Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-27
THE PLATFORM.
THE PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH
THE REPUBLICANS APPEAL
TO THE PEOPLE.

Abraham Lincoln, and to cover, ais
with wreaths of inperishable remem
brance and gratitude to the heroi
names OF our later leaders, who hay
been more recently called away frou
our counclls-Grant, Garfield, Ar,hu,
Logan, ConkIing. May their memo
rles be faithfully cherished. We ais
recall with our greetings and witt
prayer for his recovery, the name O
one OF our living heroes, whose memo
ry will be treasured in the history
both of Republicans and of the re
public, the name OF that noble soldier
and favorite child of victory, Phillip
Fl. Sheridan.
In the spirit Of those great leader,
and Of our, own devotion to human
liberty, and with that hostility to all
forms of despotism and oppression
which is the fundamental idea OF the
Republican party, we send fraternal
congratulations to our fellow-A mer-
cans OF Brazil upon their ereat act OF
the abolition of slavery Throughout,
the two American continents.
We earnestly hope that We may
soon congratulate our fellow citizens
OF Irish birth upon the peaceful re-
covery of Home Rule for Ireland.
We reaffirm our answering devo.
ton to the National Constitution and
to the indissoluble union OF the
States, and to the autonomy reserved
to the States under the Constitution:
to the personal rights and liberties of
citizens in all the States and Terri
tories OF the Union, and especially to
the supreme and sovereign right of
every lawful citizen, rich or poor,
native or foreign born, white or black,
to cast one free ballot in public cleo
tions, and to have that ballot duly
counted. We hold the free and
honest popular ballot and the just
and equal representation of all the
people to be the foundation of Re-
publican government, and demand
effective legislation to secure the in
tegrity and purity Of elections, which
are the fountains OF all public author
lty. We charge that the present ad-
and the Democratic ma
jority in Congress owe their existence
to the suppression Of the ballot by
criminal notification of the Constitu
ton and the laws of the United
States.
We are uncompromisingly in favor
of the American system of protection.
We protest against its destruction,
10y the President and his
party. They serve the interests OF
Europe; we will support the interests
Of America. We accept tho issue
and confidently appeal to the people
ter their Judgment. The protective
'ystem must be maintained; its
abandonment has always been follow
'd by general disaster to all interests,
except those of the Insurer and the
heritf.
We denounce the Mills bill as
destructive to the general business,
he labor aud the farming interests of
he country; and we heartily endorse
he consistent and patriotic action of
he Republican Representatives in
congress in opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition Of the |
Democratic party to place wool on
he free list, and We insist that the
|u,ies thereon shall be adjusted and
maintained SO as to furnish full and
dequate protection to the industry.
The Republican party would effect
IL needed reduction of the national
evenue by repeating the taxes upon
ohacco which are an annoyance and
burden to agriculture, and the tax
pon spirits used in the arts and for
Mechanical purposes; and by such
evislon Of the tariff laws as will
end to check imports of such articles
S are produced by our people, the
PRODUCTION of which gives employ
nent to our labor, and release from
IMPORT duties those articles of foreign
reduction Except luxuries) the Ike
I which cannot be produced at
ONE. If there shall still remain a
'rger revenue than is required for
he wants of the government, we
'vor the entire repeal of internal
Ixes rather than the surrender of
nv part of our protective system at
le joint behcst of whisky trusts and
lie agents of foreign manufacturers.
We declare our hostility to the in :
oduction into this country of foreign {
'ntract labor and Of Chinese labor. &
len to our civilization and our Con-
tuition, and we demand the rigid c
lforcement of the existing laws |
!anst it, and favor such immediate &
gislation as will exclude such labor a
ON our shores. S
We declare our opposition to all
mhinations of capital organized e
to trusts or otherwise to control G
bitrarily the condition of trade a
nonE our citizens, and We recon. D
end to Congress and the State Leg. d
atures in their respective iurisdic- h
ms, such legislation as will nreva,t .