Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-02
THE PLATFORM.
THE PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH
THE REPUBLICANS APPEAL
To THE PEOPLE.


honor the memory of their first great
leader, the immortal champion of lib
erty and the rights of the people,
Abraham Lincoln, and to cover also
with wreaths of imperishable remem.
brance and graft 'ude to the heroic
names of our later leaders, who have
been more recently called away FROM
our councils-Grant, Garfield, Arthur,
Logan, Conkling. May their memo
ries be faithfully cherished. We also
recall with our greetings and with
prayer for his recovery, the name Of
one Of our living heroes, whose memo
ry will be treasured in the history,
both of Republicans ana of the re-
public, the name of that noble soldier
and favorite child Of victory, Phillip
II. Sheridan.
In the spirit of those great leaders
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-Ameri-
cans Of Brazil upon their great 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, aud to the autonomy reserved
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to the personal rights are liberties of
citizens in all the States and 1'-rri-
tories OF the Union, and especially to
the supreme aud sovereign right of
every lawful citizen, rich or poor,
native or foreign born, white or black.
to cast one free ballot in public eec-
tons, 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
ity. We charge that the present i'd
ministration and the Democratic ma
jority III Congress owe their existence
to the suppression Of the ballot by n
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
proposed by the President and his
party. They serve the interests OF
Europs; We will support the interests
Of America. We accept the issue
and confidently appeal to the people
for their Judgment. The protective
system must be maintained; it,
abandonment has always been follow.
Ell by general disaster to aliainteres,s
except those Of the Insurer and the
sheriff.
We denounce the Mills bill AZ
destructive to the general business
the labor and the farming interests o.
the country; and we heartily endorse
the consists ut and patriotic action o.
the Republican Representatives il
Congress in opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition of the
Democratic party to place wool OF
the free list, and we insist that the
duties thereon shall be adjusted ano
maintained so as TO furnish full ant
adequate protection to the industry
The Republican party would eifec
all needed reduction of the natona
revenue by repeating the taxes upor
tobacco which are an annoyance ant
burden to agriculture, and the ia,
upon spirits used in the arts and fo
mechanical purposes; and by sncl
revision Of the tariff laws as viii
tend to check imports of such Articles
as arc produced by our people, thu
production of which gives employ
meut 70 our labor, and release from
import duties those articles of foreig,
production Except luxuries) the Ike
OF which cannot be produced a
home. If there shall still remain
larger revenue than is required 70
the wants OF the government, VI
favor the entire repeal Of interna
taxes rather than the surrender o
any part Of our protective system IA
the joint behcst OF whisky trusts ant
the agents of foreign manufacturers
We declare our hostility to the in
PRODUCTION into this country of foreie'
contract labor and Of Chinese labor
alien to our civilization aud our Con
situation, and we demand the rigi'
enforcement OF the existing law
against il, and favor such immediat
legislation as will exclude such labo
from our shores.
| We declare our opposition to a
combinations of capital organize
into trusts or otherwise to con:ro
arbitrarily the condition Of trad
among our citizens, and we recon
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