Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-11-11

Guniboro, Joseph d. Vest. Joseph n.
Donaway, Thomas Short.
Or. PfTiB Il. Carlisle, Jr., of tho
committee on nominations reported the
following nominations, II Of thu nnmi-
Noes being unanimously elected: par-
mnnent Chairman. john II. Hoiiecknr
OF Kant county; Permanent Secretary,
ID. T. Barnard CT Npw Castle county;
Vice Presidents James &. Shaw of
New Castle county, Willium Ellison of
Kent county and Dr. Hiram Il. Burton
OF Sussex county.
Chairman elect HoiTecker, in accept.
ing the office, made str0ng plea for
unity. Ito said every Republican should
hold out the olive branch to every
other Republican who held different
Vows Tho party should no united,
hs neld, and thought all should he
charitable with that end in view. lie
was willing TO forgive the past if no
could not forget it. Hon. j. S. Willis
read the following platform, which had
been reported by the committee on
resolutions;
The Union Republican party OF the
State of Delaware by their dulegatos
in convention assembled, stands for un,
qualified and equal justice to all,
without which, due respect FOR law is
destroyed, social thrift obstructed, pub
lie peace disturbed aud permanency Of
government jmperiled.
The Union Republican party stands
for acquescence in the expressed will
of tho majority, both in party manage
mont, ID municipal, State and national
elections and legislation, for, us the
manila nra tha rann0piyaI onprnn 80 oil
political power and authority. so the
will of the people can only be ascer-
tanned by the expressed will of tho
majority. The ballot box, which is
the American medium for the indica-
tion of that will and the enunciation
OF that authority, must be impregnahly
protected and jealousy guarded by the
American voter.
Whoever violates the ballot box is a
traitor to his country, an enemy to his
race, disgrace to human society aud
an object OF contempt in tho eyes of all
patriots.
The Union Republican party stands
for the largest and fullest interpreta
tion of the Declaration of Independence
concerning the rights of man. 1t he.
lieyes that anything 10 system OF
individual or any class. ia defect in
that system, and ought to be corrected
as soon as possible: and that the mis-
sion of the Union Republican party Of
the country is to do that work in the
future, as it has largely done it in the
past.
The Union Republican party believes
in sound money; wa mean q currency
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par with every other dollar, and a
standard in harmony with that of tine
leading commercial nations, no that
our foreign and domestic trade may be
healthy and unembarrassed, and our
credit unquestioned in the money
markets of the world; and we under.
stand sound money under present CON
ditions to mean gold standard with
all issues of silver and paper kent al
parity by the pledged faith of the
| government.
We believe that all notes Of the
| government which arc payable on de.
mand in gold should be called in, and
that such nutes should only be Issued
when gold, to the full amount of their
face value is deposited in the treasury
of the United States, to secure the
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| by protective tariff we mean not q
tariff in any wise prohibitive, but 1
duty on foreign products equivalent tc
the difference between domestic anC
foreign wages, 80 that the Americar
workman may have fair competitive
chance in the home market.
We endorse the platform of principle!
adopted by the National Union Re
l Nth oh q
Louis in juno in 1896.
Believing that the principles of the
National Union Republican party ar,
sound. right, entirely in accord Will
the PURPOSES for which our uationa
government was founded and best cal
culated to maintain "a more perfec
union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common de
fence, promote thB general welfare, ant
aecure the blessings Of liberty to "tht
citizens OF these United States and thei
posterity, wa congratulate the citizen,
Of the nation that the policies ant
affairs of the national government arr
formulated, declared, directed, managed
and controlled by that party.
The Union Republican party dssire
to express its sympathy with tine strug
Cling patriots of Cuba. We heliev,
that their independence will he secured
as the price of noble patriotism AMI
nameless suferings, and that the domin
ion of Spain.-a nation that hn
contributed nothing tn the civilization
OF the world, nor to the advancement o
the human race for more than thre
centuries should no longer desecrat
the soil OF that beautiful islRnd, will
her barbarism, and that humanity ant
the commercial interests of the Unitst
States demand her intervention ia tn
war now being waged in Cuba.
We believe that the SUCCESS Of gu
party is essential to the best interest
of Delaware. The rein of Democracy ii
this State has been too long and con
slant. The past 20 years or more hay
been period of degeneracy in tina
party. The Democratic leaders of
generation ago have been displaced b.
a class Of men leHs competent, but NOR
unscrupulous-even the sembIance O
political integrity has been laid aside
and these ravishers of ballot boxes AM
disfrRnchisers OF freemen have gIurie,
in their etirontery and fHttened on thsi
epoils. Under their rule tax rates hay
been Increased, and still the publ
debts augmented: the funds of tb
State have been used 10y them for rar
tisan purposes. and their legislators hay
from time to time played into tn
hands OF a corrupt lobby. Some O
their prominent officials have openl
defauted. while othera adroitly Goutinu
their populations under the protection
of the party, lest their crimes shout
be discovered and punished they hay
perpetuatei their succession: First, b
DISTINGUISHING honorable citizens
second. by bribery third. by frauds a