Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-30

danpe<ogs longer TO he suffered Therefore
we plyi4e the Republican party to appropri
ate legislation asserting the sovereignty OF
the nation in all territoFes where the same
is Questioned and ii furtherance OF that end
to place upon the statute books legislation
stringent enough TO divorce the political
from the ecclesiastical power and thus STAMP
out rhe attendant wiol1edness Of pOiygarny.
"Tha Republican party is in faveF of the
use Of both gold and silver as money, and
condemns the policy Of the Democratic
administration in It's efforts to demonetize
silver
"We demand the reduction Of letter post
age to one cent per ounce.
I'm republic like ours, where the citizen
is the sovereign and the official the servant,
where no power is exercised except by the
will of the people, it is important that the
sovereign-the people-should possess intelli-
gence,
''The free school Is the promoter Of that
intelligence which is to preserve us free
nation; therefore, the state or nation, or
both combined, should support free institu-
tions of learning, sufficient TO afford to every
child growing up in the land the oppor-
tanity Of "a good common school education
We earnestly recommend that prompt action
be taken by congress in the enactment of
such legislation as will best secure the reha-
bliltatfon of our American merchant marine,
and we protest against the passage by con-
gress OF a free ship bill, as calculated to
work injustice 10 labor by iessening the
wages OF those engaged IN preparing ma
terials as well as those directly employed in
qnr Shipyards.
t"We demand appropriations for the early
rebuilding of our navy; for the construction
Of coast forti icatiGns and modern ordi
nance and other approved modern means Of
defense for the protection of orr defenseless
harbOrs end cities; for the payment Of Just
pensions to our soldiers; for necessary works
of National Importance in the Improvement
Of harbors and the channels Of internal
coastwise and foreign commerce; for the en-
oouragement OF the shipping interests Of the
Atlantic, gulf and Pacific states, as well as
for the payment Of the maturing public
debt.
This policy viii give employment to our
labor, activity to our various industries,
increase the security Of our co uEtry promote
trade, Open new and direct markets for our
produce, and cheaper the cost of transporta-
tion. We affirm this to be far better for
our country than the Democratic policy of
loaning the governments money without in
te--est to pet banks The conduct OF foreign
affairs by the present administration has
been distinguished by its inefficiency and Its
cowurdice. Having withdrawn from the
senate all pending treaties effected by Re
foreign burdens and restrictions uPen our
commerce and for its extension into better
markets it has neither effected nor purposed
any others in their stead
'Professing adherence to the Monroe doc
trine. it has seen with Idle complacency the
extension Of Sereign iz6uapcs In Central
America, and OF foreign trade everywhere
among our neighbors It has refused TO
arvau
can organization for constructing the Nioa-
rague canal, q work OF vital Importance to
the Monroe doctrine and of our National in
fuence in Central and South America, and
necesssry for the development Of trade with
our Pecitic territory, with South America
and with thu islands and further coasts of
the Pacific ocean.
1--WE arTaign the present Democratic ad-
for lts weak and unpatrotic
treatment of the fisheries question and its
pusillanimous surrender of the essential priv
ileges to which our fishing vessels are en-
titled In Canadian ports under the treaty of
1918, the reciprocal maritime legislation of
1he coinity of nations, and which Canadian
fishing vessels receive in the ports OF the
United States. We condemn the policy Of
the present administration and the Demo
cratic majority IN congress- toward our fish
cries as unfriend!y and conspicuously
unpatriotic and as tending to destroy
valuable National industry and an indispen-
sable resource of defence against foreign
enemy
''The name OF American applies alike to
ali citizens of the republic and imposes upon
all alike the same obligation Of obedielce to
the laws At the same time citizenship is
and must be the panOply and safeguard of
him who wears it and protect him whether
high or low, rich OF poor, in all his civil
rights 1t should and must afford him pro-
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abroad in whate9eT land h9 may be on law
ful errand.
The men who abandoned the Republican
party IN 1884, and continue to adhere to the
Democratic party have deserted not only
the cause or nonesu government, OF sound
finance or freedom and purity OF the bal
lot, but especially have deserted the cause Of
reform IN the civil service We Will not fail
to keep our pledges because they have broken
theirs. or because their candidate has broken
his. We. therefore, repeat our declaration
of 1884, to-wit:
''ihe reform of the civil service ausDi-
ciously began undsr the Republican admin
lstratlon. should be completed by the further
extension OF the reform system already es-
tablished by law to all grades Of the service
TO which 1t Il applicable The spirit and
purpose Of the reform should be observed in
ali executive appointments, and all laws at
variance with the object Of existing reform
legislation should be repealed To the end that
dangers 10 free institutions which lurk in the
power Of official patronage may be wisely
and effectively avoided
The gratitude of the nation to the de-
Tenders Of the Union cannot be measured bv
laws The legislation of congress should
conform to the pledges made by a loyal peo-
pie, and be SO enlarged and extended as %
provide against the possibility that any man
who h0nOrably wore the Federal uniform
shall become an inmate Of an alns house. or
dependent upon private charity. In the
presence ct an overfiowing treasury II youIG
bs public scandal to DC less for those whosa
valorois service preserved the government.
we des1ounce the hostile spirit shown by
president Cleveland in his numerous vetoes
q measures Tor pension relief and the action
OF the Democratic house Of representa- YES
IN refusing even a consideration OF general
pension legislation
In support of the principles herewith
8nunciated we invite the cooperation of pa
5riotlc men Of all parties and especially Of all
worklnguien whose prosperity is seriously
threatened by rhe free trade policy of the
P resent administration.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, JR., Chairman
Nv. E. CARTER, Sec
The platform was unanimously. sdontnl
shunks OF the German Emperor
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