Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-13
Blaine is N~orninaCad,

republican candidate for the presidency
onthe fourth ballot, by a vote Of 544
out OF $50, a majority of 1873 votes.
THE PLATFORM.
The report OF the committee on reso-
buttons was adopted as presented.
They first declare the allegiance OF
the party to the principles which has
enabled the republican party totriumph
in six successive presidential elections,
lament the death ane eulogize the life
Of President Garfield. The paragraph
in regard to protection is q follows:
1t is the first duty of a good govern
ment rights andpromote
the interests of it's own people. The
largest diversity Of industry is most
productive Of general prosperity, and
of the comfort and independence Of the
people. We, therefore, demand that
the imposition Of duties on foreign i'm
ports shall be made, not for revenue
only. but that in raising the requisite
revenues for the government such du-
ties shall be so levied as to afford secu-
rity to III diversified industries and
protection to the rights and wages of
the laborer, to the end that active and
Intelligent labor, as well as capital, may
have its just reward, and the laboring
man his full share in the national pros
perity. Against the so-called economic
system OF the democratic party, which
would degrade our labor to the foreign
standard, we enter our earnest protest.
The democratic party had failed com
pletely to relieve the people of the bur-
zen of unnecessary taxation by q wise
reduction OF The surplus. The republi-
IAN party pledges itself to correct the
inequalities Of the tariff and to reduce
he surplus, not by vicious and indis-
:riminate process of horizontal reduc-
ion, but by such methods as will re-
lieye the tax payer without iniuring
he laborer or the great productive in
.erests OF the country. We recognize
he Importance of sheep husbandry in
the United States, the serious depres-
sion which it is now experiencing and
The danger threatening its future pros
perlty, and we therefore respect the de-
nands Of the representatives Of this
Important agricultural interest for a
Eeadjustment of the duty upon foreign
WOOL, in order that such industry shall
nave full and adequate protection.
They next recommend the establish
ment Of an international standard of
money and declare that commerce With
foreign nations. and between states,
md distinctly announces the purpose
OF the republican party to support such
legislation as will fully and efficiently
carry out the constitutional powers Of
congress over Interstate commerce.
We favor the establishment of a ma
3ional bureau Of labor, the enforcement
of the eight hour law, q wise and judi
etoHa system Of general education by
adequate appropriations from the ma
lonal revenue, wherever the same is
needed.
We believe that everywhere the pro-
9ction due acitizen of American birth,
lnuot be secured to citizens American
by adoption, anu we favor the settle
lnent OF national differences by inter
national arbitration. The republican
party, having its birth in a hatred of
slave labor, and q desire that all men
may be truly free and equal, is unalter-
ably opposed to placing our working
men in competition with any form of
servile labor, whethera at home or abroad.
in this spirit we denounce the impor-
tation Of contract labor, whether from
Europe or Asia, as an offense against
he spirit of American institutions, and
we pledge ourselves to sustain the pres
aant law restricting Chinese immigra-
lion. and provide such further legisla-
ion as is necessary to carry out it's pur-
ose.
Reform Of the civil service, so auspi-
tSGGtJ DSS5 Ait ti-NGi 1CiAQ.lLdIl Glillll-
stration, should be completed by the
lrther eStensiono of the reformed sys-
en- already established by law to all
ae grades Of the service which it is ap-
2llcable. The spirit and purpose of the
Storm should be Observed in all exec
tive appointments, and all laws at va
-iance with the objects OF existing re-
.ormed legislation should be repealed,
p the end that the dangers to free in
Iltutioas Which lurkin the power of
patronage may wisely and etfec-
lively be avoided.
The public lands are a heritage Of the
1aople Of the United States, and should
3 reserved as far as possible for small
aoldings BIZ actual settlers, We are op-
posed to the acquisition of large tracts
a these lands by corporations or indi-
iduals, especially where such holdings
re in The hands Of nonresident aliens,
nd we will endeayor 70 obtain such
egis1ation as will tend to correct this
sid. We demand of the