subsequent vic ent seizure of the State gov
eminent; denounces the unseating of GER
tain Republican members of the last Legis
lature; arraigns the Democrats for abolish
ing or removing certain election precincts
arraigns the so-called fraud ms estigation
reafirms a belief in the far election
of Hayes and Chamberlain, and pledges
the Republican party to the work o.
purifying the public service Fol
lowing is the ninth article of the
platform: owe deem it inexpedient t.
nominate candidates for Governor ani
other State officers, because, owing to thu
condition of affairs in this State, occasionet
by rife club rule and two years of Demo
cratic supremacy, it is impossible for tn,
Republican voters in many counties, with
out mourning great personal danger, t.
organize for the campaign, or to vote at thu
election when held"