Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-07


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The Platform.
The republican party, in national con-
vention assembled at the end Of twenty
years since the federal government was
first committed to its charge, submit to the
people of the United States this brief re-
port of its administration Il suppressed
8 rebellion which had armed nearly o
million men to subvert the national au.
thority. It reconstructed the union of the
states with freedom instead of alavery 40 its
cornerstone. It transformed four million
human beings from the likeness of things
to the rank Of citizens. It relisved con-
gress from the Infamous work of hunting
fugitive slaves and charged 1t to see that
slavery does not exist. It has raised the
value of our paper currency from thirty
eight per cent to the par of gold. Il has
restored upon q solid basis the payment in
coin of all the national obligations and has
given Us currency absolutely good and
equal in every part of our extended country.
1t has lifted the credit of our nation from
the point where 8 per cent. bonds sold at SO
to that where per cent. bonds are eagerly
sought at a premium. Under its admins
tration, railways have increased from thirty
one thousand miles in 1860 to m ore than
eighty thousand in 1879. Our foreign trade
has increased from 800, ,0Ol 600 to 81, 800, :
co., 600 in the same time, and our exports,
which were $40, 900 less than our i'm
ports in 1860. were $264, ,000, eco more than
our imports in 1879 Without resorting to
loans, it has, since the war closed, betrayed
the expenses of the government, besides
paying the accruing interest on the public
debt and disbursed annually more than
$50, coo. Coo for soldiers pensions. It has
paid 1888, ,000. 600 of the public debt, and,
by refunding the balance at lower rates,
has reduced the annual interest charge
from nearly $l5l, ,0OO, 600 to $89, ,0OO,O 600.
All the industries of the country have re-
vived. Labor is in demand. Wages have
increased. and throughout the entire coun-
try there is evidence of a coming prosperity
greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upon
this record the republican party asks for
the continued confidence and support OF
the people, and this convention submits for
their approval the following statement OF
the principles and purposes which will
continue to guide and inspire Its efforts:
We affirm that the work of the last
twenty-one years has been such as to COM
mend itself to the favor Of the nation, and
that the fruits of the costly victories which
we have achieved through immense diff
culties should be preserved; that the peace
regained should be cherished; that the dis
severed Union, now happily restored
should be perpetrated, and that the liber-
ties secured to this generation should be
| transmitted undiminis he'd to future gene
rations: that the order established and
| 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 industries
| Ok ho fin ~ S1rO0nntad
commerce, already 30 great, should be
steadily encouraged, s..
| q The constitution of the United States
| is q supreme law and not mere contract
| Out of confederate states it made a soy.
ereign nation. Some powers are denied te
| the nation, while others are denied to the
states; but the boundary between the
powers delegated and those reserved is t.
be determined by the national aud not the
| state tribunals. ~
8. The work Of popular education is ont
left to the care Of the several states, but i
is the duty of the national government K
aid that work to the extent Of its constitu
tional ability. The intelligence lof the ma
ton Is but the aggregate intelligence in tn,
several states, and the destiny Of the natior
must be guided, not By the genius of any
one state. but by the average genius Of all
4. The constitution wisely forbids con
lisnment of religion, but It is idle to hop
that nation can be protected against tn
influence Of sectarianism while each stat
10 exposed to Its denomination. We
therefore, recommend that the const tutiol
be 80 amended as to lay the same prohibi
ton on the legislature of each state, and t
forbid the appropriation of public funds +
the support of sectsrian schools.
8. We reafirm the belief avowed in 1876
| fhof thA aufiaa lnvind for fhA ntsrn0an n
revenue should 80 discriminate as TO favo
American labor; that no further grant o
the public domain should be made to an,
railway or other corporation; that slavery
having perished in the states, its twil
barbarity, polygamy, must die in the terri
tories; that everywhere the protection &C
corded to citizen of American birth mus
be secured to citizens by American adop
ton; that we esteem it the duty of co1gres
to develop and improve our water course
and harbors, but insist that further sabsi
dies to private persons or corporation
must cease; that the obligations of the re
public to the men who preserved Its lnteg
rity in the day of battle are undiminishe
by the lapse Of fifteen years since their Ana
shall forever be, the grateful privilege an
sacred duty of the American people.
8. Since the authority to regulate immi
grafton and intercourse between tn
United States and foreign nations rest
with the congress Of the United States an
its treaty-making powers, the republica
party, regarding the unrestricted immigra
ton of Chinese as an evil of great magni
tade, invoke the exercise of that power
restrain and limit that immigration by tn
enactment of such just humane and rea
sonabie provisions as will produce that re
suit
/ Z. That the purity and patriotism whicl
chsracterizes the earlier career of Ruther
ford B. Hayes, in speace and war, an
which guided the thoughts Of our imme
diate predecessors to him for presiden
4 tial candidate, have continued to. inspir
him In his career as chief executive, an
that history will accord his administrator
the honors which are due to an efficient
Just and courteous discharge of the publ
business, and will honor his interpositio
; between the people and proposed partisan
laws.
8. We charge upon the democratic part
!, the habitual sacrifice of patriotism an
justice to to supreme and Unsuitable lus
for Office and patronage; that to obtain pos
! session of the national and state govern
ments, and the control of place, they hav
obstructed all efforts to promote the purit
and to conserve the suffrages; have devise
. fraudulent certifcations and returns; hav
labored to unseat lawfully elected mem
bers of congress, to secure at all hazerd
the vote of q msjority of the states in th
| house Of representatives; have endeavore
to occupy by force and fraud the places G
, trust given to others by the people of Maine
which were rescued by the courage |
action Of Names patriotic sons; have b
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