Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-08-04
REPUBLICAN STATE ooNvEsr1or.

REPUBLIcANsr STATE CONVENTION.
Its Proceedings The Platform-rhe
| Ticket
| TOPEKA, KANSAS, July 26.-The convention
was called to order this morning at {
O'Clock.
The first business was the report of the
committee on credentials, which was heard
and adopted unanimously. The COMMITTEES on
permanent organization reported for presi-
dent, Captain Henry Booth of Larned. fol-
secretary, W. d. Mcbride Of Osborne coun-
ty, for sergeant at arms, 8. @. Mcdowell.
The report was adopted. The committee on
order of business reported that the rules OF
| the house of representatives would govern
| the convention and named the order in
which the officers would be nominated.
I The report was adopted.
NOMINATIONS AND PLATFORM
A motion that no nominating speeches be
made was adopted without opposition, and
Hon James F. Legate, chairman of the COM
mittee on platform and resolutions, then
| made the report for that committee, which
was a. follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The republican party of the state of Kan
coSs suAOuSu 40 uoickdIco III convention as
sembled, renewing it's faith in the perpetu-
ity OF the government, pledges cordial and
earnest support to the principles enunci-
ated in the platform of the national conven-
ton, held at Chicago, June 18th, 1888.
That platform, after honoring the memo
~ of the great men of the party who have
passed away, afirms:
l. An answering devotion to the indis-
soluble union of the states under the consti-
tuition, and the personal rights and Liberties
of citizens in all the states and territories.
2. Demands a free ballot and a fair
| count.
8. Demands protection to the industries
of this country, which means good wages to
| the laborer, and good prices for the pro-
which is pauperism to the laborer, and deg
radiation to the producer.
4. Denonnces the whisky trust as mem
acing power, and all great trusts as oppress-
i've to the people.
5. Asserts the right of territories to adj
mission into the sisterhood of states, as soon
as qualified, and demands that citizens of
territories thus qualified shall not be robbed
OF their rights because they are republicans.
6. Favors a reduction of letter postage.
Z. Demands free schools everywhere. so
that every child shall acquire good educa-
ton, which is necessary for the preserva-
ton of free institutions.
g. Is in favor of civil service reform, as
established by the republican party, and
against it as debauched by the democratic
| party.
9. Declares that the gratitude of the ma
ton to the defenders of the union, cannot
be measured by laws, and favors liberal
pensions in accordance with the pledges,
both expressed and implied, to the soldier
when he enlisted, to the end that no union
soldier shall want for bread; and denounces
the democratic vetoes that send the union
soldiers to the alms-houses.
10. Expresses cordial sympathy with all
wise and well-directed efforts for the pro-
motion of temperance and morality.
Approving without reserve this clear ex-
preston of republican faith, we heartily en-
dorse the nomination, by that convention,
of Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Levi
p. Morton, of New York, for president and
vice-president of the United States, and we
pledge to the county our undivided sup
port, and express our confident belief in
their triumphant election.
We believe the solid SOUTH will be
broken, and thus insure the perpetulty of
the union in peace and prosperity.
We approve and commend our state ad-
and just. All the officers have been faithful
to their trusts, and are deserving of high
commentator.
The republican party, always full of SYM
patty for all men of all cations struggling
for liberty, expresses the liveliest interest in
the progress of home rule COR Ireland. The
blood of the Irish American has stained ev-
cry battlefield while struggling for liberty
in America, and Americans cannot remain
Indifferent during the struggle the Irish
people are making for home rule, and JUS
tice against English tyranny.
We believe in the protection of the home
against the saloon. We demand the COM
plete execution of the prohibtory laws in
every part of the state, including the vigor-
GUS prosecution of officers who fail to per-
form their duties under the law. The re-
publican party of Kansas is convinced that
prohibition is riyht, and is a success, and We
assert that those who seek refuge in the
third, or prohibition party, biindly seek
revolution in our government for that which
q revolution cannot give.
We point with pride 10 the fact that the
laws of Kansas, protecting the rights and
interests of wageworkers and laborers are
far in advance of those of any other state
in the union. We pledge a continuance of
that policy against all encrOachments. The
condition of American laborers, superior as
they are to those of Europe, must be not
only protected, but promoted and elevated.
We demand stringent laws to protect our
workingmen against contract, pauper, or
Chinese immigrants, and every class who
would drag down, by mere cheapness, the
standard which American wOrkiBgmen are
struggling to maintain. We favor Ameri-
can markets for American produces, and
American wages for the workingmen of
America. And we favor such addi
tional legislation as will secure weekly pay
ments of wages to employees of municipal
and private corporations, and also prac-
teal apprenticeship law, so that our handi-
craftsmen may have additional protection
against foreign labor.
All SO called 'trusts" or combinations to
monopolize food supplies or control produc-
tions are dangerous to the interests of the
people, and should be prohibited under the
severest penalties of law. The 'erust'' or
combination of the packing houses to drive
out of business all other butchers, and thus
control the cattle markets, as we'll as the
supply and prices of dressed mea 8, is es-
Iecially obnoxious, and destructive to the
interests of all classes of the people, and par
ticularly to those in western states.
The republican party will ever retain
sense of gratitude to those through whose
valor Kansas and the nation became free,
and the union of our states preserved. We
especially commend the action of the leeis-
lature in making provision for the mainten-
ance of orphans of sold ers In soldiers or