Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-09-06
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
THE PRINCIPLES ADOPTED AT THE
 LATE CONVENTION.
End dorselnent of the Admin istraticn--Free Coinage of Silver Demanded--State- hood Desired--M MOrmonism--
 Useless Offices to be
 Abolished.

Abolished.
 1. The Republican party of the Terri tory of Arizona,5 announces its firm ad- herence to the principles of the Repub- hcan party of the Nation. which have been so triumphantly vIndicated in pre- serving the Union, and In promoting the welfare and prosperity of the people of the United States of America.
 ? As Republicans we express our admiration of the high personal charac- terof President Harrison in his admin istration of the affairs of the nation, and we congratulate Republicans generally upon the success of an administration of the affairs of the people which has 50 signally promoted the prosperity of the country at home and abroad, and which has secured for 1t the profound respect of the nations of the world.
 3. The Republican party. founded upon the largest liberty of the citizen, must insist that the elective franchise en- trusted to the electors in every State shall be regarded with the sanctity that the Constitution, with its amendments, imposes, and 1t unh2sitatingly attirms the doctrine that the votes of the electors III Congressional elections in all the States shall under proper Congressional legISla- tion be freely cast and honestly counted
 f. Congress ill its wisdom has arisen to the financial demands of the country and has provided a system of coinage Of silver to meet the present financial emer- gencies of the people, and we must insist as party, that an enlarged financial and industrial prosperity shall further be se- cured by the free cOlnage of silver.
 ,. The government power Of the peo- pie under Territorial restrictions Is limit ed and unsatisfactory. The growth of the Territory of Arizona, its wealth and resources, as well as the necessities of our citizens require the early recognition of our Territory as a state. and We insist 1t to be the duty of the Republican party of Arizona to exert all it's activity and ener- gy in promoting the early admission of the Territory into the sisterhood of states.
 6.-The history of the Mormon church in the United States means an ecclesias- tical control that has ever been aggressive exacting and tyrannical and whose boast has ever been that the Mormon church and people do not and will not assimilate with the people of our country; whose dominating tenet Is polygamy; whose doctrine Is to segregate it's people from all others in their affairs; who vote as one man under the dictation of its priesthood and only for those who can be used for its base purposes; that as a people they are unAmerican and disloyal, and that for less reasons than these the Chinese have been refused citizenship and are ex- cluded from our country; that the MOr- mon element in our midst Is constantly increasing; that the evil of their lives is a blot upon the good name and fair fame of our territory, and that if we allow this vice to continue we can hope to harvest from 1t only evil; and. therefore:
 We, the Republicans Of Arizona in Con vention assembled, do hereby demand of Congress that before it adlourns it shall pass the bill now pending before 1t, known as an Act for the "Purifcations of Elections in Arizona"
 '. We urge upon Congress immediate necessity of remedial legislation toward relieving the settlers upon the public domain in this Territory IrO1n the detri- provisions of the Arid Land bill of Oct 7. 1888.
 s. That the travel and traffic of ouI people in the Territory demand the atten- tion and favorable action of Congress in facilitating Legislative aid for the con struction of a North and South Railroad so that our growing agricultural and min ing interests shall have those advantages of transportation commensurate with oul ever-increasing and active industries.
 g. The bulwark of American liberties is our free school system, and the Re publican party, resting as 1t does upoI the broad intelligence of the people, de mands their careful and judicious super vision, and requires liberal Legislation for the promotion and conduct of oul | Territorial school system.
 10. Taxation for Territorial, county | and municipal purposes should not bt 1 predicated upon a principle of furnish | ing living for public officials who seel office. but should be restricted absolutely | to just compensation for actual service! rendered. and we sincerely deprecate anC | shall resist the growing tendency of ou | Territory to increase the burdens of tht l taxpayers beyond the actual necessity O providing for a fair remuneration fol earnest and efficient public service, and we believe 1t to be the duty of the Repub lican party to address itself forthwith t( diminishing taxation by cutting off al needless offices and reducing public ex penditures to the lowest point consisten with an honest and efficient administra tion of the laws.
 II. The principles ef RepubGcanisn require the party to foster and encOurag every industry which tends to give vitalt, and prosperity to the whole Territory, b, wise, judicious legislation, whereby tn interests of labor and capital shall bt equally protected
 F. The d9falcations which have arisel in this Territory in the accounts of tn Democratic officials appointed to offic under Democratic rule should inspir the people of the Territory with the gray est caution in again entrIlst1ng the power of the Government to officials elected o appointed by the Democratic party o its rulers, and We direct the attention o the taxpayers and the people at large t
 the deficit of $5700 in the accounts of tn
 Democratic Commissioners of the Terr
 tOrial prison; to the large unadjuste
 balance due to the Territory from tn
 late Secretary Bayard, ill the administrf
 tiOn of his office: and to the appallin
 deficiency in the accounts of Fred W
 Smith, late Receiver in the United State
 Land Office, at Tucson, and to the seriou
 injuries and endorsements resultin
 therefrom, to the settlers upon our pull
 llc lands.
 B. We as a party place our candidate
 before the electors of the Territory Arizona with the fullest belief ill the integrity, and in their capacity to perforl
 the duties of the offices for which the have been respectively nominated, an
 we invoke fair and impartial judgmel P from the people upon the principle ! enunciated by the party. and not on : pledge the party but the candidates f well to persistent effort in successful $ establishing the principles herein s = forth
 - The Accident at Needles.