Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-09-10
Tho New York Republicans Plat
form and Ticket.


permanent President Being conducted
to the chair, Mr. Wheeler made short
speech. in which he said the policy of
seeking TO starve the Government into
submission to rebellion was initiated
at Fort Sumter, and was again at
tempted by the Democracy at the late
session of Congress. The speech was
: general arraignment Of the Demo-
cratic policy and record during and
since the late war, eulogy Of the Re-
publican party, and an appeal for con-
tinuing the latter in power in order TO
to maintain and enforce the results
achieved by the sword and to secure
protection to every citizen in every
right, regardless Of his color, condi-
ton or locality.
Charles f. Smith, Chairman Of the
Committee on Resolutions, presented
the following platform which was
unanimously adopted
The Republicans of New York,
pledging themselves anew to national
supremacy, equal rights, free elections
and honest money, declare these prin-
cip!es:
First. The Republic of the United
States is a nation and not a league.
The nation is supreme within its
own constitutional sphere. 1t is girded
with power to guard its own life, to
protect its own citizens, to regulate its
own elections and to execute its own
laws. The opposite doctrine of State
sovereignty is thebaneful mother ofnul-
ification, secession and anarchy. The
Republican party stands for national
supremacy in national affairs and State
rights in State concerns; the Democ-
racy stands for State sovereignty with
its own twin heresy, that the union is
o mere c0lfcderacy Of States.
Second To refuse necessary sup
plies for the Government with the de-
sign of compelling the unwilling con-
sent Of a coordinate and Independent
branch to odious measures is revolu-
ton. To refuse appropriations for the
execution Of existing and binding
laws is notification. We arraign the
Democratic Representatives In Con-
gress as guilty both Of revolutionary
attempts and Of nulifying schemes and
we reprobate their action as calculated
to subvcrt the Constitution and to
strike at the existence of the Govern
mcnt itself
Third The safety Of the Republic
demands free and pure elections. The
Democratic Congress has attempted
dictation by caucus, by threats Of starry
ing the Government and by months Of
disturbing agitation to break down the
national election laws We denounce
this effort as conspiracy to overthrow
the safeguards Of free suffrage, and to
open the ballot box to the unchecked
emination Of rife clubs Of the South
and reneaters Of New York. We de-
clare our uncompromising opposition to
any repeal Of these just protective
laws, and Republican Senators and
Representative in Congress for their
resistance to this attempt and Presi-
dent Hayes for his veto messages de-
serve and receive our hearty approval.
Fourth The Republican party
neither justiies nor tQlergtes military
interference with elections IL seeks
only to protect the ballot box from the
interference Of force or fraud. 1t re-
pcls the false charges and de-
nounces the false prctenses Of the con-
spirators who while protesting to favor
free elections everywhere, sustain mob
law in the South, while inveighing
against troops at the polls TO protect
citizens, refuse to prohibit armed clubs
from surrounding The ballot box to In
timidate them, and while affecting that
soldiers bayoncts will oYerawe free
elections, remain silent when the as
sassin's bullet seals the fate Of politi-
cal independence.
Fifth We call upon the people to
forced the extra session Of Congress
without warrant or excuse that it
prosecuted its partisan purposes by
revolutionary methods; that it persist
entity obstructed resumption, and still
constantly presses disturbing measures ;
that it reopcned sectional questions
closed by the national triumph, and
threatens the repeal Of war Legislation ;
that its Southern element answers con
ciIiation only with violence that its
hope Of success rests alone on the solid
South, and that its triumph would
make the solid South the ruling force
of the nation. We recognize that the
great body Of the people who defended
the Union, Of whatever party name,
are equally patriotic and equally inter-
ested ia good government, and wo
earnestly invoke them TO unite in re-
sisting the dangerous designs Of the
party organization under the sway Of
those who were lately in rebellion and
seek to regain in the halls Of legisla-
tion what they lost on the field Of bat
tie.
Sixth. The successful resumption
OF spocio payments, despite Demo.
cratic prediction and hostility, is the
crownng element Of the Republican
financial policy. Followed by return
ing national prosperity, improved cred
", TSluUIFu ufDJ dlIi I'butth lul1ltHLt
it adds another to to the triumphs
which prove that the Republican party
is equal to the highest demands. Our
whole currency should ho kept at par
with the monetary standard Of the
commercial world, and any attempt to
debase the standard, to dcprcciatc
paper, or deteriorate coin, should be
firmly resisted.
Seventh The claims Of living and
memories Of the dead defenders Of the
nation conjure us to protest against the
partisan and unpatrlotIc greed which
expels old Union soldiers from their
well deserved rewards and advances
Confederate soldiers to their places.
Eighth. As the pledge and proof Of
its economy in State administration,
the Rnnublicnu marty in gDitc Of uro-