Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-22
OREGON.
Rspublican State Convention.

PORTLAND (Or.), April 21st.-The State
Republican Convention convened at IL A. N.
to-day, and was called to order by David
Froman, Chairman of the State Central
Committee. j. G. PEBBLES was elected tenn
porary Chairman. A Committee on Gre
dentials was appointed and the Convention
adjourned until l P. NJ.
There are 165 votes in the Convention, and
but few proxies. The delegates represent the
very best men in the Republican party of the
State. A large number of prominent Repub-
licans from different portions of the State are
in attendance, and an unusual degree of in
terest is manifested, although there is every
reason to predict harmonious action.
SECOND DIsPATCH.l
PORTLAND, April 21st.-The Convention
met at l P. NJ
The Committee on Credentials submitted
their report, which was adopted.
Committees on Permanent Organization,
Order of Business and Platform were APP
pointed, and the Convention adjourned until
4P.M.
The Convention reassembled at the hour
appointed, and the Committee on Platform
submitted report, which was read and
adopted. The platform asserts the purpose
of the Republican party to maintain and ad-
minister the affairs of the Government of the
State by strict economy and faithful adher-
ence to the Constitution and laws thereof
and Of the United States; is in favor of
thorough revision and equalization of our sys-
TEN of taxation; that we propose to maintain
and enforce the amendments to the CT nstitu-
ton of the United States, with all the pow
ers of the National Government, to the end
that every citizen, poor or rich, black or white,
may be secured in the full enjoyment of civil
and political rights; that the overthrow of the
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life, by which means free government in a
portion of the States has been defeated. and
the manifested fraud and threatened violence
in others, together with the attempted nulli-
6cation of the laws of the General Govern
ment and the decisions of the Supreme Court
thereon by Congressional action, in the in
terests of the Democratic party, is an at
tempted revolution, and must be met as such
declares against State srights declares against
the recent action Of the State Democratic
Convention in censuring the Supreme Court
of the United States; declares that the at
tempt by the leaders of the Democratic party
to defraud the people of the State out Of an
electoral vote was an outrage unparalleled in
the political history of the State, which, to-
gether with the Maine infamy and the at
tempt to unseat members in the halls of Con-
gress for a base partisan advantage, deserves
the condemnation of all minded men
bitterly condemns the outrageous conduct of
the Democratic State administration from
1870 to 1873, their extravaganza, their cor
ruption and their populations deprecates the
course of the members of the Democratic
party who have undertaken to revive Sec
tional animosity for the purpose of securing
political ascendancy in the Southern States,
and who have revived the memories of Sec
tional strife by the defiant declaration of a
purpose to repeal the laws made necessary
by the war and enacted to secure
the results of the war. and condemn
their attempts to secure by legislation what
was not accomplished by arms is in favor of
revenue for the support of the General Gov
eminent by duties upon imports sound
policy requires such adjustment of import
duties as to encourage the development of the
interests of the whole country, and favors
judicious appropriations by the General Gov
eminent for the improvement of rivers and
seaports, as well as for the construction of
such lines of railway as will develop the re-
sources of the country; that we demand
modification of the treaty with China, SC as
to restrict Chinese immigration to America.
The following resolution was offered by the
Committee on Platforms:
Resolved, That the first choice Of the Republican