Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-03
INDIANA REPUBLICANS.
The State Convenf1on-AP Plain Decl
 ration of -PrinsfpIes ana Aound

ration of Principles and Sound.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2.-The Republican - State convention met at Il o'clock. Senato l Harris was chosen chairman and John L. t Rupee, of Richmond, secretary. The com
 mittee on resolutions reported. Their re- < port arraigned the national and State ad. l ministrations and embodied the following platform which was unanimously adopted: The security of the government rests upon an equal intelligent and honest ballot and we renew our declaration against crimes of fraud and violence wherever practiced and
 under whatever form, whereby the right of
 every man to cast one vote and have that
 vote counted and returned is imperilled or
 abridged. We protest against the fragrant
 crime of the Democratic party of Indiana,
 against free suffrage in the passage of an in-
 famous gerrymander. We demand that man l for man, the votes of members of all parties
 shall be of equal force and effect. Freedom
 of labor is essential to the content and pros- perity of the people. Workingmen should ! be protected against the expressions of cor
 porste combinations and monopolies. We are opposed to the importation of contract l and i'll paid labor from abroad; the unfair competition of convict labor with free labor the competition of assisted emigrants and the vicious classes of Europe with American workmen, the employment of young chill dren in factories, and we recommend to the next general assembly the passage of such laws as will guarantee to workingmen the most favorable conditions for their labor, es- pecially in the proper ventilation and safe guards for life and health in the mines and factories and the sure and prompt payment of wages. We favor the reduction
 of the legal number of working hours wher-
 ever practicable and the submission of all
 matters of controversy between employe and
 employer under just regulations to impartial
 arbitration. The right of all men to assoei- 1
 ate for the promotion of their mutual good |
 and protection without interfering with the |
 rights Of others cannot be questioned We | favor the maintenance of the principle of | protection under which the resources of the | State and nation have been and are being | developed and whereby the wages of work | ingmen are from fifteen to thirty per cent. ! higher than under the revenue tariff in force before the Republican party came into power
 Favoring the reduction and eadjustment of the tariff from time to time as circumstances
 may require in our opinion the duties
 will be allowed by a wise He obs hs
 servation of the necessity of protecting
 that portion of manufactories and labor
 whose property is essential to our national safety and independence upon the basis of afording production to the products and re- suits of Americaa skill and industry. We at the same time condemn the declaration of the Democratic party of Indiana, in favor of ioo1f do I the prosperity Of the state and the welfare and advancement of the workingmen. The 1 wisdom and honesty of the Republican party ] secured sound money to the people. Gold and silver should be maintained in friendly relation in the coin circulation of the coun- { try and all the circulating medium-coin and ( paper alike-should be kept on equal and permanent values. The surplus in the trea- sury should be steadily applied to the reduc- tion of the national debt. We favor thor ' ough and honest enforcement of the civil ] service law and the extension of it's prin- ,iples to the State administration, wherever t can be made practicable to the end that V he corruption and fragrant abuses that exist n the management of our public institutions nay be done away with and they be liberated
 rom partisan control. J
 The Republican party carried into effect t he homestead policy under which the west rn States and territories have been made 'opulous and prosperous. We favor the t of public lands for small hold C ngs by actual settlers, and are opposed to a he acquisition of large tracks of the public T omain by corporations and nonresident | liens. American lands should be preserved l 2 or American settlers. The watering of cor P orative stock should be prevented by law. ' hallway and other public corporations r r hould be subjected to the control of the . ublic through the legislative power that to' reated them, and their undue influence in '' egislation and in courts should be summarily
 reyented. We favor the creation of
 ureau of labor and statistics whereby the lterest of both labor and capital may be rotected and the welfare of the state pro- l 1 loted. Lapse of time does not weaken the 1 - ratitude due the soldiers and the sailors of l le union. We favor such changes in the C. ension laws as will make proof of enlist re lent conclusive evidence of the physical
 oundness of the applicant, that will equal e allowance and will simplify the methods Je y which just claims can be adjndicated in Eli le pension office. We favor the granting of Bs
 pension to every honorabiy discharged IT nion soldier and sailor 9si1terlng from un-
 voidable disability. We favor granting pen CT ons to the survivSrs of the Mexican war who l Dc re not labori-ss under political disability The Te gislat,-4e should make liberal appropria-
 oI, ior the erection of 8 soldiers and sail
 s monument at the Capital of the State W 'e favor the separation of the soldiers or Kl 1ans' home from the home for feeble mind w children. We renew the pledge of our Cl 'votion to the free unsectarian school m, stem and favor measures tend Al g to increase it's practical value 1 Io
 the people. We are opposed to R y movement, however insiduous, whether 1;a cal and State, whereby sacred fund may A,
 diverted from it's use or the administra- ,n of the schools made less impartial or am icient. The amendment of the constitu- 'n of the State providing for the equaliza- Or 'n of fees and salaries ought not to remain Ph lead letter, and we favor the enactment of fo, ust law for compensation of all public | R icials We favor striking the word ( Vhite' from the militia clause of the con- tuition so that colored men may become a Ii, Tt of the State militia. The rem aiming resolutions touch upon l A ate issues, denounce anarchism, favor l To, al option and proper taxation of the liq- A r trade, express sympathy with Ireland, C!a, urn the deaths of Grant and Colfax, favor "a, nonument at the expense of the govern z mt tor Grant te be situated at Washing anc R. s. Robertson, of Al,en county. was WY minated for lieutenant governor ;..Gharles w w Griffin, of Lake, for secretary of State, no w. l Bruce Carr, of Orange, for auditor A or1 olution Of sympathy for the Charleston Tit 1i ferers and pledging contributions was opted. Hal
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