The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-17

noon and on the first ballot nominated
Benjamin Harrison, the vote standing
Harrison 525 SO
Blaine, 1874
Mckinley lS2
Reed 4
AT the evening session Whitelaw
Reid, editor ofthe N. Y. Tribune and
late minister to France was nominated
by acclamation for. Vice-President.
The convention then adjourned. The
following is the platform adopted, with
the exception of a few miscellaneous Sc
lections:
THE TARIFF.
We reaffirm the American doctrine
of protection. We call attention to
its growth abroad. We maintain that
the prosperous condition of our coun-
try is largely due to the wise revenue
legislation of the Republican Con-
gres.
We believe that all articles which
cannot be produced in the United
States, except luxuries, should be ad-
mitted free of duty, and that on all
imports coming into competition
with the products of American labor
there should be duties levied equal
to the difference between wages
abroad and at home.
We assert that the prices of manu-
factured articles of general consump-
ton have been reduced under the op-
Grafton of the tariff act of 1890. We
denounce the efforts of the Demo-
cratic majority Of the House to des-
troy our tariff laws by piecemeal, as
manifested by their attacks on wool,
lead and lead oar, and we ask the
people for their judgement thereon.
RECIPROCITY.
We point to the success of the Re-
publican policy of reciprocity, under
which export trade has vastly increas-
ed and new and enlarged markets
have been opened for the products of
our farms and workshops.
We remind the people of the bitter
opposition of the Democratic party
to this practical business measure,
and claim that, executed by Repub-
lican administration, our present law
will eventually give us concrol of the
trade of the world.
SILVER.
The American people, from tradi-
ton and interest, favor bimetallism,
and the Republican party demands
the use of both gold and silver as
standard money, with such restric-
tions and under such provisions, to be
determined by contemplation, as will
secure the maintenance of the parity
of values to the two metals, so that
the purchasing and debt paying pow
er of a dollar, whether of silver, gold
or paper, shall be at all times equal.
The interest of the producers of the
country, its farmers and its working
men, demand that every dollar, pa
per or coin, issued by the govern
ment, shall be as good as any other.
We commend the wise and patriotic
steps already taken by our govern
ment to secure an international con-
ference to adopt such measures as
will insure parity of value between
gold and silver for use as money
throughout the world.
ELECTIONS.
We demand that every citizen of
the United States shall be allowed
to cast one free and unrestricted bal
lot in all public elections and that
such ballot shall be counted and re-
turned as cast; that such laws shall
be enacted and enforced as will Sc
cure to every citizen, be he rich or
poor, native or foreign born, white or
black, this sovereign right, guaran-
teed by the Constitution, the free and
honest popular ballot; the just and
equal representation of all the people
as well as the just and equal protec-
ton under the laws, as the foundation
of our. republican institutions. And
the party will never relax its efforts
until the integrity of the ballot and
the purity OF elections shall be fully
guaranteed and protected in every
State.
SOUTHERN OUTRAGEs.
We denounce the continued inhu-
man outrages perpetrated on Ameri-
can citizens for political reasons in
certain States of the Union.
INTEMPERANCE.
We sympathize with all wise and
Legitimate efforts to lessen and pre-
vent the evils of intemperance and
promote morality.
PENSIONS.
Ever mindful of the services and
sacrifices of the men who saved the
life of the nation, we pledge anew to
the veteran soldiers of the Republic