Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-05
The Platform as Adopted.

We. the republicans of South Dakota in con-
vention assembled, reaff1rn the principles
enunciated in the platform of the national re-
publican party in 1885, and most heartily in
dorse the administration of President Harri-
son and Gov. Mellette We recognize with
pleasure the services rendered our state by the
United States senators and Representatives in
congress.
We favor an amendment to the constitution
of the state SO that the legislature will be au-
thorized to enact such laws as will enable our
state and counties and townships therein to
maintain a thorough system of irrigation
where needed, and the republican party
now. as heretofore being in SYM
pathy with every material development OF
our commonwealth, hereby pledge our hearty
support to all measures that will tend to the
development of our agricultural resources; and
we urge upon the general government to ex-
tend prompt and liberal aid to the practical es-
Enlistment of system of irrigation by means
of artesian wells within the artesian basin of
this state, and urge upon our senators and rep
resentatives in congress to continue to use their
best efforts to secure such aid.
We favor such expansion of our currency as
will meet the growing demand of our increas-
ing population and wants, and Offset the con-
tract resulting from the withdrawal of the ma
tional bank circulation. To this end we favor
such legislation as will utilize the entire prod
uct of our silver mines as money.
We favor such tariff on all importations,
manufactured or produced, as will fully pro-
tect our laborers manufacturers and farmers
from the ruinous competition of the pauper
labor of other countries and SO create and sus-
tain home market for the products of our
farms, giving to each a living margin of profit.
We also favor Hon. James G. Blaines recon-
mendations of reciprocal treaties with Central
and South American republics with view to
open in them wider market for the products
of our American farms.
We most heartily indorse the action of the
republican party in the passage of the disa-
billty pension bill, and we urge the passage Of
such service law as will in some measure re-
ward each of our honorably discharged soldiers
for the years of health and life lost to them by
hard service rendered our country.
We most heartily invite and welcome all PEG
pie from foreign lands who come to our state
to secure homes and to become good and law
abiding citizens OF the commonwealth.
We recognize the right of labor to organize
for its protection, and by all lawful means to
secure to itself the greatest reward for its
thrift industry and skill.
We denounce all combination of capitalists
to limit the production or control the neces-
saries OF life and advance prices as detrimental
to the best interests of society, and we ask laws
for their suppression and punishment.
We favor the Australian ballot system, or
such election laws as will guarantee to every
votel the greatest secrecy in the casting OF
his ballot, and we demand laws for the sever
est punishment of any attempt to corrupt the
ballot We also favor the passage of the ma
tional election law now pending before the
United States senate.
We view with great satisfaction the prosper
Gus condition OF our public schools and the
higher institutions of learning, and demand
that our school lands shall be jealousy guarded.
Prohibition being adopted by a vote OF the
people as part of the fundamental law of the
state we pledge the party to its faithful and
honest enforcement.