The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-07-05
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted 10y the Convention ut Chica-
go, Juno FL, IsSs.

Adopted 10y the Convention ut Chica-
| go, Juno FL, IsSs.
Following is the platform as reported by
the committee on resolutions:
The republicans OF the United States as
sembled by their delegates in national con-
vention, pause on the threshold Of their pro-
| ceedings, 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 wreaths of
| impershable remembrance and gratitude the
| heroic names of our later leaders who have
| more recently been called away from our
councils-Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Logan,
| Conkling. May their memories be faithful
| ly cherished, We also recall with our greet
| ngs and with prayer for his recovery the
name of one OF our living heroes whose memo.
| ry will To cherished in the history both Of re-
| publicans and of the republic-the name of
that noble soldier and that favorite child of
victory-Philip II. Sheridan. In the spirit
| OF those great leaders and OF our own devo-
| ton to human liberty and with that hos'ili-
ty to all forms OF despotism and oppress on
which is the fundamental idea of the repuh-
| ton to our fellow Americans Of Brazil upon
| their great act Of emancipation, which COM
pleted the abolition Of slavery throughout
the two American continents.
We earnestly hope that we may soon con-
graduate our fellow-citizens Of Irish birth
upon the peaceful +. covery of homo rule for
| Ireland.
We reallirm our unswerving devotion to
the national constitution and to the indisso-
| uble union of the states, to the autonomy re-
served to the states under the constitution,
to the personal rights and liberties of citizens
in all the states and territories in the UNION,
ard especially to the supreme and sovereign
| riplf off, 10 yxyf nj citiuar ric
native or foreign born, white or black, TO
cast one free ballot in public elections, and
| to have that ballot duly counted. We hold
| the free and honest popular ballot and the
| just End equal representation OF all the peo-
| pie to LIE the foundation of our republican
| government, and demand effective le 1islation
to secure the integrity aud purity of eec-
| tions, which are the fountains Of public au-
| thority.
! We charge that the present administra-
\ ton and the democratic majority in con-
| gress owe their exist 'nce to the suppression
| of the ballot by q criminal notification of
the constitution and laws of the United
States.
We are uncompromisingly in favor OF the
American system of protection; we protest
| against its destruction as proposed by the
| president and his party. They serve the in.
| terests of Europe; we will support the in
terests of America. We accept the issue and
| judgment The protective system must be
maintained. Its abandonment has always
| been followed by general disaster to all in
| terests except those of the usurer and the
sheriff.
We denounce the Mills bill as destructive
to the general business, the labor and the
farming interests of the country, and we
| heartily indorse the consistent and patriotic
action of the republican repre- sentatives in
| congress in opposing its passage. We con-
| denim the proposition of the democrat party
| to place wool on the free list, and we insist
! that the duties thereon shall be adjusted and
maintained so rs to furnish full and ade-
quate protection TO that industry.
The republican party would effect all
| needed reduction of the national revenue by
repeating the taxes upon tobacco which are
| an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and
| the tax upon spirits used in the arts and for
mechanical purposes and by such revision
of the tariff laws as will tend to check i'm
ports of such articles as are produced by our
people, the production of which gives en-
ployment to our labor, and RELEASE from i'm
| port duties those articles of foreign produc-
| ton, except luxuries the like Of which can
| not be produced at home
Ii there shall still remain larger revenue
| tbs is requisite for the wants OF the gov
eminent We favor the entire repeal of inter
| nal taxes, rather than the surrender Of any
part of our protective system, at the joint
behest Of the whiskey ring and the agents Of
| foreign manufacturers.
We declare our hostility to the introiuc-
ton into this country Of foreign contract
labor and of Chinese labor, alien to our civil
ization and our constitution and we deman
the rigid enforcement of the existing laws
against it, and favor such immediate legis-
| lation as will exclude such labor from our
| shores.
We declare our opposition to all combina-
tions Of capital organized in trusts or other
wise to control arbitrarily the condition of
trade among our citizens, and we recon-
| mend to congress and the state legislatures
in their respective jurisdiction such legis-
lation as will prevent the execution Of all
schemes to cypress the people by undue
.harges on their supplies or by unjust rates
for the transportation Of their products to
market. We approve the legislation by con-
gress to prevent alike unjust burdens and
unfair determinations between the states
We reafirm the policy of appropriating
the public lands Of the United States to be
homestead for American citizens and set
tiers not aliens, which the republican party
| established in 1862 against the persistent OPP
position of the democrats in congress, and
which has brought our great western domain
into such magnificent development. The
restoration of unearned railroad land grants
to the public domain for the use Of actual
| settlers, VIII oh was begun under the admin
istration of President Arthur, should be con-
tinued. We deny that the democratic party
has ever restored one acre 10 the people, but
declare that by the joint action of repub-
| licans and democrats about $4,000, 900 of
| acres of unearned lands originally granted
for the construction OF rail Dads have been
restored to the Iubic domain in pursuance
OF the conditions inserted by the republican
! party i'll the original grants. We charge
the democratic administration with failure
to execute the laws, securing to settlers title
to their homesteads, and with using appru-
prlations made for that purpose to har 1ss in
nocent settlers with spies and prosecutions
under the false pretence Of exposing frauds
| and indicating the law
The government by congress Of the terri
tories is basel upon necessity only, TO the
end that they may become states in the
| union; therefore. whenever the conditions OF
| population, material resources public intel
ligence and morality are such as 10 in sure a
stable local government therein, the people
| OF such territories should be permitted, as a
right inherent in them, the right to form for
| themselves constitutions and state govern
ments and be admitted into the union. Pend
ing the preparation for statehood all officers
should be selected from the bona fl lie resi-
dents and citizens Of the territory wherein
hey are to serve. South Dakota should Of
right he immedi tely admitted as state
under the constitution framed ant
adopted by her people, and we heartily
indorse the action of the republican
senate in twice passing bills for her
admission. The refusal Of the democrati,
house of representatives, for partisan pur
poses, TO favoraby consider these bills is
Wlllful violation Of the sacred American
principle of local self-government, ant
merits the condemnation of all just men
The pending bills in the sen to for acts to en-
able the people of Washington, NortI
Dakota AMI Montana territories to form con
situations and establish state government
should be pas ed without unnecessary delay
The republican party pledges itself to do al
in its power to facilitate the admission o
the territories Of New Mexico, Wyoming
Idaho and Arizona TO the enjoyment of self
government as states, such Of them as ar
now qualified as soon as possible and tn
others as soon as they become so.
The political power of the Mormon church
in the territories, as exercised in the past, i
menace to free institutions, a danger M
longer to be suffered. Therefore, we pled p
the republican party to appropriate legisla
ton. asserting the sovereignty Of the nstior
in all territories where the same is oues
, toned, and, in furtherance Of that end. I,
place upon the statute books legislation strin
/ gent enough to divorce the political from tn