Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — Senator Edmund’s Platform. [ARTICLE]

Senator Edmund’s Platform.

Letter to Massachusetts Republican?. The for the practicftj sdpreiiiacy of our principles is one that in tne nature of things, rarely ends, for, iu some form or other, the safety of equal rights—equal in benefit and equal in burden —is always menanced. Borne of the immediate measures ior these final objects of good government, I think, ought to be: To preserve and improve the laws for the security Of national civil rights; to make ds effective as possible provisions for the purity and farrnessof Congressional elections; to establish by law the methods of ascertaining the result of Presidential elections, so as to give the conclusive effect the Constitution demands to the action of each State,and to prevent the exercise by the houses of Congress of anything in the nature of appelate ot revisory power over the action df the constituted alithority of tbe State in such cases; to so improve the civil service as to diminish, and, if possible, remove the evils of place hunting, and the interchange ot favors between the members of the legislative and executive branches of the government, auff to free the tenure ol a great number of officers from dependence upon politifcal favor or political opinion; to readjust the reVenne laws upon the basis of producing the greatest revenue with the least and neartst equal burden to the people, aud of developing and encouraging the industrial pursuits of every calling of our citizens; to bring both the theory, and practice of the government in regard to the'cnrrency to the point of a fixed and-uniform metallic standard of values and making coin only a legal tender in the payment of debts: and promote, so far as the na? tional government can lawfully do so, the increase aud diffusion of education among all the citizen?, and in evecy part of the republic.