The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-16
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

acClOu OF ILLS COnVe0ClOu, because ii
demonstrates that the honest differ.
ences of other years have been happily
adjusted. and has crystalized its aims
and purposes, have justified its hopes
blotted out all animOsities, and forever
united the Republicans of the State,
preparatory to the next Presidential
campaign, when the common enemy,
now entrenched in every department,
and illustrating its natural instincts by
q hypocritical violation of the civil ser
vice rules, in the discharge Of the vet
eran wounded soldiers, must once more
yield to the best friends of free govern
ment on American soil.
The Democratic party, having OBJ
tanned control of the executive branch
of the government and the lower house
of Congress, by the deliberate disfran-
chisement of the cOlOred voters of the
South, and by hypocritical pretenses OF
civil service reform and economical ad-
ministratiOn, is now giving the country
daily reminders of its bad faith, and OF
its inability to legislate for the people,
and to transact the departmental bust
ness with equal and exact justice to all
classes.
1t has persistently violated the civil
service rules.
1t has displaced veteran Union SOL
diers from responsible positions and
filed every department of govern
mental service with ex-COnfederate
soldiers.
1t has repeatedly attempted to de-
press the industries and embarrass the
laborers Of this country by its inter-
ference with the legislative protection
given these great interests by the Re
publican party.
It has sought to withhold from the
gallant defenders of the Union the
small pittance that q grateful people
would willingly pay to the wounded
and diseased heroes Ofthe war, and has
interposed Presidential vetOes of acts
Of Congress granting pensions to a class
of most meritOri0us soldiers, whose old
age, enfeebled by wounds and disease,
alone compelled them to apply to the
Nation for help in the hour of their
misfortune.
1t has rewarded Fitz John Porter for
his failure to obey the orders of his SUI
perior officer, and has reversed the
judgment of Lincoln, Stanton and Gar.
field, condemning his acts of insubor-
dination and treachery.
1t has threatened and annoyed the
homestead and presumption settlers of
the West by malicious misrepresenta-
ton, by partial and predjudicial invest
igati0n, by vexati0us rulings and ill
considered orders, and by attempted
notification of plain acts of Congress
respecting the settlement of the public
lands.
We demand that the system of pro-
lection known as the American system
which has been built up and fOstered
by the Republican party for twenty
five years, be maintained in all its in.
tegrity, 20 that our industries may be
systematically developed, our com.
merce extended, labor receive its just
compensation and reward, and capital
find remunerative employment.
And we demand, further, that this
system, under which the wealth of this
country has been more than trebled in
a single generation, and which affords
the most fair and liberal protection to
our agricultural as well as manufactur-
ing interests, and all individuals EN-
plOyed in connection Herewith, be also
extended to our commerce by the estab-
lishment of q commercial marine to the
end that we may diversity industry,
find new fields for the over crowded
ranks of labor, make use of the pro-
ducts of the forest, mine and mill in
building our own ships and provide for
the nations defense, and vindicate its
honor by training body of men for
service upon the seas, furnishing ships
that can be transferred to the service of
the government in case of need, and Sc
curing the establishment of ship yards
and machinery that will enable US, as
q nation, to construct, equip and float
. navy that can meet all the demands
Of q modern naval warfare.
The people Of Kansas have adopted
prohibition as the settled policy of this
State and have deliberately decided that
the saloon with its corrupt and demor-
alizing influences and associations,
every form Of vice, immortality
and crime is fostered, must 60, and we
are in favor Of carrying into effect this
verdict Of the people by such amend |
ments Of the present Law az practical
experience has shown to be necessary,
and by the election of law officers who
will so firmly and faithfully enforce it |
as to render it impossible 70 sell intoxi- |
eating liquors In this State, except for |
the purposes specified in the prohibit |
lion amendment to the constitution.
The National Republican party |
the foe oflabor by the abolition |
II slavery, and has ever contended for |
the protection Of American labor and |
against the importation of foreign pau
per competition. 1t has always dis
by legislation, in favor of
Ill Of our domestic industries, and it
ms given homesteads Of ope hundred
md sixty acres of land to every bona
idle settler thereon.
The Republican party of Kansas has
embodied in the Constitution of the
State. and in various legislative enact
nents:
Fikst-Proteetiop to The homestead
md wages of the laboreF.
6econd-A liberal exemption To thu
mall manufacturer end dealer.
Third-A mechanics' lien law broad
'nough in its provisions to amply &C.
'ure the payment of any demand for
work and material. !,