The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
RATIONAL REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.
The following is the platform passed by the recen

The following is the platform passed by the recent
Republican convention held at Chicago:
Republican rule has restored upon solid basis pay
ment in coin for all the national obligations and has
given currency absolutely good and legal and
equal in every part of our extended country 1t has
lifted The credit of the nation from the point where
per cent bends sold at 86 to that where per cent
bonds eagerly sought at premium Under its
administration, railways have increased from 81 900
miles in 1860, to than 81 600 miles in 1879. Our
foreign trade has increased from 500, GOO 00O to ST.
$50 000 the time and exports in 1860,
were s264, 600 900 more than our imports in 1879
Without resortng to loans, it has, since the war
closed betrayed the ordinary expenses of the govern
ment besides the accruing interest the public debt
and disbursed annually than sS0 600 for sol
diers pensions 1t has paid $780, 900 900 of the pub
lie debt and by refundng the balance at lower rates
has reduced the annual interest charge, from nearly
1851 OO0, 600 to less than ss9, 900 All the indus
tries of the country have revived, abors in demand
wages have increased and throughout the entire coun
try there is evidence of coming prosperity greater
than we ever enjoyd Upon this record the kepub-
ican party asks for the continued confidence and
port of the people, and this convention submits to
their approval the following statement of the prnc
pies and purpose which will continne to guide and in
spire its efforts:
First-We affirm that the work of the last q years
has been such commend itself to the favor of the
nation and that the fruits of the costly victories which
have achieved through immense difficulties should
be preserved that the discovered union now happily
restored should be perpetuated and that the liberties
secured to this generation should be transmitted
diminished to future generations that the order
tabished and the credit ACQUIRED should never be i'm
periled that the pensions promised should be paid
that the debt much reduced should be extngushed
by the payment of every dollar thereof; that the
vivingindustries should be promoted, and that
the commerce already great should be encouraged.
Secend-The constitution Of the United States is
the supreme law and nota mere contract OF confeder-
atedstates. 1t made sovereign nation. Some pow
denied to the nation, while others retained
by the states but the boundary between the powers
delegated and those reserved is to be determined by
national and not by state tribunals.
Third-The work of popular education is one left
to the of the several states but 1t is the duty OF
fJnraa1
tent of its constitutional ability The intelligence Of
the nation is but the aggregate of the intelligence in
the several states and the destiny of the nation must
be guided not by the genius OF any state but by
the average genius of all
Fourth-The constitution wisely forbids congress
to make any law respecting establishment of relig
ion but it is idle to hope that the nation be pro
tected against the influence of sectarianisn while
each state is exposed to its particular domination We
! therefore recommend that the constitution be sc
amended to lay some prohibition upon the legisla
ton of each state and to forbid the appropriation
the public fundsto the support of sectarian schools
Fffth-We reaffirm the belief avowed in 1876 that
the duties levied for the purpose of should
discriminate to favor American labor that fur
her grant of the pucc domain should be made to
railroad other corporation that slavery having
perished in the states its twain barbarity polygamy
die in the territories; that everywhere the pro
lection accorded to American birth must be
to citizens by American adoption that is the duty
of congress to develop and improve water courses
and harbers but insist that further subsidies te
private persons corporations must cease; that the
EObligatons to who preserved its integrity in the
day OF battle are by the lapse OF l5 year,
since their final victory their perpetual honor i:
Land shall forever be the greatfu privilege and the
cred duty of the American people.
Sixth-Since the authority to regulate immigration
tan intercourse between the United States and foreign
nations rests with the congress of the United States
and its treatymaking powers, the Republican party
regarding the unrestricted immigration of Chinese a.
an evil of great magnitude, inyokes the exercise
that power to restrain and limit that immigration by
the enactment of such just humane and reasonable
provisions will produce that result.
/ Seventh-That the purity and patriotism which
characterized the earlier of Hays In peace
and war, and which guided the thought of his mme
diate predecessor to him for presidential candidate
have continued to inspire him in.his career chic
executive, and that history will accord to his ad
just and courageous fullflment of the public bust
ness and viii honor his interposition between ths
people and proposed partisan laws.
Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic party the
habtual sacrifices of patriotism and justice to SUI
prerle and unsuitable lust for office and patronage
that obtain possession of the national and state gov
ernrents, and OF the control of place and position
purity and the freedom OF suffrage, have de
vised fraudulent returns and certificates hrve labored
to unseat lawfully elected members OF congress to Sc
cure at all hazards the vote of the majority efStht
states IN the house of representatives, have endeavor
ed to occupy by force and fraud places OF trust gver
others by the people of Maine and rescued by th
courage and action of Mains patriotic sons have by
methods vicious in principle and tyranica in practice
attached partisan legislation to appropriation bills
the principle and sought the favor of rebellion agai
the nation and. have endeavored to obliterte the
cred memories of the war to overcome inestimabl,
good results freedom and individual equality.