Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-27
THEIR PLATFORM.

The platform adopted by the repub-
lican national convention at Chicago
reads more like stump speech than a
declaration of principles. 1t is a howl
to catch votes and that is all. 1t starts
off appropriately by honoring Lincoln.
Garfield, Arthur, Logan and Conkling
and hopes for Sheridan's recovery.
Then it follows with a lot of stereo-
typed truck about the constitution. an
indlssOluble union of states and free
ballots. But the meat comes in these
paragraphs:
We are uncoIeprOmisingl in favor of
the American system of protection.
We protest against Its destruction, as
proposed by the president and his party.
The protective system must be main
tanned. Its abandonment has ALWAYS
been followed by general destruction
to all interests except those of the
usurer and the sheriff.
The republican party would effect all
needed reduction of the national reve-
nue. by repeating the taxes upon tObac-
co which are a burden TO agriculture
and the tax upon spirits used in the
arts and Tor mechanical purposes and
by such revision of the tariff laws as
will tend TO check imports of such ar
ticleS as are produced by our people.
the production of which gives EMPLOY
ment to our labor and release from i'm
pOrtant duties those articles of foreign
production, except luxuries, the like of
which cannot be produced at home. If
there shall still remain a larger reye-
nue. than Is requisite for the wants of
the government ice fdUor the entire repedl
Of Internal tdres rather than the surrender
Of any part Of oar protective system at the
joint behest of the whisky ring and the
agents of foreign manufacturers.
Then il declares hostility TO the in.
PRODUCTION of foreign contract labor.
notwithstanding the republican party
was the first party to pass laws encour-
aging the importation of that labor:
and in face of the fact that the i'm
mense protected manufacturers of the
east employ pauper labor in preference
TO any other.
IL declares against combinations of
capital organized In trusts. The re-
publican convention was made up near
ly of men who have became rich from
trusts, or their paid tools.
Ii declares for the restoration of TN.
earned railroad land grants. The re-
publican party gave away several hun.
dred millions OF acres of the public LAND
and now, when the democratic part,
has succeeded in getting back the lane
unearned, the republicans say they ia
vor the movement. No doubt about il
1t favors the formation of states oil
of the territories when wealth and pOp
ulation will admit.
1t wants mormonism wiped out
During the twenty-five years the repub
lican party was in power, it entirel,
failed to control this evil.
1t demands the reduction of lette
postage TO one cent per ounce. This i
clearly IN the interest of large corpora
tons, firms and banks and will not ben
eft the general public.
OF course it Is for the free school
Everybody is.
After breaking up and rendering use
less our merchant marine, the repuhli
can party now asks for the re-habilita
ton of IL.
1t abuses the men who abandone
the republican party in 1854.
1t pretends to favor civil service re
form.
Lastly it expresses gratitude to tn
men who saved the union and promise
! everybody pension.
The prohibitionists are not even Civ
en- bone, the subject of intemperanc
not being even referred to remotely
though as will be seen. the platfrom ia
yors the entire repeal OF the interna
tional revenue laws, If necessary.
The platform is weak and we predic
that here in Barber county it will b.
the means of losing two hundred vote.
to the republican party. 1t will MOI
suit the farmers; it is not satisfactory
to the prohibitionists; Il isnot calcuIat
ed to please independent voters.