The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-05-29
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM ADOPTED AT
LEXINGTON, MAY "a, 1888.

LEXINGTON, MAY "a, 1883.
RESOLVED, That the convention
adopts and re-affirms the declaration
of Republican principles set forth by
the National Republican Convention
held in Chicago in 1880.
I'd. That the only sure foundation
OF Republican government is intelli-
gent citizenship, and that it is the
duty of the State and of its people to
provide free schools for all the chill
dren of the State, and that when such
schools are provided all constitutional
means should be used to compel par
ents to give their children the bene-
fits of education.
Sd. That we favor the adjustment
of tariff that will not only provide
revenue sufficient to defray the ex
penses of the government, but afford
a just and reasonable protection to
the industrial classes of our country.
4th. We insist upon prompt and
suitable steps toward the call of a
convention to amend the Constitu-
ton of the State.
9TH. We believe in the enactment
of just laws and their speedy and i'm
partial enforcement, and, by the ell
c0uragement of an enlightened pub
lie sentiment, welcome immigration
to peaceful and quiet homes among
us.
9th. Recognizing the fact that the
ancestors of some of Kentucky's no.
blest and most patriotic citizens had
their birthplace in the green Isle of
Erin, we extend to the suffering peo-
pie of Ireland our warmest sympa-
thies.
It'll. We favor free tobacco, and
recommend to the Congress of the
United States the immediate repeal
of all laws affecting its production
and manufacturers sales.
Sth. That the administration of
our State affairs has been such under
the present Democratic ruler as prac-
tically to annul all our criminal and
penal laws that he has endeavored
to make the vice of gambling res
pectable by pardoning all persons
charged with that crime; that he has
invited lawlessness in its worst and
most dangerous form by denying to
the courts and to the juries of the
Commonwealth the right to deter
mine the crime and punish the Grim
inal that the laws enacted for the
sure and speedy collection of our
revenues have been disregarded that
our taxation has been largely in
creased and our expenditures have
more than doubled ; that the resour-
ces of the sinking fund have been vio-
lated again and again, abstracting
from that fund large sums of money
to meet deficiencies in the treasury.
9th. That the condition of our
State Prisons is a common scandal, a
reproach to civilization that the sys-
TEN Of hiring convict labor outside of
prison is cruel and inhuman, is pref
judicial to honest free labor, and hurt
full to public morals. Our charitable
institutions under largely increased
expenditure have been inefficiently
and frequently shamefully misman-
aged until we are brought to the hu-
initiating and deplorable spectacle of
the arraignment and punishment by
the criminal courts of the country of
the employees Of at least one of these
institutions, because of the brutal
, and inhuman treatment of the I'M
fortunate men and women commit
ted to their charge.
10th. That Chester A. Arthur,
coming to the office of the President
of the United States under circum-
stances of unparalleled embarrass-
ment, has fully met the requirements
Of his great office, and his admins
tration commends itself to the respect
and confidence of the American peo-
pie.
llth. That we congratulate the
administration and the country upon
the appointment of our fellow citizen,
Hon. Walter Evans, as Commission
er Of Internal Revenue, that we ac-
cept it as compliment to the Re-
publicans Of Kentucky and the South
and confidently predict for him ca
reer honorable to himself and useful
to the country.