The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-04-27
THE RESOLUTIONS.

The Republican party of Ohio, re-
affirming the platform of 1887, adopted
at Toledo, present the following addi-
tional declarations.
Free and untrammeled suffrage lies at
the foundation of the republic, and it's
restoration by every constitutional
means in states where 1t has been over
thrown or impaired, and its mainten-
ance everywhere is our settled and de-
termined purpose. We denounce the
Democratic party for the notification of
the war amendments to the constitution,
whereby the Republicans of the South
are practically denied voice in the
government of the nation, and the pow
er of the Democrats of that section is
unlawfully augmented. We charge that
the Democratic party is now IN the en-
loyment of power confessedly procured
by the unlawful suppression of the fran
chise of the Southern States. We affirm
that the acceptance of power thus Sc
cured, the apparent purpose of the par
ty to continue the methods mentioned,
and its shameful defense of the crimi-
| mails who, in the states of Maine, Illi-
nois, Indiana and Ohio, have sought to
stife the popular will by frauds and for
geries, justify us in charging that it has
practically become, in a national sense
an organized conspiracy against free and
fair elections. In view of these facts,
and believing that to deprive the legally
qualified voter of his franchise, or to
impair the public confidence in the fair
ness of the count, is to weaken and ulti-
mately destroy free institutions, we call
upon the patriotic citizens of Ohio to re-
buke the party responsible for these
crimes against suffrage, and we demand
of Congress that, in the exercise of its
constitutional authority, to enact such
laws as will insure freedom and fairness
| in the elections of representatives to
Congress.
We favor such economic legislation as
will protect all American industries that
can be probably pursued by American
citizens. We insist that our producers
are entitled to the control of their own
markets to the extent of their ability to
supply them. We denounce all efforts
to open those markets to cheap labor
and abundant capital of foreign nations,
as hostile to the interests of labor and
destructive to national and individual
prosperity. We regard the last annual
message Of the president and the re-
cent action of the majority of the
ways and means committee as q d.
rect and open assault upon these indus
tries which will, if unresisted, result in
introducing policy of free trade that in
the near future will paralyze or destroy
our own industries, reduce the compen-
sation for labor and impoverish the ma
ton.
1t is the duty of congress to pass and
of the president to approve q wise, Just
and comprehensive pension bill, giving
relief to disabled veteran soldiers and
subsistence to the helpless widows and
orphans of deceased soldiers, without
regard to the time when disability was
incurred or to the cause of death.
The people of Ohio unqualifiedly con-
denim the refusal of the Democratic ma
jority of the house of representatives to
permit the passage of the direct tax re-
funding bill, passed by the Republican
senate, which was proposition to re-
pay to the loyal states, without Interest,
the money paid by them at the begin
ming of the war to aid in suppressing
the rebellion, and TO cancel the unpaid
balance, principal and interest due from
the rebel states upon said taxes, and we
denounce as treacherous and cowardlv
the surrender of the Northern Demo-
Gratis In congress to the small minority
of the ex-confederates and their allies,
and the abandonment of the bill, which.
if passed, would have contributed nearly
a million and half of dollars to the re-
lief IF tho ta " navarc of 0hio