Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-06-10
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.


NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The following is the platform adopted. by
the Republican National Convention at Chi
cago ON Saturday last. The resolutions after
reviewing the administration Of the Republi-
can party, ask for the continued confidence
and support of the people, and submit for their
approval the following statements of the prin.
ciples and purposes which will continue to
inspire it:
First. 1t afirms that the work of the
last twenty.one years has been such as to
commend itself to the favor of the nation,
and the fruits of the victories should be pre-
served and the discovered Union, happily re-
stored, should be perpetuated, her credit
should never be impaired and reviviDg indus.
tries should be further promoted.
Second. The Constitution is the supreme
law, and not mere contract out Of confeder-
ated States; it made a sovereign State, it
made nation. Some powers are denied to
nation, while others are denied to States,
but the boundary between the powers delega-
ted and those reserved is to be determined by
the nation, not by the State tribunals.
Third. Popular education is to be left to
the care of the States, but it is the duty Of
the national government to aid that work to
extend its constitutional duty.
Fourth. 1t recommends the Constitution
to be amended so as to forbid the Legislatures
of each State to make any law respecting
the establishment of religion aud to forbid
the appropriation of public funds to support
sectarian schools.
Fifth. 1t afirms the belief that duties
levied for the purpose of revenue should so
discriminate as to favor American labor.sNo
further grants of the public domain to rail.
way corporations. Slavery having perished
in the States, its twin in barbarity, polyga-
my, must die in the Territories That every.
where the protection accorded to citizens of
American birth must be secured to citizens
by American adoption. 1t acknowledges
obligations to the men who preserved its in.
teerity in the hour of battle, and invokes
Congress and the treaty.making power to
restrain and limit Chinese immigration.
Seventh. 1t endorses the administration of
Hayes.
Eighth. 1t charges that the Democratic
party, to obtain possession of the national
and State governments and control OF place
and position, have obstructed all efortto pro-
mote the purity and to conserve the freedom "f
suffrage, and have devised fraudulent certlh-
Gates and returns have labored to unsest
lawfully elected members Of Congress to Sc
cure at all hazards vote of a majority of
States in the House of Representatives; have
endeavored to occupy by f"rce and fraud
places of trust given to others by the people
of Maine, which attempt was resented by tie
courage and action of Names patriotic sons
have attached partisan legislation to appro-
priation bilsupon which the movements OF the
government depend; have crushed the rights
Of individuals, advocated the principle aad
sought favor of the rebellion against { ,e
nation, and endeavored to obliterate the "a
cred memories of the war and overcome its
inestimably valuable results Of nationality,
personal freedom and individual equalities.
The equal enforcement of law and the
protection of all citizens in the enjoyment
of all privileges and immunities guaranteed
by the Constitution are the first duties OF the
nation.
The danger of solid South can only be
adverted by the faithful performance of every
promise which the nation has made to the
citizens in the execution of the laws and the
punishment Of all those who violate them,
the only safe methods with which enduring
peace can be secured and genuine prosperity
established throughout the South.
The solid South must be divided by the
peaceful agencies Of the ballot, and opinions
must there 6nd free expression, and to this
end honest voters must he protected against
terrorism, violence and fraud.
A resolution reported by Pierreport of
New York, after being read, Barker, of Mas
sachusetts, moved to amend by adding the
following: "The Republican party adhering
to the principles affirmed by its last National
Convention of respect for constitutional rules
governing the appointment to office, adopts
the declaration of President Hayes that re-
form in the civil service shall be thorough,
radical and complete; to that end it de-
mands the cooperation of the legislative with
the executive departments of the government,
and that Congress shall so legislate that the
fitness sscertained by proper practical test
shall admit to the public service; that the
tenure of administrative officers, except those
through which the distinctive policy OF the
party in power shall be carried out, shall
be permanent during good behavior, and
that the power of removal for cause, with
due responsibility for good conduct Of sub:
ordinates, shall accompany the power Of
appointment"
Anthony, of Illinois, moved an amend
ment, which Barker accepted, and the amend
ment of Barker was adopted, and then the
resolution as amended was also adopted with.
out call of States.
The resolution as adopted omits the tenure
of Offices clause, otherwise it is practically as
originally introduced.
Correspondence Of the Y0rkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
CHESTER, s. c., June THE farmers of