Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-08-20
THE PLATFORM.
THE PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH
THE REPUBLICANS APPEAL
TO THE PEOPLE.

~ lCltOdlts
III the National Convention, pause or
the threshold Of their proceedings tt
honor the memory of their first grea,
leader, the immortal champion of lib
erty aud the rights of the people
Abraham Lincoln, and to cover also
with wrea,hs of imperishable remem.
brance and grati'ude to the heroic
names of our later leaders, who have
been more recently called away fro,r
our councils-Grant, Garfield, Arthur
Logan, Conkliug. May their memo.
res he faithfully cherished. We also
recall with our greetings and with
prayer for his recovery, the name OF
one OF our living heroes, whose memo
ny will be treasured in the history
both of Republicans ana Of the re.
public, the name OF that noble soldier
and favorite child of victory, Phillip
Il. Sheridan.
In the spirit of those great leaders
and 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 Ameri.
cans Of Brazil upon their great act of
the abolition of slavery. throughout
the two American continents.
We earnestly hope that we u.ay
soon congratulate our fellow citizens
OF Irish birth upon the peaceful re-
covery of Home Rule for Ireland.
We reaffirm 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 Constitutions:
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 fore gn born, white or black.
to cast one tree ballot in public cleo
tons, 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 be 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 ad-
mlnlstration and the Democratic ma.
jorlty in Congress owe their existence
to the suppression OF the ballot bv
criminal notification of the Constitu
ton and the laws of the United
States.
We are uncompromisingly in favor
OF the American system Of protection.
We protest against its destruction,
proposed by the President and his
party. They serve the interests OF
EuTops; we will support the interests
Of America. We accept tie issue
and contidentl y appeal to the people
for their Judgment. The protective
system must be maintained; its
abandonment has always been follow
ed by general disaster to all interests,
except those of the usurcr aud the
sheriff.
We denounce the Mills bill as
destructive to the genera! business,
he labor and the farming interests of |
he country; and we heartily endorse
he consistent and patriotic action of
he Republican Representatives in
congress in opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition of the
Democratic party to place wool on
he free list, and we insist that the
|ut'es thereon shall be adjusted and
maintained so as to furnish full and
dequate protection to the industry.
The Republican party would effect
II needed reduction of the national
evenue 10y repeating the taxes upon
o"acco which are an annoyance and
nrden to agriculture, aud the tax
pom spirits used in the arts and for
'echamcal purposes; and by such
evasion OF the tariff laws as will
end to check imports of such articles
are produced hv our people, the
reduction Of which gives employ
lent to our labor, and release from
nport duties those articles of foreign
reduction Except luxuries) the like
which cannot be produced at
'me. If there shall still remain
rger revenue than is required for
e wants of the government, we
vor the entire repeal of internal
xes rather than the surrender of S
" part of our protective system at
e loIEt behest of whisky trusts and
e agents of foreign manufacturers. i
We declare our hostility to tie in n
into this country of foreign q
ntract labor and Of Chinese labor. q
an to our civilization and our Con. b
tuition, and we demand tn. rigit /"
forcement of the existing laws b
ainst it, and favor such immediate g
,'sla''on as will exclude such labor a
IN our shores. 81
We declare our opposition to all
nhlnations of capital organized Q,