The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-12
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
They ResOloOt and Denounce
Everything Democratic,
AND SAY WHAT THEY FAVOR.
They Exhibit q Soreness at the Loss
of Office and Prate About the
Civil Service Law.
Ohio Republican,.


publican State convention was called to
order at 10 O'Clock. Delegations of
Lightweight counties of the State are
full and over 1000 persons were packed
in the wigwam. Committees were ap-
pointed and the convention took recess
until after dinner.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio. June 1.-THE
State Republican convention resumed
its session this afternoon at 2 o'clo ok.
Over LOCO persons were accommodated
within the wlgwam ana several thous-
and were on the street. Hon. Amos
Townsend, of Cuyahoga, was made
permanent chairman and addressed the
convention.
Alta O'Clock, Hon. William Mckinley,
chairman of the committee on platform,
offered the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
The Republican party of Ohio an.
nounces the following platform of
by the Constitution of the United
States is a concern of the whole people
and must be secured at all hazards to
every citizen in every part of the re-
public. Existing guarantees must be
sacredly maintained and additional
ones provided if necessary, that equal
protection laws and equal enjoyment of
suffrage shall not fail or be abridged in
any way through the convenience,
neglect or fraud of any of the States Of
the Union. The Democratic party,
which owes its national victory last fall
to the willful suppression of the ballot,
cannot be looked to for the
enforcement of these Constitutional
guarantees, and the hope of the
friends of equal laws and equal suffrage
is in the Republican party, which
pledges itself to wage the contest to a
successful end. We want such legisla-
lation as will harmonic the relations of
labor and capital and promote the vel
fare of the people and protect and fos-
ter the industries of the State. We
favor the establishment of a national
bureau of industry; the enforcement
of the eight-hour law. and adequate
appropriations from the public rev.
enues for general education, wherever
the same is needed. We denounce the
importation of contract labor and
favori the most stringent laws to
effectively prevent it. We are opposed
to the acquisition of public lands or
any part thereof by nonresident aliens.
| We are in favor OF protective
tariff, which will encourage American
development and furnish remunerative
employment to American labor, and we
are opposed to the British policy advo-
Gated by the Democratic party under
the guise of tariff for revenue only. We
demand the restoration of the wool
duty of 1857, or its full equivalent, and
we denounce the Democratic Congress
for failing to make good the pledges
they made in this behalf. We condemn
the action of the present administration
in lowering the national flag upon the
public buildings at Washington, as a
mark of respect to the man who dis
| honored the one and sought to destroy
the other; who planned with cruel de-
termination in his hiding place
| in Canada, to overwhelm the
northern cities with fire, and
to sweep to death their inhabitants,
by scattering everywhere the germs of
| infectious and fatal diseases. We as
sert that the elevation to important and
honorable offices of government of I'M
repentant rebels, whose political dis
abilities have not been removed, is a
fragrant violation of the Constitution
and an insult to the loyal people of the
whole country. We denounce the
administration of President Cleveland
| for its general discrimination so far
made against Union soldiers for men
who fought against the Union. The
Republican party, which enacted the
present civil service law, will faithfully
maintain it and cheerfullv aid in all
needed amendments to give it full force,
1 "a = 70 a~fond tho 10
| to all grades of the service to which
it is applicable. Ample appropriation
should be made to enforce it in letter
and spirit, and all laws at variance with
| the object of existing reform legislation
should be repealed. Having accom-
plished this much, the party pledges
itself to still further and higher re-
forms. 1t looks with the deepest regret
upon the failure of the present admins
tration TO promote the reforms in the
| civil service so auspiciously begun under
the Republican administration. The
Republican party OF Ohio demands the
repeal of the limitation contained in the
pension Arrears act of 1878, so that ali
invalid soldiers shall share equally and
their pensions begin with the date of
their disability. or discharge and
NOT with the date of theiI
application. We denounce the
Democratic party for the destruction
of the Scott law, and the consequent in.
crease Of the burden of taxation upon
all property and the abandonment oil
an annual revenue of $1,000 600, and
while recognizing the peoples right to
amend the organic law, we demand the
enactment of such legislation as will
gi7e US the most practical and efficient
measure for the regulation and taxation
of the liquor traffic attainable under the
Constitution. We denounce the Demo
cratic Legislature for its treachery to
their pledge on the subjecs of contract
labor, and their incompetency and
extravaganza in the management of the
nenitentiary. We denounce the present
Democratic Assembly for its extra,
4 vagance and wanton disregard Of
4 the true interests and good name Of
onr State.-. The Republicans of Ohio, in
convention assembled. tender to General
IIIysses s. Grant, our warm sympathy
in This time Of his great suffering, and
assure him Of orr great faith and love