Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-05

tenn OF manufactures, IOsLereu inc reVeuue u Gue
government, and promoted our national pros
perity The business of the country will not
bear this tinkering of the tariff and if any re-
vision of that tariff is to be made at all it
should be done through Il commission of capa-
BILE men after patient and thorough hearing
of all parties to the interest involved.
Fourth-We object most decidedly to all at
tempts to enact now tariff through the agency
of commercial treaties already framed, negO-
tiated di cussed and ratified in secret, az not a
proper method of regulating revenues of tho
government.
Fifth-In view Of the recent events in Con-
gress and in the Southern States, and latterly
in the State of Maine, we deem this fitting
opportunity to rsaflirm our adherence to the
following principles, viz:
IA union of States with equal rights and
iudestructible by any constitutional means.
2-PrOtecti0n 10 the person, liberty and
property of the citizen In each and every pOr-
ton of our common country where lie may
choose to move, demanding of him only
obedience to the laws and proper respect for
the rights of OTHERS.
3-Strict integrity in fulfilling all our obll-
cations, State and national.
ITO perfect security, free thought, free
speech and free press, and of equal rights and
privileges to all men everywhere, irrespective
Of nationality, color and religion.
5-A free and pure ballot, thoroughly pro-
tected, SO that every man entitled to cast a
vote may do 80 Just once at each election with
out fear of molestation, moral or physical, on
account of his political faith, nationality or
hue of skin.
5-Honesty in elections. The people having
virtue and potriOtism to govern themselves,
our government must depend for Its stability
on honest elections. Until man is consider
ed Infamous who casts an illegal vote our gov
eminent will not be safe, and who ever de-
Of hic ioht fn nr Of tho
legal effect of his vote is a traitor to the gov
eminent.
IAN honest count of all votes legally cast,
and an honest return Of whoever is elected free
from all attempts to defraud the people of
their choice through technicalities, or by an
arbitrary rejection of their votes.
Sixth-We extend to the Republicans of
Maine cur congratulations over their peaceful
and successful resistance to an effort to defraud
the people of that State of the right to choose
their own representatives and to attempt to
steal the government of that State. Our Re-
publican form of government will be signal
failure when any political party can succeed in
defying the public will as shown by the people
at the ballot box.
Seventh-We deeply regret the growing ten
dency to throw elections aside on mere techni'
calt1es and informalities. The right of the
people to choose their public servants is too
sacred to be subverted on any pretext that the
returns of election are difficult in some trivial
matters of form.
Eighth-We thank our Senators and Repre-
sentatives at Washington in the last Congress
and in this for their adhesion to Republican
principles and policy and for their opposition
to Democratic schemes to renew the obsolete
doctrine of State rights and to cripple the gov
eminent by Withholding needed appropria-
tions in order to coerce legislation repeating all
national laws that protect the purity OF the
ballot box.
Resosued, That the chairman of the Republic
can State committee is hereby instructed and
required to carefully examine whether any per-
son to-day placed on the electoral ticket be le-
gally disqualified from any cause from serving
as an elector, and in case any such legal disa-
bility be found, the State committee shall SUBJ
stitute another name from the same Congress
sional district.
Resolutions endorsing the administration of
Gov. Hoyt and providing for the selection of a
State central committee, were also contained in
the platform and adopted with it, After ap-
pointing State central committee the conven-
tion adjourned sine die.
CAMERoN's WORK.
New YORK, Feb. A special to the even
ing Post from Harrisburg says Senator
Cameron was about the hotel all night en-
deavoring to arranged compromise, but his
effort has been of no avail except in few
individual cases Cameron insists on carry ing
out his original plan of instructing the dele
cation to vote as a unit and SO vote for
Grant. Through his lieutenant this morn
ing Cameron freely makes threat that if
the Blaine men 60 on with their fight in the
convention not Blaine man will be allowed
in the Chicago delegation. The Blaine folks
make counter threats that in that event they
will go back to their districts and elect dele
gates by popular vote of the party, and ap-
peal directly to the Chicago convention for
recognition. They say this would destroy
the moral force of the Cameron packed dele
cation.