The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-05-16
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

1 cOnveHLlOn assembled, PROUD OF lts record
and past history, its devotion to the prin-
ciples Of human liberty and human rights,
its great and imperishable names which lend
lustre and glory to the American nation at
home and among the nations of the earth,
and as an assurance of its continued fidelity
to the great principles fors which it has con.
tended in the past in state and national
affairs, does hereby make and affirm the
following declaration of its principles:
First-That we favor honest, efficient and
economical administration of every depart
ment of government, both state and national.
Second-That we regard the free school
system of our state as the special care and
pride of the republican party, to be cher
ished as one of the bulwarks of the iber-
ties of the people.
Third-That whereas the republican party
has always contended for pure electoral
system, in pursuanceiof this policy we favor
the adoption of the Australian ballot sys-
tenn [Applause] and we pledge the republi.
can party to enact such a law at the next
session of the legislature, substantially upon
the line and of the character OF the act as
drafted by the Ballot Reform League of Ore
gon. '--
Fourth-That the republicans of Oregon
send greeting and congratulations to their
brethren of Maine for having furnished
Thomas B. Reed, an honest and courageous
statesman, who as speaker of the house of
i representatives, has secured for the repre-
sentatives of the people the right of the
majority to govern, and we denounce the
fiction by which democratic members of
congress attempt to justify the technical
defeat Of the will of the people and the
majority of their own body by refusing to
vote, though in fact present and in duty
bound to do so.
Fifth-That. rejoice in the fact that in
the last presidential election the American
people voted to sustain and uphold the re-
publican doctrine of protection which the
democratic party proposed to destroy
[applause] and we are in favor of the con.
tinuance of that 81 stem of protection which
has developed the manufacturing and agri-
cultural interests of our country and pro-
! tected American laboring men from degrad-
ing competition with the pauperized and
poverty stricken labor of the Old World,
'[applausel and to this end we indorse the
fprovisions of the bill known as the McKin-
ley tariff bill, now pending before congress,
iand~on behalf of the wool growers call upon
eur representatives in congress to do all in
their power to secure the early passage of
said BILL
i Sixth-That recognizing the fact that the
United States is the greatest lver-produc-
4 ing country in the world, and that both gold
and silver were equally the money of the
constitution from the beginning of the
public until the hostile legislation against
silver, which unduly contracted the circu-
lating medium of the country, and recog-
nizing that the great interests of the people
demand more money for use in the channels
of trade and commerce; therefore, we de-
clare ourselves in favor of the free and UNI
limited coinage of silver, and denounce any
attempt to discriminate against silver as un-
wise and unjust.
Seventh--That the gratitude of the ma.
tion to the defenders of the Union cannot
be measured by laws. That the legislation
of congress should conform to the pledges
made by loyal people and be SO enlarged
and extended as to provide against the pos
sibility that any man who honorably wore
the Federal uniform shall become an inmate
Of an almshouse or dependent upon private
charity.
Eighth-That we are in favor of fair
and equal distribution of taxation, and we
believe that all property not now exempt
by law should contribute its due proportion
in payment of the legitimate expense Of the
government. That we are in favor of the
adoption of such amendment to our assess
ment laws as will secure the equal and just
assessment and taxation of all property at
its true value.
Ninth-That we demand the immediate
forfeiture by congress OF the land grant of
the Northern Pacific railroad from Wallula
to Portland.
Tenth-That we are heartily in favor of
the passage through congress of the bill pro-
vidiug for boat railway at The Dalles of
the Columbia river, which has been passed
in the senate by the efforts of Senators
Mitchell and Dolph; that we believe it to be
the most practicable plan for the relief of
the preiucers and for the development of
that vast territory of country tributary to
the great Columbia river.
Eleventh-That we favor the enactment
of law in the interest of the wage earning
classes in factories, mines, workshops and
public works fixing eight hours as days
work, and we denounce the convict con.
tract labor system as unjust to the honest
labor of our state, and we believe that all
laws recognizing such system be repealed;
that we are opposed to the futher immigra.
| tion Of Chinese laborers to the United
States, and we demand more stringent and
effective measures for carrying into practi.
cal operation the enactments of congress