The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-06-09

reasonable provisions rs will produce the
result
Seventh, That the purity and patriotism
which charactcrizcs the earlier career of
Rutherford H. Hayes in peace and war,
and which guided the thought of our inn
mediate predecessor to him for o presden-
tial candidate, have continued to inspire
him i'm his career rs chief executive and
that history will accord TO his administrs-
tion the hOnors which are due to an effi-
cient, Just and courageous execution ofthe
public business and will honor his inter
positions between the people and proposed
partisan laws.
Eighth, We charge upon the Democratic
arty tho habtual sacrifice of patriotism
and justice to a supreme and unsuitable
lust of office and patronage Mt that time.
To obtain possession of the national and
state governments and the control of
place, they have obstructed all efforts to
promote the purity OF conscience, the free
dom of suffrage, having devised fraudu-
lent cortificatiOns and returns, have Ia
bored to unseat lawfully elected members
of congress; to secure at all hazai DIS the
vote of the majority of the states in the
house of representatives have endeav-
Ored to occupy by force and fraud the
places of trust given to others by the peo-
pie of Maine, and rescued by the coura-
geous action of Names patriotic sons,
have by methods vicious in principal ana
tyranical i'm practice attached partisan leg-
islation to appropriation bills upon whose
passage the very movements of the gov
ernment depend; have crushed the rights
of the individual; have advocated the
principles and sought the favor of relell-
ion against the nation and have endeav-
ored to obliterate the sacred memories of
the war and have overcome its inestimably
valuable result of nationality, personal
freedom and individual equality and the
OF,
of the laws. The protection of all our cit
izens in the enjoyment of all privileges
and lmmunities guaranteed by the con-
stitution is the first duty Ofthe nation, and
the dangers of a solid south can only be
averted by faithful performance ofevery
promise which the nation has made to the
citizens, and the execution of the laws and
the punishment of all those who violate
them, are the only, safe methods by which
prosperity established throughout the
south and whatever promises the nation
makes the nation must perform and the
nation cannot with safety relegate this
duty to the states, and a solid south must
be DIVIDED by the peaceful agencies of the
ballot, and all opinions must there find
free expression, and to this end the hon
est voter must be protected against terror
ism, violence or fraud.
Ninth, And we affirm it to be the duty
and purpose of the Republican party to
use all Legitimate means to restore all the
states of this union to the most perfect
harmony which may be possible, and we
submit to the practical and sensible peo-
pie OF the United States to say whether it
would not he dangerous to the dearest in
terests of our country a. this time to sur
render the administration of the national
government to a party which seeks to
overthrow the existing policy under
which we are so prosperous and thus
bring distrust and confusion where there
is now order, confidence and hope. The
Republican party adhering 10 the princi-
pie affirme1 by its last national conven-
ton of respect tor 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 department
of the government and that congress shall
SO legislate that fitness ascertained by the
| proper practical tests shall admit to the
public service.