Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-10-16

regarding the unrestricted immigration OF
Chinese as an evil of great magnitude, in
wolves the exercise of the power to restrain
and limit it, and restrain that immigration
by the enactment of such just, humane and
reasonable provisions as will produce the re-
suit.
seventh-That the purity and patriotism
which characterized the earlier career of
Rutherford B. Hayes In peace and war, and
which guided his predecessor In the Presiden-
tial office, have continued to pire him in
his career as Chief Executive, and that histo-
ry will accord to his administration the hon.
ors which are due to an efficient, just and
courteous discharge Of the public business,
and will honor his vetoes interposed between
the people and attempted partisan laws.
Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic
party the habitual sacrafice Of patriotism and
justice to a supreme and Unsuitable lust for Of
fee and patronage; that to obtain possession
of the National aud State Governments, and
the control of place and position, they have
obstructed all efforts to promote the purity
and to conserve the freedom of the suffrage;
have devised fraudulent ballots, and invented
frauduleLt certificates of returns, have labor
ed to unseat lawfully elected members of
Congress to secure at all hazards the vote Of
majority of the States in the House of Rep
resentatives; have endeavored to occupy by
force and fraud the places of trust given
to others by the people of Maine, and res
cued by the courage in action of Maine's
patriotic sons; have, by methods vicious in
principle and tyrannicsl in practice, attached
partisan legislation to appropriation bills upon
whose passage the very movement of the
Government depended; have crushed the
rights of the individual; have advocated the
principles and sought the favor of the rebel
lion against the Nation, and have endeavored
to obliterate the sacred memories of the war
and to overcome its inestimably valuable re-
sults--nationality, personal freedom and in-
dividusl equality. The equal and steady and
complete enforcement of the laws, and the
protection of all our citizens in the enjoyment
of the privileges and immunity guaranteed
by the Constitution, are the first duties of the
NVtion,. The dangers of a 4" Solid South" can
only be averted by faithful performance of
every promise which the Nation has made to
the ci izen. The execution of the laws and
the punishment of all those who violate them
arc the only safe methods by which an endur-
ing peace can be secured and the guarantee
of prosperity established throughout the
South, Whatever promises the Nation makes
the Nation must perform. Nation cannot
with safety relagate this duty to the States.
! The '' Solid south" must be divided by tht
peaceful agencies # the ballot, and all hones
! opinions must there find tree expression. Tc
| this end the honest vo,cr must be protected
| against terrorism, yi1leuee and fraud, and we
affirm it to be the duty the purpose of the
| eslblican party to use all legitimate means
to restore all the States Of this Union to the
most perfec harmony which may be posi-
Bile; and we submit to the practical, sensible
would no. be dangerous 10 the dearest inter-
ests of our country at this time to surrend er
the Administration of the National Govern
ment to Il party which seeks to overthrow the
existing policy under which We are so pros
porous, and thus bring distrust and confusion
where there is now order, confidence and
hope.
Ninth--The Republican party, adhering to
the principles affirmed by its last National
Convention of respect for the constitutional
rules governing appointments to office, adopts
the declaration of President Hayes that the
reform Of the civil service should be thorough,
radical and complete. To this end it demands
the cooperation of the Legislative with the
Executive Departments of the Government,
and that Congress shall SO legislate that ft-
ness, ascertained by the proper practical
tests, shall admit to the public service.