The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-07


nation must be guided, not by the genius of any
one state, but by the average genius of all.
Fourth-The constitution wisely forbids Congress
to make any law respecting establishment Of re-
lgion but it is idle to hope that the nation can be
protected against the influence Of sectarianism
while each state is exposed to its domination. We
therefore, recommend that the constitution be so
amended as to lay the same prohibition upon the
Legislature of each state and to forbid the appro-
prlaton OF public funds to the support of sectarian
schools. [Cheers
Fifth-We avow the belief avowed in 1876, that
so discriminate as to favor American labor ZAP
plause. That no further grant of the public do
main should be made to any railway other corpo-
ration; that slavery having persisted in the States
its twin barbarity-polygamy die in the ter
ritores applause]; that everywhere the protection
accorded tocitizens of American birth must be Sc
cured to citizens by American ADOPTION that we
esteem it the duty OF Congress to develop and i'm
prove our water courses and harbors, but insist
that further subsidies to private persons corpo
rations must cease; that the obligations of the re-
public to the who preserved its integrity in the
hour of battle undiminished by the lapse of 15
years since their victory To do them perpetual
honor is and shall forever be- the grateful privilege
and sacred duty of the American people.
Sixth-The authority to regulate immigration
and intercourse between the United States and for
eign nations rests with the Congress, or with the
United States and its treaty-making power. The
Republican party, regarding the unrestricted i'm
nvokes the exercise of those powers to restrain and
limit that immigration, by the enactment of such
Just, humane and reasonable provisions as will pro-
duce that result.
Seventh-That the purity and patriotism which
characterized the earlier career of Rutherford b.
Hayes, in peace and war, and which guided the
thoughts of our immediate predecessors to him for
presidential candidate, have continued to inspire
him in his chief executive, and that his
tory will accord to his administration the honors
which are due to efficient, just and courteous
discharge of the public business, and will honor els
interpretations between the people and proposed
partisan laws. [Cheers.]
Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic party
the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and Justice to
supreme and Unsuitable lust of Office and patronage
that to obtain possession of the national and state
governments and the control of place and position
they have DISTRACTED all effort to promote the purity
and to conserve the freedom of suffrage and have
devised fraudulent certifications and returns
have labored to unseat lawfully-elected mem
bers of Congress to secure at all hazards the
vote of q majority of the states in the House
of Representatives,; have endeavored to occupy by
force and fraud the places of trust given to others
by the people of Maine, and rescued by the cour
age in action of Names patriotic sons have, by
methods vicious in principle and tyrannical in prae
tice, attached partisan legislation to APPROPRIATION
bills, upon whose passage the very movement OF the
government depends have crushed the rights of in
dviduals have advocated the principles and sought
the favor of rebellion against the nation, tand have
endeavored to oblirerate the sacred memories of the
and to overcome its inestimable valuable
suits of nationality, personal freedom and individ
ual equality. The equal, ste2dv snd complete en-