Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-06-17
CHICAGO CONVENTION.

CHICAGO CONVENTION.
The convention met June 5th at II 40
a. M, when Mr.. Boutwell, offered the follow
ing: aa'
Resolved: That the National Republican ex-
ecutive committee be requested to prepare
and present method for the election Of dele
gates to the National Convention TO be held
In 1884, and to issue instructions in conformi-
ty herewith ts
Several objections being made the resolu-
tion went over.
The convention then by vote seated four
Grant contestants from Kansas, one Grant ana
and one Sherman contestant from West Vlr-
ginia, and two Grant contestants from Utah
The platform was then adopted.
IT IS AS FOLLOWS:
The Republican party, in National Conven.
ten assembled, ct the end of twenty years
since the Federal Government was first com.
mitted to Its charge, submits to the people OF
the United States this brief report Of its ad.
ministratiOn:
1t suppressed q rebellion which had armed
nearly million Of men to subvert the Nation.
q authority; 1t reconstructed the Union 5ol
States with freedom instead OF slavery as its
cornerstone; 1t transformed 100000 human
beings from the likeness of things TO the rank
Of citizens; it relieved Congress from the infa-
nous work Of hunting fugitive slaves, and
charged 1t to see that slavery does not exist; ii
has raised the value Of our paper currency
from 80 per cent to the par of gold; it has re-.
stored, upon solid basis, payment in coin OF
all National obligations, and has given US o
currency absolutely good and equal in every
part OF our extended country; it has lifted the
credit OF the Nation from the point where 9
per cent bonds sold at sc, to that where per
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Under the administration railways have in.
creased from 81 600 miles in 1860 to more
than $4,000 miles in 1879. Our foreign trade
increased from 500 600 600 to $1. .16O 900 600 in
the same time, and our exports, which were
$2OOOOOOO less than our imports in 1850 were
$265 OO6 600 more than our imports in 1879.
without resorting 10 loans, it has since the
War closed, betrayed the ordinary expenses Of
Government besides the accruing interest on
the public debt and has disbursed annually
more than $4,000, 600 for soldiers and sailors
pensions. 1t has paid $3.50, ,O00,0 900 of the pub.
lie debt and by refunding the balance at iow-
or rates, has reduced the annual interest
$4,000 600. All the industries OF the country
have revived, labor is in demand, wages have
increased, and throughout the country there
is evidence OF q coming prosperity greater
than we hayeRever enjoyed.
UPON THIS RECORD. a..
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 pur:
poses which will continue to guide and inspire
its efforts.
First-We affirm that the work of the Re-
publican party for the last twenty years has
been such as to commend it to the favor of
the Nation; that the fruits of the costly vic.
tories which we have achieved through i'm
mense difficulties should be preserved; that
the peace regained should be cherished; that
the Union should be perpetuated, and that
the liberty secured to this generation should
be transmitted undiminished to other genera
tions; that the order established and the cred.
1t acquired should never be impaired; that
the pensions promised should be paid: /:
that the debt so much reduced should be ex.
lar thereof; that the revlving industries should
be further promoted. and that the commerce
already Increasing should be steadily encour-
aged.
Second-The Constitution Of the United States
Is supreme law and not q mere contract
Out Of confederated States it made a soyer-
eign Nation Some powers are denied to
the Nation, while others are denied to the
States, but the boundary between the powers
delegated and those reserved Is to be deter.
mined by the National and not by the State
tribunal.
Third The work of popular education is one
left to the care Of the sever al states but it is
the duty Of the National Government to aid
that work to the extent Of its constitutional
ability, The intelligence of the Nation is but
the aggregate of the intelligence in the sever
al states, and that the destiny of the Nation
must be guided not by the genius of any one
State but BY the average of all
EOurth-The Constitution forbids Con-
gress to make any law respecting the estab-
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the nation can be protected against the in.
duence OF secret sectarianism, while each
State is exposed to its domination. We,there.
fore, recommend that the Constitution he 40
amended as to lay the same prohibition upon
the Legislature Of each State, and to forbid
the appropriation Of public funds to the sup
port Of sectarian schools.
FJth-We reaffirm the belief avowed in
1876 that the duties levied for the purpose of
revenue should SO discriminate as to favor
American labor; that no further grants Of the
public domain should be made to any railway
or other corporation; that slavery having per-
ished In the States, its twin barbaritY, polyga-
my, must die in the Territories; that every.
where the protection accorded to citizen Of
American birth must be secured to citizens by
American adoption. That we deem it the du-
ty of Congress to develope and improve our
sea-cOast and harbors, but insist that further
subsidies to private persons or corporations
must cease; that the obligations Of the Repub-
| lie to the men who preserved its integrity in
| the day 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.
Sizth-Since the authority to regulate i'm
| migration and intercourse between the Uni
ted States and foreign nations rests with the
Congress Of the United States and the treaty
/ m hn So0v o,N
ing the unrestricted immigration Of Chinese
a. matter Of grave concernment under the
| exercise Of both these powers, would limit and
restrict that immigration by the enactment ol
! such just humane and reasonable laws and
treaties as will produce that result.
6egenth-That the purity and patriotism
which characterizes the earlier career of Ruth
| erf0rd B. Hayes In peace and war. and which
| guided thoughts Of our immediate predeces
| sors to him for Presidential candidate, have
continued to inspire him in his career as Chic
Executive; and that history win accord to his
administration the honors which are due to an
efficient, just and courteous discharge of th,
public business, and will honor his vetoes in
terposed between the people and attempted
| partisan laws.
/ Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic
| party the habitual sacrifice of patriotism an(
justice to o supreme and Unsuitable lust for Of
fee and patronage; that to obtain possession
| Ot Cn0 N6LOnM dOvernmen6 ana the c0nGrO
OF place, they have obstructed all efforts I,
promote the purity and to conserve the free
dom Of the suffrage and have devised fraudu
lent ballots, and invented fraudulent certifca
ton Of returns; have labored to unseat law
fully elected members Of Congress to secur
at oil hazards the vote OF majority of State
In the House Of Representatives; have en-
deavored to occupy by force and fraud th
places Of trust given to others by the peopl
Of Maine, rescued by the courage and actfo1
OF Names patriotic sons; have, by meth
DDS vicious in principle and tyrannieal Il
practice attached partisan Legislation
4 to appropriation bills upon whose passag,
the very movement Of the Government de
pended; have crushed the rights of the indi
vidual; have advocated the principals an,
sought the favor Of the Rebellion against tn
Nation, and have endeavored to obliterate tn
sacred memories and to overcome the ines
timably valuable results or Nationality, pei
sonal freedom and individual equality.
The equal, and steady, and complete er
forcement Of the laws, and the protection {
all our citizens In the enjoymentof privilege
and immunity guaranteed by the Constftu
ton. are the flrst duties Of the Nation.
8! The dangers Of SOLID South" can only b
averted' by Q faithful performance Of ever,
promise which the Nation has made I'd til
citizen. The execution of the lava and IN