Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-08-02
Short, Broad and Strong.

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waukee presents positively and Wig
orously the position of the party
on the leading and vital issues of
the day. 1t is short, and the strong
err for not being extended, to cover
ground beyond the limits of the
stream it spans. Having no need
to obscure the attitude of the party
toward any question before the peo-
pie, superfluous words are not en-
ployed. The casual reader aud the
analytical student will understand
it alike. 1t says:
awe reaffirm the platform adopt
ed at the national republican con-
vention and also the platform adopt
ed at the state convention in 1892,
and renew our pledges to the people.
"The present condition of the
country, resulting from the threat
ened change in its industrial policy
inaugurated by the democratic par
ty, the hundreds of factories and
workshops closed down, the thous-
ands Of men out of employment, are
the best witnesses that can be
brought to testify TO the wisdom of
the policy Of protection to home in
dustries which has always been sus-
tanned and fostered by the republic
can party. The republican party is
| the friend of both labor and capital.
Each is indispensable to the other.
"The party had it's origin in the
opposition to the ensiavement and
degradation of labor, and under it's
policies the workmen of the United
States received a higher rate of
wages and attained degree of com
fort aud influence such as they had
never previously enjoyed. 1t will
employ whatever authority it pos,
sesses to promote all just demands
of the wage worker and support
whatever practical measures can be
devised for the amelioration of his
condition.
We recognize the right of labor
to organize, using all honorable
measurers for the purpose of digni.
flying and lettering its condition
and placing it on an equal footing
with capital, to the end that they
may fully realize the fact that they
are friends and equally essential to
each other.
"The republican party is in favor
of honest money and unfalteringly
opposed to any scheme to give to
this country debased or depreci
ated currency. We favor the use
of silver as currency 10 the extent
that it can be circulated on parity
with gold.
"lhe republican party is the par
ty of religious liberty, of absolute
non-sectarianism, of entire separa
ton of church and state, of free
common schools and of the utmost
independence of individual thought
speech and action within the law
HEREAFTER republican state con.
ventions will have 700 delegates
double the number heretofore; and
caucuses and conventions preliml'
nary thereto must be fully adver-
tised. These reforms are provid'
ed for the following resolutions
passed by the convention in Mil
waukee last week.
1 Resiced, That the basis of representation TO
! republican state conventions shall be one deie-
! gate for each two hundred and nifty ESQ repub-
leans votes cast at the last preceding presiden-
| tial election, and one for each major fraction
thereof; and that la counties having more than
one assembly district the unite basis shall be the
assembly district; that in all other cases the
county shall be such unit, except in Milwau-
kee county.
Resolved, That hereafter all state conven-
lions shall be called on q notice OF not less
than eight weeks, All county conventions to
elect delegates to state conventions on notice
Of not less than four weeks. All town or
ward caucuses as primaries to state conyen-
ton on a notice of not less than ten days; and
that notice of the meeting Of such conventions
and caucuses shall be given in the usual man
This will give Iowa county 10
delegates instead Of 8.