The Arizona champion., 1890-09-06
REiu.LICAy PLATFORM.


 The following Is the phtfolm adop- ted by tine territorial republican con vention Iii Phenix:
 l The republican party of the ter ritory Of Arizjna annornces its firm adherencp to the principles of the rep ublican party Of tl!e nation, which have been so tGiumphantly vindicated in preserving the Union, and in promct ing the welfare and prosperity of th- people of the United States of Amer lea.
 3 As republicans we express our ad miration of the high personal character of Pre- silent Harrison in his adminis- tration of the atfalrs of the nation, and we congratulate republicans generally upon the success of an administration of the affairs of the people which has so signal!y promoted the prosperity of the country at home and abrold, and which has secured for it 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 entrusted to the elertorS in every state shall be regarded with the sanctity that the Consultation, with its amend ments, imposes, and it unhesitatingly affirms the doctrine that the votes of the electors in congressional elections in all the states shall, under proper congressional legislation be freely cast and honestly counted.
 f Congress in its wisdom has arisen to the financial demands of this count y and has provided a system of coinage of silver to meet the present financial emergencies of the people, and We must insist as party, that an enlar- ged financial and industrial prosperity shall further be secured by the free coinage of silver.
 5 The governing power of tine peo- ple under territorial restrictions Is linn ited and unsatisfactory. The growth o: the territory of Arizona, its wealth and resources, as well as tie necessi- ties of our citiz ms require the e,rly recognition of our territory as d state, and we assert 1t to be the duty of tie republican party of Arizona to exert all it's activity and energy in promoting the early admission of the territory into the sisterhood of states.
 6. The history of the Mormon church in the United States meanes an ecclesiastical control that has ever been aggressive, exacting and tyrannical, and whose boast it has ever been that the Norm on church and people do not and will not asimilate with the people of our country; who's dominating tenet Is polygamy; whose doctrine Is to segre- gate its people from all others in their affairs; who vote as one man under tn" dictation of its priesthood, and only for those who can be used for its base pur- poses; that as a people they are un American and disloyal, and that for less reasons than these the Chinese have been refused citizenship and are exclud ed from our country; an! the Mormon element h our midst Is constantly in- creasing; 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 it only evil; and therefore, we, the republicans Of Arizona, i'll convention assembled, do hereby demand of con- gress that before itadjourns it shall pass the bi!l now p=nding before it. known as an act icr the Fabrication of Flee tions in A'iEnna.
 :. w. ur.e npon congress the i'm meliate necessity 6! reinadial legislation toward reiicrlu- tie settlers upon the public 'om4in in t!iis territory from the det 'ihirnt:ll affe t, of t!ir operation of the prosi,ious of tI,e aiil land bill of October ,, 1883.
 s. that tle trscri and traffic of our people in tine tci1it.ay iemand the at te..tion and ia hvorahia actiDn If congress in facilitating lra i>lati,e aud for tie con stu :tian of q no u rnl south rllIroaI so that ouf growing agricultural and m ming interests sii Il have those ,advan ta3es of trtnT,m titIoa commemsulHt., with our eve lnv.r4sing and active iii ddotries
 g The bulwa'k of oar Aine ic,n ibe,tie is our free sch9, system, and the republican, party. resting as 1t does upon the broad intelligence ol the peo Die, demands th,.:r careful and j4diui JUS supervision, and ie4lires lroeral icsi h. tion for the promption ami crndIct Cf oar territorial srhc,i systen.
 10. Taxation for teriitolial, county and muni ipai purposes sl.olid not be Predl"atrd UPdn P'inaiP.e of farlisi.-