Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-30
THE PLATFORM.
THE PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH
THE REPUBLICANS APPEAL
TO THE PEOPLE.

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 wreaths of imperishable remem-
brance and gratitude to the heroic
names OF our later leaders, who have
been more recently called away froia
our councils-Grant, Garfield, Arthur,
Logan, Conkling. May their memo
ries be faithfully cherished. We also
recall with our greetings and with
prayer for his recovery, the name of
one OF our living heroes, whose memo
nv will be treasured in the history,
both of Republicans and Of the re-
public, the name of that noble soldier
and favorite child Of victory. Phillip
II. 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 fraternal
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 may
soon congratulate our fellow-citizens
of Irish birth upon the peaceful re-
covery of Home Rule for Ireland.
We resffirm our answering devo.
ton to tho National Constitution and
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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
, 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
l people to be the foundation Of Re-
: publican government, and demand
- effective legislation to secure the in
e tegrity and purity Of elections, which
n are the fountains OF all public author
ity. We charge that the present ad
}. ministration and the Democratic ma
. iority in Congress owe their eXistenc'
to tho suppression of the ballot by I
10 criminal notification Of the Constitu
Is ton and the laws of the United
Of States.
t. We are uncompromisingly in favo
il. of the American system of protection
BY We protest against its destruction
tn proposed by the President and hi
ns party. They serve the interests c
Europe; we will support the interest
he Of America. We accept the issu
d. and confidently appeal to the peopl
ot for their Judgment. The protectiv
system must be maintained; i,
abandonment has always been follow
ed by general disaster to all interest!
- except those Of the Insurer and tn
sheriff.
We denounce the Mills bill a
the labor and the farming interests {
the country; and we heartily endors
the consistent and patriotic action {
the Republican Representatives
Congress in opposing its passage.
IN We condemn the proposition of tt
Democratic party to place wool o
the free list, and we insist that II
duties thereon shall be adjusted at
!" maintained so as to furnish full ar
10 adequate protection to the industr
The Republican party would effe
all needed reduction of the nation
revenue by repeating the taxes upe
tobacco which are an annoyance al
n. burden to agriculture, and the t.
upon spirits used in the arts and f
mechanical purposes; aud by SUI
. revision of the tariff laws as "
tend to check imports of such articl
Y as are produced by our people, Il
/. production of which gives emplo
ment to our labor, and release fro
import duties those articles of foreis
49,. production Except luxuries) the Ill
'0s of which cannot he produced
home. If there shall still remain
Day larger revenue than is required
the wants of the government, ,
No favor the entire repeal of intern
No taxes rather than the surrender
any part of our protective system
the joirt behest of whisky trusts a
the agents of foreign manufacture
We declare our hostility to the
PRODUCTION into this country of forei
contract labor and of Chinese lab
alien to our civilization and our c.
stitution, and we demand the ril
enforcement OF the existing Ia
against it, and favor such immedi,
R.. legislation as will exclude such lal
from our shores.
We declare our opposition to
iats combinations of capital ORGANIC
into trusts or otherwise to cont
arbitrarily tho condition Of ira