Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-09-11
the R.PJaliCah PLAi FJRM.


Convention at Chicago:
Republican rule has restored upon solid
baSis payment in coin for all the national OBJ
,ixations, and has given a currency absO-
l0tely good and legal, aud equal IN every
part OF our extended country. 1t has lifted
the credit of the mai ion from the point W here
six per cent. bonds sold At So, to that where
four per cent. bonds are eagerly sought at u
premium. u ,'der it's administration railways
have increased from Il 900 miles in 1860 to
more than 50 900 miles in 1879. Our foreign
trade has increased from 500. DOC, 600 to Sll5O-
100000 IN the same time, and our exports,
which we're S20.OO0.O00 less than our imports
in 1860, were S164.OO0,OOO more than our i'm
corts in 1870. Without resOring To loans, 1t
has, since the war closed, betrayed the OrdIn-
airy expenses OF government, besides the ac-
erulng interest an the public debt, and dis
burSet annually more than $50, 600 900 for SOL
diers' pensions 1t has paid $685., 900 900 of the
public debt. and by refunding the balance at
lower rates, has reduced the annual interest
charge from nearly Sl5l 100000 to less than
$59, 0000OO. All the industries of the country
have revived; aior is IN demand; wages have
increased. and throughout The entire country
there is evidence of coming prosperity
greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upon
this record the Republican asks for the con-
tinued confidence and support of the people,
and this convention submits for their appro-
val the following statements of the principles
and purposes which will continue to guide
and inspire it's efforts:
ENUMERATIpN OF PRINCIPLES.
First We affirm that the work IF the last
twenty-One years has been such as to CON-
.;.end itself to the favor of the nation, and
that the fruits OF the costly victories which
we have achieved through immense difficult
ties should be preserved. That the peace re-
gained should be cheri>hed. That the dissev-
red Union. now happily restored, should be
perpetuated, and tina; he liberties secured to
this generation should be transmitted undi
unfinished to future generations. That the or
der established and the credit acquired should
never be mperled. That the pensions PROM
ised should be paid. That the debt so much
rsduced should be eXtingu>hed by The full
payment of every dollar thereof. That the
reviving industries should be further promo
ted, and that the commerce already so great
should be steadily encouraged.
Second-The Constitution of the United
= ates ia the supreme law, and not a compact.
Out of Confederated Sgaes it made nation.
some powers are denied the Nation, while
others are retained by States; but the bound
AIRY between the powers delegated and those
deserved is to be determined by National and
not by State tribunals.
Third-The work of popular education is
one left to the care of the several States, but
j. is the duty of the National government to
aid that work to the extent of its constitutional
ability. The intelligence of the nation is but
the aggregate of the intelligence in the sever
nj States, and the destiny OF the Nation must
he guided, not by the genius of any one
State, but the average genius of all.
NoN-SECTARIAN SCHOOLS.
Fourth-The Constitution wisely forbids
Congress to make any laws respecting an es-
tablishing of religion, but it is idle to hope
that the Nation can be protected against the
influence of sectarianism while each State is
exposed to its particular domination. We
therefore recommend that the Constitution be |
5, amended as to lay some prohibition upon
the Legislature of each State and to forbid |
the appropriation of pull bile funds to the sup |
port of sectarian schools.
Fifth-We affirm the belief avowed in 1876, |
that the duties levied for the purpose of reve- |
tue should so discriminate as to favor Amer. |
lean labor. That no further grant of the |
public domain should be made to any rail- |
road or other corporation. That slavery hav-
ing persisted in the State, It's twin barbarity,
Iolygamy, must die in the Territories That |
everywhere the protection accorded to a citi- I
Zen of American birth must be secured to
citizens of American adoption. That it is the
duty of Congress to develop and improve our
eater courses and harbOrs, but we insist that
further subsidies to private persons or cOrpOr-
atoms mnst cease. That the obligations to the
zen who preserved its integrity in the day of
battle are undiminished by the lapse of fifteen
years since their final victory. Their perpet
u,l honor is and shall forever be the grateful
privilege and the sacred duty of the Amer-
can people.
THE CHINESE PLANK.
Sixth-Since the authority to regulate i'm
migration and intercourse between the United
greSs Of the United States and its treaty.
making powers, that the Republic party.
Jagarding the unrestricted Immigration of
ne Chinese as an evil of great magnitude,
wolves the exercise of the power 20 restrain
md limit that immigration by the enact
,nents Of such just, humane and reasonable
provisions as will produce the result.
Seventh-That the purity and patriotism {
which characterized the earlier career of
b. Hayes, in peace and war, and b
which guided the thought of his immediate $
predecessor to him for Presidential candi
tate have continued to inspire him in bis
career as Chief Executive, and that history |
will accord to his administration the honors :
" hch are due to an efficient, just and cOurag- 4
'ous fufillment of ne public business, and q
will honor his inter POSITION between the peo-
lie and proposed partisan laws.
INIQUITIEs OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic
'arty the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and P
Justice to a supreme and Unsuitable lust for
'iiice and patronage; that to obtain possession
# the National and State Governments, and
or the control of place and position, they
rave INSTRUCTED all the efforts to preserve the
purity and conserve the freedom of suffrage;
ave devised fraudulent certificates and re-
urns; have labored to unseat lawfully elect
ID members of Congress, to secure at all :; u
lazards the vote of the majority of States in ~
red to occupy by force and fraud places Of
rust given to others by the people of Maine, ar
nd secured by the courage and action of en-
taine patriotic sons; have by methods til
icious In principal and tyrsnnical in practice th
ttached partisan legislation to appropriation
ills; have crushed tho rights of individuals,
nd vindicated the principles and sought the
'vor Of rebellion against the Nation. and en-
ave endeavored to obliterate the sacred
,anOrios If the war and tn ovarcomo its in | >