Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-28
THE PLATFORM,
THE PRINCIPLES WITH WHICH
THE REPUBLICANS APPEAL
TO THE PEOPLE.

the threshold Of their proceedings to
honor the memory of their first great
leader, the immortal champion OF lib
erty and the rights Of the people,
Abraham Lincoln, and to cover also
with wrea,hs of imperishable remem.
brance and graft to the heroic
names OF our later leaders, who have
been more recently called away FROM
our councils-Grant, Garfield, Arthur,
Logan, Conkling. May their memo
res be faithfully cherished. We also
| recall with our greetings and with
prayer for his recovery, the name Of
one OF our living heroes, whose memo
ny will be treasured in the history,
both of Republicans ana Of the re-
public, the name OF that noble soldier
and favorite child of victory, Phillip
Fl. 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 fraterna!
congratulations to our fellow Ameri-
cans of Brazil upon their great act of
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 reaffirm our answering devo.
ton to the National Constitution aud
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 Terri
tories of the Union, and especially 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 cleo
tons, 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 Re-
publican government, aud demand
effective gislation to secure the in
tegrity and purity OF elections, which
are the fountains of all public author
ity. We charge that the present ad-
ministration and the Democratic ma
jority in Congress owe their existence
to the suppression of the ballot by a
criminal notification Of the Constitu
ton and the laws Of the United
States.
We are uncompromisingly in favor
of the American system of protection
We protest against its destructi, n
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
tor their judgment. The protective
system must be maintained; it,
abandonment has always been follow
ed by general disaster to all interests
except those OF the Insurer aud tn,
sheriff.
We denounce the Mills bill as
destructive to the genera! business
the labor and the farming interests oil
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 o!ace wool on
the free list, and We insist that the
duties thereon shall be adjusted anc
maintained so as to furnish full ano
adequate protection to the industry
The Republican party would effec
all needed reduction of the nationa
revenue by repeating the taxes upon
tobacco which are an annoyance anc
harden to agriculture, and the ia,
upon spirits used in the arts and fol
mechanical purposes; aud by sucl
revision of the tariff laws as will
tend to check imports of such articles
as are produced by our people, tn.
production of which gives employ.
meut TO our labor, and release from
import duties those articles of foree,
production Except luxuries) the like
Of which cannot be produced q,
home. If there shall still remain q
larger revenne than is required fol
the wants OF the government, we
favor the entire repeal of interna
taxes rather than the surrender o.
any part of our protective system al
the joint behest of whisky trusts 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 Con.
stitution, and we demand the rigid
enforcement OF the existing laws
against il, and favor such immediate
legislation as will exclude such labo,
from our shores.
We declare orr opposition to all
combinations of capital organized
into trusts or otherwise to control