New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-03
Platform of the New York Republleau.

Platform of the New York Republicans.
1. The faith of the payment of the
public debt and the redemption of public
promises, according to the spirit and
letter of the law, and our. well-being re-
quires that the nations honor shall be
Kept IS inViolate as the nations life.
2. Under the management of succeed
ing Republican administrations, the coun-
try has advanced to the point Of specie
resumption, aud the highest interests of
business, no less than the plighted faith
of the republic, demand that there shall
be no steps backward and no postpone
ment With this steady progress we have
the suspicious signs Of reviving trade and
industry, and congratulate the people
upon this practical evidence that if the
good work shall be completed the de-
preston which grew out of the financial
disorders, forced upon us by the war of
the rebellion, will give place to returning
confidence and permanent prosperity,
which can rest alone on the fixed none
tary standard Of the commercial world, on
solid values and full security and certain
ty for the future.
8. Standing unalterably for the constir
tuionsl principles of bard money, we
insist that the greenback, instead of being
dishonored and deprecated, shall be
made as good as honest coin; that the
labor dollar shall mean real dollar; that
the fluctuations and uncertainties which
rob toll and psralyzs trade shall cease;
that our currency shall be made the best
currency by making all parts of it, wheth-
er paper or coin, equivalent, convertible,
secure and steady, and all public servants,
whether executive officers, Senators or
Representatives, whose acts and votes
conduce to the high object desesve our
appreciation.
L The Electoral Commission was q
wise and honorable mode of settling q
dangerous dispute; all parties were bound
TO abide its decision, and any attempt to
undo or impair the conclusion it estab-
Iished is unpatriotic and revolutionary.
S. While sincerely seeking fraternAl
relations in all just efforts and aspirations,
we summon the people TO renewed vigi-s
lence and unhinching warfare against the
vast horde of claims and raids on the
Treasury which count for sue cess on
Democrat rule, under the mastery of q
solid South, and which would fall with
special hardsnips on New York, as the
chief taxpaying State in the United
6. We demand free and unintimidated
elections in the South as in the North,
and the full recognition and observance
Of all the rights and, the liberty Of all
citizens as ordained by the amended con-
shtrtion, and until they shall be secured
the work Of the Republican party TO pro-
tect husnan rights viii be unfinished. -s
~ We renew cur declaration for the
elevation Of the public service on the basis
Of secure tenue during the faithful per-
formance Of oficial duties, for q fixed
term, for the frugal and efficient admins
tration OF national, State and local affairs,
for unyi eiding resistance to any further
B land grants as subsidies TO corporations or
monopolies, for gTateful recognition Of the
brave soldiers and sailors of the republic,
and for common schools, free from sec
tartan influence and unmenaced by secta-
RAN appropriations.
Il 8. While recognizing with satisfaction
that many patriotic Democrats do not
share its spirit and impulse, We arraign
the dominant force Of the Democratic
partyAs 3 constant distulber Of public
tranquility and coincidence, as the wauton
fceiof public security in lis persistent as
saultg on the authority and stability ofthe
established goEaEnmenk, rs attempting to
weaken the nation By ctippling the array
in timei0f uncertainty and danger, as
guilty Of false ptetenBesa Gin claiming for
the Democratic Honse rednctioA, in pub
Z lico expenditure, Whosal fraudulent char
actSr Is proved by the necessity. for q
heasy deficiency bin as dependent on 3
solid South and thereby suhseEvient to all
its demanda, IS sRgraEating the troubles
Of the country By mischievons agitation
throughout the period of Its supremacy in
the House Of Representatives, Is faithless
10 the obligation OF national honor aud
the chief support Of wild schemes Of infa-
ton, Tepudiation and utter financial dis
order, which impeTilo public credit and
business security, and itsfutther OF greater
success would be national eslamify. y /
e Q, An emergency in the history Of q,
great country, second only 10 the great
struggle for itg sxistencds now conFon@
us. As then, the Rapublicaa party WAS
he sole organized political pE0fection
against nsei0nnl discuplion And patrl1tioo
eitiSsas Of whatever party nanss rallied
'andsf il & audasdd der dnlamaa aof the
Gniem, - n0w Ne EsPabl lnans ea nisa.