Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-06-16

ance at lower rates has reduced the
anual interest charge from nearly
S151, 100000 to less than So9,OOO,0OO.
All the industries Of the country |
have increased, and throughout the en-
tire country there, is evidence OF a
coming prosperity greater than we
have ever enjoyed.
Upon this record, the Republican
party asks for the continued confidence |
and support of the people, and this
Convention submits for their approval
the following statement of the princi-
pies and purposes which will continue
to guide and inspire its efforts:
Ist-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
transmitted undiminished to future
generations that the order established
and the credit acquired should never
be impaired that pensions promised
should be paid; that the debt so much
reduced should be extinguished by the
full payment of every dollar thereof
that the reviving industries should be
further promoted; that the commerce
already SO great should be steadily en-
couraged.
2nd-The Constitution of the
United States is supreme law, and
not mere contract. Out of the con-
federated States, it made sovereign
Nation. Some powers are denied to the
States, but the boundary between the
powers delegated and those reserved
is to be determined by the National
and not the State tribunals.
3rd-The work of popular educa-
ton is one left to the care of the sew
eral States, but it is the duty of the
National Government to aid that work
to the extent of its Constitutional abil-
ity. 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 one State, but by the av-
erage genius of all.
4th-The Constitution wisely for
bids Congress to make any laws res
pecting an establishment Of religion,
but it is idle to hope that the nation
can be protected against the influences
of sectarianism while each State is ex-
posed to it's domination. We, there
fore, recommend that the Constitution
be 80 amended as to lay the same pro-
hibition upon the legislation of each
State, and to forbid the appropriation
of public funds to the support of secta-
rian schools.
5th-We reaffirm the belief avowed
in 1876, that the duties levied for the
purpose Of revenue should 50 discrimi-
nate as to favor American labor: that
no further grant of the public domain
should be made to any railway or
other corporation; that slavery hav
ing pcrished in the States, its twin
barbarity polygamy, must die in the
Territories; that everywhere the pro-
lection accorded to citizen Of Ameri-
can birth must be secured to citizens
by American adoption that we es-
teen it the duty Of Congress to devel-
op and improve water courses and
harbors, but insist that further sub
sides to private persons or corpora
tions must cease that the obligations
of the Republic to men who pre-
served its integrity in the day of bat.
tie are undiminished by the lapse OF
fifteen years since this final victory.
Their perpetual honor is and shall for
ever be the grateful privilege and sa-
cred duty Of the American people.
6th-Since the authority to regu-
late immigration and intercourse be-
tween the United States and foreign
nations rests with the Congress Of tho
United States and its trcaty-making
powers, the Republican party, regard
ing the unrestricted immigration OF
Chinese as an evil Of great magnitude,
invokes the exercise Of that power to
restrain and limit that immigration by
the enactment Of such just, human and
reasonable provisions as will produce
that result.
7th-That the purity and patriot
ism which cbaracterizes the earlier ca
reer Of Rutherford y. Hayes in peace
and in war, and which guided the
thought Of our immediate predecessor
to him for q Presidential candidate
have continued to inspire him in his
carco as chief executive, and that his
tory will accord to his administration
the honors which are due to an efficient,
Just and courageous fulflment Of the
public business, and will honor its in
tcrpositions between the people and
the proposed partisan laws.
We charge upon the Democratic
party the habitual sacrifice Of patriot
ism and justice TO supreme, insatia-
bic lust Of Office and patronage; and
to obtain the possession Of National
and State governments and the con
troll Of place and position, they have
obstructcd all efforts TO promote the
purity and to conserve the freedom OF
suffrage have devised fraudulent GER
tiicatIons and returns; have laborcd
to unscat elected members Of Congress,
TO secure ut all hazards the vote Of
majority Of States in the House Of
Representatives have endeayorcd TO
occupy by force and fraud the places
Of trust given to others by the people
Of Maine and rescued by the courage in
the action Of Names patriotic sons
have, by methods vicious in principle
and tyranical practice, attached par
tisan Legislation TO appropriation bills
upon whose passage the very move.
mcnt Of the government depends; :;
have crushed the rights Of the individ-
ual, have yindicatcd the principles
and sought the favor Of the rebellion
against the nntion, and have cndcav-