San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-22
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Adopted Yesterday at Chica9o-A
Document that Speaks for
Itself.

Itself.
The following is the platform: The
republicans of the United States, as
sembled by their delegates in national
convention, pause on the threshold OF
their proceedings to honor the men,
ory of their first great leader, the inn
mortal champion of liberty and the
rights of the people, Abraham Lin
coin. and to cover also with wreaths
of imperishable remembrance and
gratitude the heroic names of our
leaders who have more recently been
called away from our counsels-Grant,
| Garfield, Arthur, Logan and Conk-
| ling. Nav their memories be faith
| fully cherished. We also recall with
our greetings, and with prayer for his
recovery, the name of our living hero,
whose memory will be treasured in
| the history both of the republicans
and of the republic, the name of that
noble soldier and favOrite child of vic
| tory, Philip III. Sheridan.
In the spirit of those 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 congratua-
tons to our fellow-Americans of Bra
I'll upon their great act of emancipa-
ton, which completes the abolition of
slavery throughout the two American
continents.
We earnestly hope that we may
soon congratulate our fellow citizens
of Irish birth upon the peaceful re-
covery of home rule for Ireland.
We reatfirm our answering devo-
ton to the national constitution and
to the indissoluble union of 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 of the Union,
and especially to the supreme ana
sovereign right of every lawful citi-
zen, rich or poor, native or foreign
born, white or blf, k, to cast one free
ballot in public elections and to have
| that ballot duly counted. We hold
free and honest popular ballot and
just and equal representation of all
people to be the foundation of orr re-
! publican government and demand
effective legislation to secure the IN
tegrity and purity of elections, which
are the foundation of all public
| authority.
We charge that the present admin
istration and the democratic majority
in congress owe their existence to the
suppression of the ballot by 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 it's 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 for
their judgment. The protective sys-
tenn must be maintained. Its aban-
donment has always been followed by
general disaster to all interests except
those of the usurer and sheriff.
We denounce the Mills bill as de-
structive to general business, to labor
and to the farming interest of the
country, and we heartily endorse the
consistent and patriotic action of the
republican representatives in congress
in opposing its passage.
We condemn the proposition of the
democratic party to place wool on the
free list, and we insist that the duties
thereon shall be adjusted and main
tanned so as 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 ON to-
baccO, which are an annoyance and
are 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 the imports of such articles as
are produced by our people and the
production of which gives employ
ment to our labor, and release from
import duties those articles of foreign
production, except luxuries, the like of
which cannot be produced at home.
If there shall still remain a larger
revenue than is requisite for the
wants of the government, We favor the
entire repeal of internal taxes rather
than the surrender of any part of gu
| protective system at the joint behesr
of the whisky trust and the agents of
| foreign manufacturers.
We declare our hostility to the in
| PRODUCTION into this country of foreign
| contract labor and 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 exclude such labor from our
| shores.
We declare our opposition to all COM
binations of capital organized in trusts
or otherwise to control arbitrarily the
condition of trade among our citizens,