The record-union., 1894-06-21

of the convention in the afternoon the re-
port of the Committee on Platform and
Resolutions was called for.
Hon. Grove l.. Johnson, Chairman
of the committee, ascended the platform
and read the following as the result OF
their labor:
PLATFORM OF TIE PARTY.
1t Contains some New and Rather
Novel Features.
The Republican party of the State Of
California, in convention assem- b!ed at
Sacramento, on the 18th day of June, 1891,
as expressive OF it's views upon the po-
litical issues of the day, does hereby re-
solve that we reffirm our devotion to, and
our belief in, the principles enunciated IN
the Republican National platform adopted
at Minneapolis III 1892. and again pro-
nounce in Iavor OF protection and reel
procity as expressed in the mckinley
tariff BILL"
STATE ADMINISTRATION.
We cordially indorse and approve the
administration of Governor Markham.
TAXATION.
We are in favor of equal and uniform
taxation, and we declare that all property
shall be taxed at its actual value, and tnat
taxes thereon shall be fully paid and I'M
mediately collected, and that all neces-
sary laws shall be passed to that end.
STATE COMMISSIONS AND OFFICES.
We are opposed to creating any more
public offices or commissions, for we be-
lieve that there are too many commits
sions in the State at the present time. We
are in favor OF consolidating all such
commissions wherever the same can be
done without impairing their efficiency
or iniuring the interests of the State, and
are in favor OF abolishing and dispensing
with all offices and commissions not act
ualIy necessary to maintain the State
Government.
ECONOMY AND TAX LEVY.
We are in favor of and will enforce
economy in public affairs; and for that
purpose we pledge our nominees that the
State tax levy, except in cases OF war or
insurrection, shall not exceed for any
one year 80 cents on each Sl00 OF assessed
valuation of property, and as much less
as a most economical administration OF
the State Government will permit.
HONEST ELECTIONS.
Since the organization of the Republi-
can party it has been In favor of free
ballot and an honest count at all elections
wherever held. Its policy has ever been
that every voter, no matter what his
color or his condition in life, should be
permitted to freely exercise the right of
suffrage, and that his vote, no matter Tor
what party Or candidate it might have
been cast, should be counted exactly as
he had given it. The sanctity of the ballot
box is the protection of the nation. Cor
ruption at the ballot-boX is the destruc-
ton of American institutions and Ameri-
can liberty. Too many safeguards cannot
be thrown around this fountain whence
flows the entire government of all the
sixty-five millions Of people that march
beneath the stars and stripes. We there
fore denounce the action of the Demo-
cratic Congress and the Democratic Pres
ident in repeating the Federal election
laws as wicked surrender to those who
rule the South by force and violence, and
who have sought TO rule the North by
fraud and corruption at the ballot-box.
PRIMARY ELECTIONS.
In order that the purity of elections
may continue, we are In favor OF and de-
mand the passage of such laws by the
legislature of California as will insure
that primary elections shall be honestly
conducted, and represent the untran-
meed expression of the will of
the people, without the use of money
or fraud or violence while they are ell
gaged in the solemn business of nomi-
mating candidates for office.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
We declare that the present National
Democratic Administration, in It's policy
toward the Hawaiian Islands, which
commenced with the hauling down Of
the American flag which was floating
peacefully over them, followed with the
To a u Cd
Queen, and has been continued ever
since with the most cheerful disregard Of
the wishes of the people of this country
and the people of those islands, has viO-
lated the settled policy OF the republic,
caused the President of the United States
to go beyond his constitutional authority,
disregarded the anity which should ex
ist between nations at peace, and has thus
brought unnecessary reproach upon the
American Nation.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR RIVERS.
The Sacramento and San Joaquin
Rivers and the other navigable streams
of California constitute great highways OF
commerce, benefiting both the producer
and the merchant, by giving them facility
and cheapneSs OF transportation. They
give the people natural and healthful
competition with transportation COM
panies, and every means should be used
to promote their Ell. cheney, remove all
obstacles to their use at all seasons of the
year, and make them what they were in
tended by nature to be-the channels OF
communication between the interior and
the seaboard. We recognize the fact that
these streams have not yet received
proper attention at the hands of Con-
gress in the past, and we pledge our Con-
greSsional nominees to constant efforts to
secure adequate appropriations for the
Improvement of these great waterways
of California, and promise them in SO
doing the support OF the entire Repub-
lican party.
IMMIGRATION.
The American protective system, as
enuneiated by the fathers of the republic,
has been carried into full effect by the
statesmen and voters of the Republican
party OF the Nation. Our party has alike
protected the manufacturer and the
laborer that produced the goods that
were protected. We believe that the
American laborer is entitled TO more pro-
lection than the products of his skill and
ingenuity. We believe that the time has
come when the Nation must take firm
and decided stand against the incursion
of the underpaid and ignorant Iaborers
of the Old World that are focking here
now in such numbers as to drive the
American laborer from his work. with
the inevitable result, as seen at the pres
ent time, OF causing disturba in the
manufacturing centers of the Nation, re-
ducing the price of labor, breaking up
happy homes and prosperous business.
We demand the enactment and strict en-
forcement of such laws as will absolutely