Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-08-05
County Ticket.
Ninth District Platform.

The following resolutions Were
endorsed bv the Republicans OF thu
Ninth Congressional District as
sembed in convention at Counc',
Bluffs, Thursday the 10Th uItm":
The republican,, of the ninth con
gres>onal district OF the state q
Iowa, in convention assembled, d.
declare their allegiance to and re.
affirm those principles that brought
into existence, and made il ncCe>.
sary 10 have great republican,
party, and those pnnciplc les win IL
now exist and find expression only
in the platforms and measures OF
that party, believing that thereby
the highest national prosperity ans
good government will be secured to
all.
We insist upon having such
revenue laws as will encourage
American industries and protect
American labor, in order that the
workingmen of this nation shall re-
ceive adequate wages for his days
work, and as will tend to fix per-
manently his employment.
We demand that the surplus of
funds in the treasury of the nation be
at once applied in the payment of the
interest bearing debt of the nation,
now due, or payable.
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the best interest of all the people if
another member be added to the
national cabinet, and that a new de-
partment be created, embracing and
comprising the labor and agricultural
interests of the people.
Declaring that We to-day are en-
ioying the great benefits ola preserv-
ed union, and nation without an
equal among all the nations of the
earth, and that history gives no rec
ord of nation whose citizens are
endowed and granted the privileges
and benefits we enjoy in this.
We acknowledge that for these
things we are indebted to the gallant
men who sacrificed their health, their
homes, their lives, their all, that this
nation might be preserved.
That among us today there are a
number of those men to whom we
owe so much, and who deserve tinan-
cial recognition at the hands OF our
government. That they are prevent
ed from receiving that pay they so
richly earned by the exercise of the
veto power by the president, Grover
Cleveland, whose action we denounce
and condemn as being brutal, and
void of that patriotic feeling that
should be found in the heart of every
lover of the union.
We recognize the right and duty
of labor TO organize for the protec'
ton and promotion of its own inter-
ests. and we congratulate organized
intelligent labor (Which is the chief
corner stone OF both the permanence
and prosperity of our nation) in hav'
ing undertaken the solution of ques'
tons OF vital interest, not only to ev'
cry workingman but to every citizen
AS representative of the republican
party which was brought into exist
ence as the result Of opposition to the
degradation of labor through the in
stitution of slavery we earnestly en-
dorse and support every effort of or
ganized labor to secure the elevation
and prosperity of our own people.
=. We denounce and oppose mo
nopoly OF every kind and nature, ant
cordially endorse every proposition
looking toward its abolition; w
favor reservation of lands for actua
settlers only, and are cordially il
favor of such system of assessment
and taxation as shall compel land
held unproductive for speculative pur
poses to bear their just proportion
of the public burdens, and thereb,
relieving unjust taxation of those VIII
are adding to the public wealth c
the people.
s. We are heartily in favor of tn
forfeiture OF all unearned grants c
the public lands.
We are in favor OF prohibiting alien
holding public lands, and are in favor {
the Just acquisition of the title TO such land
as are so held by the general governrner
for actual settlers, with the qualihcatio
that any person having in good faith take
up his residence here and declared his in
tention of becoming an American citiZe
shall not DC included in such prohibition
We are IN favor OF quieting the title {
the Dcs Moines River lands in the actus
settlers, and 1t that shall again be defeate
by democratic presidential vetoss at tn
dictation Of eastern corporations, we are i
favor OF fully compensating said settler
We denounce the veto of the Des Moline
river land bill by President Cleveland an
the action OF the democratic house of rep
rcsentatives in sustaining said veto, and "
congratulate the Knights OF Labor and tn
people of this district that we present I
them candidate for congress who vote
for the Des Moines river land bill, and ais
voted TO pass II over President Cleveland
veto.
We are opposed to contract prison labe