The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-29
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
The following is the platform passed by the recent
Reruh hIican cnnyantinn held at CHICAGO

The following is the platform passed by the recent
Republican convention held at Chicago:
Republican rule has restored upon solid basis pay
men in coin for all the national obligations and mas
given us a 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
per cent bonds sold at s6 to that where per cent
bonds are eagerly sought at premium. Under Its
administration railways have increased from $1,000
miles in 1S60 to than 81 900 miles in 1879 Our
foreign trade has increased from 500, 600 to S
$50 in the tinle and our exports IN 1861
were 1854, 900, 900 more than our imports in 1879
Without resorting to loans it has, since the war
closed betrayed the ordinary expenses of the govern
ment besides the accrng interest on the public debt
and disbursed annually more than $50 for sol
diers pensions 1t has paid $3.50 900 900 of the pub
lie debt and by refundng the balance at lower rates.
has reduced the annual interest charge, from nearly
S151 600 900 to less than S59, 900 00O All the indus
tries of the country revived labor is in demand
wages increased and throughout the entire coun
than we ever enioyd. Upon this record the Repub-
lcan party asks for the continued confidence and sup
port of the people, and this convention submits to
their approval the following statement of the princ
pies and purpose which will contnne to guide and in
Spire its efforts:
First-we affirm that the work of the last 81 years
been such 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 discovered union now happily
restored should be perpetuated and that the liberties
secured to this generation should be transmitted un
diminished to future generations that the order es-
tabsheo and the credit acquired should never be i'm
periled that the pensions promised should be paid
that the debt much reduced should be eXtingushed
by the payment of every dollar thereof that the
vivng industries should be promoted and that
the already great should be encouraged
Second-The constitution of the United States is
ated states. 1t made sovereign nation Some pow
denied to the nation while others retained
by the states but the boundary between the powers
delegated and those reserved is to be determined by
| national and not by state tribunals
Third-The work of popular education is one left
to the care of the states but 1t is the aty
the national to aid that work the
tent of its constitutional ability The intelligence OF
the nation but the aggregate of the intelligence in
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 establishment of reg
ion it is idle hope that the nation be pro-
tected against the influence OF sectarianism while
each state is exposed to its particular domination We
| therefore recommend that the constitution be so
amended to lay prohibition upon the legisa-
ton of each state and to forbid the appropriation of
the public funds the support OF sectaran schools.
Fifth-|e reafIirm the belief avowed in 1876 that
the duties levied for the purpose of should
discriminate to favor American labor that fur
her grant of the pucc domain should be made to any
railroad other corporation that slavery having
perished in the states, its twain barbarity poygamy
must die in the territories that everywhere the pro-
lection accorded to American birth must be secured
to citizens by American adoption that it is the duty
of congress to develop and improve our water
and harbors but insist that further subsidies to
private persons corporations must that the
obligations who preserved its integrity in the
day Of battle are undminished by the lapse of Is years
| since their final victory their perpetual honor is
and shall forever be the greatful privilege and the
| cred duty of the American people
| Sxth-Snce the authority to regulate immigration
and intercourse between the United States and foreign
nations rests with the congress of the United States
and its treaty making powers the Republican party
regarding the unrestricted immigration of Chinese
an evil of great magnitude, inyokes the exercise o
that power to restrain and limit that immigration by
the enactment Of such just, humane and reasonable
| provisions as will produce that result.
| Seventh-That the purity and patriotism which
characterized the earlier of R. Hays In
| and war, and which guided the thought of his inme
date predecessor to him for presidential candidate
have continued to inspire him in his chic
| executive and that history will accord to his ad
mnistration the honors which due to efficient
just and courageous fulIilment of the public bust
ness, and will honor his interposition between the
| people and proposed partisan laws
/ Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic party tht
habitual sacrifices of patriotism and justice to
preme and unsuitable lust for Office and patronage
that to obtain possession of the national and state gov
ernments, and OF the control Of place and position
they have obstructed all the efforts to preserve the
purity and the freedom of suffrage, have de
vised fraudulent returns and certificates hrye laboree
to unsaat lawfully elected members Of congress to
cure at all hazards the vote or the majority of tbs
states in the house of Representatives, have endoavor
ed to occupy by force and rand places of trust gver
to others by the people OF Maine, and rescued by the
courage and action of Mains patriotic sons have by
methods vicious in principle and tyranca in practice
attached partisan legislation to appropriation bills
have crushed the rights OF individuals and yndicatet
the principle and sought the favor of rebellion agans
the nation anShave endeayored to obliterate the
cred memories of the war to overcome ines!imabls
good results, freedom and Individual equality.