River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-26
REPUBLICAN, DOCTRINE.
Good Work Done at the Recent Confer
e1ce of Indiana P.striots.

GOOD Work Done at the Recent Confer
e1ee of Indiana Patriots.
The first sentence of the platform
adopted at the conference of Indiana
Republicans reads thus: s.The Repub-
lical party Is the party of protection
That is the conclusion of. as well as
the prelude 10. Republican policy in
time past, present and to come. It
was protective against secession,
against slavery, against Reputation
of the National debt; it is and viii
be protective against reduction of the
American wage-earner To the Eu-
ropean level. against destruction of
the system of American manufactures
by enforced competition with the
products of cheap foreign labor; it was
protective, so long rs it had major
ity in Congress to support Repub-
lican President, of the rights of ell the
voters in all the States. and it viii be
protective of them when it again elects
a President and a Congressional ma
iority.
The Republican conference was of
opinion that correction of such inequal-
tiles or irregularities as exist 10 the
tariff would be much better intrusted
to its friends ihan its enemies. The
protective 81 STEM is part of Republic
an policy. aud, just as surely. hostility
to prote elton is part of Democratic pol
icy, and part of the American Golden
tie policy. The present tariff law may
be subject to amendment. but while the
object of Republican revision would be
toward amendment, the object Of Dem
ocratie legislation would be toward
elimination of the protective idea.
The conference did not conline Itself
to opinions on National policies; it pro-
claimed many and good causes why the
management of State affairs should be
taken from the Democratic party.
Plumber of the Southern prison reye.
nues and embezzlement of the private
funds of prisoners by a thrice appoint
ed Democratic warden; frequent pur.
chase of tainted meats and maggot-
haunted, deeaycd vegetables, and vile
flour for the use Of patients in the
asylum, with guilty knowledge on the
part of the trustees that full prices were
paid for inferior articles, that Demo.
cratic contractors might be enriched.
and the summary election Of a Demo
cratic physician. who is a skillful special
ist and man of singular humanity.
from the Office of superintendent of
the asylum, simply because he was
continual professor against the in-
EQUITY of the Democratic trustees and
contractors. and the appointment in
his place OF an obscui county doctor
are sins against charity and honesty of
which the Democratic Administration
of the State was openly guilty. and is
still openly unrepentant
Nor did the conference rest in de-
nunciation; it pledged its members TO
"a nOn-partisan control of the State
benevolent. penal and reformatOry in
situations, and to the extension of the
principle oI civil-service reform to the
public service of the State wherever
practicable" These pledges alone
should be sufficient to lead that largo
body Of humanitarian and progressive
citizens which has become weary of
seeing the cure of diseased minds aud
the reformation of deprayed persons
made tasks intrusted to the campbell
lowers of politics The Democratic
party will make no such pledges, or, If
it does. its history up to the very mo-
ment OF making them will belle lite
sincerity.
After speaking thus boldly on what
may well be called grand politics. F"
seeing that they lie at the foundation
of all kindly. just and manly senti.
ment, the conference aIraigned the
Democratic party for its fragrant vices
in the lesser polici of tire State An
embarrassed treasury, a very unsatis-
factory license law, defiance of the
law and constitution of the State, even
as interpreted by a Democratic bench
of the Supreme Court, are charged,
and without possibility of successful
denial. against the Democracy. The
Republicans of Indiana have law and
reason. sentiment and conscience,
facts and figures, patriotism and pluck
at their command. History has proven
that these are forces that are not easily
overcome. The fifteen electoral votes
of the State are not likely to be counted
for Democratic President in 1853
Chicago inter ocean.