Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17


thorough radical and complete reform Of the
Civil Service. This amendment was discussed
at considerable length and finally adopted.
The resolutions, as amended, were then
adopted by a 'uiua voes vote. The following
is the platform:
The Republican party, in National Conven-
ton assembled, at the end of twenty years
since the Federal Government was first com
the United States this brief report Of its ad-
ministration:
It suppressed rebellion which had armed
nearly a million of mea to subvert the Ma
ti0nal authority. 1t reconstructed the Union
OF states, with freedom instead of slavery az
human beings from the likeness Of
things to c the rank nix of citizens: 1t
Work of hunting fugitive Slaves. and charSed
it to see that slavery did not exist; it has
raised the value of our paper currency from
restored, upon solid basis, payment in coin
of all National obligations, and has given us a
currency absolutely good and equal in every
the credit of the Nation from the point where
six-per-cent. bonds sold at 50 to where four
percent. bonds are eagerly sought at u pre-
Under it's administration railways have in
creased from $1,000 miles in 1860 to more than
81, 600 miles in 1879. Our foreign trade has in
creased from $700,0O0,0O0to $1,150O0O,000 in the
same time, and our exports, which were So
0000 900 less than our imports in 1860, were $264-
OOO, 900 more than our imports i'll 1879. without
resOrting to loans it has. since the war closed,
betrayed the ordinary expenses of Government
besides the accruing interest ON the public
debt, and has disbursed annually more than
$40, 600 600 for soldiers and sailors pensions 1t
has paid $50, 0O0. 900 of the public debt, and by
refunding the balance at l rwer rates, IS re-
duced the nnual inteTess CHI .rge from nearly
S15OO0l.Ot les than Sss.UJ0oU, Al tn in
dustries of tn. cou',t try have revived !, or Is
throughout the entire country there is evil
dence Of a coming III osperity grea er than we
Be yubl.can pa ty asks for the contin ed con-
hdence and sup, o of the leople and This
Convention sub nits for 1t cir approval the fol
poses which W II c mt nue. to gu de and insl ire
its effOr.s:
i. We affirm that the work of the Republ-
can party for the last twenty years has been
such as to commend it to the favor Of the Ma
ton; that the fruits of the costly victories
ficulties should be preserved; that the peace
regained should be cherished; that the
Union should be perpetuated, and that
ton should be transmitted undimin-
ished to future generations; that the order es-
tablshed and the credit acquired should never
be Impaired: that the 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 indus
tries should be further promoted, and that the
commerce already so great should be steadily
encouraged.
supreme law, and not mere contract. Out
of confederated States it made a sovereign
Nation some powers are denied to 3 the Ma Ma
the boundary between the powers delegated
and those reserved is to be determined by the
National, and not by the State, tribunals.
3. The work of popular education Is one left
to the care of the several States, but it is the
duty of the National Government to aid that
work to the extent of its constitutional ability.
The intelligence of the Nation is but the
aggregate of the intelligence in the several
must be guided not by the genius of any one
State, but by the average genius of all.
4. The Constitution wisely forbids Congress
to make any law respecting an establishment
of religion, but it is idle to hope that the Ma.
ton can be protected against the influence or
sectarianism while each State is exposed to
that the Constitution be so amended as TO lay
the same prohibition upon the Legislature of
public funds to the support of sectarlan
schools.
8. We reaffirm the belief avowed in 1876 that
the duties levied for the purpose of revenue
should SO discriminate as to favor Anne ifcan
labor; that no further grants of the public do
main should be made to- any railway or other
the States, its twin barbarity, polygamy,
must die in the Territories; that every
where the protection accorded to citi-
zen of American birth must be secured to
citizens by American adoption. That we deem
it the duty of Congress to develop and inn
prove our water-courSes and harbors, but in
sist that further subsidies to private persons
or corporations must cease; that the obliga-
lions of the Republic to the men who pre-
undiminished by the lapse of fifteen years
since their final victory. To do them honor is
aud shall forever he the grateful privile ge and
sa ed duty of the American people.
d. Since the authority to regulate immgra-
ton and intercourse between the United
States and foreign Nations rests with the Con-
gress of the United states and the treaty-mak-
ing power, the Republican party, regarding
the unrestricted immigration of chinese as
matter of grave cOncernment, under the exer-
else of both these powers would limit and re-
strict that immigration by the enactment of
such just humane and reasonable laws and
Z. That the purity and patriotism which char
acterized the earlier career of rutherford b.
Hayes in peace and war, and which guided the
of our immediate predecessors to
him for Presidential candidate. have contin-
ued to inspire him in his career as Chief Exec
utive; and that history will accord to his Adj
the honOrs which are due to an
just and courteous discharge OF the
public business, and will honor his vetoes IN,
terposed between the people and attempted
partisan laws.
8. We charge upon the Democratic party
the habitual sacrifice OF patriotism and Jus
tfce to supreme and Unsuitable lust for Of
fee and patronage; that to obtain possession
OF the National and State Governments and
the control of place and position they nave
obstructed all efforts to promote the purity
and to conserve the freedom of suffrage and
have devised fraudulent ballots and invented
certification of returns; have la
bored to unseat lawfully-elected pembers or
Congress to secure at all hazards the vote or
majority of States in the House OF Represent
atives; have endeavored to occupy by
force ard fraud the places of trust given to
others by the p ople of Maine, rescued by the
courae in action Of Names patriotic sons
have. by methods vicious in principle and
tyrannica in practice, attached partisan legis-
lation to appropriation bills upon whose pas
sage the We y movement of the Government
depended; have crushed the rights OF the in
have advocated the principles and
sought tn, favor of the Rebellion against
the Ration, and have endeavOred to obiltef-
ate the cred memories of the war and TO
over come its inestimabiy valuable results Of
personal freedom an Individual
9. The equal, and steady, and complete en-
of the laws, and the protection of
all our citizens in the enjoyment OF all privt-
leges and immunity guaranteed BY the Constr |
tuition. are the fl st duties of the Nation.
10. The dangers of n "Solid South" can only |
be averted by faithful performance Of every |
promise which the Nation has made to the
citizen. The execution of the laws and the
punishment of all those who violate them, are
the only safe methods by which an enduring |
peace can be secured and genuine prosperity |
throughout the South. Whatever
promises the Nation makes the Nation must
perform. A Nation cannot with safety rele- |
gate this duty to the States. The "SOlid |
South must be divided by the peaceful agen- |
cies of the ballot, and all honest opinions must
there find free expression. To this end the |
honest voter must be protected against ter |
rorism, violence or fraud.
IL. And we affirm il to be the duty and the |
Of fh, Rpnublican marty use all |