The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-07
THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM
AND MIR. BLAINE

THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
AND MIR. BLAINE.
We are now told in the resOlu-
tions introduced by Mr.. Mckinley
of Ohio that the republicans of the
United States in national convention
assembled claim to have saved the
union and rendered cts institutions
a just, equal and benefcent safe
guard of liberty" and to have assur-
ed to all purity in legislation and
integrity and accountability in all
departments of the government.
Yet they are willing to "accept a
new duty of leading in the work of
progress and reform" They have
now put i'll the white house for six
consecutive terms, republican mag
istrates. Is it true that they have
secured to all citizens "iberty" and
the rest of it? Then Sherman's
charges against the people of Copiah
and Danville must be false. We
are glad they have honestly acknowl-
edged this. Is the duty of reform
new one? What have they been
doing for these many years? The
democrats claim they have waited so
long that it is reasonable to believe
they never will perform "the new
work" now so jauntily shouldered.
A sop is thrown to the working men,
but nothing more than a vague
promise of an eight hour law takes
any definite shape. Then the party
which has allowed the national flag
to be insulted in every sea, thinks
that arbitration should decide all in
ternational questions. The republic
of the west which has hitE erto been
represented as the kind mother of
the oppressed then decides by these
mouthpieces of a great people that
no more importation of Contract
labor" should be allowed. They
would close our forests to the hun
CRY laborer of Europe that labor
may be made a monopoly here
They shout for civil service reform
why have they not done something ?
The party which has given away the
millions of public lands now declare
them the heritage of "the United
States"
The soldiers are thanked, and are
promised that the litigation in the
arrears act of 1879 shall be repealed.
They express Indignation at special
form of polygamy in vogue on the
shores of Salt Lake, and reiterate
the belief that we are n nation.
Then eve denounce the fraud and
violence practiced by the democrats
in the SOUTH" We thought you had
insured the citizen against all such
danger by the security you promise
to every citizen. That these things
are possible in Danville and Copiah
warrants the supposition that the
republicans have failed to do honest
work. For years they have had the
power; give an account of your
stewardship. Are there no whiskey
rings holding millions of stolen pro-
perty for you to denounce? Are
there not thousands of iniquities.
theftS and barefaced robberies upon
which you might expend your indig-
nation? The whole means nothing
except that any man can swim for a
time on the planks. But there is no
solid footing on such weak material,
and Blaine will have some clever
tight-rope performances to execute
before the admiring gaze of a critical
crowd. But he is the only nominee
possible with such a platform. He
has already secured the cooperation
of Conkling and with these two willy,
astute politicians in the field the
leaders of the democracy must watch