The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-15
Political Matters.


ton August 6, adopted a platform which
recommends levee system; calls for aid to
the Pacific Railroad and Brazilian steamship
line; indorses the Nichols Government; in
dorses the State Funding Laws; approves
the fraud investigation by the Federal
House. The resolutions favor the next
Legislature calling Constitutional Conven-
ton; assert that the interest of the
industrial, wealth producing classes is of
paramount interest to the people of the
United States-those whose labor and en-
terprise produce wealth should be pro-
tected in the enjoyment of it; express
| sympathy for the laboring classes who
have been throw out of employment by the
erroneous financial policy and unjust leg
islation of the Republican party, and
pledge the Democratic party to reform
! these wrongs upon its ascendency to power; !;
| demand that the National banking system
| should be abolished and National Bank
notes retired, and in lieu thereof the Govern
ment of the United States should issue an
| equal amount of Treasury notes, commonly
! known as greenbacks; and also demand the
unconditional repeal of laws imposing tax
upon the circulation of State banks, and
the immediate and unconditional repeal of
the Resumption Law.
At the Colorado Republican State Con-
vention, on August s, the, nominees for
| Governor, Congress, and Superintendent of
| Schools were chosen by acclamation For
Governor, F. W. Pitkins; Lieut.. Governor,
Fl. A. w. Tabor; Congress, James B. Bel
ford; Secretary of State, N. FL. Meldrum !;
Treasurer, N. S. Culver; Auditor, E. K.
Stemson Attorney General, C. w. Wright
Superintendent of Schools, Jas. C. Shat
tuck: Regent State University, HI. NJ. Hale.
Among the resolutions passed, the first
af1irms the nationality of the General Gov.
ernment; the second demands equality and
justice for all men; the third opposes all
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ations, and demands strict economy in public
affairs; the fourth asserts it to be the
primary and sacred duty of the Govern.
ment to protect and maintain every citizen
in all civil and political rights, and affirms
that this principle must be fully accepted
before the work of the Republican party is
finished; the party is committed to unre.
uniting 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
ernment to those who furnished the
means or gave services to save the
Union; the fifth deprecates any legis' atior
, that will further unsettle values and bring
the labor of the country in competition
with the i'll paid labor of the old world, an6
also demands that the duties on imports bt
SO adjusted as to offer the greatest protec
, tion to American labor and productions no
t asserts that the government should provid,
and be responsible for honest nationa
money sufficient for all the lesitimat,
needs of the country with gold, silver
: and paper, and alike receivabl,
for all public and private debts
that the interest bearing debt of the nation
should be as soon as possible reconvertet
: into popular loan, represented by small
: bonds or notes, within the reach of ever,
/ citizen; the seventh asserts that the ma
\ tional honor and credit demand that tn
r. national debt be held sacred, to be paid a
; agreed upon at the time it was contracted
the eighth approves the action of the Senat
r in attempting to make greenbacks receivs
Y BILE in payment of government dues, an
Q denounces the action of the House in de
feating the measure.
: The Republican State Convention G
I South Carolina met on the 8th, and was i
= secret session the greater part of the day
s The platform declares that principles
n equal, civil, and political rights can only b
enforced by the Republican party; reitel
l. ates the adherence of violence, intimid,
ton, or frauds in the election; denounce
the practice of Democrats attending r,
publican meetings charges Democrats wit
being unfaithful to the pledges of '76
-. denounces Democrats for frauds, violence
d and intimidation in 1876, for assassination
is and murders during that campaign, and fC
% the subsequent violent seizure of the Stat
government; denounces the unseating
:, certain Republican members of the last Lee
u islature; arraigns the Democrats for abo
4 ishing or removing certain election pr
l. cincts; arraigns the so-called fraud invest
N CATION; reaffirms q belief in the ia
a election of Hayes and Chamberlain, an
- pledges the Republican party to IL
" work of purifying the public servic
Following is the ninth article of Il
II platform: We deem it inexpedient
If nominate candidates for Governor ar
- other State officers, because, owing to IL
ie condition of affairs in this State, occasion,
is by rifle club rule and two years of Dem
~ cratic supremacy, it is impossible for tt
d. Republican voters in many counties, wit
,s out incurring great personal danger,
organize for the campaign, or to vote at Il
election when held"