Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-08-21

"hu oui tiubu- III sweeps tHe BTOuHu,
ard it touches the stars. Come there,
young man, and put in your young life
where all is living. and where nothing
is dead but the heroes who defended it.
Applause. | think these young men
Will do that. LOf course they will
The Platform.
a large number of subscribers TO the
GRAPHIC, who have not been taking
any other republican paper, having
been enrolled ON our list since we
published the platform as part of the
publish it for their benefit.
FIRST. We affirm that the work of the
last twenty-one years has been such as
to commend itself to the favor of the
nation and that the fruits OF the costly
victories which we have achieved
through immense difficulties should be
preserved; that the peace regained
should be cherished, that the discovered
union now happily restored should be
perpetuated. and that the liberties Sc
cured to this generation should be trans
mitted undlminished to future genera
tons: that the order established and the
credit acquired should never be impair
ed: that the pensions promised should
be paid: that the debt so much reduced
should be extinguished by the full pay
nlent Of every dollar thereof: that the
reviving of industries should be fur
Their promoted. and that the commerce
already so great should be steadily en-
couraged.
Second. The constitution of the
United States Is supreme law and
not a mere contract OF the confederated
states it made sovereign nation, while
others are denied to the states. but the
boundry between the powers delegated
and those reserved is to be determined
by the national and not the state tribu-
mails.
Third. The work of popular edu-
cation is one left to the care of the
several states but it 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
aggre gate OF the intelligence in the
several states. and the destiny Of the
nation must be guarded. not by the
genius Of any one state but by the
average genius of all.
EoUth. The constitution wisely for
bids congress to make any law respect
ing an establishment OF religion, but it
is idle to hope the nation can be protect
ed against the influence of sectarlanism
while each state is exposed to its den0m-
alton. We therefore recommend that
the constitution he so amended as To
lay The same prohibition on the legisla
ture Of each state and to forbid the APP
propriation Of public funds to the sup
port OF sectarlIn schools.
1 FJM. We reaiiirm the belief avow-
ed in 1876 that the duties levied for the
purpose OF revenue should so diScrimn
dte a' to favor American labor: that no
further grant Of the public domain
should be made to any railway or other
corporation: that slavery having per-
lshed III the states lis twin barharlty.
polygamy. must die in the territories:
that every where the protection accord
ed to u citizen OF American birth must
be secured TO citizens OF American
idoptIou that we deem il the duty Of
congress TO developa and improve our
water cours = ana harbors, but insist
that further subsidies 10 private persons
OF corporations must cease that obiiga-
tionsof the republic 10 the men who pre-
served its integrity in the days of bat
tie are undiminished by the lapse OF tit-
teen years. since their final victory.
Their perpetual honor is and shall for
ever be the grateful privilege and sacred
duty OF the American people.
Sirh. Since the authority to regu-
late immigration and intercourse be-
tween the United States and foreign
nations rests with the congress of the
United States and its treaty-making
powers, the republican party regarding
the unrestricted immigration of the
Chinese as an evil OF great magnitude,
invoke the exercise of that power to re-
strain and limit that immigration by
the enactment Of such Just, humane
and reasonable provisions aswill pro-
duce that result.
i .Sercuth. That the purity and
patriotism which characterizeS the
early career of Rutherford B. Hayes in
peace and war, and which guided the
thought OF our immediate predecessors
to him for a presidential candidate,
have continued to inspire him in his
career as chief executive, and that his
tory will accord to bis administration
the honors which are due to an efficient,
just and courteous discharge of the
public business, and viii honor his in
Propositions between the people and
the proposed partisan laws.
Eight. We charge upon the dem
ocratic party the habitual sacrifice of
patriotism and Justice to a supreme
and Unsuitable lust of office and patron
age; that to obtain possession of the
national and state governments, and
the control of place, they have obstruct-
ed all efforts to purify, to conserve the
freedom of suffrage, have devised
fraudulent certificates and returns,
have labOred to unseat lawfully elected
members of congress to secure at all
hazards the vote of a majority of the
i 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 courageous action of
her patriotic sons; have by methods
vicious in principle and tyranical in
practice, attached partisan legislation
to the appropriation bills upon whose
passage the very movements of the
government depends; have crushed the
right of the individual. have advocated
the principles and sought the favor of
rebellion against the nation and have
endeavored to obliterate the sacred
memories of the war and to overcome
It's lnestImably valuable results: nation