The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-22
REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM
Adopted by the Great cOnven-
ton at Chicago.
THE GRANDEsT DOCUMENT
Ever Presented by Any Pnrty-Un-
compromisingly Tor Protection.
a Scathing Arrangement
of the Democracy.

!: The Republicans of the United State
, assembled, by their delegates, in Ma
tional Convention, pause on the thresh
hold OF their proceedings to honor thu
memory of their first great leader, thu
immortal champion OF Liberty and thu
rights OF the people, Abraham Lincoln
and to cover also with wreaths OF imper
! ishable remembrance and gratitude thu
heroic names OF our later leaders who
have more recently been called away
from our councils-Gnnt, Garfield,
Arthur, Logan, and Conkling. May
their memories be faithfully cherished.
We also recall, with our greetings and
with prayer for his recovery, the name
Of our living heroes, whose:memory will
be treasured in the history both Of Re-
publcans and OF the Republic, the name
OF that noble soldier and favorite child
Of victory, Phillip II. Sheridan.
SYMPATHY WITH IRELAND AND BRAZIL.
In the spirit OF these 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 COngratulation
to our fellow Americans Of Brazil upon
their great act Of emancipation which
completed the abolition OF slavery
throughout the two American COnti-
nents We earnestly hope that we may
soon congratulate our fellow citizens Of
Irish birth upon the peaceful recovery
OF home rule for Ireland.
EQUAL RIGHTS AND FREE BALLOT.
We reaiEirm our answering devotion
to the National Constitution and to the
indissoluble union OF the States; to the
autonomy reserved to the States under
the constitution; to the personal rights
and liberties of citizens in all the States
and territories in the Union and cs-
pecially 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
elections 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 our Republican gov
eminent and demand effective legisla-
ton to secure the integrity and purity
OF elections, which are the fountains OF
all public authority; We charge that the
present administration and the Demo
cratic majority in Congress owe their
existence to the suppression OF the ballot
by criminal notification OF the consti-
tuition and laws Of the United States.
PROTECTION WITH \ ZIG p.
We are umcompromisingly in .taror Of the
american system Of protection. W. protest
dgainst its destruction as proposed by The
President and his party. They serve the
interests OF Europe. We will support
the interests OF America. We accept
the issue and confidently appeal to the
people fer their judgment. The protective
sgst6R must be maintained. Its abandon
mcnt has always been followed by gen.
eral disaster to all interests, except those
OF the usurer and the sheriff. We de-
nounCc the Mills bill us destructive to
the general business, the labor and the
farming interests OF the country, and we
heartily endorse the consistent and pa
triOtic action OF the Republican repre-
sentatives in Congress in opposing its
passage. We condemn the proposition
of the Democratic partyto place wool on
the free list, and we insist that the du-
ties thereon shall be adjusted and main
tanned so as to furnish
| FREE ASD ADEQUATE 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 revis-
ion OF the tariff laws rs will tend to
check imports OF such articles as are pro-
duced by our people, the production of
which gives employment to our labor,
and release from import duties those ar
ticles OF foreign production, except luXu-
ries, the like OF which cannot be pro-
duced Mt home. Ii there shall still re-
main larger revenue than is requisite
for the wants Of the government, we
favor the entire repeal Of the internal
taxes, rather than The surrender Of any part
Of our protective system ut the joint behest
OF the whisky ring and the agents OF the
foreign manufacturers.
CONTRACT LABOR AND TRUSTS.
We declare our hostility to the intro
duction into this country OF foreign con-
tract labor and of Chinese labor-alien
to our civilization and our Constitution
and we demand the rigid enforcement
of the existing laws against it, and favor
such immediate legislation as will ex-
clude such labor from-our shores.
We declare our opposition to all com.
binations OF capital organized in trusts
or otherwise to control the condition OF
trade among our citizens, and We recon-
mend to Congress and the State legisla-
lures in their respective jurisdictions,
such legislation as will prevent the exc
cution OF all schemes to Cypress the
people by undue charges on their sup
plies, by unjust rates for the transpOrta-
ton of their products to market. We
approve the legislation by Congress to
prevent alike unjust burdens and unfair
! determinations between the States.
PUBLIC LANDS.
We reatFirm the policy of appropri.
ating the public lands of the United
: States to be homesteads Tor American
citizens and settlers not aliens, which
the Republican party established in
1862 against the persistent opposition Of
the Democratic party in Congress, which
has brought orr great Western domain
into such maghiRCept development
The restoration OF unearned RAILROAD
land grants to the public domain for thu
use Of actual settlers, which was begar
r. under the administration OF Presiden
o. Arthur, should he roptinued. We den!
st That the Democrattc party lGs fser r.
: stored ono acre to the people, but declare
that by the joint action Of Republican,
g and Democrats about fifty millions o
acres OF unearEed lands original!
granted lor the construction Of railroad
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