Daily Republican., 1880-06-07
REPUBLICAN, 1IGKET.
The Republican Platform.


The Republlcam Platform.
Whatever may have besn the ditle
en- ,ss Of views and opinions at Chic
&c, which have delayed the nomiu
ticn Of a candidate for the Presidenc,
they have not prevented the CONVEX
tion from giving to the nation pla
form Of principles views and aims, I
which the Grend Republican party ma
well be proud. The platform is full
prepared, promulgated and adopted an
upon it the'candidate Of the party wi
be placed perhaps to-day, and no maj
ter who that candidate may BE- he vii
only be the executive representative c
the principles laid down in the plat
form.
This document unanimously adopted
by the Great National Republican party
assembled at the end Of twenty yesr.
since the Federal Government was com
mitted into its hands, sets forth in un
mistakable language that it it'suppresseG
q rebellion in which a million Of mer
were armed to defeat end subvert the
national authority; it reconstructed ,
b union of the states with freedom in
STEAD Of slavery as Its corner stone il
transferred four million human beings
from the mere liksress of things in,t
the full enjoyment Of citizenship il
relieved Congress from the infamous
work Of hunting fugitive >slsves and
charged it with protecting liberty. The
} Republican party hss raised the value
Of currency from thirty-eightcper cent.
to apar with gold, ard restored solid
payment Ct coin for all national obliss.
tions besides giving a currency good
and equal in all parts of our nation.
Railroads have Increased from 81, ,0CO
miles in 1869 to 81 900 in 1879, consid-
" erably more than doubling. The foreign
trade under protective tariff, has in
creased from$70O, 900, 900 to 81 $50, ,OoO,.
900 in the same period and our exports
which were $28,0eC, 900 less than our
imports when the Republican party
came int power were s64 100000, more
than our imports insi379,a "a gair ofsS4,-
100000. Since the war closed a Re-
publican administration has aGefrayed
the expenses Of the Goverpmert, paid
the interest oR the public debt, dis
bursed annually s3G. 900, ,000 eor the
payment of soldiers pensions and paid
off $SSS, 600, ,eo9 Of the public debt. all |
the industries OF the country have re-
Vived, labor is in demand, wages have
increased and throughout the entire
country there is evidercs Of acominx
prosperity greater than we have eyer
before enjoyed. Upon this grand record
the Republican party comes befoEe the
people and asks continuance in DOW.
er. The request will not 20 UNDECIDED
unless the people are tired of iborty
and prefer hleness, decay and wan: 70
prosperity. With this ,cursory review
Of the past tho party looking forward
to the unknown future can but promi se
continuance of the present prosperity.
In the platform promulgated at Chioaeo}
On Saturday night, the party affrms
irst that the work Of the last twenty. d
'ne years is such that it ccmmends it'll
'elt to the favor of the naticn, and that
ne fraits OF the costly victories gained |"
houiG be preserved ; that the restorsdI" :"
jnion should be perpetuateG.; that the n
liberty occurred should be transmitted u
all generations; that the o-der and "
redit of the nation should nsver be u "
impaired; THAT the pensions promised IN
hould never be distinguished except IN
y the payment of the last dollas there. p
I, and that our fast Esviving industries .s
nd commerce should be ENCOURAGED, pl
Secondly, the platform declarec the wi
&c be the supreme law of or
Ie land and net mere contract 10 be sir
oxen at will d; and all differences mi
Using fron misinterpretod views of thi
10 Constitution to be determined bS- Ju
Ie National and n0t the State suthotl the
es.
The third resolution declares that ala
'Pular education is left to the States In,
1t that it ia the duty Of the Nstioual int,
'VerRment to aid education. M,
The fourth resolution very wisely teri
d properly forbids the General Gov.
ntnert from establishing any form If 4
igiou, bns as the nation caupo. 'cr'
'tected against the Influence Of sec Il U
ianism while each State is expose6 'nle
its Nominations, the Convention re- 'el'
amends that the Constitution be 80 .1o
ended as 70 prevent app opriations 49,"
public funds for the support of SOC. 's' L,
ian schools. "'i
'he fifth resolution aflirnas the be. '"e'
Of the Republican party that. the 'o"'
lies Levied for ths purpose of revenue j.
I'I = 0''''lm'nats IN favor ef Ameri, nom
labor. 1t opposes any further CIV Stat
Of ihA nrli,lin S....: