Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-28
THE PLATFORM
As Finally Adopted After Amendments
Made.


As Finally Adopted After Amendments
Made.
The Republican platform as heretofore
published was changed after the original
draft, as submitted by the committee, had
been forwarded by telegraph. Following
is the platform complete as it was finally
adopted by the Convention
The Republican party of California, in
Convention assembled, reafhrms its devo-
ton to the great purposes for which it was
organized and for which it has been main
tanned. 1t has preserved free government
and secured TO all the inhabitants of these
United States the great rights which lie at
the foundation of all Just governmeut-the
right to life, property and the pursuit Of
happIness-and its mission will not be fully
accomplished until the laws are so con-
strued and administered that an invasion of
these inalienable rights, even as against
the humblest person, shall become impos-
sible. 1t points with pride to the fact that
it has engrafted these principles upon the
national Constitution, thereby giving to
every one the protection which the power
of 60000000 of freemen affords. Guided
by firm faith in these great principles it
has, during lis long and eventful history,
gize. When it took the Government from
the Democratic party it found a country
disturbed by dissensions; States seceG-
ing and threatening secession; the Treas
ury empty and the public credit impaired;
the arsenals plundered and the fortresses
invested; a hostile Government, whose
foundation was human slavery, fully armed
in our midst with open foes at the South
and secret enemies at the North. When
called upon to surrender its great trust, it
delivered to its successors united country,
free people, an overlooking treasury,
public credit higher than that of any other
nation on earth arSeualS and the Govern
ment works intact the flag of the Union
floating in peace over a great, prosperous,
happy nation, commanding the admiration
and respect Of mankind. The Democratic
administration of Cleveland has failed 10
keep the pledges upon which it came into
power. 1t promised retrenchment and
economy, but has been the most eXtrava-
CANT ever known. 1t promised to uphold
the dignity and honor of the reDublic and
protect American citizens and their rights
of person and property, both at home and
abroad, but has proved incapable of secur-
ing an honorable adjustment of the fish
cries question, and has, with seeming in
difference, subjected the United States to
the humiliation of seeing our flag insulted
our seamen seized and vessels of our citi-
zens confscated by the authorities OF Can
ada, while with rash haste and blunder-
ing, it has involved us in uniustifiable
complications with our friendly neighbor,
the sister republic of Mexico, a fact which
seriously calls attention to the Republican
national platform in its enunciation of the
doctrine of in ernational arbitration for in
ternational differences, and to the import
ance of the recent Act of the Senate of the
United States in unanimously passing q
bill for a Congress of American nations in
the interest OF peace and commerce. 1t
promised civil service reform, but has made
that phrase odious by not only removing,
but attempting 10 blacken the character OF
thousands of our best citiZens, many of
them old s)ide-s, who have been removed
from official positions upon the cowardly
subterfuge of offensive partisanship."
We reaffirm that to the Union soldiers and
sailors in the late war we owe debt which
cannot be computed, and it is the duty of
the Government to grant pensions and eS-
tablish homes for all such as are disabled
or in want; and with equal earnestness we
condemn the heartless and wholesale vetoes
by President Cleveland of the private pen
sion bills recently passed by this Congress
Reattirming the principles enunciated in
the national platform adopted at Chicago
in 1884, and the State platform adopted at
Sacramento III the same year, in so far rs
now applicable, the Republican party of
California makes the following additional
declaration Of principles:
Labor.
Labor is honorable, and the laborer in
every walk of life should be honored. Upon
free, intelligent-labor and its wise direction
depends the prosperity of the nation.
Everything which is useful and valuable
to man is the result of labor in some form,
and its careful protection should be the first
consideration of the statesman. The value
of labor must depend upon its producing
capacity, and this must be measured by the
of the laborer. The liberal
education of the laborer, therefore, is the
first step towards the greatest, the wisest
and the most profitable development of the
resources of the country and the elevation
of its workmen. To accomplish this the
public school system should be preserved,
protected and extended, until its ennobling
influence penetrates to every hearthstone
and increases the usefulness of every per-
son. The Republican party declares its
firm belief that cooperation among labor
ers is for the best interests of society that
while capital is entitled to all safeguards
necessary 10 induce IFS generous invest
ment, and while assaults upon social order
from persons falsely represent |
ing themselves as friends Of labor must be
sternly repressed, the Republican party
will never sanction any legislation which
would restrict wage-earners from cooper
ating and organizing for their general pro-
lection and advancement but, on the con-
trary, will enact liberal laws fostering and
cooperation.
Resolred, That all law-abiding citizens of
the United States, be they native or foreign
born. are equally entitled to the protection |
Of cur laws, and we are opposed 10 the I'M
migration Of all persons not in sympathy
with this Government and the principles |
on which it is founded
Resolred That we are irreyocably in favor |
Of Immediate action on the part of Con |
gress and the President to secure the abro- |
CATION OF the Burlirgame treaty. to be fol- !
lowed By such legislation as will prohibit |
the further immigration of Chinese.