Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-31
BLAINE OF MAINE.

Republican State OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Sc
cures the Adoption of Hermaphrodite
Financial Platform---Ohio Republican
Campaign---The Black Hills Declares
Against Delegate Kidder.
PORTLAND July 3O.-The Republican State
convention was called to order to-day by Sen
ator Blaine, and after organizing recess was
taken.
After recess Lewis Baker was made perma-
nent chairman.
The resolutions adopted invite the most rig
id scrutiny into the manner in which the Re
publicans have conducted the afairs of the
State; favor wise prohibition legislation, and
continue as follows:
Fourth-The constitution of the United
States declares the citizens of each State are
entitled to all the privileges and immunities
of citizens in the several States. and we hold
it to be the primary and sacred duty of the
national government to protect and maintain
the exercise of all the civil. political and pub
lie rights of every citizen of the United States.
and as Republicans we are solemnly pledged
to maintain these principles, and they will be
cheerfully obeyed, and, if need be, vigorously
enforced until the work of the Republican
party is finished.
Flfth-Ihe Republican party is committed to
unremitting efforts not only to secure the legit-
innate results of the war, sovereignty of the
Union, equal rights of all citizens, and free
aid untrammeled rights of suffrage. but also
to redeem the pledges which the government
made to those who furnished means or gave
their services to save the Union. Whether
these pledges are in form Of bonds green
back notes. we insist both forms of the debt OF
| the nation shall be paid with the same fairness
and integrity with which the honest man seeks
| to pay his individual debts.
Sixth-We demand honest money for the
people. Our currency must be made as good
| as coin and redeemable in it. The government
promised this. The Republican party has leg.
islated to perform it, and in the course of re.
sumption, now nearly accomplished, there
| must be no step backwards or sideways.
| Seventh-We congratulate our fellow citizens
on the unmistakable evidence that the near APP
| proach to a stable currency is preparing thu
way for an early and permanent revival o
| business and industry SO long depressed b,
causes growing out of the gigantic civil war
among which a deprecated and fuctuatins
currency is most prominent and greatl,
aggravated by the mischievous agitations o
! demagogues in and ont of Congress for meas
| ures which, if adopted as the policy of tn
| government, would bring permanent disorde
| and ruin to business, discredit and dishono
upon the nation, and tend to subvert many o
| those principles which are fundamental to tn
existence of civilized society.
Eighth-The evident purpose of the Demo
cratic party, if it should come into full power
is to pay hundreds of millions of disputed wa
claims of disloyal men, already presented t
Congress, or awaiting favorable moment 70
presentation, makes it doubly important. no,
| that the Senate is soon to pass into Democrat
control, that the House of Representatives t
be chosen in the coming elections should b
under Republican control.
The next resolution disapproves any radics
change in the navigation laws. Gov. Come
was unanimously renominated, and afte
speeches by Hon. Stewart L. Woodford Sena
tor Blaine and Representatives Fry and Hal.
the convention adjourned.