The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-09-28
Territorial Republican Platform.


publish, and declare:
First-That the present democratic adj
ministration at Washington, emulstins
the present Tory administration in the
government of Ireland. has maintained
aud exercised a tyranny over this terri
tory unjustified, unwarranted and SUBJ
servient of the privileges of tine founders
Of the republic in denying us admission
into the Union Of states for the sole and
only reason that q majority of our people
differ with the administration upon the
political issues Of the day.
Second-That We arraign the present
governor Of this territory for prostituting
his high Office to personal and ambi-
tious ends and purposes; that he main
tains perfect indifference to the wants
Of the people whom he rules; that he en-.
courages large and unwise appropria-
tons; that he threatens to veto measures
unless the legislature shall be subser-
Went to his will; that his appointces. IN
many cases, are men who have no quail
fications for Office, but arc his personal
retainers. supported at the public ex-
pensc.
Third-That we hail with joy and
pride the action of the late national re-
publican convention, and recognize in
Gen. Harrison patriotic soldier, a wise
and safe statesman and the early and
earnest friend Of Dakota; and recognize
the Hon. Levi P. Morton us an eminent
statesman and pl,ilanthropist. true
and tried republican.
Fourtll-That by every precedent cs-
tablisi.ed in tho history Of the admission
of new states into the Union, by the
rights guaranteed under the constitution
and the laws of the United States, it is
the duty of congress to admit North Da.
kota and South Dakota into the sister,
hood Of states. and the refusal by the de-
mocratic house TO go admit is violation
of the duties and obligations of its menu
bers, and we hereby reiterate our un.
alterable opposition to admission as a
whole.
Fifth-That we, as delegates in this
convention, will support no man for
office whose position upon the question
of division and admission is in the least
equivocal or uncertain.
Sixtl-That the great agricultural in.
terests Of Dakota demand that they
should be protected, fostered and guard
ed with jealous care, and such laws Ell.
acted as will secure equitable rates of
transportation, allowing no discrimina-
ton against sections or individuals; that
we favor the improvement of the great
water ways of the Northwest, so as to
bring close competition in the carrying
trade; We favor warehouse law which
will give every farmer q better market,
and which will not leave him at the
mercy Of any elevator, mill or railroad
combination; that no trust should be
fostered or allowed, nor monopolies
created which have tendency to initiate
prices.
Seventl,-We declare ourselves in
favor of thorough revision of the
revenue laws Of Dakota, whereby all pro-
perry shall be equally taxed and taxed
to its owner. We declare in favor of q
usury law which will be effective and
which will not encourage reckless and
extravaeant speculation. but which will
provide sufficient money at a reasonable
rate of interest for all honest and 'egiti-
mate pursuits.
Eightll-That We welcome, with the
open hand of fellowship and friendship
the people who have come from foreign
lands to better their fortune and find n
permanent home in this, the country Of
their adoption, intending to render due
obedience and respect to its laws.
N,ntl-That we favor revision of the
tariff and a reduction of the same upon
such articles as it can be made upon
without sacrificing the interests. of
American labor, and that all neccssaries
of life upon which the tariff is tax
should lie admitted at the lowest possible
duty consistent with the preservation of
American industries. We charge the
national democratic party with being the
enemy of Northern soil and Northern
labor, and arraign it for the discrimina-
ton and sectional provisions of the Mills
bill, by which Northern productions are
deprived of protection, while those of
the South, the late confederacy. which
declared explicitly against any tariff for
protection, are protected by high tariff,
which is, in many cases, nothing more
nor less than tax.
Tentll-That we condemn the present
democratic administration for its per.
sistent and continued hostility to the ex.
Union soldiers in vetoin1 pension bills
upon the most frivolous pretcxt. without
reference to the justice of the claim OF
the merit Of the applicant. thereby
carrying out the theory of the present
executive that the almshouse is the pro-
per refuge Of our brave veterans. as de-
monstratcd by his willingness that tho
man who stood as his substitute should
be permitted to die there; that the for
eign service of tile United States should
not become the asylum for ex-Confeder
ate soldiers, as tile reward of treason, TO
opportunity given them to demonstrat,
the victory Of the Union over rebellion
to be more apparent than real, but tina
such representation belongs to tn
Union veteran, other things being equa
MISUNDERSTANDING the lead of GU
national platform as enunciated at Chi
cago, and of the will of the people of tlli
territory as expressed in a majority q
the counties upon the question of locs
option. we heartily endorse all just mea
sures for the Punishment of the saloo
from our borders.
Republican c ounty Platform.
3 !. We recognize i'll the republican non
I inees, Harrison and Morton, true an
tried statesmen, christian gentlemen an
earnest friends of the two Dakotas, an
y as such fit candidates for the party