Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-18
THE PLATFORM.
DECLARATION OF REPUBLICAN
PRINCIPLES.
Proclaimed by the Republican Party
Of California, at Los Angeles,
August 20, 1885.

The Republican party of California, in
Convention assembled, reafIirm3 its devo-
ton to the great purposes for which it was
organized and for which it has been main
tanned. Il has preserved free government
and secured 10 ell the inhabitants of these
United States the great rights which lie at
the foundation Of all just government-the
right to life, property and the pursuit of
happness-and its mission will not be fully
accomplished until the laws are so con-
strucd and administered that an invasion of
these inalienable rights, even as against
the humblest person, shall become impos-
sible. 1t points with pride 70 the fact that
it has engrafted these principles upon the
national Constitution, thereby giving to
every one the protection which the power
Of G0,000000 of freemen affords. Guided
by firm faith in these great principles il
has, during its long and evcniful history,
done nothing for which it has to spolo-
gize. When it took the Government from
the Democratic party it found country
disturbed By discussion; States seced-
ing and threatening secession the Treas
ury empty and the public credit impaired
The arsenals pluEdered and the forresses
invested; q 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 lis successors united country,
q free people, an overlooking treasury,
public credit higher Than that of any other
nation on earth, arsenal5 anu the Govern
nIer.t works intact, the flag of the Union
floating in peace over great, prosperous,
happy nation, commanding the admiration
and respect of mankind. The Democratic
administration Of Cleveland has failed to
keep the pledges upon which it came into
power. II promised retrenchment and
economy, but has been the most extraya-
CANT ever known. 1t promised 10 uphold
the dignity and honor Of the republic 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 10
the humiliation Of seeing our flag insulted,
our seamen seized and vessels OF our cit;-
zans conhscated by the authorities OK Car
ada, while, with rash haste and blunder-
ing, it has involved us in uuiustifiable
ConDllCdlIBuS WIN OUR lTltilulp UclSlUOT,
tue sister republic of Mexico, fact which
seriously calls attention to the Republican
national platform in its enunciation of the
doctrine of international arbitration for in
ternational differences, and to the import
ance OF tie recent Act of the Senate of the
United States in unanimously passing a
bill TOR 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 to blacken the character of
thousands of our best citizens, many OF
them old soldiers, who have been removed
from official positions upon the cowardly
subterfuge Of offensive parlisanship."
We reaiiirm that to the Union soldiers and
sailors in the late war we owe a 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 yetoes !
by President Cleveland of the private pen
sion bills recently passed by this Congress. |
Reafiirmiug .he principles enunciated in
the national platform adopted at Chicago |
in 1884, and the State platform adopted al
Sacramento in the same year, i'll so far as
now applicable, the Republican party of
California makes the following additional
declaration of principles: