The Republican journal., 1888-05-24
Wide Awake N, b. Republicans.

At the recent New Hampshire State RepubI,-
cln convention, the following resolutions were
adopted unanimously:
We arra@h the present national democratic
and nu-wump administration for political sins
Of omission and commission without parallel
in the history Of the country.
1t has protc>>eu civil service reform and vet
has prescribed more faithful officials in three
ycar> than We're prescribed in the entire first
century Of the Republic
1t has profcS>cd gratitude to the brave de-
Tenders of the lnon, yet has prescribed more
veterans than Washington at any line COM
handed. and the President has vetoed more
pension bills than have been vetoed by all his
predecessors.
1t has lrotts>cd to be the only national party
within the lines Of the Union and yet its only
hope OF success rests on welding as unit the
States lately in rebellion. and keeping alive the
prejudcc> and hatrctl> on which solid South
l. grounded.
1t has profc>>rd To be the champion of Amer
lean industry and Labor and yet member of
tie cabinet. its speaker of the House of Repre-
>entativts and its leaders all over the country
are members of the Cobdcn club. the great Brit
i>h organization, which has >triven for thirty
years and expended hundreds of thousands of
dollars 70 secure the market of the nited States
Tor British products and manufactures.
Processing to rogard the treasury surplus as
am imminent danger and present evil it pro-
poses a> a remedy to destroy the wool industry
u1 the nitcd states which is to-day Struggling
under the tariff reduction of lSSs and in some
eases closing it, doors under the depression of
the mali@n agitation begun in the Presidents
attack ON this industry and continued in the
threatened passage of the Mills bill which puts
wool. lumber and farm products on the free
ll>t and thus opens these industries to the low
paid labor of Canada.
Processing to desire the restoration of Amer
lean commercial marine which was swept from
the seas 10y the pirate cruiser, of the very men
now in control of the democratic party, its sec
rclary Of the navy has thwartcd an appropria-
tion by Congress which would have helped to
restore our foreign trade by continin" the car
riage Of o,lr ocean mails to American ships fly
ing the American flag.
Processing to stand hy the rights of the
American fishermen i! has given its assent to 4
treaty which slrrcnderS to an imperial and inn
pcri"u> nation the right which in colonial as
we'll a. later times. has hrooked no rival on the
seas, and which secures no advantage for the
rights surrendered except what are accorded
hv the law of nations.
For these sins of commission and omission,
and others too numerous to record here in full
we instruct the delegates this day elected to
Chicago to Use every honorable effort to place
in nomination a ticket that will command uni
Ner>al coniiicnre defy every assault and be re-
>i>tcs> at the polls a ticket. that in its triumph,
which we mhesiiatin-ly predict. shall restore
the government to the only party that is ma
tional in its aims. Just in its purposes. humane
in its methods. loyal in lis achievements and
progressive and American in its principles.