Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-11

to protect citi.sns, refuse to prohibit armed
clubs from surrounding the ballot.box to in
timidate them; and while affecting that I
soldiers bayonet will overave free electors
remain silent while the assasin's bullet seal
the fate of politics and independence.
Fifth-We .cal upon the people to r.
member that the Democratic party forced
the extra session without warrant Or excuse3
that 1t prosecuted it partisan purposes by
revolutionary methods; that it persistently
Instructed resumption, and still constantly
presses disturbing measures; that it re.
opens sectional questions closed by the
national triumphs, and threatens q repeal
of war legislation; that its southern elei
lence; that its hopes of success rest alone
on solid south, and that its triumph
would make solid south the ruling, force
of the nation. We recognise that tbs great
body Of people who defended tie onion,
of whatever party name, are equally patri'
otto and equally interested in good govern.
ment, ..and We earnestly invoke them in
resisting the dangerous designs of party
organizations 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, !!
specie payments, despite Democratic pre-
ment of the Republican financial policy,
followed by returning national prosperity,
improved credit, refunded debt and leduced
interest; it adds another to the triumpbs
which prove that tho Republican party ID
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 that standard,
to depreciate paper or to deteriorate coin,
should be firmly resisted.
Seventh-The claims of the living and the
memories of the dead defenders of the ma
ton conjure US to protest against the par
tisan and unpatriotic 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 it's
economy in state administration the Repub.
ican party, in spite of prolonged Demo
cratic resistance, proposed and passed con.
stitutional amendments which restrict the
expenses of canals to their receipts, and re.
form the whole system of canal and prison
management, and by extinguishing public
indebtedness relieved the people from
any further tax; therefore it effected q
great saving in state taxation. These fruits
of Republican measures the Democrats
AoV0 OkoAeA1y 0ssoupteN " appropriate AZ
their own. Appealing to the records in
support of our declaration, we pronounce
their claims unfounded and hold up their
authors as public impostors.
Ninth-The inequalities of taxation, which
press most upon those least able to bear
them, should be remedien. To this end the
Republican legislature created commission
to revise the assessment and tax laws aud
to reach class of property which now
largely escapes; and we remind the people
that this sa1utatory reform was unwarrant-
ably defeated BY the present Democratic
executive.
Tenth-Monied and transportation cor.
porations are not alone works of private
enterprise, but are created for public use,
and with due regard for vested rights. It
is the clear province and the plain duty of
the state to SO supervise and regulate such
as to secure q just and impair
tial treatment of all interested; to foster
the industrial and agricultural welfare of
the people and with = liberal policy favor
public water ways, to maintain the CONNER
cial supremacy of the state. We look to
the inquiry now in progress under the
direction of the legislature to develop facts
which will be guide to all needed action.