Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-17
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
fairfield Nominated on the Thirty.
sixth Ballot.
Fourth Day.

pavter. of Washington.
Mr. Boutwell, Mass offered resolution as
follows
>,mmittee be requested to prepare and present
athod for the election Of delegates to the national
Convention to be held in 1884 and to issue instruc-
lions in conformity Herewith.
Mr. Conger objected to the present consider
elton of the resolution us did also several others.
II was therefore LAID over.
The convention then proceeded to the consid-
Grafton Of the report of the committee ON ere
dentals On the Kansas case the roll
called and the majority report sustained by 476
yeas to 1S4 NAYS. thus ousting -four sitting men,
hers and seating four contestants Grant mem.
vote on the West Virginia case sustained the
minority report, which reduced the Blaine men
two and added one to Sherman and one to
Grant The Utah case was taken up last and
decided in favor of seating the contestants
lGrant mem by 426 yeas to $40 nays.a fai.
The report of the committee on rules being
now before the convention, the chairman recog-
nzed Mr.. Garfield. who moved that the major
ity report be adopted.
Mr. Sharpe. of New York, here introduced as
a substitute resolution that the convention at
once proceed to ballot for candidate for presi.
dent of the United States. On call of states,
the resolution was defeated. The majority re-
port was then adopted, after amending the
tenth rule by adding follows "And said
committee shall within the next twelve months
prescribe methods u rules for the selection of
delegates to the national convention to be held
in 1884 announce the same to the country and
issue the call for that convention in conformity
Herewith; provided that such methods or rules
shall include and secure to the several congress
eional Districts in the United States the right to
elect their own delegates to the national con-
vention.
Mr.. Pienepont, of New York, then arose, and
presented the resolutions which had been pre-
pared by the committee
THE PLATFORM.
The Republican party in national convention as
sembed at the end of twenty since the federal
government was first committed to its charge, sub
mits to the people of the United States this brief
report Of its administration. 1t suppressed rebel
hon which had armed nearly million of men to
subyert the national authority. 1t reconstructed
the union Of the states with freedom instead of
slavery in its cornerstone. II transformed four
million human beings from likeness of thugs to the
rank Of citizens 1t relieved congress from the in
famous work Of hunting fugitive slaves and charged
it to that slavery does not exist 1t has raised
the value of paper currency from 80 per cent TO
the par of gold. has restored upon solid basis
payment in cash for all the national obligations, and
has given us 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 six per cent bon
sold at So to that point where four per cent bonds
administration railways have increased from 81, 100
miles in 1860 to more than $4,000 miles in 1878.
Our foreign trade has increased from $7Oo,oOo,0oo
to 81 l5O 900 in the same time, and exports
which 500 600 600 less than our imports in 1860
were 1854 00O, 900 more than our imports in 1879.
without resortng to loans it has since the closed
betrayed the ordinary expenses Of government be-
sides the accruing interest on the public debt and
disbursed annually than $50 O0O 900 for soldiers
pensions 1t has paid $SS8 900 Of the public debt
and by refundng the balance at lower rates has re-
duced the annual interest charge from nearly $751;
600 900 to less than s79000000. All the industries OF
our country have revived. Labor is in demand,
wages have increased, and throughout the entire
country there is evidence of a coming prosperity
greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upon this record
rfy EG no m.
submits for their approval 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
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 shall be preserved, that the peace regained
should be cherished, that the discovered union now
happily restored shall be perpetuated and the liberties
secured to this generation should be transmitted
diminished to future generations, that the order
tablished and the credit acquired should never be
impaired; that the pensions and promises should be
paid; that the debt so much reduced should be
tinguished by the full payment of every dollar there
of; that the reviying industries should be further
promoted, and that the commerce already 80 great
should be steadily encouraged.
Second. The constitution Of the United States is a
supreme law and not mere contract. Out Of
tederate states i made sovereign nation. Some
powers denied to the nation, while others de
MED to the states, but the boundary between the
powers delegated and those reserved Is TO be de-
termined by the national and not the state tribunals.
Third. The work of popular education is one left
TO the of the several states but is the duty of
the national government TO aid that work to the
tent Of its constitutional ability. The intelligence Of
the nation is but the aggregate Of the intelligence of
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 or establishment of
religion, but it idle to hope that the nation be
protected against the influence Of sectariansm while
each state is exposed to its domination We there
aar1l Ia nAaA
as to lay the same prohibition upon the legislature of
each state and forbid the appropriation of public
funds to the support of sectarian schools.
Fifth-We reafir the belief avowed in 1876 that the
duties levied for the purpose OF revenue should so
discriminate to favor American labor that no fur
ther grant Of the public domain should be made to
any railway other corporation; that slavery having
persisted in the states, its twin barbarty poygamy,
mrs; die in tn, territories that everywhere the pro-
tcon accorded TO a citizen Of American birth must
BE- secured to citizens by American adoption; that
esteem it the duty Of congress to develop and i'm
prove water courses and harbors, but insist that
further subsidies to private persons or corporations
must close; that the Obligations Of the republic to the
who preserved its integrity the day of the
since their final victory; their perpetual honor il and
sha forever be the grateful privilege and sacred duty
OF the American people.
si1th--Since that authority to regulate immigra-
ton and intercourse between the United States and
foreign nations rests with the congress Of the United
States and its treaty-mabing powers the Republican
party regarding the unrestricted immigration OF
Chinese evil of great magnitude, invoke the
exercise Of that power to restrain and limit that i'm
migration by the enactment Of such Just, humane
and reaso nable provisions viii produce that re.
suit
Sevenh-That the purity and patriotism which
characterized the early carter Of Rutherford b.
Hayes, in peace and war, ana which guided the
thought Of our immediate predecessors to him Tor
presidential candidate, have continued to inspire
I'm in his career chief executive and that history
viii accord 10 his administration the honOrs which