, 1883-06-07
REPUBLICAN, NATIONAL POLITICS.
yohn Sherman in Ohio.

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State Convention to nominate Cover
nor and other State officers. john
Sherman heads the list of delegates
elected who 60 to Columbia ulinstruct-
ed. Senator Sherman vas made perma-
ncut chairman Of today's convention.
On taking the chair lie made a speech.
discussing briefly national and State
questions that are to form the political
issues Of the immediate future. He said
in substance: We are Republicans. not
because we do not like our Democratic
neighbors, but because we believe the
success OF our party viii best promote the
interests and advance the prosperity Of
all our people. The reason OF our sue
cess is that the Republican party has
always been guided by correct principles
and has had the courage to assert them.
We have had our ups and downs, our
contentious and divisions. Trusted,
able leaders, disappointed in their am
bition, or, perhaps, only mistaken, have
left us and Joined our adversaries. Still
our party, with partial defeat, has tri-
umphed again and again. 1t has met
and solved complicated problems in civil
government in war and peace, foreign
and domestic, so that now we have no
questions with foreign nations and but
few of domestic policy, and now We are
to enter contests This year and Iextyear
that Will determine the fate of parties
and the current of political events for
many years. We have been weakened by
our divisions IN the Northern States but
we are gaining strength d. our principles
in the Southern States. The most seri-
Gus of our divisions grew out of the at
tempt to nominate General Grant for 4
third term which was greatly unfortunate
for him and the Republican party, but
il rere: weakened in the slightest degree
my abiding faith i'll his patriotism OF
diminished my estimate of the value OF
his service to his country during the War.
No man living las done more for his
country. No honor or pay which the
public can heap upon him can equal the
value of his services, but in the minds OF
great masses of his countrymen the evil
example of too long continuance OF the
power of president in 4 single person
was danger so great that, even in the
case of General Grant, it was not wise to
maize it. This was the question settled
by the Chicago eovention and should nc
more be made the cause OF division than
a failure to nominate any other candi.
date. Upon questions of principle that
divide parties there are no vital diffaren.
ces of opinion in the Republican party
On details men will differ. What now
are the questions upon which the con,
test this fall will depend? Shall our
tariff laws be framed well with a view
to protect labor as well as to levy taxcsf
Upon that question we are united and
incontestibly right. 1t is the funda-
mental national question of the time
which viii engross the attention of the
next Congress and be pivotal issue on
which the Presidential election will
turn. We, as a maintain that
while the main object Of taxes on i'm.
ported goods is to furnish revenue for
the support of the Government, yet that
in levying them especial care should be
taken to foster, build up and protect
such manufactures, agriculture or pro-
duction as are suited to our climate and
the habits of our people, with view to
secure to our citizens fair wages for q
good days labor, for our farmers home
market for their productions and to oul
country strength, wealth, and jndepen.
dence. This is the chosen position oil
the Republican party. Upon it we in.
vite contest with our Democratic
friends whenever, if ever, they make theil
minds up upon the subject The Other
question is, shall the sale of spirituous
and malt liquors be free and unlicensed
in Ohio, or shall it pay for the mainten.
ance of our courts, poorhouses, local
peace and for the loss it puts upon the
victims of diseased appetite and upon
their wives and children. The Repub.
lican legislature has embodied its view
of what is right and just in what is
called the Scott law" We must stand
or fall by the law, and upon the justice
of the taxes it imposes. 1t declares that
an annual tax of 5000 shall be imposed
upon all persons who sell spirituoua
liquors IN Ohio, and SlG0 on all who
sell malt liquors. Is this wise and
just measure? 1 believe it is. A tax
on the sale of liquors now exists in nearly
every State of the Union, and in some
States at Fate far higher than the rate
proposed. There is no country in Europe
or in regions anywhere in the civilized
world where some form of taxation is not
levied upon the sale of liquors. Repub-
licans favor the Scott law. They make
1t paFt of their platform. They mean
to enforce it. They are opposed to its
repeal. They invite the Democracy to
meet them manfully in this issue and
take judgement of tho people uponit. We
may lose some votes, but the Republican
party In all its brilliant history was never
more clearly right than when it demands
of those WHO sell liquor as a beverage to
pay to the public tax to meet the ex-
penseS caused by the traffic Being right
We are certain to win if we have the
courage TO fight and the wisdom to unite
with all those who agree With US" At
the conclusion OF the address the con-
vention unanimously adopted resolu.
tions favorinS protective tariff and the
taxation of the liquor traffic.
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