Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-11
THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.
Principles Proclaimed at the Chi
oago Convention.
WHAT Has BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
Iniquities of the Democratic Party
Plainly Set Forth.
WHAT Has BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
Isrsclsl BY rr1nanAa 10 rus RECORD usiox.l

The following is a verbatim report of the
platform adopted by the National Republi-
can Convention at Chicago, its transmission
having been ordered by the RECORD UNION
under the belief that the document hereto
fore published by other journals was not
complete and correct report. That our
judgment was not at fault will at once be
seen by comparison of the two reports:
The Platform.
CHICAGO, June 10th. - The Republican
party, in National Convention 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 report of its administration
WHAT THE PARTY has ACCOMPLISHED.
1t suppressed rebellion which had armed
nearly million OF men to subvert the ma
tional authority. [Applause.l 1t recon
structed the Union of States with freedom
instead of slavery as its cornerstone
beings from the likeness of things to the
rank of citizens. [Applause.l 1t relieved
Congress from the infamous work Of hunting
fugitive slaves, and charged it to see that
slavery does not exist. Applause. 1t has
raised the value Of our paper currency from
SO per cent. to the par of gold. Applause.
1t has restored upon solid basis the payment
in coin of all national obligations, and has
given US a currency absolutely good and equal
in every part of our extended country APP
plause.l 1t has lifted the credit of the nation
from the point where six per cent. bonds sold
at Sc to that where four per cent. bonds are
lyr OF A.,,N I
Under its administration railways have in
creased from 81 coo miles in 1860 to more
than $1,000 miles in 1879. [Applause.
Our foreign trade has increased from
S75, ,000, 900 to 81, 80, ,00Q0 600 in the same
time, and our exports, which were $50, coo, 600
less than our imports in 1860, were S26i,-
000,000 more than our imports in 1879.
| Applause and cries of GOOD Goodr'l
Misunderstanding to loans, ithas since the war
closed, betrayed the ordinary expenses of the
Government, besides the accruing interest on
the public debt, aud has disbursed annually
more than $50, ,000, 900 for soldiers and sail
ors' pensions. 1t has paid $3.50, 900, 900 of
the public debt by refunding the balance at
lower rates, has reduced the annual interest
charge from nearly $50, 000, COO to less than
SS9, 600, coo. All the industries of the coun-
try have revived; labor is in demand; wages
have increased, and throughout the entire
country there is evidence of a coming pros
perity 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:
ENUMERATION OF PRINCIPLES.
First-NVe affirm that the work of the Re-
publican party for the last 20 years has been
such as 20 commend it to the favor of the
nation that the fruits of the costly victories
which we have achieved through immense
difficulties should be preserved; that the
peace regained should be cherished that the
Union should be perpetuated and that the
liberties secured to this generation should be
undiuinished to future genera.
tions; that the order established and the
credit acquired should never be impaired ;
that the pensions promised soldiers should be
paid that the debt, so much reduced, should
be extiuguished by the full payment of every
dollar thereof; that the reviving industries
should be further promoted, and that the
commerce, already SO great, should be steadily
Second--The Constitution of the United
States is supreme law, and not mere con-
tract. Appiause. 0atNof confederated
States it made sovereign nation. Some
powers are denied TO the nation, while others
are denied to the States but the boundary
between the powers delegated and those re-
served is to be determined BY the national,
and not by the State tribunal. [Cheers.
Third-The work of popular education is
one left to the care of the several States but
it is the duty Of the National Government to
aid that work to the extent OF its constitu-
tional ability. The intelligence of the nation
is but the aggregate of the intelligence in the
several States, and the destiny of the nation
must be guided, not by the genius of any one
State, but by the average genius of all. APP
plause.
NoN-sECTARIAN SCHOOLS.
Fourth-The Constitution wisely forbids
Congress to make any law respecting an
establishment 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 domination. We there
fore recommend that the Constitution be so
amended as to lay the same prohibition upon
the Legislature of each State, aud to forbid
the appropriation of public funds to the. sup
port of sectarian schools. Cheers.
DUTIES OF THE DAY.
Fifth-We affirm the belief avowed in 1876
that the duties levied for the purpose of reve-
nues should so discriminate as to favor Amer
lean labor; that no further grants of the
public domain should be made to any railway
or other corporation; that slavery having
perished in the States, its twin barbarity, po-
lygamy, must die in the Territories that
everywhere the protection accorded to q citl
zen of American birth must be secured to
citizens Of American adoption; that we deem
it the duty of Congress to develop and I'M
prove the water. courses and harbors, but in-
sist that further subsidies to private persons
hat In
tions of the Republic to the men who pre-
served its integrity in the hour of battle are
undiminished by the lapse of fifteen years
since their final victory. To do them honor
is and shall forever be the grateful privilege
and sacred duty Of the American people.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Sixth-Since the authority to regulate i'm
migration and intercourse between the United
States and foreign nations rest with the Con-
eress of the United States and the treaty
making power, the Republican party, regard
ing the unrestricted immigration of Chinese
o matter of grave concernment under the ex-
ercise of both these powers, would limit and
restrict that immigration by the enactment Of
such lust, humane and reasonable laws and
treaties as will product that result.
CONCENTRATION OF PRESIDENT HAYES.
Seyenth-That the purity and patriotism
which characternes the earlier career of
Rutherford B. Hayes in peace and war, and
pointed to him for Presidential candidate,
have continued to inspire him in his career
as Chief Executive, and that history Will
accord to his administration the honors which
are due to an efficient, just and courteous dis
charge of the public business, and will honor
his vetoes interposed between the people and
attempted partisan laws. lCheers.l
INIQuITIEs OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic
party the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and
Injustice to supreme and Unsuitable lust for
office and patronage that to obtain posses
sion of the National and State Governments
and the control of place and position, they
have obstructed all efforts to promote the
purity and to conserve the freedom
of suffrage; and have devised fraud
ulent ballots and invented fraudulent
certificates of returns have labored to un-
seat lawfully elected members of Congress TO
secure at all hazards the vote of a majority
of States in the House of Representatives
have endeavored to occupy by force and fraud
the places of trust given to others by the
people of Maine. rescued by the courage and
action of Names patriotic sons have by
methods vicious in principle and tyrannieal In
practice attached partisan legislation to ap-
propriation bills. upon whose passage the
yery movement of the Government de-
pended have crushed the rights OF tie lndi-
vidual; have advocated the principles and
sought the favor OF the rebellion against the
nation, and have endeavored to obliterate the