Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-14
THE PLATFORM.
THE PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH
THE REPUBLICANS APPEAL
TO THE PEOPLE.

The Republicans of the United
States, assembled by their delegates
n the National Convention, pause on
The threshold Of their proceedings to
honor the memory of their first great
leader, the immortal champion OF lib
erty and the rights Of the people,
Lincoln, and to cover also
with wrea,hs Of imperishable remem-
brance and graft ude to the heroic
of our later leaders, who have
been more recently called away froIa
our councils-Grant, Garfield, Arthur,
Logan, Conkliug. 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
aud favorite child of victory, Phillip
Fl. 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 VIC may
soon congratulate our fellow citizens
of Irish birth upon the peaceful re-
oovery of Home Rule for Ireland.
We reallirm 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 fore ign born, white or black,
to cast one free ballot in public cleo
tons, and to have that ballot duly
counted. We hold the free and
honest popular ballot and the jus,
and equal representation Ut 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 ad
ministration and the Democratic ma
jority in Congress owe their existence
to the suppression Of the ballot by F.;
criminal notification of the Constitu
ton and the laws Of the Unite,
| States.
We are uncompromisingly in favo
of the American system OF protection
! We protest against its destructiun
proposed by the President and hi
party. They serve the interests @
Europ' we will support the interest
of America. We accept the issu
and confidently appeal to the people
for their judgment. The protective
system must be maintalued; it
abandonment has always been follow
ed by general disaster to all interests
except those of the Insurer and thu
sheriff.
We denounca the Mills bill a
destructive TO the genera! business
the later and the farming interests O
the t6Eh,ry; and we heartily endors
the consistent and patriotic action o
the Republican Representatives il
Congress in opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition of thu
Democratic party to place wool OF
the free list, and we insist that tn
duties thereon shall be adjusted an'
maintained so as to furnish full an,
adequate protection to the industry
The Republican party would eitcc
all needed reduction of the nationa
revenue by repeating the taxes upo'
tobacco which are an annoyance ant
burden to agriculture, and the ia:
upon spirits used in the arts and TO
mechanical purposes; and by sucl
revision of the tariff laws as vii
tend to check imports of such article
as are produced by our people, thu
production of which gives employ
ment to our labor, and release from
import duties those articles of foreiel
production Except luxuries) the lk,
of which cannot be produced a
home. If there shall still remain
larger revenue than is required 70
the wants of the government, w
favor the entire repeal of interna
taxes rather than the surrender o
any part Of our protective system a
the joint behcst Of whisky trusts ant
the agents of foreign manufacturers
We declare our hostility to the in
PRODUCTION into this country of foreign
contract labor and of Chinese labor
alien to our civilization and our. Con
stitution, and we demand the rigid
enforcement of the existing law
against it, aud favor such immediate
legislation as will exclude such labo
from our shores.
We declare onr opposition to al
| combinations of capital orpanize(