Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — THE PLATFORM AND NOMINEES OF THE [ARTICLE]

TH E PLATFORM AND NOMINEES OF THE

Affcr a stoi-niy session the national convention of the republican party, wwoiblini at Cincinnati lust week, adopted a platform, reorganized their elective Committee, am) on tho seventh ballot Aofeioatad candidates for president and dice president of the United States. In some jarticulars the platform is Iftod; in others indifferent and superflu6ns. Tho first resolution affirms a proposition which was decided and established by the war twclvo years apo, and is now unquestioned by any considerable or influential portion of the people. It is ‘'that tho United States of America “is a nation,not a league.” This to tho ifrcnt mass of people was the first, direct And fundamental contingency of the war. following it in immediate importance was the slavery question. But each Alight have been decided independently of fhts other. The perpetuity of the nation did not of necessity depend upon the destruction of that great wickedness, flowevcr both qifcstions were then decided, rightfully, pcnnaueutly, irrevocably. Neither one is now a subject for dis Mission, hifcnee their apjioaraDcc in u party platform is superfluous. The second resolution set another superfluity, heing an affirmation of the declaration t hat all ihcw ate created equal and endowed NJfch Oqtial natural rights. It goes a step further and claims that the work of the republican ]»arty is not finished untit these truths are established and teoopniaxl by all. The third plank sets forth a demand for the complete pacification of the southern sections of the Union, and declares that it Is the duty of the legislative and executive departments of the government to-remove all just causes of discontent on the part of any class, and to secure to every American citizen complete liberty and exact equality in (hi exercise of all civil, po-

rttiral and public rights. The object of tSjawv two resolutions might not be #ppa* n-nt to everybody, particularly to such hs arc not in* the habit of reading the P|*eed«» and letter* and editorial articles <•1 t lie Sensational clement of the party. 'They arc tlie feeble flutter of the bloody shirt lm niter —a bid to preserve the negro vote to the party, and it will probably btf sufficient for tbc purpose, Resolution lour is the financial {dank. It is jartly sound and jiartly tiiuid; partly gold and jwrtly Wait awhile. It means hard money but does not suggest a time for nSUtnption, or the Ricans of reaching it. Terlfajts it is tht; best' and wisest for party stit-ccss that they could devise, but it is not definite after all. It seems cowardly and temporizing; \t sounds like good lord, Mr. Gold, good devil, Mr. Grecnfwiek ; we worship gold as the only tiue and jxiwerful commercial god, btit we want the votes of those who put their trust in paper and must conciliate them; therefore thus aud thus so uud so: The resolution means gold; gold is constitutional money; greenbacks are simply promises to j»ay gold; gold is recognized as the only medium of exchange by tho

commercial world ; it is right and honest, aud the jiarty ought not to bo ashamed nor afraid to say so, especially when it believes and means so. Resolution five is a discussion of tbc civil service policy in which this broad and correct proposition is stated: ‘-The invariable rule for “appointments should have reference to “the honesty, fidelity and capacity of “the appointee, giving to the party in ‘‘pUMtxlhnsn.phuaSs whiire harmony and “vigor of administration requires its jkjl- ‘ icy to bercpmKmtcd,bJt permitting all ‘ others to be fillet! by persons selected “with sjjle reference to the efficiency of “the public service.” This is a great improvement upon the old barbariun doctrine of tbc democracy that to the rictora belong the spoil, and whenever it is adopted in the practice as well as in the theory of parties it will be better for this atfd every other nation. It is a matter df-Borious qutstibn if all who were present and conspicuous in the convention heartily endorsed the spirit of the sixth resolution, which professes Ip “rejoice irt the quickened conscience “of the people otjacerinog political “affairs,” because it is this quickened conscience that smashes slates and knocks agley the best laid scheUics of machine jKtliticians. It was a conscience pretty thoroughly quickened which id our own district at last election succeeded a sala-ry-grabbing convention-packer with an honest democrat who has earned another election to congress. The seventh resolution advocates “an amendment to the constitution of the United States forbid•'ding the application of any public funds

“or projierty for flic benefit of any •'schools or institutions under sectarian “control. ’’ The eighth is a high tariff declaration. The ninth oppos** any more land grants to corporations 1 and monopolies. Tip* tenth pledges government protection to people of foreign .birth, who have become citizens by adoption. The eleventh suggests that John Chinaman be investigated with refercuco to his material and moral influcucc upon the proud Caucasian race. The twelfth compliments the republican party for its growing tendency to treat women with respectful consideration, and increasing their legal rights and political influence to a standard approaching that occupied by nu ignorant negro. The thirteenth talks a little more upon the suhjcct. of polygamy —a relic of barbarism—just about in the old strain that wits adopted sixteen years ago. It is well that each recurring national convention mentions jiarty condemnation of«this evil, else jtooplo might begin to think that it was becoming reconciled to its existence. It don't mean much. Ucsolntion fourteen blarneys the soldiers and sailors of the late war. Fifteen deprecates sectional fueling and tendencies, and is solicitous because the democracy appear to be likely to carry tbe southern states at the presidential election ; but omits to blame the Spcucer, Cluytou, Kellogg, Ames and Inter-Ocean class of politicians with the responsibility. Resolution sixteen prefers a severe indictment of seven specifications against the democratic party, some true and some false, and warns the country against “trustiug a “party thus alike unworthy, recreant and incapable." The seventeenth and last resolution very properly applauds President Urufrt for his patriotism aud immense services ill war and peace. In reorganizing the national executive committee, lion. Will Cumback was appointed for ludiana.

The candidates nominated uro Gen. Rutherford 15. Hayes, governor of Ohio, for president, and lion. William A. Wheeler, member of congress from New York, lor vice president. We ltavo not space to give an extended biographical sketch of these gentlemen at this time, and must confine our pen to a mere outline of their public services. Mr. Hayes is about 5-1 years old, is a native of Ohio, and a lawyer by profession, ifo made an honorable though not brilliant record as a soldier, and was brcvctted major general of volunteers. lie lias seen some public service as a civilian, having been u representative in congress, uud twice governor of bis state. He enjoys the prestige of having beaten before the people three democratic aspirants for tho presidency—Mr. I'end let on for congress in the Cincinnati di-triet, and Hon. Allen G. Thurman and Hon.- William Allen for .governor. Mr. W fleeter was s borti in Franklin county, New York, is 55 or st> years old. by occupation a banker, lie is a memberof the national bouse of representatives for the sixth or. seventh term, and stands high in tho esteem of liis peers. He is distinguished I for having beou a member of the cop}- I mittce which investigated the cause of the conflict between Kellogg's adherents ! and tbp quasi-government of MeKnory j in Louisiana, and is the reputed author of tho compromise bearing his name by which Kellogg became established and recognized as the rightful governor of that state.

Messrs. Ilaycs and Wheeler arc proba*bly the strongest ticket that could have been made from the material presented to the convention. It will harmonize the conflicting interests of the party and unite all the factions better thuu any other combination. It is a tiiumph of the honest and better elements of the party over those who would have rushed it headlong down to defeat. It will be accepted by the people of the whole country as an earnest pledge of reform in the civil service, of the many abuses of power, and as the adoption of broader views and more comprehensive statesmanship. Unless the St. Louis convention shall be governed by wiser counsel than has controlled democratic conventions lor sixteen years past, and nominate some man like Gen Hancock, or ’Gen. Palmer, the republicans will be tho triumphant party iu November.

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