The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-29
YORK REPUBLICANS
Nominate Warner Miller for
the GOvernOrship.
MR.. KRUGER, LIEUT-GoVERN0R
They Sustain the National PLATFORM
and Blast Cleveland
and Hill.
Republican Convention

SARATOGA, August 2S.-The Republi-
can State convention met this after
noon.
General Benjamin F. Tracy was
elected temporary chairman and he
addressed the convention at consider
able length. General Tracy said: Not
since 1864 when the Democratic
National convention solemniy declared
in its platform that the war for the
Union was a failure, and demanded
that it should be brought to
a speedy end, has more important
political issue been presented to the
American people than that presented
by President Cleveland's free trade
message and the Mills bill. The issue
of 1864 involved the very existence of
the nation, the issue Of 1883 involves
the continued existence OF our manu-
featuring industries aud our CONNER
cial prosperity.
After The appointment of the usual
committees, 3 recess till 4 pm. was
taken.
The delegations from New York and
Brooklyn have decided to unite in the
support OF Cruger for Lieutenant-GoY-
ernor.
The convention, after resolution of
respect to Sheridan's memory, pro-
ceeded to the nominations for Cover
nor.
State Senator George B. Sloan first
gained the floor and placed in nOmina-
ton Hon. Warner Miller. No other
nomination being made, Miller was
chosen by acclsmation.
Colonel S. V. R. Cruger was then
nominated for Lieutenant-Goyernor by
acClamation.
THE PLATFORM
adopted endorses the Chicago national
platform and the nomination of Harri-
son and Morton and says:
The Republican Senators in Con-
gress, in rejecting the treaty on
fisheries, negotiated with Great Britain
acted in accordance with the dictates
of Just patriotism and correctly asserted
American rights and national honor,
while the message of President Cleve-
land, transmitted on the 23d OF August,
is q confession that his administration
had been grossly negligent of its duties
in the protection of the American fish
cries, and has invited new annoyances
and aggressions on The part of the
Canadians, by the failure to make
q manfui pro ess and to employ the
peaceful means Of self-defence COM
mitted by him. The Republican party
favors q foreign policy which shall do
no wrong to the weakest neighbor and
shall brook no iudisnity. from any
power on earth; and, by insisting On
fair play on sea and land, shall, through
justice, insure peace with all nations.
The Republican party unequiyocally
condemns the course of Governor Hill
in obstructing, by veto, the acts for
increasing the fees for licenses by
which larger share of the cost of gov
eminent might be collected on the
liquor traffic, and We approve of the
efforts of the Republicans in the last
legislature, upon the liquor question,
especially in passing the act nullitied by
such execution the action to restrict
that traffic by charges which would
lift some of the burdens of taxation
caused by the liquor traffic from the
home and farmland we believe such
charges should be advanced to STAN
dards similar to those successfully en-
forced in other States under Republi-
can control.
The recent investigations make clear
the necessity of the effectual enforce
ucub vi GuG law 1OI Iuc pIcNCullOA VI
the importation OF contract labor.
THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
is grievously at fault for this failure to
guard against the degradation of
American labor. The Republican
party demands further legislation to
prohibit the influence of pauper and
criminal immigration, whose incoming
brings upon our working people coma
petition both unjust and disastrous. In
view of recent revelations, showing the
abuse of our naturalization and immi-
grafton laws, we. desire and urge a
thorough revision of said laws, in Or
der that our country and fellow-citizens
may be protected from the pauper and