Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-06-29
VOLUME XXVIU.-NUMBER 81
Republican Platform.

the immortal champion of liberty ant
the rights of the people, Abraham Lin
coin, and to cover also with wreaths O
imp rishable remembrance and graft
| tude the heroic names OF our late lead
ers who have been more recently calleC
| away from cur counsel-Grant, Gar
field, Arthur, Logan and Conkling
May their n.en,ries be faithfully cher
isir.d. We also recall with our greet
,uas ihr prayer !or his recovery, the
name Of one Of our living heroes, whose
memory will be treasured in the history
both of Republicans and of the re-
public-the name of that noble sol
dier and faithful child of victory
Philip H. Sheridan.
PROTECTION AND EQUAL RIGHTS.
In the spirit of those great leaders
and Of our own devotion to human
rights, 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
abolition of slavery, which completes
its riddance throughout the two Amer
ican continents. We earnestly hope
that We may soon congratulate our fel-
low citizens of Irish birth upon the
peaceful recovery Of home rule for
Ireland.
We rcaffirm our answering devo-
ton to the National Constitution and
to the indissoluble union of the 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 Territories in the
Union, and especially to the supreme
sovereign right of every lawful citizen,
rich or poor, native or foreign born,
white or black, to cast one free ballot
in the public elections and to have that
ballot duly counted. We held the free
and honest popular ballot and the just
and equal representation ofall the peo-
pie to be the foundation of Republican
Government, and demand effective leg
islation to secure the integrity and
purity OF elections, which are the foun-
dations OF all public authority. We
charge that the present Administration
ane the Democratic majority in Con-
gress owe their existence to the sup
preston OF the ballot by criminal null
ification of the Constitution and the
laws OF the United States.
p We are uncompromisingly in favor
of the American system of protection
and We protest against its destruction
as proposed by the President and his
party. They serve the interest Of
Europe. We will support the interests
OF America.
FOR AMERICANS ONLY.
We accept the issue and confidently
appea: to the people for their judg-
ment. The protective system must be
maintained. It's abandonment has al
ways been followed by general disaster
to all interests except those of the
usurer and those of the sheriff. We
denounce the Mills bill as destructive
to the general business, ths labor and
the farming interests of the country,
and we heartily endorse the consistent
and patriotic action Of the Republican
Representatives in Congress in oppos-
ing its passage. We condemn the
proposition of the Democratic party to
place wool on the free list and insist
that duties that are on it shall be ad-
justed and maintained 90 az to furnish
full and adequate protection to indus
try.
The Republican party would effect
all needed reduction of the National
revenue by repeating the taxes on To-
bacco, which are an annoyance and q
burden to agriculture, and the tax
upon spirits used in the arts and for
mercantile purposes, and by such re-
vision Of the tariff laws as will tend to
check imports of such articles as are
produced by our people, the produc-
ton Of which gives employment to our
people, and release from import duties
those articles Of foreign production,
" except luxuries," the like Of which
cannot be produced At home.
THE TARIFF PLANK.
II there shall still remain larger
revenue than is requisite for the wants
of the Government, we favor the repeal
of the entire internal revenue taxes,
rather than the surrender of any part
of our protective system in the joint
interest of the whisky ring and the
agents OF foreign manufacturers.
We declare our hostility to the in
PRODUCTION into this country of foreign
contract labor and of Chinese labor,
alien to our civilization and our insti-
tutions, and we demand the rigid en-
forcement Of the existing laws against
it, aud favor such immediate legisla.
ton as will exclude such labor from,
our shores.
We declare our opposition to all com.
binations of capital, organized into
trusts or otherwise to control, arbi.
trarily, the condition of trade among
our citizens, and we recommend tC
Congress and the State Legislatures
in their respective jurisdictions, such
Legislation Ms will prevent the execu
ton of all schemes to oppress the peo
pie by undue charges on their supplies
or by unjust rates for the Transports
ton 0f their products to market.
We approve the legislation. by Con
! -ress, to prevent, alike, unjust burdens
aud unfair determinations between
the 6tatrs.