Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-09-06
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

The Republicans of Dakota in conyen-
ton assembled delared as follows:
That the present Democratic admins
tration at Washington, emulating the
present tory administration in the govern
ment of Ireland, has maintained and exer-
cised tyranny over this territory, unjus-
titled, unwarranted and subversive of the
principles of the founders of the republic
in denying us admission into the union
Of states, for the sole and only reason
that majority of our people differ with
the administration upon the political is.
sues of the day.
That We arraign the present governor OF
this territory for prOstituting his high
office to personal and ambitious ends aud
purposes; that he maintains perfect in
difference 20 tha wants nf 49, -se.4.sla
whom he fuies; that be encourages large
and unwise appropriations that he
threatens to veto measures unless the leg
islature shall be subservient to his VIII;
that his arpointees, in many cases, are
men who have no qualifications for ONCE,
but are his personal retainers, supported
at the public expense,
That we hail with joy and pride the
action of the late national Republican
convention, and recognize in General Iar-
rison a patriotic soldier, wise and safe
statesman, and the early and earnest
friend of Dakota; and recognize the Hon.
Lew Z. Morton as an eminent statesman
and phllanthropist, a true and tried Re-
publican,
That by every precedent established in
! the history of the admis ION of new states
into the Union, by the rights guaranteed
| under the constitution and the laws of
| the United States. 1t is the dnty OF con-
! gress to admit both North ard South Da-
kota into the sisterhood of states and the
refusal by Democratic house to so admit
| us is violation of the duties aud obliga-
| tons of its members, and we hereby re
| iterate our unalterable opposition to ad-
mission as a whole.
That we, as delegates in this conven-
ton, will support no man for Office whose
position upon the question of division
! and admission is ia the least equiyoesl or
uncertain.
| That the great agricultural interests o.
| Dakota demand that they should be pro-
| tected, fostered and guarded with jealous
care, an such laws enacted as will secure
! equitable rates of transportation, allowing
| no unjust determinations against sections
| or individuals that We favcr the ims
provemcnt of the great waterways OF the
northwest so as to bring close competi-
ton in the carrying trade; We favor a
warehouse law which will give every
! farmer free market for his produce and
which will not leave him at the mercy OF
any elevator, mill or railroad combinations;
| that no trust should be fostered or allowed
nor monopolies created which have ten
dency to initiate prices.
We declare ourselves in favSr OF a thor
! ou- ia revision of the revenue laws of Da-
kota whereby all property shall be equally
! taxed and taxed to its owner; We declare
/ in favor of a usury law which viii be efftc-
4 tive ard which will not encourage reck-
'less and extrayagant speculation, but
which will provide sufficient money at a
reasonable rate of interest for all honest
and legitimate pursuits.
That we welcome with the open hand OF
fellowship and friendship, the people who
have come from foreign lands to better
/ their fortune and find a permanent home
in this the country of their adoption, in
tending to render due obedience and re-
spect to its laws.
That we favor revision of the tariff
and a reduction of the same upon such ar
tieles as it can be made upon without sac
rificing the interests of American labor,
and that all necessaries Of life upon which
the tariff is tax should be admitted at
the lowest possible duty consistent with
the preservation Of American industries.
We charge the national Democratic party
with being the enemy of northern soil and
northern labor, an arraign IL for the dis
crimination and sectional provisions OF
the Mills bill by which northern produc-
tons are deprived OF protection while
those of the south, ne late confederaey
declared explicitly against any tariff ior