The herald., 1894-08-01
REPUBLICANS IN SESSION
MICHIGAN STATE TICKET NOMI.
MATED AT GRAND RAPIDS.
Various Planks in the Platform Given
In Detail-sop for Laborers, Sill
ver for Metallfsts, Taffy
for Foreigners.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. July 31,-The
following nominations were made at the
Republican stats convention today
Governor, Governor Rich rcnominated;
lieutenant governor, Afford Mines;
secretary OF statee, Rev. Washington
Gardner; treasurer, James M. Wilkin-
son; Auditor. Gen. Stanley Turner;
attorney-general, Frank Maynard; land
commissioner, William A. French
superintendent of public instruction,
II. R. Pattengil: member OF the board
Of education, Parry Powers.
The platform, as reported by the
majority OF the committee. was adopted
as toll, We:
Wei me representatives OF the Repub-
loan party OF Michigan, in convention
assembled, hereby affirm aud renew our
faith and hope in the cardinal princi-
Piles and purposes Of the Republican
party. which will lead 1t from the pres.
eat most unhappy and demoralized era
OF Democratic misrule, out again
through night to light, into an era of
hope and happiness and prosperity for
our country and our state.
creased devotion to the American doc
trine OF protection.
We believe the present unhappy con-
dition Of our country is in a great part
due to the threat and purpose OF the
Democratic party to destroy the Ameri-
can system Of protection.
We believe all articles which cannot
be produced in the United States, ex-
cept luxuries, should be admitted free
Of outy and that only on the imports
coming into competition with the pro-
duce of American labor there should be
duties levied equal to the difference be-
tween wages abroad and wages at home.
We believe the doctrine of reciprocity
as advocated by that mstchlese states
man, j. G. Blaine, shonld. under our
protective system, be the policy of our
government, and applied to our trade
relations with other nations.
We recognize that the employment OF
both capital and labor is necessary for
the peace and prosperity of our people,
and that the enactment of such laws as
will properly and wisely avoid and set
tie the labor difficulties is one Of the
duties of the Republican party which
has always been and still is the friend of
the humblest toiler.
We believe that the government was
instituted to protect the weak against
the strong and to substitute right for
might, and that 1T is thefore the duty OF
the state to regulate all corporations and
com binatiOns 90 as to protect every right
and liberty OF the lsborer, and insist that
law and order must be maintained and
that the ballot box and court OF justice,
and not the sword and torch, must settle
economic difficulties,
While we recognise the value and
worth of the great body OF naturalizsd
citizens and people who have sought
with patriotic heart and adopted this az
their home and country, we believe in
protecting american wage earners and
the peace and prosperity OF this nation
agains. the evil effects OF indiscriminate
from the pauper and GRIM
inal classes OF Europe by vice laws that
shall properly restrict and regulate i'm
We denounce the action of the Demo- |
laws, and declare such action is an invi- |
tation to falsify by fraud and violence |
the will OF the people.
We believe in the use OF gold and
silver as money metals, to be main.
tanned in circulation on perfect equal. |
lty and intercouvertibility.
We recognize the 80 called silver
question as one of the paramount issues
Of the day, and believe the opinion of |
this state can look to the Republican
party as the only party that can give an
adequae solution OF the problem.
We therefore pledge the Republican
party OF Michigan to use every effort in
lts power to restore silver TO its historic
position IA the United States as money
metal.
We pledge this in the belief that the
permanent prosperity will not be as
,ured or justice done until silver takes
ts place by the side4 of gold as one OF the
Two money metals OF the world.
Cholern Kavages GsIic,a