The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-16
Republican Platform.

have been so triump phantly Vndica'ed in preserving the Union, and in pro- noting the welfare and prosperity of of the people Of the United States of America.
 ?. AS Republicans express cur ad- mlration If the high personal charac- ter of President Harrison in his admln- istratlon of the affairs of the nation, and we congratulate Republicans gen. erally upon the success of an admin istration of the affairs of the people which has so signally promoted the ! prosperity of the country at home and abroad, ana winch 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 electors in every State shall be regarded with the sanctity that the Constitution, with it's amendments, imposes and it unhesitatingly affirms the doctrine that the votes Ofthe elec- | tors in Congressional elections in all the States shall under proper Congress sionaI legislation be freely cast and honestly counted.
 1. Congress in it's wisdom has arisen | to the financial demands of the country 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 enlarged fi- nancial industrial prosperity shall fur ther be secured by the free coinage of | silver.
 ! ,. The governing power of the peo- ole under Territorial restrictions is limited and unsatisfactory The growth Of the Territory of Arizona, it's wealth and resources, as we'll a the necessities of our citizens require an early recognl- ton of our Territory as State and we assert It 10 be the duty of the Repub- lican party of Arizona to exert all its activity and energy in the promotion of early admission of the Territory in to tie slsterhood of States.
 6. The history of the Mormon church in the United States means an ecclesiastical control that has ever been aggressive, eXacting and tyrannical and who e'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 polvgamy whose doctrine is to sag gregate it's people from all others in Its affairs; who vote as one man under the | dictation of it's priesthood and only for those who can be used for it's base pur- poses that as people they are un- American and disloyal, and that for less reasons than these the Chinese have been refused citizenship and are excluded from our country; tbat the Mormon element in our midst is con- stantIy increasing; that the evil Of their lives is a blotupon the good name and fair fame of our Territory, and that if we allow this wee to continue We tan hope to harvest from it only evil anu therefore,
 We, the Republicans of Arizona ill convention assembled do hereby de. maud Of Congress that before it ad- iourns It shali pass the bill now pend lng before it, known as an get for the 'Purtications of Elections in Arizona"
 :. We urge upon Congress the inn mediate nece ssity of remedial legisla- tion towards relieving the settlers upon the public domain in this Territory from the detrimental effects of the op- eratiom of the provisions of the Arid Land bill of October ?, 1888.
 s. That the travel and traffic of cur people in the Territory demand the attention and favorable action of Con- gress in facilitating legislative aid for the construction of North and South railroad so that our growing agricul- tural and mining interests shall have those advantages of transportation commensurate with our ever increasing anu active industries.
 LAC U ulh StI LII [1 SIICdu IlDcI- ties is our free school system, and the Republican party, resting as it does up- on the broad intelligence of the people, demands their careful and judicious su- pervision, and requires liberal legisla- tion for the promotion, and cOndGct of our Territorial school system.
 10. Taxation for theTerritorial coun- ty and municipa! purposes should not be predicated upon a principal of furnish inga living for pubic officials who seek office, but should be restricted absolute " to just compensation for actual ser vices rendered. and we sincerely depre- cate and shall resisi the growing ten dency of our T errtory 10 increase the burdens of the tax payers beyond inc actual necessity of providing for fair remuneration for honest and efficient public servants, and we believe it to be the duty of the Republican party to address itself forthwith to diminishing taxation by cutting off all needless of.