Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-23
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM
TT EULoGIzEs THE F0RMER LEAD
ERS OF THE PARTY.

IS IT EULOGIzEs THE F0RMER LEAE
ERs OF TIE PARTY.
And then Commits Itself to Cheap Bur
and Tobacco and High Priced Neces
saries of Life-It Also Wants Create
War Preparations-A Kick at the Poo
Mngwumps.
gI CHICAGO, June 21.-The Republican plat
J, Iform was made public to-day, and is her
!: given in full:
81 The Republicans OF the United States as
V sembled by their delegates in national con
Z yention, pause on the threshold OF theil
II ftproeeedings to honor the memory Of theil
II first great leader, the immortal champion
1 sEs.si = e is'.ts TIE pesnle
! Abraham Lincoln. and to Cover also with
wreathes Of imperishable remembrance
i and gratitude the heroic names OF our later
i leaders who have been more Iecently called
away from our councils Grant, Garfield,
Arthur, Logan, Conkling. May their MEM
ories be faithfully cherished.
We also recall with our greetings and
prayer for his recovery, the name of one of
our living heroes, whose memory will be
treasured in the history. both OF Republi-
cans and of the republic. the name of that
noble soldier and favorite child of victory,
Philip Ell. Sheridan.
In the spirit OF those great leaders and OF
our own devotion to human liberty and
Il. 4, g. a. e.
ism and oppression, which is the fundamen-
i tai idea of the Republican party, we send
fraternal congratulations to our
FELLOW AMERICANS OF BRAZIL
upon their great act of the abolition of
slavery throughout the two American con-
tinents. We earnestly hope that we may
soon congratulate our fellow citizens OF
Irish birth upon the peaceful recovery OF
| home rule for Ireland.
We reaffirm our answering devotion to
| the National constitution and to the indis-
soluble 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 and sovereign right OF every
lawful citizen, rich or poor,
NATIVE OR FOREIGN BORN,
white or black, to cast one fee ballot in
public elections, and to have that ballot
duly counted. We hold the free and hon.
est popular ballot, and the just and equal
representation of all the people to be the |
foundation OF the Republican government. |
and demand executive legislation to secure |
the integrity and purity OF elections,
which are the fountains OF all public au-
thority.
We charge that the present administra- |
tion and the Democratic majority in Con- |
gress 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 pro-
posed by the President and his party. They
serve the interests OF Europe. We will sup
port the interests of America. We accept
the issue and confidently appeal to the peo-
pie for their judgment. The protective sys-
tenn must be maintained. Its abandon
ment has always been followed by general
disaster to all interests except those OF the
usurer and the Sheriff.
We denounce the Mills bill as destructive
to the general business the laborer and the
farming interests OF the country, and we
heartily endorse the consistent and patri-
otic action of the Republican Representa-
tives in Congress in opposing it's passage.
We condemn the proposition of the Dem
ocratic party to place wool on the free list, r
and we insist that the duties thereon shall
be adjusted and maintained 80 as to fur
nish full and adequate protection to in
dustry.
FREE RUM AND TOBACCO WANTED.
The Republican party would effect all
needed reduction OF national revenue by
the taxes upon tobacco which
are an. annoyance and burden to agricul-
ture and tax upon spirits, used in arts and
for mercantile purposes, and by such ie-
vision OF the tariff laws as will tend to
check imports of such articles as are pro-
duced by our people, the production of
which gives employment 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 larger revenue
than is requisite for the wants of the Gov
ernment, we favor the entire repeal OF .
taxes rather than the sur !
render OF any part of our protective sys-
tenn at the Joint behest of the whisky trusts,
and the agents OF foreign manufactures. IL
We declare our hostility to the introduc-
tion into this country of foreign contract
labor AMI OF Chinese labor, alien to our
and our constitution, and we
demand the rigid enforcement of the exist.
ing laws against it, and favor such imme-
diate legislation as will exclude such labor
from our shores.
Ne declare our opposition to all COM
binations of
CAPITAL ORGANIZED INTO TRUSTS
or otherwise to control arbitrarily the
condition OF trade among our citizens; and
we II commend to Congress and the State
in their respective jurisdic-
tions such legislation as will prevent the
execution of all schemes to oppose the
people by undue charges on their supplies,
or by unjust rates for the transportation
Of their products to market. We approve {
the legislation by Congress to prevent I
alike unjust burdens and unfair discrimina- ,
tions between the States.
We reaffirm the D licy of appropriating !
the public lands of the United States to be
for American citizens and !
settlers, not aliens, which the Republican
party established in 1862, against the per- |
S1St6Lt ODDOslUluu Ol DtLHOCTdtb III CpH-
gress, and which has brought our great
western domain into such magnificent
development. The restoration of unearned
railroad land grants to the public domain
for the use OF actual settlers, which was
begun under the administration of Presi-
dent Arthur. should be continued.
We deny that the Democratic party has
ever restored one acre to the people. but
declare that by the joint action OF Re-
publicans and Democrats about so ,O00, 900
acres of unearned lands originally granted
for the construction OF railroads have been
restored to the public domain, in pursu-
ance of the conditions imposed by the Re-
publican party in the original grants.
We charge the Democratic administra-
tion with failure to execute the laws
SECURING THE SETTLERS THEIR HoMEsTEADs,
and with using appropriations made for
that purpose to harass innocent settlers
with spies and prosecutions under the false
pretense Of exposing frauds and vindicating
the law.
The Government by congress OF
THE TERRITORIES
is based upon necessity only, to the end
that they may become States in the Union;