Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-08-29

ueuinRtou lCueeTb, LluCOln ICneeTb,
Garfield [cheers, Blaine loud cheers.
Let them remember the great Republi-
cans of Tennessee who have gone before
W. G. Brownlow Applause, Horace
MAYNARD [applause, l.. C. Houk lap.
plause and and 20 forward to full
fill the mission of the Republican par.
ty.
The report of the Committee on
Platform and Resolutions was called
for and was read by the Secretary,
John 4. Mccall, of Henderson County.
1t was as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans of Tennessee, in
convention assembled, view with in
dlgnation and alarm the deplora BILE
condition of the State and nation into
which they have been preciptated by
eighteen months of Democratic supre.
macy and misrule, and for a way of
escape we point with becoming pride
to the matchless prosperity and abid-
ing confidence of the whole people that
attended the Republican administra
ton for thirty prior to 1892, and we
invite the voters of the country to
unite with us in hurling from power
the Democratic party for incompetency
and deception, and again to place the
control OF the Government in the hands
of the great Republican party.
We declare tor system of protective
Hntino oI IInatnH co thnt "a;
can resource can be developed by
American labor, receiving American
wages and we insist upon tariff that
will accomplish this end, and hereby
reaffirm our devotion to the doctrines
of the Republican party and its poll
cies as set forth in the national plat
form of 1892.
The American people, from tradition
and interest, favor bimetalisln, and the
Republican party demands the use of
both gold and silver as standard money,
with such restrictions and under such
provisions, to be determined by legis-
lation, as will secure the maintenance
of the parity OF the two metals, SO that
the purchasing and debt paying power
of the dollar, whether silver, gold or
paper, shall be at all times equal, and
we are in favor of circulating medium
OF volume sufficient to meet the de-
mands of business and commerce.
We are opposed to returning to Wild
cat State bank system, as advocated by
the Democratic party, and as the same
existed in Tennessee before the war.
Resolved, that the honest and in
dustrious immigrant who comes to our
shores with the intention OF becoming
an American citizen and obeying our
laws is welcome. None others should
be permitted to come. We favor such
Federal legislation as will exclude
fIom our shores the anarchists, pauper
and criminal classes from any country
whatever.
Resolved, that we recognize the Just
rights of labor and capital and believe
their interests are Identical. We de-
precate any agitation that has a ten
dency to array one against the other,
and such legislation as will make
it possible to adjust all differences be-
tween the two on fair and equitable
basis for each.
Believing in manhood sovereignty,
that every citizen of the State who is
twenty one years of age and has resid-
ed in Tennessee for twelve months, is
Justly entitled to cast one vote and
have that vote fairly counted, we
earnestly condemn the partisan elec.
ton laws recently enacted in Tennes.
see by Democratic Legislature for
the express purpose of disfran chising a
large portion of the citizens of the
State.
To be more specific, while we believe
that each citizen should contribute in
the way of taxes his just proportion of
the States revenue, vet we solemnly
declare that we are opposed to placing
q price of W upon the vote of each
citizen, which, if not paid, operates to
disiranchise and enslave him, and we,
therefore, demand the repeal of the
poll tax law, and declare that every
citizen should carry his sovereignty ty
under his hat and not in his pocket.
book.
Reposing confidence in our State
Constitution aud claiming the rights
granted to every citizen hereunder, We
denounce the Dortch election law as
plain violation thereof, in that it de-
clares in favor of an educational quail
fication for voting and is unconstitu
tional, and we demand its repeal OF
modification, to the end that the un
educated as well as the educated of oul
citizens may have voice in making
the laws that control them and in Sc
lecting the officials of the country.
We condemn the registration law now
on our statute books, and we demand
that it be amended so that the regis
trars he compelled to open books fol
registration wherever it applies, and tc
make the purchase or sale of regis
tration certificate a felony.
Believing that the sacred right of tn,
citizen to cast one vote and to hay,
that vote fairly counted can not b,
measured by the rule of lineal meas
ure, we condem the uniform ballot Law
and demand its repeal.
We arraign the Democratic party il
Tennessee for extravaganza in the ad
ministration of State affairs, and W,
condemn their action in borrowing