The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-27

mIttee Appointed to Present Them TO the
Chicago Convention.
The following are the resolutions
unanimously adopted by the st. Louis
Convention:
THE PLATFORM.
In pursuance Of the d. mand and rep.
resenting the convictions of what we be-
ieve to be a majority of the Republican
party throughout the Union, this Con.
vention of Republicans has assembled
for the purpose of declaring those con
v~ictions with reference to the present
aspect of political affairs. The deliberate
and emphatic expression is especially de-
manded in view ofthe deter med efforts
to force upon the party the nomination
of a candidate for the Presidency for a
third term, il defiance not only of the
traditions Of the Government, as estab.
.lshed by its founders, and Consecrated
by unbroken and venerable use and pre-
sCription down to the present time, but
also by the solemn declarations of the
Republican party through its conventions
in the largest and controlling States, re.
affirmed by it's Representatives in the
popular branch of Congress, and adopted
by the entire party in the declarations of
its late Presidential candidate; be it
therefore
RESOLVED, That the members of this
convention, for themselves, and those
whom they represent, hereby reafirm
their adhesion to the principle of the
Republican party as heretofore set forth
by the authorized representatives and in
view Of present exigenCies we do espe-
Cially reafirm the recent declarations of
the State Republican Conventions, as
follows:
By the State Convention of New York
in 1875: eve declare an unalterable op.
position to the election of any President
for a third term"
By the State Convention of Pennsyl.
vania in 1875 (reafirmed ia 1870 "We
are unalterably opposed to the election
to the Presidency of any person for a
third term"
By the State Convention of Olio:
1.-THE observance of W~ashington's ex.
ample will be in the future, as it has been
in the past, regarded as a fundamental
rule in the unwritten law Of the Repub-
lic."
By the Massachusetts, Republican Con.
vention of 1875:
Sound reason, as we'll as the wise and
unbroken usage of the Republic, illus.
trated by the example of Washington,
requires that the term of the Chief MAJ.
istrate of the United States should not
exceed a second term"
Like sentiments having been an
nounCed by the Republican Conventions
of Minnesota and other Republican
States, and having been affirmed in De.
Cember, l775, by an overwhelming ma.
jority of both political parties in the Ma.
tional House of Representatives in the
words following: THAT the precedent
established by Washington and other
Presidents Of the United States in retir-
ing from the Presidential office after their
second term, has become by universal
concurrence a part of our Republican
system of government, and that n de.
parture from this time.honored custom
would be unwise, u~npatriotic and fraught
with peril to our free institutions.
SeCond-ResolVed that the nomination
Of a third term candidate is especially to
be deprecated, because it will unavoida.
bly, put the Republican party on the de.
fensive, because it will revive the mem.
DRY of public scandals and official corrup-
ton which brought our party to the verge
of ruin, and will ALLEVIATE a large and
powerful body of voters without whose
aid success is neither possible nor de.
served, while in the character and sur
roundings of the third term candidate
we find no guarantee against their re.
CurrenCe, but rather a renewed menace
in the history of the two men who are
loudest in his support.
Third-We believe that the questions
now agitating the public mind connect
ed as they are with the currency, the
tariff, the civil service, the railroads and
other means of Accommodation re.
quire the talents of a trained statesman.
We find objection to the third term nom.
nation. now urged upon the country,
also, in that it would substitute a danger.
GUS tendency to personal government for
a determined and unwearied effort for the
true reform Of the civil service, That re-
form, fearless and thorough, we declare
to be vital to the welfare and safety of
the Republic itself.
Fourth-Resolved, that as Republicans
we cannot be hero.worshippers, and we
demand from a party without a master, 1
the nomination of a candidate without a {
stain. {
Fifh-Resolved, That a National com. {
mittee of one hundred be appointed and
instructed in the event of the nomina.
ton of General Grant to meet in the city q
of New York, lat the call of the chairman
Of this committee, and thust to act in such q
q manner as they shall then deem best {
to carry out the spirit and purpose of |
these resolutions; the said committee to |
be selected by a committee ,of thirteen S
and published at its earliest convenience. q
The following committee was chosen /
by the Convention in accordance with q
The proviso of the platform; Lucien 8
Eaton, DR.. Emil Praetorius. St. Louis; u
Henry Hitchcock, G. E. Hubbard W. s. t
.llerton, ]. W. Carter, Mr.. Wood, Mr.. il
ones, Pennsylvania; r. Hill, Indiana; C
w. w. Williams, Minnesota; Bluford a
Wilson, Illinois; NJ. Whitredge, New v
York; John B. Henderson, st. Louis.
The committee above named was in. q
jtructed to appoint q committee of five n
% present the resolutions to the Chicago I
Convention. n
After adopting the customary resolu- q
OF courtesy the Convention ad. h
burned sine die. n