Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-10-11
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

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State convention assembled, con
eratulate the people of the com
,notlwealth and the Union upoI
the happy restoration OF Kepnhh
can administration in federal at
fairs, aud re.afiirm their devotion
to the national Republican partl
and its principles, with their earn
eat approval of its policy OF Il pro
tectiye tariff, which favors and
renders necessary the repeal of the
existing onerOns war taxes on To-
bacco and fruit brandies, and
whereby American labor is secured
its beat rewads and American
production Its best markets, while
il Affords abundant means to pur-
sue the noble scheme OF patriotism
and craftsmanship thrice proclaim
ed by a Republican Senate IN the
Blair bill, to afford generous aid to
tree schools OF the State by nation.
al appropriations.
The Republicans of Virginia,
averring their positive knowledge
that true return of the polls in
the elections of last November
would have given the electoral
vote of this State TO the Republl-
can ticket, congratulate President
Harrison upon his election, despite
fraud here and elsewhere, and they
promise his administration that
hearty support which it has already
demonstrated that it well deserves
from all good citizens. Confident
in their strength and steadily
growing in numbers the Repnbli-
cans OF Virginia hail the triumph
OF the national party at the last
election as q harblnger Of the vic.
tory which awaits their own STATE
party in now resOlutely taking the
fleId IN response to the widespread
and still spreading sentiment that
demands complete change and re-
form in the administration of the
commonwealth, as the only dde-
quate relief and reparatIOn of evil
resulting from Democratic ascend
ancy for the past five years.
Defylng the frauds of the Demo
cratic managers, they come to
name and elect the governor, lieu
tenant governor, attorney general
and a majority III each branch Of
the legislature that are to be chOs-
en- this year, exhOTting Republicans
everywhere to remember,
First-That loyal adherence by
the Virginia Republicans to the
Republican party of Virginia and
it organization Is Indispensable to
harmony and success.
Second-That toll recognition Of
the civil and political equality of
this party, its organization and llS
constitutions by the natiOual par
ty and administration is an essen
tial condition precedent to such
recognition here or elsewhere, by
friends or foes, and that this alone
can insure internal peace and ex-
ternsl respect, while strongly at
tracing all the elements and con
stitute permanent power and main
tain victories when achieved.
Tblrd-That for success the Re-
publican party of Virginia relies
upon the allegiance of all Virginia
the righteousness OF
its cause, appealing to the people
not because it loftily cOndescends
TO call itself their friend, bat be-
cause it 10 Of the people, for the
people because 1t made suffrage
free, aud always respects and de.
fends the popular will and the
ballot. box, which the Democratic
despises and delrands;
because, as our Constitution, laws
and history attest, 1t is the original
author, restorer and ever-ready
champion of our free school system
now deprived OF free books by the
hereditary foes OF popular
education and elevation;
because it IS the jealous
friend of the insane poor whom it
rescues from the jails and poor
houses TO which the Democratic
authorities conslgn them, aud
whose females it shields, East and
West from vlOledce and dcbdnch
cry becabse it lightens the bur
dens of tax pa, ers, and practices
economy in striking contrast with
the extravaganza which in the last
Ave years, has squandered no the
mere administration OF government
a million and.a.half of dollars IN
excess of what four years OF Repub-
can administration have demOnstra-
ted to be necessary therefor; be-
cause It's $4,000 ex.coniederate
fathers and sons forcibly tell the
disabled ex.confederale, o" the
widows or orphans OF a dead con-
federste soldier, that sympathy or
succor for each and all OF them
can surely be found in its ranks;
because it favOrs the rights and
demands of honest labor, whose
wrongs are against convict labor,
imported pauper and contract la
Dor, unjust exactiOus in taxes ana
road work, combinations OF IN
ocupulous capital, unfair laws, I'M
falr judicial decisions, &c, cry to
earth and Heaven for "a redress
more efiectual and speedy than
the Democratic one of a collection
of statistics because it is for the
tiller of the soil as against Tia" eX-
tortions Of tranpOrtations, middle
men, combines, fertilizer frauds
and bad road system ; because 1t
does not preach hate, prejudice
aud passion as paramount either
Ia politics, business or religion;
because it is not on both sides, or
no side of any public question,
State or federal; because 1t does
not declare tor putting practical
farmers in official agriculture! pos
ItiOns and then turn out such farm
ers to put IN political editors eX-
cayaly brigadiers aud the like; be-
cause Il does not prate OF unjust
taxation on land, and then increase
ito burdeus by new assessment, be-
cause it readjusted the State debt
which the Democratic have dlsad'
Iustsd, after all their vain and false
pretestations the contrary aud be-
cause it alone has shown an honest
and competent capac'
ity 70 manage this debt; because
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