Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-27
Platform Republican County Con
ventiOn. Adopted April 21st.

WHEREAS: 1t is with feelings of pride and
cougratuIation that we the Republicans of Phil
lips County Kansas, in Convention assembled, re
call to mind some Of the many grand achieve
meuts of the Republican party IN the past;
WHEREAS: That party came into existence as a
protest against slavery and was reared upon the
eternal truth THAT all men are created equal, ell
dOWed by their creator with life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, and 10 secure these rights
Governments are instituted among men. 1t there
further eXtensiOu-Of slavery; it denounced the
fugitive slave law as an ubiquitous enactment
and pledged itself TO repeal II aud other wicked
laws passed by the Democratic party: 1t was the
champion of free speech and a free press: 1t
fought the battles for the preservation of the
Union and suppressed the shareholders rebellion:
1t set free the slaves and entrauchised them and
educated their children at public expense. 1t es-
tablished and maintained free school system
the grandest in the world; il protected home in
dustries II gave the country a homestead law
In all states where it had the power, it placed
upon the statute books liberal exemption and
collection laws for the benefit of the poor. After
Waged on earth, Ii magnanimOusly pardOned the
rebels, restored them to citizenship, and then
went TO all the nations Of the earth and asked
Lneh 10 ASSIST IN establishing inter National
Courts OF Arbitration so that war might no longer
curse the race but that hereafter all disputes
might De settled without the shedding OF blood;
1t gave the gallant and ever-tO-be hOnOred sol
ders and sailors liberal pensions for services rem
uGreu IN defense OF the Union. IN several states
where it had the power, it has fully partly en-
franchised women, enlarged her sphere of use
fulness, opened up to her new fields of employ
ment and pointed out to her the way in which
she may fit herself for the fall enjoyment of the
rights and privileges of citizenship; In several
states it has enacted laws for the suppression Of
the liquor traffic and in all parts of the country
Republicans are foremost in temperance work
During the time the Republicans administered
l the Government from 1860 to 1884, the American
people made greater progress in all those things
ever made in an equal length of time by any
nation of which history gives an account.
! Resolved: By the Republicans of Phillips
/ County. Kansas III delegate Convention assem-
/ that we re-decare our continued confidence in.
/ ana admiration Tor the fundamental doctrines of
/ the national republican party as euuuCiated by
! the national convention of that party.
| Resolved: That while we accord to the Re
| publican party great honor for its achievements
IN the past We declare IL to be our earnest cOnvc
ton that II cannot expect To be given the control
1 Of the government, by reason of its past grand
record alone. Glorious that record is, the par
~ must promise TO serve the people in the future,
and we sOlemnly declare that the party should ad-
dress itself to the earnest investigation into the
causes of the frequent great strikes among labor
ing men, the watering of railroad and other cOrpO-
ration stocks, the transportation problem. the
currency question. the apparent conflict befvveen
capital and labor, and other problems now press
ing for solution. 10 the end that the people :
interest may be zealously guarded and carefully
Resolved: That we are unalterably opposed to
T trusts, mOnOpOles, combinations and other as
sOciauons, that have for their object the corner
ing OF the neccessarles OF life and the rObbing OF
the consumers and the industrial classes of the
/ country and We hereby instruct the delegates
selected by this convention TO the district and
state conventions TO use their utmost eudeaYOrS
IN al honorable ways, 10 elect such delegates %
the national convention TO be held at Chicago as
may be IN hearty accord with the spirit of this
resolution, and who viii favor the adoption of
national platform cmOOdying the sentiment here
i'm expressed.
Resolved: That we arraign the present Demo
cratic administration for its hagrant disregard OF
the best interests Of the people by locking up il
the Treasury vaults hundreds of millions of the
money of the country and thus contracting the
We lumc of circulating medium instead of paving
OF the bonds and reducing the public debt
rs rFI CraTr1 an
that prohibition has been of great benefit to Kan
sas, and that we would hail with satisfaction the
adoption of Temperance plank IN the next Ma
tional Platform of the Republican party.
Resolved: That we favor the enactment of
law that viii do full justice 10 the Union soldier
by paying them the difference that existed be
tween gold and deprecated paper currency at IN,
time they received their compensation from tn,
government for services rendered, as IL is Oul
solemn conviction that there should be no dis
elimination against the soldier in favor OF IN,
bOndhulder. and we further declare that we are IL
} favor Of the most liberal pension laws.
We hereby recommend the adoption of the abOy,
/ resolutions
r. A. DAGUE
j. ID. Hicks
a. III. SHAPLEY.
GEORGE BELL.
On motion the above were adopted by the con
vcnJion by unanimous vote.
The following resolution was also passed:
/ Resolved; That this convention endorse I'm
equfvocally the Hon. Jshn Bissell for deIegate \
large TO the National Republican Convention I,
be held at Chicago June 18th 1888 and that tn,
ventiOn be instructed 70 use all honorable meani
20 secure his election. Also that-thfs convention
unanimously endorse Mr.. NJ. IL. Johnson as ,
delegate from the 9th Congressional District e
the National Republican Convention at Chicago
and instruct Our delegation 10 the ObeFliH con
yentiOn 10 stand by him first last aLd all th,
time.