The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-11
New York Republican Platform.

New York Republican Platform.
The Republicans of New York, pledging our
selves anew to national supremacy, equal rights,
free elections, and honest money, declare these
principles:
l. The republic of the United States is a
nation, and not 81 league. The nation is SUI
preme within its own constitutional sphere. 1t
is girded with power to guard its own life, to
protect lite own citizens, to regulate its own
elections and to execute its own laws. The
opposite doctrine of State sovereignty is the
baleful mother of notification, secession and
anarchy. Republicanism stands for national
supremacy, national affairs, and State rights in
State concerns. Democracy stands for State
sovereignty, with it's own twin heresy that the
Union is mere confederacy of States.
q To refuse the necessary supplies for the
Government with the design of compelling
the unwilling consent of the coordinate and
independent branch to odious measures, is rev.
olutiOn. To refuse appropriations for the ex-
ecution of existing and binding laws is nullif-
cation. We arraign the Democratic Represent
atives in Congress as guilty both of revolution
airy attempts and multiplying schemes, and we
reprobate their action as calculated to subvert
the constitution and to strike at the existence
of the Government itself.
g. The safety of the republic demands free
and pure elections. The Democratic Congress
has attempted dictation, by caucus, by threats
of starving the Government, and by months of
disturbing agitation, to break down the ma
tional Election laws. We denOunce this effort
as conspiracy to overthrow the safeguards of
free suffrage and to open the ballot-box to the
unchecked domination of rife-clubs of the
South and the repeaters of New York. We de-
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repeal of these just protective laws; and Re-
publican Senator's and Representatives in Con-
gress, for their resistance to this attempt
and President Hayes, for his veto messages,
deserve and receive our hearty approval.
4. The Republican party neither iustifes nor
tolerates military interference with elections.
1t seeks only to protect the ballOt-box from the
interference of force and fraud 1t repels the
false charges and denounces the false pre-
lenses of the conspirators who, while profess
ing free elections everywhere, sustain mob law
in the South; and, while inveighing against
troops at the polls to protect citizens, refuse to
prohibit armed clubs from surrounding the
ballot box to inimidate them; and, while affect
ing that soldiers bayonets will overawe free
electors, remain silent while the assassin's bull
let seals the fate of politics and independence.
5. We call upon the people to remember that
the Democratic party forced the extra session
of Congress without warrant or excuse; that it
tionary methods; that..it persistently INSTRUCTED
resumption and still constantly presses dis
turbing measures; that it reopens sectional
questions closed by the national tri-
umph, and threatens TO repeal war
legislation; that its Southern element an
swers Cancellation only with violence;
that its hope of success rests alone on
the solid South, and that its triumph world
make the solid South the ruling force of the
nation. We recognize that the great body of
the people who defended the Union, of what
ever party name, are equally patriotic and
equally interested in good government, and we
earnestly invoke them in resisting the danger
ous designs of the party organization under the
sway of those who were lately in rebellion, and
seek to regain in the halls of legislation what
they lost on the field of battle.
6. The successful resumption of specie pay
ments, despite Democratic prediction an6 hos
tility, is the browning element of Republican
financial policy. Followed by returning ma
tional prosperity, improved credit, refunded
debt and reduced interest, it adds another to
the triumphs which prove that the Republican
party is equal to the highest demands Our
whole currency should be kept at par with the
monetary standard of the commercial world,
and any attempt to debase the standard, to de-
preciate paper or to dereriorate coin, should be
firmly resisted.
z The claims of the living and the memo
ries of the dead defenders of the nation con-
jure us TO protest against the partisan and I'M
patriotic greed which expels old Union soldiers
from their we'll deserved rewards and advances
Confederate soldiers to their places.
s. AS the pledge and proof Of its economy
in State administration, the Republican party,
in spite of prolonged Democratic re-
slstance, proposed and passed the con-
stitutional amendments which restrict the
expenses of canals to their receipts, and
reform the whole system Of canals and prison
management, and, by extnguishing the public
indebtedness and relieving the people from any
further tax therefor, it effected great saving
in State taxation. These fruits of Republican
measures the Democrats have brazenly at
tempted to appropriate as their own. Appeal
ing to the records in support of our declaration,
we pronounce their claims unfounded and hold
up their authors as public imposors.
g. The Inequalities of taxation which press
most upon those least able to bear them should
be remedied To this end the Republican
Legislature created commission to revise the
assessment and tax laws, and to reach that
class of property which now largely escapes
and we remind the people that this salutary re-
form was unwarrantably defeated by the pres
ent Democratic Executive.
10. Moneyed and transportation corporations
are not alone works OF private ENTERPRISE but
are created for public use, and, with due re-
gard to vested rights, it is the clear province
and the plain duty of the State to supervise and
regulate such corporations as to secure lust
and impartial treatment of all interested, to
foster the agricultural and industrial welfare
of the people, and, with liberal policy, favor
public waterways to maintain the commercial
supremacy of the State. We look to the in
curry now in progress under the direction of
the Legislature to develop the facts which will
be guide to all needed action