The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-28

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THE NATIONAL PARTY CONvEN
4 TION.
Delegates to the Convention of tn
National party met at Toledo, on th
22d Of February.
A permanent organization was et
fected by electing Judge Francis w
Hughes, of Pennsylvania, as President
and number of Vice. Presidents from
different States. Ralph E. Hoyt, o
Michigan; G. H. Jones, of New York
and G. w. Murphy, of Iowa, wer,
chosen Secretaries.
| The following platform was adopted
without debate and by unanimous
vote:
i WHEREAS, Throughout our entire country th
value OF real estate Is deprecated, industry par
alyzed, trade depressed. business incomes ant
| wages reduced, unparalleled distress infictet
upon the poorer and the middle ranks of on
| people, the Land filed with fraud, embezzlement
BANKRUPTCY, crime, suffering, pauperism AMI
| stalvat on; and,
| WHEREAS, This state of things has been brOugh
| about by legislation in the interest of and die
tated by money-lenders, bankers and bondhold
| ers: and,
! WHEREAS, While We recognize the fact tina
men in Congress, connected with both the oil
political parties, have stood up manfully for the
rights of the people, and met the threats of thu
money power and the ridicule of an ignorant ant
sMSbsldlzed M press. yet neither the Republican no
| propose remedies for the existing evils: and,
WHEREAS, Tie Independent Greenback part1
ana other ASSOCIATIONS, more or less effective
| have been unable heretofore to make formida
BILE opposition to the old party organizations
and,
WHEREAS, The limiting of the lesal-tende,
| quality of greenbacks the changing of currency
bonds lnt) coin bonds the demonetizing of the
silver dollar the exempting of bonds flom taxa.
ton, the contraction OIL the circulating medium
the proposed forced resumption of specie pay.
ments, and the prodigal waste of the public
lands. were crimes against the people, and so fal
as possible the results of these criminal acts must
be counteracted by judicious legislation;
Therefore, We assemble in National Conven.
tion, and make declaration of our principles
and invite all patriotic citizens to unite in an eff
fort to secure financial reform and industrial
emancipation. The organization shall be known
as the National Patty, and under this name we
will perfect without delay Natl. nal, State and
local associations to secure the election to Office
Of such men only as will pledge themselves to
do all in their power TO tabIish these principles
i. 1t is the exclusive function of the General
Government to coin and create money and regu-
late as money should be suppressed. The circu-
lating medium, whether of metal or paper
should be issued by the Government, and made a
full legal tender for all debts, duties and taxes in
the United States at its stamped value.
= There shall be no privileged class of credit.
Official salaries. pensions. bonds and all other
debts and obligations, public and private, shall
be discharged in the legal l-tender money of the
United States t-ictly according to the stipula-
tions of the laws undsr which they were con-
travted.
8. The coinage of silver shonld be placed on
the same footing as that of gold.
4. Congress shall provide said money adequate
70 the full employment of laho-, the equitable
distribution of its products and the require
ments OF business, liking q min mum amount
per capita to TIE popnlaiion, as near as may be,
and otherwise regulating its volume by wise and
interest will secure to labor its Just reward.
8. 1t is inconsistent with the genius and spirit
OF popular government that any species of pri-
vate PROPERTY should be exempt from bearing its
just share of TIE public burdens. Government
bonds and money shoul1 be taxed precisely as
other property, and graduated income-tax
should be levied for the support of the Govern
ment and the payment Of its debts.
8. The public lands are the common property
of the whole people, and should not be sold to
speouators. nor granted to railroads or other
corporations, but should he donated to actual
settlers in. limited quantities.
2. The Government should, by general enact
ment, encourage the development of our as ricul-
tural, mineral, mechanical, manufacturing and
commercial resources, the emu tfldy IaDOr may
be fully and proftably employed, but no mo-
nopolies should be legalized.
s. All useless offices should be abolished. the
most rigid economy enforced IN every branch of
the public service, and severe punishment in
fiicted upon officers who betray the trusts re-
posed in them.
multiplying production by inventions and dis
coverles, and as their use requires the exercise
of mind as we'll as body, such legislation should
be had that the number of hours of daily toll
I,
more leisure for mental improveme mt and social
ENJOYMENT and saving them from premature de-
cay and death.
10. The adoption of an American monetary
system as proposed herein will harmonze all
difference in regard to tariff and Federal taxa
ton, reduce and equalize the costof transporter
ton by land and water distribute equitaby the
joint earnings of capitll and labor secure to the
producers of wealth the results of their labor and
skill, muster out of service the vast army of
idles, who under the existing system, grow rich
woman may, by their own efforts, secure a COM
petence, SO that overgrown fortunes and extreme
poverty will be seldom found within the limits
II. Both the National and State Governments
should establish bureaus of labor and industrial
statistics. clothed with the power of gathering
and publishing the same.
II. That the contract system of employing la
Dor in our prisons and reformatory institutions
works great injustice to our mechanics and arti-
sans, and should be prohibited.
Is. The importation of servile labor into the
United States from China is a problem of the
most serious importance, and we recommend leg
islation looking to its suppression.
A National Executive Committee, to
be composed of one member for each
State. was then ordered and appointed,
the committee to have permission to
fill vacancies which may occur in its
membership. The committee is made
up as follows:
Massachusetts,, Charles Mclean; Rhode Island,
]. g. Vallett; Connecticut, Alexander Troup;
New York. Ralph Beaumont; New Jersey. John
Y DreU; Pennsylyania, +. Devices; Maryland;
Virginia, John A. Thompson; Ohio. d. B.
Sturgeon, Michigan, Moses W. Field; Indiana,
o. j: Smith: Illinois, Alexander Campbell; Wis
Iowa, Daniel Campbell: Missouri, Britain a.
Hill; Kentucky. P. L. D. Duppy; Tennessee,
Henry Richmond; Arkansas, Charles E. Cunning
Woodail; Georgia, Daniel Il. Piftman; % Kansas, Is,
q F. Sargent; Texas, left vacant by request until
the State Convention meets: Colorado. Joseph
left vacant for the present.
The following resolution was then
unanimously agreed to:
Resolued. That, as we believe in the supremacy
OF the law over and above all perishable mate
rial, and the necessity for party of united peo-
pie that will rise above old party lines and pref
udices, we will not affiliate in anv degree with
either of the old parties, but in all cases and
localities will ORGANIZE anew as united National
men, nominate for office or official position only
such persons are clearly believers in and iden-
titled with this sacred cause and, irrespective
of creed, color, place of BIRTH past conditions
of political or other servitude, vote only for men
who entirely abandon Old party lines and organl-
xAtions.
A resolution was offered, and unani-
mously adopted, denouncing the Silver
bill, just passed in Congress, as delu-
sion, and Indignantly condenning it as
o financial measure.
After short speeches by Hon. S. F.