Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-17
The following platform was adopted:

THE PLATFORM. ...
The following platform was adopted:
The Republican party of Massachusetts, at
the close of the first quarter century Of its
history, r1edxing itself to a continued
performance OF the duties in which il original
ed, and to the defense and maintenance of
those principles upon which it was founded,
and which are still essential to the peace SO.
curity and prosperity of the republic, makes
these declarations:
First-We affirm the doctrines heretofore pro-
claimed and maintained that the United States
of America is q nation. While local self-gov-
eminent in all matters which belong to the
States must be fully recognized, the national
government should secure to its citizens from
whom it claims allegiance, complete liberty
and exact equality in the exercise of their civil
and political rights. That whether assailed by
political persecution at home or menaced
by tyranny abroad, all citizens of
the United States without distinction of
origin, race, creed or color, must be protected
by the national government in all the rights
granted by the constitution and laws. That
our institutions rest upon the equality of all
men before the law, and that free ballot, IN
influenced by fraud or force, and honestly
counted, is the right of every qualified voter,
and we demand that elections shall be free
from interference by unlawful bodies of armed
men, and shall also be free from interference
BY national or State force, except when en-
ployed a. part of the posse comitatus. We
denounce that fierce partisan intolerance which
prevents free ballot, denies the freedom of
political opinion and action, and takes from
any of the people the right to choose their
home and to control aud enjoy the fruits Of
their labor. -.- ..
Second-We deprecate the course of the
members of the Democratic party who have
undertaken to revive sectional luminosity for
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in the Southern States, and who have revived
the memories of sectional strife by the defiant
declaration of purpose to repeal laws made
necessary by the war, and enacted to secure
the results of the war, and we condemn their
attempt to secure by legislation what was not
ment under the name of State sovereignty of
those pernicious doctrines which destroy ma
tional supremacy and which in the past have
led to secession and revolution.
Third The pledges of the Republican party
to maintain national honor and to preserve
of bitter opposition by the prompt resumption
of specie payments and the reduction Of both
the principle and interest of the public debt,
and we congratulate our fellow citizens upon
the restoration of confidence and tho revival of
business which have followed the honest, pru-
dent and wise management of public affairs
under Republican administration. We are op-
scaling or a debasement of the legal tender
circulation, and we insist that the paper and
the coin circulation of the country shall at all
times be maintained at par with the gold stan
dard of the commercial world.
Fourth-We applaud the firm course of Presi-
dent Hayes in maintaining the constitutional
prerogatives of the executive, and in courage
ously and successfully resisting all efforts of a
Democratic Congress to cripple the functions
of the government. We recognize the earnest
ness and sincerity with which he has labored to
restore harmony and good feeling to all Sec
tions of the country and to secure purity, eff
cheney and frugality in every branch of the
public service and to divorce the civil service
from the management of partisan politics, to
sustain the finances Of the government and to
insist upon free and honest elections, and we
will support the President in the responsibility
of making nominations to office without the
dictation of other departments of the govern
mcnt and in persistently carrying out the prin-
ciples relating to civil service declared in his
Cincinnati letter of acceptance.
Fifth-While the Republican party is prac.
tically united in demanding the suppression of
ntempcrance by wise legislation, it recognizes
in honest difference of opinion among its
plish that end, and the question is therefore a
reference to the people to be settled by them
in legislation organized for the protection of
the weak, relief of the oppressed and elevation
of all. The republican party pledges itself
anew to these primary objects and believing
that an effectual means of promoting them 10
a diffusion of full and accurate. information of
the condition of the people, it certainly sus-
tains our State bureau of States of labor and
advises the establishment of national bureau
of a like character. We again demand that
our system of taxation shall be so
| modified that each person shall constitute
only in proportion to what he is worth; that
there shall bic substantial relief from existing
burdens of taxation; that in our opinion the
time has come when the executive officers of
the commonwealth and the members of the
legislature should be elected for longer term
than one year. and that the adoption of con-
| stitutional amendment providing for biennial
elections and biennial sessions of the legisls-
ture would tend to give steadiness to 1egisla-
| ton and to the administration of laws and to
the Importance of offices. and the care af voters
| in filling them and would relieve the people
from the frequency of elections, which il be-
ieved to be no longer conducive to the welfare
of the commonwealth.
The remaining resolutions refer to State af-
fairs.
THE PRoMBrTIoN1sTs.
LOWELL. Mass, Sept. 16.-The Prohibition
lists tonight elected delegates to the State con.
vention. Several ladies are included in the
number.
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