Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-09
Republican National Convention.

lllnululilllllnulunnlil
Republican National Convention.
The Republican National Conven-
ton met at Chicago last Wednesday,
to nominate a candidate Tor the Pres
idency and Vice Presidency. Mr.
Hoar, of Massachusetts,, was elected
president of the convention, and
committees were appointed to con-
slider the various questions that agi-
tated the delegates, and the people
whom the delegates represented.
The unit rule was Il question that had
raised great interest in a number of
the States. 1t was said by many that
the unit rule was the medium by
which certain men wished to rule the
nomination. 1t was of no avail that
they protested against such a con
struction being put upon their mo
tives when they talked in favor of
their preference for the Presidency
The committee in charge of the ques-
ton decided that the Congressional
districts in States shall be heard by
their respective delegates, thus dis
posing of the unit rule question.
There were other questions before
the respective committees, such as
the question of credentials, contest
ed seats, rules to govern the conven-
ton, which consumed the time of the
convention from Wednesday till Sat
urday night. On Saturday night
the following platform was adopted.
Read it.
THE PLATFORM
The Republican party, in National
Convention assembled, at the end of
twenty years since the Federal Gov
eminent was first committed to its
charge, submits to the people of the
United States this brief report Of its
administration. 1t suppressed rebel
lion, which had armed nearly a mil
lion of men to subvert the national
authority. Itreconstructed the Union
of the States with freedom instead
of slavery as its corner stone. 1t
transformed 100000 human beings
from likeness Of things to the rank of
citizens 1t relieved Congress from
the Infamous work of hunting fugi-
tive slaves. and charged it to see that
slavery does not exist. 1t has raised
the value of our paper currency from
3S per cent to the par OF gold 1t
has restored upon solid basis pay
ment in coin for all the national OBJ
legations, and has given us currency
absolutely good and equal in every
part of our extended country. 1t
has lifted the credit of the nation
from 4 point from where 6 per cent.
bonds sold at Sc to that where 4 per
cent. bonds are eagerly sought at Q
premium Under its administration
railways have increased from 1,000
miles in 1860 to more than $4,000
miles in 1879; our foreign trade has
increased from S700,000,000 to ST.
$50. .000.0G0 in the same time, and
our exports, which were S20,O0O,00
less than our imports In 1860, were
S264. .000,000 more than our imports
IN 1879. Without resorting to loans
1t has. since the war closed. betrayed
the ordinary expenses of government,
besides the accrIung interest on the
public debt, aud dispensed annually
more than S30.000,000 Tor soldiers
pensions. 1t has paid SSSS. 5000
of the public debt, and by re funding
the balance at lower rates, has re-
ducei the annual interest charge
from nearly Sl5,000,000 TO less than
SS,900,000. All the industries Of the
country have revived, labor Is III de
mand, 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
party asks for the continued conf
dence and support of the people, and
this convention submits for their ap
proval the following statements Of
the principles and purposes which
will continue to guide and inspire its
efforts.
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; that the fruits
of the costly victory 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;
that the liberty secured to this gen
Grafton should be transmitted undi-
minished to future generations that
the order established and the credit
acquired should never he impaired;
that the pensions promised should he
extinguished by the full payment of
every dollar thereof; that the reviv-
ing Industries should be further pro-
NOTED, and that the commerce al
ready so great should be steadily en-
couraged.
Second. The Constitution of the
United States is a supreme law, and
not mere contract; out of confed-
Grated States it made a sovereign
nation; some powers are denied to
the nation while others are denied to
the States, but the boundary between
the powers delegated and those re-
served is to be determined by the
natioral and not by the State tribu-
nails.
Third. The work of popular edu-
cation is 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 Constitu-
tional duty. The intelligence OF the
nation is but the aggregate of the
intelligence of the several States, and
the destiny of the nation must not
be guided by the genius of any one
State hrt by the ayprapa raniuS of