The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-22
Republican Platform.

Republican Platform.
Reso he'd, That the Republican,
party of Pennsylvania Is In the most
Ihearty accord with the Administers
= ton of President Garfield, and, while|
uniting in the prayers of all pood|
people for his speedy recovery, pledpesI
continued fealty and the most active|
Support in the prompt and courag
( teous correction of all governmental
abuses. AS Republicans we are in|
favor of any proper and well-consid-1 !
Tered reform, either in the government d
Z of the Nation, the State, municipality
= or county, and we court suggestions
{ to any or all of these ends, and only|
: 3ask that i'm their advocacy well .estab-|
! 4lished safeguards shall not be harshlyI
/ 5supplanted by experiments. The Adj
Sministration of President Garfield has
Aset the right example in this direction :,
and while firmly adhering to the prin-
ciples and better practices of the great
party which called it into existence,
4it yet insists upon faithfulness and
honesty in every branch of the public
service. That the bullet of an assassin
should not interrupt this work. 1t
should be pursued while its author
lives, and beyond his life, if through
increasing misfortune it should be
{ taken away.
RESOLVED, That the Republican
party has ever been progressive and
dreformatory, and while realizing that
nothing in government is wholly
Fright we desire to he always brave
enough to seek every avenue of APP
8proach to the right to the end that all
Jour people may enjoy the ever increas-
3ing blessings of good government.
ReSotUed, That President James A..
STRUGGLING and suffering, this pure and
fbrave man, now becomes the beloved
Sof this people and the admired Of all
speople. We tender for ourselves and
sour constituents assurances of deep
sand heartfelt sympathy, and, keenly
3appreciating the value of such life to-
5his country, we express the prayerful
Shope that he may soon be restored to
Sthe discharge of the important duties
s for which he is remarkably qualified
Hand from which by peculiarly infa- !
Smous crime and an undeserved assault
for Il conscientious exercise of proper
aeXecutive power, he has been tempo-
ararily withdrawn.
Resolved, That in State as in Ma
Ation, the Republican party is COM
emitted to the course of economical
dand honest administration; we de-
amnnd the use of all necessary means
, 9and the enforcement of all laws in-
tended to prevent fraud and waste,
8and we require close and watchful
guardianship over all of the multifa.
srious interests committed to the care
aof our organization.
Resolved, That in any revision of
5our tariff legislation which may be
made care shall be taken to discrimi
: mate in favor of our industries, and
thereby promote the causes which are
srapidly making America a controlling
5power in finances, as it already is an
established leader in political thought
8 Resolved, That the administration
Sof Governor Hoyt merits our warinest
Sapproval. We regard with satisfac-
ation the results of q purely Republi-
Hcan Administration under his leader
Sship, in which all departments have
abeen faithfully conducted, the credit
slof the State raised to the highest
Spoint, and its finances placed upon q
sproper basis without increasing the
aburdens of the people.
3 When the Presidents wife was
w IllC DcuSluc VI IGT
Swounded husband the Pennsylvania
B Railroad Company flas he'd herthrough
afrom Long Branch to Washington as
5 though that were its daily business.
aWhen distinguished surgeons were
sneeded for consultation special trains
swere ready by the time they could
sreach the stations. When special
arrangements were required to remove
sthe President from the malaria of the
SPotomac flats an hospital car was con
astructed in seven hours, special
track was laid, and the whole thing
Twas ready hours before it was needed
lis there another railroad company in
sthe world that can and would equal
athis? The emergency greater than
sthe capability of this wondeful carrier
ihas yet to arise.