The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-27

ing to set up a local clf-government
without slavery, and demanded the i'm
mediate admission of Kansas as a free
state of the Union. 1t opposed the
"Ostcnd Manifesto" as the highway
mans plea, favored the construction
of q Pacific railroad. and the improve
ment of rivers and harbors.
The Whig platform deplored the for
matiCn of geographical parties" and
viewed with alarm the spectacle pre-
sented, of one party claiming to rep
resent sixteen northern states and an
other appealing to the passions and
prejudiCes of the southern states; it
presented as the only remedy, Millard
Fillmore, a candidate pledged to
neither section.
1860.
The Constitutional Union party held
a convention May . and adopted a
platform very general in character,
recognizing only the constitution of
the country, the union of the states
ard the enforcement of the laws. The
party lived through only one campaign,
and supported for its presidential
ticket John Bell, of Tennessee, and
Edward Everett. OF, Massachusetts,.
The Republican platform adopted at
Chicago May II denounced the threats
of dlSuniOn, maintained the rights of
stat"G 20 control their own domestic
institutions; denounced the Demo-
cratic administration for its subser-
viency to the slave power and it's at
tempt to force on the people of Kan
sas the wicked Lecompton constitu
tion; denounced the new dogma that
the constitution by its own force car
ries slavery into the territories: de-
nounced the vetoes OF the federal gov
ernment of the legislative acts of Kan
sas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery
in those territories; declaring for the
immediate admission of Kansas as Il
state, Under the constitution adopted
by her own people; that in providing
revenue for the government duties on
imports should be so adjusted as to
encourage the development of the in
dustrial interests of the country;
favored the policy of national eX-
changes which secures liberal wages
to working men, remuneratiVe prices
to farmers, adequate rewards to me-
ChaniCs and manufacturers; that lands
should be reserved to aCtua! settlers;
that n Pacific railroad should he built
and the rivers and harbors he i'm
proved.
The Douglas Democratic platform re-
affirmed the Democratic platform of
1856; declared that the decisions of the
Supreme court should not be accepted
on questions of constitutional law;
pledged the party to the speedy con-
struction of a Pacific railroad; favored
the acquisition of the island of Cuba
by the United States declared that
the measure of restriction imposed by
the federal constitution on the sub
ject of domestic relations or institu-
tions in a territory must be deter
mined by the Supreme court.
The Breckenridge Democratic party
declared that all citizens of the Unit
ed States have an equal right to set
tie, with their property, in any terri
tory of the United States without hav-
ing their rights or person or property
impaired by congressional or terri
tOrial legislation. CThis was a conten-
t.or Cor the right of shareholders to
take their slaves into a territory and
hold them) That the federal govern
ment should protect the citizens NOV
ing into Il territory with their prop
erty; that when the people of a terri
tory, with adequate population. desire
statehood, it should be granted,
whether the constitution prohibits or
recognizes slavery.
1864.
The Republican platform resolved to
maintain the integrity Of the Union
and the paramount authority of the
constitution; that slavery was the
cause and strength of the rebellion,
hostile 20 the principles of Republican
government; that the constitution
should be amended so as to forever
prohibit slavery within the jurisdiction
of the United States. II praised Lin
coin and the soldiers: pledged the
faith of the nation for the payment
OF the public debt.
The Democrats, in convention at
| Chicago, declared, las the sense of
the American people, that after four
years of failure to restore the Union
by the experiment of war JUS
tice, humanity, liberty and the public
welfare demand that immediate ef-
forts be made for a cessation of hos
| tiitics, with a view to an ultimate
| convention of all the states, or other
peaceable means, to the end that at
the earliest practicable moment peace
may be restored on the basis of the
| federal union of all the states" The
platform also denounced federal inter
| ference with elections, the shameful
disregard" of duty by the administra-
| ton in respect to prisoners of war, and
expressed sympathy for the army and
| navy.
1868.
| The Republican convention that
nominated Grant for president con-
| graduated the country on the success
of reconstruction, denounced repudia-
| tion as national crime, favored the
reduction and equalization of taxes,
| improving the public credit; denounced
President Johnson for treachery, usur-
| patton, corruption and abuse of the
pardoning power; commended the
/ spirit of magnanimity and forbearance
| displayed by the men formerly in re-