The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

Grand Rapids, Mich, July 31-The hall
was packed to suffocation when the Re
publican state convention met.
Philip T. Colgrove. temporary chair
nan, araigned the Democratic Congress
for efforts to change the Mckinley tariff
law.
The following ticket was nominated:
Governor-Governor Rich, renominated.
Lieutenant overnor-Alford Mines.
Secretary of State-Rev. Washington
Gardner
Treasurer-James NJ. Wilkinson
Auditor General-Stanley W. Turner.
Attorney-General-F Maynard.
Land Commissioner-Will iam A. French.
Superintendent of Public Instruction-H.
r. Pattengil.
Member of the Board of Education
Perry F. Powers.
The platform as reported by the ma
jcrity of the committee was adopted as
The Platform.
We, the representatives of the Republi-
can party of Michigan, in convention as
sembled, hereby affirm and renew our
faith and hope in the cardinal principles
and purposes of the Republican party,
which will lead it from the present most
unhappy and demoralizing era of Demo
cratic misrule, out again through night
to light, into an era of hope and happi-
ness and prosperity for our country and
We affirm our confidence and increased
devotion to the American doctrine OF pro-
lection. We believe the present unhappy
condition of our country is in a great part
due to the threat and purpose of the
Democratic party to destroy the Amer1-
can sysem of protection.
We believe all articles which cannot
be produced in the United States. except
luXuries, should be admitted free of duty.
and that on all IMPORTS coming in competl-
ton with the produce of American labor
there should be duties levied equal to the
difference between wages abroad and
wages at home.
We believe the doctrine of reciprocity as
advocated by that matchless statesman,
James G. Blaine, should, under our pro-
tective system, be the policy of our gov
err ment, and applied in our trade rela-
tons with other nations: We recognize
that the employment of both capital and
labor is necessary for the peace and pros
perity of our people, and that the en-
actment of such laws as will properly
culties is one of the duties of the Republi-
can 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 it is therefore, the duty of the
state to. regulate all corporations and
and liberty of the laborers, and insist
that law and order must be maintained
and that the ballot box and courts of
Justice, and not the sword and torch must
settle economic difficulties.
Blowing Hot and Cold.
While we recognize the value and worth
of the great body of naturalized citizens
and people who have sought, with patriot
ic Heart and adopted this as their home
and country, we believe in protecting
American wage-earners and the peace
and prosperity of this nation against the
evil effects of indiscriminate immigration
from the pauper and criminal classes of
Europe, by wise laws that shall properly
restrict and regulate immigration.
We denounce the action of the Demo-
cratic party in the repeal of the election
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 maintained in cir
culation on a perfect equality and inter-
convertability. We recognize the so
called question as one of the paramount
issues of the day. and believe the peorle
of this state can and do look to the Re-
publican party as the only party that
can give wise and adequate solution of
the problem.
We, therefore, pledge the Republican
DGrty of Michigan to use every effort in
it's power to restore silver to its historic
position in the United States as money
metal.
We pledge this in the belief that the
permanent prosperity will lot be assured
or justice done until silver takes its place
by the side of gold as one of the two
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