Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-08-28

To tne dignity and welfare of Virginia that
you gentlemen of the convention are here
to take consideration.
Mr.. 81. G. Wood, of Scott county. was
temporary chairman, and after General
Malone finished reading his address a re-
cess was taken till 8 O clock.
AT the afternoon session the various COM
mlttees were appointed and then the con-
vention adjourned till 7 O'clock Ss.s rs.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. -; S
8 The first business coming up at the night
session was the permanent organization.
Hon. Geo. E. Bowden, of Norfolk, was the
permanent president, and Asa Rogers, of
Petersburg, secretary. W. E. Craig was
member of the committee on platform, and
s. Brown Allen served on the committee on
credentials.
THE PLATE oRM.
The platform was reported by Mr.. VIC.
Elan. of Louisa. 1t is as follows:-
The Republicans of Virginia, in State
Convention assembled, congratulate the
| people of the Common wealth and the Union
upon the happy restoration of Republican
administration i'll Federal affairs, and re-
affirm their devotion to the National Re-
publican party and its principles, with their
earnest approval of its policy of protective
tariff, which favors and renders necessary
the repeal of the existing oleI GUS war taxes
on tobacco and fruit brandies, and whereby
American labor is secured 10 it's best re-
wards and American production it's best
markets. while it affords abundant means
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and craftsmanship, thrice proclaimed by a
Republican Senate in the Blair bill, to af-
ford generous aid to the free schools of the
State by national appropriations. The Re-
publicans of Virginia, averring their posi-
tive knowledge that q true return of the
polls in the elections of last November
| would have given the electoral vote of this
State to the Republican ticket, congratulate
President Harrison upon his election, de-
spite fraud here and elsewhere, and they
promise his administration that hearty sup
port which it has already demonstrated that
it well deserves from all good citizens.
Confident in their strength and steadily
growing in numbers, the Republicans of
Virginia hail the triumph of the National
party at the last election as harbiDger OF
of the victory which awaits theil own State
party in now resolutely taking the field in
response to the widespread and still spread
ing sentiment that demands complete
change ard reform iu the administration OF
the Commonwealth, as the only adequate
relief and reparation for evils resulting from
Democratic ascendency for the past five
years. Defying the frauds of the Demo.
cratic managers, they come to name and
elect the Governor, Leutenant-G Governor,
Attorney General. and a majority in each
oh cf tha l.
chosen this year, exhorting Republicans
everywhere to remember
First. That loyal adherence by all Vir-
ginis Republicans to the Republican party
of Virginia, and its organization, is indis-
pensible to harmony and success.
Second. That full recognition of the civil
and political equality of this party, as or
ganization and its constituents, by national
party aud administration, is an essential
condition precedent to such recognition here
or elsewhere, by friends or foes, ard that
this alone can insure internal peace and ex.
ternal respect, while strongly attracting al
the elements that constitute permanent
power and maintain victories when achiev.
ed.
Third. That for success the Republican
party of Virginia relies upon the allegiance
Of all Virginia Republicans, the cordial re-
cognition due it from its national allies,
and the righteousness of its cause-appeal-
ing to the people not because it loftily con-
descends to call itself their friends, but be-
cause it is of the people for the people, and
claims nothing but by aud through the peo-
pie, because it made suffrage free, and al
ways.respects and defends che popular will
and the ballot box, which the Dem lcratic
oligarchy despises and dofrauds, because,
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it is the original author, restorer aud ever
ready champion Of our free school system,
now deprived of free books by the hered-
tary foes of popular education and eeva
ton, because it is the jealous friend of the
| insane poor, whom it rescues from the j ills
aud poor houses to which the Democratic
authorities consign them, and whose fe
males it shields, east and west, from vic
lence and debauchery, because it lghtens
the burdens of the tax payers. and prac-
tees an economy in striking contrast with
| the extravaganza, which, in the last five
years has squandered, on the mere admins
ton of government, million and half of
dollars in excess of what four years of Re-
publican administration have demonstrated
to be necessary therefor; because it's so, 600
ex-Confederate fathers and sons forcibly
tell the disabled ex Confederate, or the
widow or orphans, of dead Confederat
soldier, that sympathy or sucoor for each
and all of them can surely be found in its
ranks; because 1t favors the rights and de-
mands of honest labor, whose wrongs as
against convict labor, imported pauper and
contract labor, unju exsctions in taxes
and road work. combinations of unscrupul
Gus capital, unfair laws unfair judicial de
cisious, &c, cry to earth and heaven for p
redress more effectual and speedy than the
Democratic one of collections of statistics
because 1t is for the tiller of the soil against
| the extortions of transportation, middle
men, combines, fertilizer frauds and bad
road system; because it does not p.esch
hate, prejudice and passion as paramount
either politics, business or religion; because
it is not on both sides, or no side, of any
public question, State or Federal; because
it fulfills It's promises, as its record in Vir-
glnia proves; because it does not declare
| for putting practical farmers in official agri
cultural positions and then turn out such
| farmers to put in political editors, ex-
cavalry hrigadiers, and the like; because it
does not prate of unjust taXations of land
and then increase its burdens by new assess
ments; because it readiusted the State debt,
| which the Democrats have disadjusted, Of
| ter all their vain false protest actions to the
contrary; and because It alone has shown
ar honest disposition and competent
capacity to manage this debt; because it is
| folly to hope for Federal Republican poll
cy TO prevail unless We are manfully for it
| in all elections; because it is manifest that
this party offers the only free, rightful and
peaceful solution of the race and sectional
differences which the Democrats persistent
| ly inhame; and because, IN everything,
State and National Republicauism truly
represents the popular Inspirations for
| American progress and prosperity.
Fourth. That we are in favor of the
speedy restoration of silver to its full
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