The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-27
IOWA REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

At the recent convention of the Iowa
Republicans, held at Des Moines, the
Committee on Resolutions, through it's
Chairman, Hon. James F. Wilson, re-
ported the following platform, which was
received with great enthusiasm, and the
most radical declarations were the most
enthusiastically applauded. It was
adopted with cheers, and without a dis.
senting vote:
The Republican party of Iowa, in State Con-
vention assembled, declare:
1. The United States of America is a 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
protected abroad. and the common welfare
promoted. Any failure on the part of either
the National or State Governments to use every
constitutional power to afford ample protection
to their citizens, both at home and abroad, is
a criminal neglect of their highest obligations.
q Against the assaults Of traitors and rebels
the Republican party has preserved these gov
| ernments, and they represent the great truths
| spoken to the world by the Declaration of In
dependence-that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inaienable rights, among which are
| life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness; that
| for the attainment OF these ends governments
have been instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the gov
erned, which consent is evidenced by MAORI
| ty OF the lawful suffrages Of the citizens, de-
| termlned In pursuance of law, and, IN order
| that this end may be justly and fully reached,
| the Republican party Of Iowa demands that
1Qd oil in Ctotn G0I1fh
| and North, Democrat or Republican, black or
white, shall be permitted, undisturbed by
force and unawed by fear, to vote at all
elections at the place prescribed by law, and
nowhere else, once and no more tina n
once, and that every vote so cas-
shall be honestly counted and that every per-
| son chosen by such votes to any Office shall be
freely indicted into it and effectively supported
| in the discharge of it's duties. Every we'll
informed person knows that, with such free
| dom of elective action and honest administra-
ton as are herein demanded, at least five Of
the Southern States are Republican by large
majorities, and that they are in the hands of
the Democratic party solely through force,
fraud, intimidation, and the failure to enforce
the principles herein set forth.
3. The permanent pacifcation of the South
ern section of the Union, and the complete pro-
lection of all its citizens in all their CIVIL po-
htlcal, personal and property rights, is a duty
to which the Republican party stands sacredly
pledged. In order to redeem this pledge it
placed the recent amendments in the consti-
tuition of the United States, and upon the
righteous basis of said amendments it will go
forward in the work of pacifcation until peace
shall come through rightdoing and content
ment through justice.
4. The new Democratic dogma Of home
rule, which seeks to shut out from participa-
ton in the political affairs Of the Southern
States all citizens who oppose the Democratic
party and are not natives of said States, and in
| obedience to the spirit of which every man
from the North of Republican sentiment is
termed s'carpet-bagger, is hereby de-
nounced as the worst phase of State rights yet
| developed, and we denand for the people of
Iowa absolute freedom to go whithersoever
j they please within the limits of the nation with
perfect enjoyment of their rights as citizens,
to utter their sentiments by speech or press
upon ali subjects touching their interests, and
all matters of public concern.
5. That the armed conflict between the
traitors and rebels who sought to destroy the
republic and the patriots who defended it
and preserved it, was more than mere
trial of physical force between Greeks ;
1t was struggle of right against
wrong, of true civ lization against at
! false one, Of good government against anarchy,