Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-28
RE-sUBMIssION RESOLUTIONS

Adopted by the Convention which Met a
Topeka q Short Time Ago-They sa,
the Doctrine of Prohibition is Not Tru'
Republicanism.
The following is the report of thu
Committee on Resolutions of the lat,
Re-Submission Convention:
The Resubmission Republican Party in Con
vention assembled, make the following declare
ton of principles and the causes moving it to The
course It has taken:
Every political party is a voluntary association
of individuals holding common belief on Ger
tain stated political questions, and who for the
time being waving differences on other matters
unite together to secure the success OF tte1r com
mon views. No portion of such party, however
large, can without the voluntary consent of the
Others bind them to new doctrines and beliefs
and whenever they attempt to introduce such
new doctrines and beliefs and to cOerce their &C
ceptance by other members. and failing therein
to stgmatze them as bolters etc, 1t is piece OF
arrogance that demands the Tebuke and contempt
of every honest man.
1t has now become the determined policy of q
majority of the Republican party of Kansas to
coalesce with and adopt the dOgmas and theories
of what is known as the Prohibition party. In
pursuing this course it has departed from and
abandoned the true faith of RepuDlicanism and
of the founders of the National Republican party.
That party, during its existence OF over a quar-
ter of a century, has ostracized no man. whatever
his nationality, or his belief, social, moral, or
sectarian questions, who held to the broad liberal
aUu cDllgDteDGU Views Oh tndt
We have repeatedly protested against this
reckless aud suicidal course, ana in a spirit OF
Cancellation and concord, and by the glorious
record and grand accomplishments ofthe Repub-
Gcan party we have appealed to them to desist
from pursuing this couree, and In the light OF
experience We have asked them to again take
the voice of the people on this vexatious ques-
ton Of Prohibition. That request has been con.
temptuously refused, and our warnings have
been answered by sneers and apprObriOus cpl
thets.
Now in tho mama nj tho Not;o,oI panubl;oon
party of this country we arraign these Prohibi-
biton allies of the majority faction in this State
asa class untrue to Republican principles, and
an enemy TO Republican success. We arraign
this element as an organization that is to day
plotting and conspiring all over the country to
defeat The National Republican ticket. In Kan
sas they remain nominally with the Republican
party solely because that party can he used to
carry their pet hobby. Sucn being the case and
declining. to accept their doctrines. we
prefer them declared enemies rsth-
er than treacherous friends. We
condemn the cowardice and hypocriscy of those
Republican leaders who have permitted this for.
eign and false issue to be thrust into the party in
this State On their heads shall rest the grave
responsibility of the fatal consequences of their
action. Let them justify their course if they
can, before the tribunal OF Republican faith Of
this country
We endorse the platform of the National Re-
publican party rs adopted by its Convention at
Chicago in June, 1884, and we pledge our cordial
and unqualified support to the nominees of that
Convention, the illuStrious statesman, James G.
Blaine, for President and that heroic patriot and
brave soldier John /. Logan, for Vice President
We especially endorse the action of that Con-
ventlon through its Committee on Resolutions, in
rejecting the abomniable doctrine of prohibitions;
and we hold that the action OF said Cor vention
upon that as upon all other questions, constitutes
the paramount and controlling rule of action for
all true Republicans throughout the country, and
that, while supporting Blaine and Logan, we can
not consistently support the odious doctrine which
was expressly rejected by the Convention which
placed then, in nomination.
We declare that we are the true Republicans of
Kansas, and as proof OF our assertion challenge an
examination OF the platforms of the party from
its organization to the present day promulgated
by its National Conventions, and an inquiry into
The National Republican Convention of 1856
resolved: THAT with our Republican forefathers
we hold it TO be a self evident truth that all men
are endowed with the inalienable rights to lite,
liberty and the pursuits of happiness,
design Of our FEDERAL government were fe''e to
secure these rights to ell persons within its ex.
elusive jurisdiction. The Republican National
Convention of 1860 resolved. that the mainte-
nance of the principles promulgated in the Decla-
ration of Independence, and embodied in the
Federal Constitution that all men arc created
equal that they are created with certain inslien-
able rights: that among these life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness; that TO secure these
rights Governments are instituted among men
deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, is essential to the preservation of our
Republican institutions"
The Republican National Convention of 1868 re-
solved. that We recognise the great
principles laid down in the immorta!
foundation of Democratic government, and We
hail with gladness every effort toward making
these principles living reality on every inch Of
American soil"
The Republican National Convention of 1872
resolved THAT the Republican party respects the
rights reserved by the people to themselves as
carefully as the powers delegated by them to the
states and to the Federal Government. 1t disap-
proves of the resort to unconstitutional laws for
the purpose of removing evils by interfering
with rights not surrendered by the people to
either State or National Government" That the
amendment to the Constitution of the State of
Kansas prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating liquors and the law
made in pursuance thereof are invasiOns upon
the reserved and indliendble rights of the people,
and while by violence depriving the citizen of his
rights they poison the body polite with the virus
OF eccleciasticlsm and constitute an offensive and
dangerous innoys ton, and a pOrtentOus menace
of a union of Church and State.
That said amendment and said law have not
diminished but have increased intemperance in
the State; have greatly increased taxation and at
the same time deprived the peoples treasury of
its just revenue, thus increasing the burdens of
the people, and mflictlng added miseres upon
the State.
Said amendment and law have filled the public
mind with a nameless apprehension of sudden
discomfort, with unrest, suspicion, jealousy, and
luminosity; breeding hostility, dissensiOn and
turmoil, where should be concord and domestic
tranquility; causing a suspension of confidence
between the different elements of society and q
consequent cessation of those united activities
and efforts by means Of which community or a
State may attain to its best results in material
prosperity and in social advancement.
That said amendment and said law have
corrupted, degraded and humiiitated the people
by creating an incentive to perjury by fostering
fAlsehOod and deception, and by stimulating and
promoting hypocriey, sycophancy, irFesolut iI
perious expectations of once dominant and self
styled better class have abandoned sincerity, truth
and candor, and have taken contrary, equivocal
and deceptive positions, upon the assumption that
debauched and dishonored people will follow
from choice the standard of dupliclty and dishon.
esty Upheld by intolerance and puritanical pre-
tense.
That said mendment and said law place the citi-
zen under a sense of constant restraint; call in
question his intelligence, his virtue, his honor
and his manhood, and assume over him COM
plete guardianship. They are an insult to that
high sensibilty which can alone fit the individual
for citizenship, and call forth the unutteraDle
est, unswayed and unawed by public clamor,
stand ever for the preservation of right principles
In view of these things and OF our unalterable
belief that the inhabitants of Northern and tenn
perate climes never can and never ought TO be
brought TO conform to laws based upon Oriental
ascencsm and Mohammedan abstinence, and in
view of the fact that the question of prohibition
has passed from the field of State to that of Ma
tional politics. we declare our deep conviction
that no question of the present day equals in i'm
portance AMI in its far-reaching consequences to
our institutions this first assault of absOlutism
upon the reserved and inalienable rights Of
man; and we deuouuce as infamous all palterng
and double-dealing with a question so grave and
momentous.
We hold that temperance and sobriety are es-
sential tog good government, and that the unre
stricted traffic in intoxicating liquors is great
evil to the community; that total prohibition is
visionary and Utopian idea, demonstrated by
long experience to be inadequate to check or con.
troll the lawless commerce in liquors, and
over three years experience in Kansas has but
proven beyond question the general rule That
the cause of real temperance and the good order