Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-04-30
Platform Of the Massachusetts, Repub-
licans.
The following are the resolutions
adopted by the late Massachusetts State
RpnI1blican Convention.


The following are the resolutions
adopted by the late Massachusetts, State
Republican Convention:
l. We declare our steadfast adherence to
the ideas and principles of government and
policy which have made the Republican party
distinctly the party of freedom and equal
rights; of patriotic devotion to the Union; of
2. We believe in an honest currency, with
every dollar equal in value to every other
dollar; and in a financial system which shall
sacredy guard the National faith and credit
and assure the continuance of specie-pay-
ments, and we congratulate the Administra-
tiOn and country upon the conspicuous sue
cess with which resumption has been accom-
plished, commercial confidence restored, and
the public debt refunded and reduced under
the able management of the present Secretary
g. We believe in the inviolable sovereignty
of the National Union as established by the
Constitution over all the States and all the
people, and in the duty of the National Gov
ernment by wise laws, efficiently executed to
protect the ballot in all National elections,
and to maintain and vindicate the Constitu-
tional rights of all citizens of the United
States, whenever and under whatever fiction
of State-sovereignty or other pretense such
rights may be assailed.
4. We hold that free and honest elections are
essential to the stability and success of the
Government by the people, and that any at
tempt to thwart the will of the majority,
whether by preventing the lawful exercise of
the right of suffrage by fraud in casting or in
counting votes, or by unseating for partisan
purposes the fairly elected members of Con-
gress or Of State Legislatures, is a crime which
will not be tolerated by "A free people.
5. Grateful for what has been done during
the Administration of President Hayes to inn
prove the tone and methods of the Civil Serv-
ice, we again invoke Congress to complete the
work by necessary legislative enactments, in
order that there may be adequate and perma-
nent security against the misuse of the public
service as machinery of party influence, and
so that, In the language of "a distinguished
SaDafpr ~ tha holders pf office feel they
are servants of the law, and not personal ten
ants at will in their places of either heads of
| departments or Congressman"
| 6. We have one country and common inter
| ests as Il Nation; we dep4ore the existence OF
sectional strife and animosity, parties bounded
| by territorial lines. We earnestly desire that
! the resources of the South as well as of the
| North and West may be developed under just
| and harmonious policies by the united energies
! of our whole people. To this end there mus
be an actual recognition of the equal rights OF
| all by all. The privileges of citizenship mus
| everywhere be respected. The results anc
| settlements of past issues that have beer
| reached at great cost, and once accepted, mus
not again be brought into question, and WI
| hold that they who seek to reverse, or set then
aside, or to revive past controversies for politi
cal effect, are unwise statesmen and danger
GUS political leaders, justly responsible fo
disturbing the peace and obstructing the wei
I. The duty of all Republicans loyalty tC
support the candidates of the party, and tht
duty of nominating conventions to presen
! CdnuluuIGS WHO uIC dtCtpldblG W hll lAtphbli
| cans, are reciprocal duties of equal force anC
| obligation. Profoundly sensible of the impor
| tance of the impending election to the Ma
tion's safety, honor and well-beng, the Repuh
licans of Massachusetts demand of their dele
| gates to the National Convention that the.
| use all proper efforts for the nomination of
| candidate who, having the requisite qualtica
tions for the high office of President, will als'
have the confidence and approval of all wit
| have hitherto acted with the Republican par
| ty, who will invite the support of other pa
triotic citizens desiring good governmen
more than party success, whose nomination
will be most expedient because most worth.
| and least objectionable, and whose triumphan
election. to which we pledge our hearty an
united efforts, will give the assurance of
continuance of sound and beneticent policie
of administration, and of uninterrupted au
growing gNationSprosperity. While we do no
instruct our delegates, we recommend to thei
consideration Republican statesman VIII
possesses in an eminent degree such qualitie
and requisites for nomination, the Hon. Georg
F. Edmunds, of Vermont.