Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-07-14
THE PLATFORM.
DECLARATION OF PRIHCIPLEs
OF THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.


OF THE REPUBLICAN, Party.
The Benens OF Republioan Rule 90
the whole Country ssd People
Popular Edueatisn-Ih he Chiuese
On ssiea = Charges Against she
Democratic Party.
Below is given the text OF the platform
resolutions adopted by the Republican
National Convention at Chicago:
Republican rule has restored upon .
solid basis payment In coin for all tho
national obligations, and has given rs .
currency absolutely good and legal. and
equal 10 every part OF our extended u
try. II has lifted the credit Of the nation
from the point where six per cent. bonds
sold at So, to that where four per cent.
bonds are eagerly sought ut . premium.
Under its administration railways have
increased from a, 900 miles In 1860 To-
more than 50, 900 miles In 1879. Our for
eign trade has increased from s700. 00o. 900
to 81, $50, 600, 900 In the Same time, and our
sxports, which were sac, 900, 900 less than
our imports In 1860. were $264 .000. 900
moro than our imports in 1870. Without
resorting TO loans, II has, sinoe the war
closed, betrayed the ordinary expenses OF
government. besides the acoruing interest
on the public debt, and disbursed annually
more than $50. DOC, 900 for soldiers pen.
sions. It has paid $3.50. 000, 900 OF the
public debt, and by ~refuAding the balance
at lower rates, has reduced the annual
interest charge from nearly $751; ,000, 900
to less than $89, 900, 600. All the indus
tries Of the country have revived; labor 10
in demand; wages have increased, and
throughout tho entire country there In
evidence Of . 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 statements OF
tho principles and purposes which will
continue to guide and inspire Its efforts:
ENUMERATION OF PRINCIPLES.
First-we affirm that tho work Of the
last twenty-ons years has been such a. TO
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
peace rsgained should be cherished. That
the discovered Union, now happily restored,
should be perpetuated, and that the liber-
ties secured 10 this generation should DO
transmitted undiminished 70 future gener-
atoms. That the order established and the
credit acquired should never DO imperiled.
That the pensions promised should DO paid.
That the debt 30 much reduced should be
extinguished by tho full payment Of every
dollar thereof. That tho reviving indus
tries should DO further promoted. and that
the m already 10 great should be
steadily encouraged.
second-The Constitution Of the United
States il the supreme law. and not . mere
compact. Out OF Confederated States IL
made q sovereign nation. Some powers
are denied TO the Nation, while others are
retained by the States; but the boundary
between the powers delegated and those
reserved 10 to DO determined by National
and not by State tribunals.
Third-The work Of popular education
is one left TO the care Of the several States.
but II is the duty Of the National govern.
ment to aid that work to tho eItent OF Its
constitutional ability. The intelligence Of
the nation Is but the aggregate OF the In.
| telligence In the several States, and the
destiny Of the Nation must DO guided. not
by the genius Of any q State, but the
average genius OF all.
SoN.sEcTARIAS SCHOOLS.
Fourth-The Constitution wisely forbids
Congress to make any laws respecting an
establishment Of religion, but II 10 idle 70
hope that the Nation can DO protected
against the influence Of sectarianism while
each State 10 exposed to Its particular
domination. We therefore recommend
that the Constitution DO 80 amended a. 70
lay some prohibition upon the Legislature
Of each State and to forbid the appropria'
ton Of public funds to the support OF Sec
tartan schools.
Fifth-ws rsafirm the belief avowed In
1876. that the duties levied for the purpose
OF revenue should 80 discriminate ~ to
favor American labor. That no further
grant OF tho public domain should be made
to any railroad or other corporation. That
slavery having persisted In the States, its
twin barbarity. polygamy, must die In the
Territories. That everywhere the protec-
ton accorded to Q citizen Of American
birth must be secured 10 citizens OF Amer.
lean adoption. That 10 10 the duty Of Con.
gress to develop and improve our water
courses and harbors, but we insist thai
further subsidies to private persons or cor
p~orations must cease. That the obliga-
lions TO the men who preserved Its integ.
rity in the day OF battle are u~ndiminished
by the lapse Of fifteen years since their
| hual victory. Their perpetual hon ID
and shall forever be the grateful privilege
and the sacred duty Of the American
people. .
TIE CHINESE PLANK.
Sirth-Since tho authority to regulate
immigration and intercourse between the
United States and foreign nations rests
with the Congress Of the United States
and its trsaty.making powers, that the
Republican party, regarding the unre.
stricted immigration OF the Chinese a an
evil Of great magnitude. involves the exer.
else OF the power to restrain and limit that
immigration by the enactment Of such just.
humane and reasonable provisions As will
produce the result.
seventh-That the purity and patriotism
which characterized the earlier career oil
Rutherford b. Hayes. In peace and war,
and which guided tho thought Of his i'm
mediate predecessor TO him for Q Presi'
dental candidate, have continued TO in
spire him In his career a. chief executive,
and that history will accord to his admin
istration the honors which are due to an
efficient. Just and courageous fulfllmen'
Of the public business, and will honor his
Interpolation between the people and pro
posed partisan laws.
ISIouIrIEs or THE DEMOCRACY.
Eighth-We charge upon tho Demo
cratic party the habitual sacrifice Of pa
triotism and justice to . supreme and In
suitable lust for Office and patronage; thal
to obtain possession Of the National and
State Governments, and Of the control Of
place and position, they have INSTRUCTED
all the efforts to preserve tho purity and
conserve the freedom Of suffrage; have
devised fraudulent certificates and returns
have devised fraudulent certificates and
returns; have labored TO unseat lawfully
elected members Of Congress, to secure o.