Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-14
the REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

Below is given The text OF the platform reso
buttons adopted by the Republican Nationa
Convention at Chicago:
Republican rule has restored upon a solid
basis payH.ent in coin for all the national OBJ
legations, and has given us currency abso
lutely good and legal, and equal IN every
part Of our extended country. 1t 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 at q
premium. Under its administration railways
have increased from 81 900 miles in 1860 to
more than So 900 miles in 1879. Our foreign
trade has increased from 500 900 900 to 81, $50
900 IN the same time, and our exp ports,
which were $40, O0O, 0G0 less than our imports
in lS6O, were SOL, 0OO,O 900 more than our i'm
ports in 1870. Without resOrting to loans, it
has, since the war closed, betrayed the ordin-
airy expenses OF government, besides the ac-
cruing interest on the public debt, and dis =
bursed annually moro than $40, 600 900 n SOL
diers' pensions. 1t has paid $3.50, 900 00O of the
public debt, and by refunding the balance at
lower rates, has reduced the annual interest
charge from nearly Sl5l ,0OO. 900 to less than
$50 900 900. All the industries of the country
have revived; labor is in demand; wages have
increased, and throughout the entire country
there is evidence Of coming prosperity
greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upon
this record the Republican asks for the con-
tinued confidence and support of the people,
and this convention submits for their apprO-
val the following statements of the principles
and purposes which will continue to guide
and inspire it's efforts:
ENUMERATION OF PRINCIPLES.
First-We affirm that the work eff the last
swenty-one years has been such as to COM
mend itself to the favor of the nation, and
shat 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-
cred Union now happily restored, should be
Perpetuated, and that the liberties secured to
this generation should be transmitted undi-
MiniShed to future generations. That the Or
der established aud the credit acquired should
never be imperiled. That the pensions prom
ised should he paid. That the debt SO much
reduced should he 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 stead';N encouraged.
Second-The Constitution of the United
States il the supreme law. and not "a compact. |
Aiut of Confedcrated ) ares it made a nation |
Some powers are denied the Nation, while |
others are retained 10y States; but the bound |
airy between lHe powers delegated and those |
reserved is to be determined by National and |
not by State tribunals.
Third-The work nf popular education is |
sns left to the care of the several States, but |
1t is the duly OF the National government to |
aid that work t"ihe extent of its constitutional |
ability. The intelligence of the nation is but |
the aggregate of the intelligence in the sever
n States, aud the destiny OF the Nation must
80 guided, not by the genius of any one
state, but the average genius of all.
NoN-sECTAKIAN SCHOOLS.
FOurth-The Constitution wisely forbids
congress to make any laws respecting an es-
tablishing OF reli zion, but it is idle to hope
shat the Nation can be projected against the
snhuence Of sectarianism while each State is
s1pOsed to its particular domination. We
therefore recommend that the Constitution be
80 amended as to lay some prohibition upon
ne Legislature of each State aud to forbid
the appropriation of public funds to the sup
port OF secLaran schools.
Eifth--We affirm the belief avowed in 1876 |
That the du'ies levied for the purpose of reve-
nue. should so discriminate as to favor Amer.
can 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 !
p0lygamy, must die in the Territories. That
the protection accorded to a cit-
zen OF American birth mus be secured to
citizens of American adoption. That it is the |
duty of Congress to develop and i'm prove our |
v ater cour' es and harbors, but we insist that
'nrther SUBSIDIES TO private persons or corpOr-
atoms ninst cease. That the obligations to the
men who preeerv ed its integrity in the day of
battle are nadininished by the la pse of fifteen
Years since their final victory. Their perpet-
nal honor is and shall forever be the grateful
privilege and the sacred duty of the Ameri-
an people.
TUE CHINESE PLANK
Sixth-Since the authority to regulate i'm
migration and lntercOul Sc b ,tween the United
fates and foreign nat ms rests with the Con-
'ress OF the United state, and its treaty.
making powers, that he Republican party,
egarding the unrestricted immigration of
ne Chinese as an evil of great magnitude |
Involves the exercise of the power 20 restrain
no limit that immigration by the enact
gents OF such just, humane and reasonable
rovlsions as will produce the result.
Seventh-That the purity and patriotism
'hich characterized the earlier career of n
b. Hayes, in peace and war, and Is
'hich guided the thought of his immediate
PREDECESSOR to him for Presidential candi-
ave. have continued to inspire him in his
.reer as Chief Executive, and that history
III accord to his admin abstraction the honors
hich are due to an efficient, Just and cOurag- | n
,us fuifillment of ne public business, and -
III honor his inter POSITION between the peo-
% and proposed partisan laws.
iNIouITIEs OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic
lrty the habtual sacrifice of patriotism and
stice to a supreme and Unsuitable lust for
lice and patronage; that to obtain possession
the National and State Governments, and
T the control of place and position, they II
I'VE obstructed all the efforts to preserve the II
irity and conserve the freedom of suffrage;
We devised fraudulent certificates and re-
rms; have labored to unseat lawfully elect
members OF Congress, to secure at all
yards the vote of the ma jority of States in r
o House OF Representatives; have endeav- IL
ed to occupy by force and fraud places of
lst given to others by the people of Maine,
q secured by the courage and action of
alne's patriotic sons; have by methods
,ious in principal and tyrannical in practice
ached partisan legislation to appropriation q
Is; have crushed the rights of indi viduaIs