Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — POINTED PLATFORM PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

POINTED PLATFORM PARAGRAPHS.

“We demand the reduction of 1 letter postage to 1 cent per ounce. ■ V “We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection; we protest against its destruction as proposed by the President and his party. They serve the interests of Eqrope; we will support the interests of America. We aepept the issqe and confidently appeal to the people for their judgment.. TJie protective system must be maintained. Its abandonment has always bepn followed by general disaster to all interests except those the usurer and the sheriff

**♦ f ,“We derpapd appropriations for tjj.e early rebuilding of our navy, for the construction of coast fortifications and modern ordnance, and other approved modern means of defense for the protection of our defenceless harbors and cjties, for the payment of just pensions to our soldiers; for necessary work of national importance in the improvement of harbors and the channels, of internal, coastwise and foreign commerce; for the encouragement of the shipping interests of the_ Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific States, as well as for the payment of the maturing public debjt. This policy wjll give employment to our labor, qptivity so our various industries, increase the security of our country, pro.mote trade, open new and markets for our prodpee, and cheapen the cost of transportation. We affirm this to be far better for Wt; countrythan tjie Pemocratip policy of loaning the government money, without interest, to pet banks. \

*»* “The men who abandoned the Republican party in 1884 and continue to adhere to the Democratic party, have deserted not only the cause of honest government, of sound finance and freedom and purity of the ballot, but especially nave deserted the cause of reform in the civil service. We will not fail to keep our pledges because they have broken theirs or because their candidate has broken his. We therefore repeat our declaration of 1884, to wit: “The reform of the civil service, auspiciously begun under the Republican administration, should be completed by the lurther extension of the reform system already established by law. to all the grades of the service to which it is applicable. The spirit and purposes of the reform should be observed in all executive appointments, and all laws at variance with the object of existing reform legislation should be repealed; to the end that dangers to free institutieas which lurk in the power of offi dal patronage may bo wisely and and effectively avoided.

“We reaffirm the policy of appropriating the public lands of the United States to homesteads for American citizens and settlers not aliens, which the Republican party established in 1862 against the presistent opposition of the democrats in Congress, and which has brought our great Western domain into such Inagnificent development. The restoration of unearned railroad land grants to the public domain for the use of actual.settlers, which was begun under the administration of President Arthur, should be continued. We deny that the Democratic party has ever restored one acre to the people, but deciare that by the joint action* of Republicans and Democrats about fifty millions of acres of unearned lands originally granted for the construction of railroads have been restored to the public domain in pursuance of the conditions inserted by the Republican party in the original grants.

It is safe to say that when Mn ' Cleveland gets his letter of accept* ance ready to give to the press, it will not, even in a degree, convey apy allusion to the sentiments expressed in the following paragraph from his pen in 1884: “When we consider the patronage of this great office, the allurements of power, the temptation to retain public place once gained, and, more than all, the availability a party finds in an incumbent whom a horde of office-holders, with a zeal born of benefits received and fostered by the hope of favors yet to come, stand ready to aid with money and trained political service) we recognize in the eligibility of the president for reelection a most serious danger to that calm, deliberate and intelligent political action which must characterize a government of the people.” Start has tedhced prices on his roasted coffee Sets per lb, making them the cheapest Coffee in the market, qwaHty wandered.