Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-16
THE PLATFORM.
THE PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH
THE REPUBLICANS APPEAL
TO THE PEOPLE.

""N'is" oy t''eli ueleSdttS
III 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,
Abraham Lincoln, and to cover also
with wrea,hs of impershahle remen,-
brance and graft ude to the heroic
names of our later leaders, who have
been more recently called away from
our councIls-Grant, Garfield, Arthur,
Logan, ConkIing. May their memo
rles be faithfully cherished. We also
recall with our greetings and with
prayer for his recovery, tie name of
one o! 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
and favorlte child of victory, Phi!llp
II. Sheridan.
In the spirit of those great leaders
aud 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 fraterna!
congratulations to our fellow A mer-
cans of Brazil upon their Q reat act of
the abolition Of slavery throughout
the two American continents.
We earnestly hope that we may
soon congratulate our fellow-citiz
of Irish birth upon the peaceful re-
covery Of Home Rule for Ireland.
We realirm 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 foreign born, white or black.
to cast one free ballot in public cleo
tions, and to have that ballot duly
counted. We hold the free and
honest popular ballot and the just
and equal representation of all the
people to.he 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 i'd
,ninlstration and the Democratic ma
jority in Congress owe their existence
to the suppression of the ballot by a
criminal notification of the Constitu.
ton and the laws of the United
States.
We are uncompromislngly in favor
Of the American system of protection
We protest against its destrncti, II,
proposed by the President and his
party. They serve the interests OF
Europe; we will support the interests
Of America. We accept the issue
and confidently appeal to the people
for their judgment. The protective
system must be maintained; its
abandonment has a ways been follow
ed by general disaster to all interests,
except those Of the usurer and the
she,ni.
We denounce the Mills bill as
destructive to the general business,
the labor aud the farming interests of
the country; and we heartily endorse
the consistent and patriotic action of
the Republican Representatives in
Congress in opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition of the
Democratic party to place wool on
the free list, and we insist that the
duties thereon shall he adjusted and
maintained! SO as to furnish full and
adequate protection to the industry.
The Republican party would effect
al! needed reduction of the nationa!
revenue by repeating the taxes upon
tobacco which are an ANNOYANCE aud
hur'ten to agriculture, and the tax
upon spirits used in the arts and for
mechanical purposes; aud hv such
revision oil the tariff laws as will
tend to check imports of such articles
AS are produced. hy our people, the
production OF which gives employ
ment 10 our labor, and release from
import duties those articles of foreign
production Except lnxuries) the Ike
OF winch cannot be prodncel at
home. Ii there shall still remain a
arger revenue than is required for
he wants of the government, we
.avor the entire repeal Of internal
axes rather than the surrender of
any par, Of our protective system at
he ioiHt behest Of whisky trusts and /
he agents of foreign manufacturers. !
We declare our hostility to II G in /
reduction into this country of foreign /
contract labor and of Chinese labor.
alien to our civilization and our Con-
stltntion, and we demand the rigid
enforcement OF the existing laws
against IT, aud favor such immediate
legislation as will exclude such labor
rom our shores.
we declare our OpDnS;tiop RI oil