New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-09
COLORADO PLATFORM.

COLORADO PLATFORM.
THE GOVERNMENTS PROMISES TO ITS CREDITORS
SHOULD BE HELD sACRED-THE STATE TICKET.
DENVER, Col, Aug. s.-The Republican State Con-
venton reassembled this forenoon. The following
is a synopsis of the platform adopted:
The first resolution affrms the nationality OF
the General Government, and the second de-
mands equality and justice for all men.
The third opposes all subsidies 10y Congress
to private corporations, and demands strict
economy in the admins ration OF public al
fairs.
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 atirms that this principle
must be fully accepted before, the
wO.k of the Republican party is finished; that
the Republican party is committed to unre-
hitting efforts to secure all the legitimate results
of the late civil Wharf.-The sovereignty OF the
Union, equal rights for all citizens,
untrammelied suffrage and the redemption of
every pledge made by the Government to
those who furnished means or gave their SER
vices to save the Union.
The fifth resolution deprecates any legsla-
ton that will further unsettle values and bring
the labor of the country in competition with
ill-paid labor of the old world. 1t also
demands that duties on imports be so adj
iusted as to afford the greatest protection to
American and labor productions without being
burdensOme to the consumer.
The sixth assents that the Government
should provide and be responsible for
honest National money sufficient for all
the legitimate needs OF the country,
with cold, silver and paper equal IN
value 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 popular loan, rep
resented by small bonds or notes within the
reach of every citizen.
The seventh asserts that the National honor
and credit demands 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 attempting to make greenbacSs receiv-
able in payment of Government dues, aud de-
pOunces the action of the House in defeating
the measure.
The ninth demands rigid economy and such
reductions of taxation as may be eOnslstent
with the public necessities, and denOunces
the action of Democratic House III
withholding the proper aid OF necessary
appropriations under the speciOus cry of econ
oiny and reform as clapTap, conclusively
proved by the numerous deficiency bills passed
by the succeeding Congress.
The tenth relates to local and State matters.
The eleventh accepts the resumption OF
specie payment as practically accom-
plished and denOunces as fraudulent
the practices of the Democratic party IN
antagOnizing resumption OF specie payments,
after declaring in 1872 and 1876 that it
should be brought about at the earliest prac-
ticable period.
The twelfth afirms that the Army and Navy
have earned the admiration and gratitude OF
every patriotic citizen and should be maintained
in efficiency and such force as is necessary
to protect the Nation from attack from with.
ont and treason and rebellion within, and
condemn the present Democratic House for
irving to destroy the efficiency OF both.
fine fifteenth condemns the National House
of Repre- entatives for seating Congress
man Patterson. The sixteenth denounces
him for accepting the seat and becoming a
Marty TO q great fraud and outrage upon the
people of Colorado.
fThe seventeenth cOmmends the system OF
free schools and all educational interests to
the fostering care and liberality OF the State
Governments. - ,..,.,;o,,
should be such as will promote the interests oil
both capital and labor, opposes sumptuary
laws and laws in the interest OF any spechl
class. and demands that legislation shall be
IN the interest of the whole people,
The nineteenth protests against the payment
by the National Government OF the mil,
hons of rebel claims already presented ana
fine billions more to be presented If prece-
dent is once established by the payment oil
ono dollar of these claims-wlnch are at once
illegal, presumptuOus and impudent
The following ticket was nominated the nominees
for Goyernorship, Congress. and the Superinten-
deney of Schools being chosen by reclamation:
GoUerHor-F. w. Pitkin.
Lieutenant GOrerROr-H. A. W. IaOOr'
LOHgressmdn-~Jas. Il. Beltords
Secretgra Of Stdte-M. H. Meldram.
IFeastTeT-U. 5. Culver
AuditOr-E. X Stimson.
AffOrnev- GeRerdl-C. w. Wright.
Superintendent Of NchOols-J; Z; shattuck'
Regent of State URiUfrSity-H. NJ. Haze