Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1888 — Oregon Republicans [ARTICLE]

Oregon Republicans

The Oregon State Republican convention met at Portland, Wednesday. The platform reported favors a froe ballot and tbe right to have the ballotcounted; protests against farther Chinese immigration; favors liberal pensions; denounces Cleveland’s action in returning tbe rebel flags; condemns the Lind Department at Washington for refusing to survey lands ready for settlement, and the employment of spies and informers to barrass settlers with defense of needless suits; denounces President Cleveland’s veto of the river and harbor bill, and the Secretary of War in obstructing the improvement of the Columbia river; declares civil-service reform a sham and fraud. The tariff plank is as follows: That this policy of the Democratic administration which would place wool and lumber on the free list and woolen goods on the highly protected list; cotton ties and hoop-iron on the protected list, and which policy would continue the collection of 60,000,000 on sugar each year, while at the same time the majority applauds and claims to carry out the President’s idea that a tariff-tax is robbery of the people, constitutes a piece of unparallelled political dishonesty, having for i's sole objeot the success of the Democratic party at the next election even at the expense of the practical destruction of many of our most important agricultural and manufacturing interests. We favor the policy of providing ohiefly for the revenues of the generalGovemment nd for other purposes essential to the general Government, by a system of duties levied upon imports go adjusted as to discriminate in favor of domestic industries and productions, and in favor of American labor, and we declare ia favor of redaction of the annual revenues of the Government by admitting free of duty suoh articles of general use as cannot be largely produced or manufactured by our own people. We deprecate the attempt of the Democratic administration to degrade the honest toil of America to a level with the pauper labor of the old world.