Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-10

Second To refuse necessary supplies for
the government with the design of COM
Pelling unwilling consent of q coordinate
and independent branch to odious meas
ures is revolution. To refuse appropria-
tons for the execution of existing and bind
ing laws is notification. We arraign the,
Democratic representatives in congress as
guilty both of revolutionary attempts and
multiplying schemes, and we reprobate their
action as calculated to subvert the constitu-
ton and to strike at the existence OF the
government itself.
Third-The safety of that republic de-
mands free and pure elections. A Demo
cratic congress has attempted, at dictation
by caucus, by threats of starving the gov
eminent and by months of disturbing agita~
ton, to break down the national election
laws. We denounce this effort as con-
spiracy to overthrow the safeguards of free
suffrage and to open the ballot box to the
unchecked domination of the rifle clubs of
the south and the repeaters of New York.
We declare our incorporating opposition
to any repeal of these just protective laws,
and Republican senators and representa-
tives in congress for their resistance to this
attempt and President Hayes for his veto
messages deserve and receive our hearty
approval.
Fourth-lhe Republican party neither
justihes nor tolerates military interference
with elections. It seeks only to protect the
ballOt-bOx from the interference of force
and fraud. Il repels the false charges and
denounces the false pretences of conspira-
tors who, while protesting 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
Icn1 n iorto Of
remain silent while the assasin's bullet seals
the fate of politics and independence.
F1tth-We call upon the people to re
member that the Democratic party forced
the extra session without warrant or excuse,
that it prosecuted it partisan purposes by
revolutionary methods; that it persistently
obstcucted 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 ele~
ment answers Cancellation only with vio~
lence; that its hopes of success rest alone
on q solid south, and that its triumph
would make solid south the ruling force
of the nation. We recognize that the great
body of people who defended the Union
of whatever party name, arc equally patri-
otto and equally interested IN good govern
ment, land 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
Sixth-The successful resumption of
specie payments, despite Democratic pre-
diction and hostility. is the browning ele
ment of the Republican financial policy,
followed by returning national prosperity,
improved credit, refunded debt and feduced
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 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 na-
ton con ure 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-
lican 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
great saving in state taxation. These fruits
of Republican measures the Democrats
have brazenly attempted to appropriate as
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 salutatory 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
corporations as to secure 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 a guide to all needed action.