Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-21
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

Republican rule has restored upon a OliC
basis payment i'll coin for all the national OBJ
lEsations, and has given US currency abso
Edtely good and legal, and equal III every
part Of our extended country. 1t has lifted
he credit of the nation from the point where
six per cent. bonds sold at Sc, to that where
Four per cent bonds are eagerly sought at a
premium. Under its administration railways
have increased from q 900 miles in 1860 to
more than 81, 600 miles in 1879. Our foreign
trade has increased from 500, 900, 900 to $50
e06,a90 in the same time, and our exports,
Yfaicl, were S20,00o,000 less than our imports
ia 1860, were $264, 5000 moro than our inn
psrts in 1870. Without resortng to loans, 1t
has, since the war closed, betrayed the ordin-
ary expenses Of government, besides the &C.
oruipg interest on the public debt, and dis
sarsed annually more than $50, DOC, 900 for sol
sAers' pensions. 1t has paid $3.50, 900 900 of the
psblic debt, and by rounding the balance at
lever rates, has reduced the annual interest
aharge from nearly $751; ,000, 900 to less than
$50, DOC, 600. All the industries of the country
have revived; labor is in demand; wages have
Increased, and throughout the entire country
Aoro is evidence of a coming prosperity
greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upon
his record the Republican asks for the con-
tinued confidence and support of the people,
md this convention submits for their appro-
val the following statements of the principles
and purposes which will continue to guide
and inspire its efforts:
ENUMERATION OF PRINCIPLES.
First-We affirm that the work Of the last
swenty-on years has been such as to COM
rnend itself to the favor of the nation, and
that the fruits of the costly victories which
we have achieved through immense difficult
ties should be preserved. That the peace re-
gained should be cherished. That the dissev
ered Union, now happily restored, should be
perpetUated, and that tho liberties secured to
6his generation. should be transmitted und-
minished to future generations. That the or
der established and the credit acquired should
never be imperiled. That the pensions prom
ised should DO paid. That the debt SO much
seduced should be eXtinguished by the full
payment of every dollar thereof. That the
reviving industries should be further promo
ted, and that the commerce already so great
should be steadily encouraged.
SecoAd-The Constitution OF the United
States is the supreme law, and not q compact.
Out of Confederated States it made nation.
some powers are denied the Nation, while
others are retained by States: but the bound
AIRY between the powers delegated and those
reserved is 10 be determined by National and
not by State tribunals.
Third-The work of popular education is
ono left to the care of the several States, but
it is the duty of the National government to
aid that work to the extent ofits constitutional
ability. The intelligence of the nation is but
The aggregate of the intelligence in the sever
al States, and tho destiny OF the Nation must
be guided, not by the genius of any one
State, but the average genius o. all.
NoN-SECTARIAN SCHOOLS.
Fourth-The Constitution wisely forbids |
Congress to make any laws respecting an os-
tablishing of religion, but it is idle to hope
that the Nation can be protected against the
influence of sectarianism while each State is |
exposed to its particular domination. We
therefore recommend that the Constitution be
50 amended as to lay some prohibition upon
the Legislature of each State and 20 forbid J
the appropriation of public funds 10 the sup |
port of sectarian schools.
Fifth-Wo affirm the belief avOwed in 1876, !
that the duties levied for the purpose Of reve- |
cov A
lean labor. That no further grant of the |
public domain should be made to any rail- |
road or other corporation. That slavery hav-
ing persisted in the State, its twin barbarity, |
polygamy, must die in the Territories. That
everywhere the protection accorded to citi- |
zen of American birth must be secured to |
citizens Of American adoption. That it is the |
duty of Congress to develop and improve our !
water courses and harbors, but we insist that !
further subsidies to private persons or corpor-
atoms mnst cease. That the obligations to the
men who preserved its integrity in the day OF
battle are undiminished by the lapse OF fifteen
years since their final victory. Their perpet-
ual honor is and shall forever be the grateful
privilege and the sacred duty of the Ameri-
can people.
THE CHINESE PLANK.
Sixth-Since the authority to regulat, inn
migration and intercourse between the United
States and foreign nations rests with the Con-
sress of the United States and its treaty
making powers, that the Republican party,
regarding the unrestricted immigration of
the Chinese as an evil OF great magnitude,
involves the exercise of the power 10 strain
and limit that immigration by the enact
ments Of such just, humane and reasonable
provisions as will produce tho result.
Seventh-That the purity and patriotism
which characterized the earlier career Of
Rutherford B. Hayes, in peace and war, and
which guided the thought of his immediate
predecessor to him for Presidential candi-
date, have continued to inspire him in his
career as Chief Executive, and that history
will accord to his administration the honors
which arc due to an efficient, just and courag-
eous fulfillment Of me public business, and
will honor his interposition between the peo-
pie and proposed partisan laws.
INIQUITIRs OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Eighth--We charge upon the Democratic
party the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and
Justice to a supreme and Unsuitable lust for
Office and patronage; that to obtain possession
of tho National aud State Governments, and
for the control of place and position, they
have INSTRUCTED all the efforts to preserve the
purity and conserve the freedom Of suffrage;
have devised fraudulent certificates and re-
turns; have labored to unseat lawfully elect
ed members of Congress, to secure at all
hazards the vote of the majority Of States in {
the House of Representatives; have endeav-
ored to occupy by force and fraud places Of
trust given to others by the people of Maine,
and secured by the courage and action OF
Maine patriotic sons; have by methods
vicious in principal and tyrannioal IN practice
attached partisan legislation to appropriation
bills; haye crushed the rights Of individuals,
and vindicated the principles and sought the
favor Of rebellion against the Nation, and {
have endeavored to obliterate the sacred
of the war and to overcome its in
good results-freedom and individ-
nal equality. We affirm it to be the duty and
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