Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-06-30
THE PLATFORM.
THE PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH
THE REPUBLICANS APPEAL
To THE PEOPLE.

The Sacred Right Of Local Self. Govern.
ment-GOld and Silver rs Money
0ne.Cent Postage-The Free Schools
Etc.
CONTINUED.
The government by Congress of the
Territories is based upon necessity
only, to the end that they may be.
come States ia the Union; therefore,
whenever the conditions of popula-
ton, material resources, public intel
ligence and morality are such as to
insure stable local government there
in, the people of such Territories
should be permitted, as a right in
herent in them, to form for themselves
constitutions and State governments
and be admitted into the Union.
Pending the preparation for State.
hood, all officers thereof should be
selected from the bona fde residents
and citizens of the Territory wherein
they are to serve. South Dakota
should of right be Immediately ad-
United as State in the Union, under
the Constitution framed and adopted
by her people, and we heartily en-.
dorse the action of the Republican
Senate in twice passing bills for her
admission. The refusal Of the Dem
ocratic House Of Representatives, for
partisan purposes, to consider these
bills, is wiIlful violation Of the
sacred American principle of local
self.government, and merits the con-
domination of all just men. The
pending bills in the Senate for acts to
enable the people of Washington,
North Dakota and Montana Terri
tories to form Constitutions and es-
tablisn State governments should be
passed without unnecessary DELAY.
The Republican party pledges itself
to do all in its power to facilitate the
admission of the Territories OF New
Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho and Arzo-
ma to the enjoyment of sell. govern
ment as States; such of them as are
now qualified as soon as possible, and
the others as soon as they may become
so. The political power Of the Nor
mon Church in the Territories as ex-
ercised in the past, is a menace to free
institutions and dangerous to be long
suffered; therefore we pledge the
Republican party to appropriate leg,s.
lation asserting the sovereignty of
the nation in all Territories where the
same is questioned, and in lurtherance
of that end, to place upon the statute
books, legislation stringent enough 10
divorce the political from the eccles
ias,ical power, and thus stamp out the
attendant wlckedness of polygamy.
The Republican party is in favor of
the use OF both gold and silver as
money, and condemns the policy Of
the Democratic administration in its
efforts to demonetize silver.
We demand reduction Of letter
postage to one cent.
In republic like ours, where the
citizens is the sovereign and the Off
cial the servant, wh're no power is
exercised except by the will of the
people, it is important that the sover-
eighty, the people, should possess in.
telligence. The free school is the
promoter of that intelligence which is
to preserve US a free nation; there
fore, the State or nation, or both com
bined, should support free insti'u-
tons Of learning, sufficient to afford
to every child growing up in the land
the opportunity of good common
school education.
We earnestly recommend that
prompt action be TAX en- by Congress
in the enactment of such legislation
as will best secure the rehabilitation
of our American merchant marine,
and we protest against the passage
by Congress of the free ship bill as
calculated to work injustice to labor
by lessening the wages Of those en-
gagged in preparing materials as we'll
as those directly employed in our
shipyards.
We demand appropriations for the
early rebuilding of our navy, for the
construction Of coast Notifications
and modern ordnance and other ap-
proved modern means of defense for
the protection Of our defenseless
harbors and cities; for the payment
of just pensions to our soldiers; for
necessary works of national impor.
lance, and improvement of the
harbors and channels of internal,
coastwise and foreign commerce;
for the encouragement OF the ship
ping interests of the Atlantic, Gulf
and Pacific States, as we'll as for the
payment of the maturing public debt.
This policy will give employment to
our labor, activity to our various in.
dustries, increase the security of our
country. promote trade, open new
and direct markets for our produce,
and cheaper the cost of transporta-
ton. We affirm this to be far better
for our country than the Democratic
policy of loaning the government