The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-03
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

The following is the platform passed by the recent
Republican convention held at Chicago:
Republican rule has restored upon solid basis pay
ment in coin for all the national obligations and has
given us a currency absolutely good and legal and
equal in every part of our extended country 1t has
lifted credit of the nation from the point where
per cent bonds sold at &c. to that where per cent
bonds are eagerly sought at premium Under its
administration railways have increased from 81 VOo
miles i'll 1S60 to than $1,000 miles in 1879 Our
foreign trade has increased from 800, 900 600 to ST.
$50 600 in the time ahd exports in 1850,
were S264. 600, 900 more than our imports in 1879
Without resorting to loans, it has, since the war
closed betrayed the ordinary expenses OF the govern
ment besides the accriig interest tho public debt
and disbured annually more than $50 900 for sol
lie debt and by refundng the balance at lower rates.
has reduced the annual interest charge, from nearly
sl51 900, 900 TO less than $50 00e All the indus
wages have increased and throughout the entire coun
try there is evidence of coming prosperity greater
than we ever enjoyd Upon this record the Repub-
cp party asks for the continued confidence and sup
port Of the people, and this convention submits to
their approval the following statement of the princ
pies and purpose which will continne to guide and in
spire its efforts:
First-We affirm that the work of the last q years
has been such to commend itself the favor 81 the
nation and that the fruits of the costly victories which
we have achieved through immense difficulties should
be preserved that the discovered union happily
restored should be perpetuated and that the liberties
secured to this generation shoiild be transmitted
diminished to future generations that the order
tablishe6 and the credit acquired should never be
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that the debt much reduced should be extingushed
by the payment of every dollar thereof that the
viving Industries should be promoted, and that
the commerce already SO great should be encouraged
Second@The constitution Of the United States is
the supreme law and not mere contract Of coufeder
ated states 1t made sovereign nation. Some pow.
ers denied to the nation while Others retained
BY the states but the boundary between the powers
delegated and those reserved is to be determined by
national and not by state tribunals.
Tbird-The work of popular education is left
to the care OF the several states but 1T the duty of
tent of its constitutional ability The intelligence of
the nation is but the aggregate of the intelligence in
the several states and the destiny of the nation must
be guided not by the genius of any state, but by
| the average genius of ALL =.
Fourth The constitution wisely forbids congress
to make any lasv respecting establishment of reg
ion, but it is idle to hope that the nation be pro-
tectcd against the influence of sectariansm while
each state exposed its particular domination We
therefore recommend that the constitution be SO
amended as to lay prohibition upon the legisla-
tion of each state and to forbid the appropriation Of
the public fundsto the support of sectaran schools
Fifth-We reaffirm the belief avowed in 1876 that
the duties levied for the purpose of revenue should
discriminate to favor American labor that fur
aher grant OF the pucc domain should be made to
railroad other corporation that slavery having
perished in the states, its twain barbarty, poygamy
must die IN the territories that everywhere the pro-
lection accorded to American birth must be secured
to citizens by American adoption that it is the duty
of congress to develop and improve water courses
and harbors but We insist that further subsidies to
private persons or corporations must that the
obligations to who preserved its integrity in the
day of battle undiminished by the lapse OF Is years
since their final victory their perpetual honor is
and shall forever be the greatful privilege and the
cred duty of the American people.
Sixth--Since the authority to regulate immigration
and intercourse between the United States and foreign
nations rests with the congress of the United States
and its treatymaking powers, the Republican party,
regarding the unrestricted immigration of Chinese
an evil OF great magnitude, nYokes the exercise of
that power to restrain and limit that immigration by
the enaetnent OF such just humane and reasonable
provisions as will produce that result.
Seyenth-Ihat the DurjtV and Datr:OtiSnl which
characterized the earlier of R. B. Hays In peace
and war; and which guided the thought of his imme-
have continued to inspire him in his chief
executive. and that history will accord to his ad-
just and courageous fulilnent of the public bust
ness, and will honor his interposition between the
people and proposed partisan laws
Eighth-We charge upon the Democratic party the
habitual sacrifices of patriotism and Justice to su-
preme and unsuitable lust for office and patronage
that to obtain possession of the national and state
ernments and Of the control of place and position,
they have obstucted all the efforts to preserve the
purity and conserve the freedom of suffrage have de-
vsed fraudulent returns and certificates hrye labored
to unseat lawfully elected members of congress 6
at all hazards the vote of the majority Of the
ed to occupy by force and fraud places of given
to others by the people of Maine, and rescued by the
courage and action of Mains patriotic sons have by
methods vicious in principle and tyranca in practice
attached partisan legislation to appropriation bills
have crushed the rights Of indirdu2ls and vndicated
th9 principle and sought the favor OF rebellion against
the nation and have edeavored to obliterate the
cred memories OF the to overcome inestilnable
good results, freedom and individual equality.
We affirm it to be the duty and purpose Of the Re-
publican party to all legitimate means of this un-
ion to the perfect harmopy which may be prac-
tiche, and we submit to the practical sensible peo
pie of tie United States, say whethe it would not
be dangerous to the best interests of country at
this time to surrender the administration of the ma
t.onal government to party which seeks to over
terow the existing policy uuder which we are SO plos
porous, and thus bring destruction and Confusion
where there il now order and confidence and hope