Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1878 — Resointions of the. New York State Republican Convention. [ARTICLE]

Resointions of the. New York State Republican Convention.

At the recent Mew York State Republican Convention the following platform was unanimously adopted: The Republicans of New York, appealing to twenty jean of slroxqlra mad tnunpks as proof of Repnbliaaa patriotism and fidelity, and meeting the high demands of the hoar in the aame unfaltering apirit which and the Union and established it on a firm foumintion of freedom, to the payment of the public debt and the redemption of the public promlrea according to the apirit and letter of the engagement, and our good name and well .being require that the Nation’s honor euall be kept aa inviolate aa the Nation's life. . * X Under the management of annnsumng Republican administrations, the oountry has advanced to the point of specie resumption, and the highest interests of business no leaa than the plighted faith of the Kepublio demand that there shall be no atop backward and no postponement. Vlith this steady progress we hail the anspicion* signs of reviving trade and industry, and congratulate the people upon this practical evidence that if the good work shall be completed the depression which giew out of the linanoial disorder* foroed upon us by the Wax of the Rebellion will give place to returning oonfidenoe and permanent prosperity, which oan restmlone on the fixed monetary standard of the commercial world, on settled values and full security and certainty for the future. 8. Standing unalterably for Constitutional principles of hard money, we insist that the greenback, instead of being dishonored and depreciated, shall be made as good as honeet coin; that the laborer's dollsr shall mean a real dollar; that the uncertainties which rob toil and paralyze trade shall cease; that our currency shall bj made the best currency by making all porta of it, whether paper or eoin, equivalent, convertible, secure and steady, and all public servants, whether Executive officers. Senators or Representatives, whose acts or votes conduce to this high •object, deserve our approbation. 4. The Electoral Commission was a wise and honorable mode of settling a dangerous dispute. All parties were bound to abide its decision, and any attempt to undo or impair the conclusion it established is unpatriotic and revolutionary. 6. While sinoerely seeking fraternal relations in all just efforts and aspirations, we summon the people to renewed vigilance and unflinching warfare against the vast hordes of claims ana raids on the Treasury which count for suocess on Democratic rule, under the mastery of a solid Booth, and which would fall with special hardship on New York os the chief tax-paying State in the Union. & We demand free and unintimidated elections in the South as in the North, and the full recognition! and observance of the equal rights and liberty of all citizens as ordained by the amended Constitution, and until they shall be secured the work of the Republican party to protect human rights will be unfinished. 7. We renew our declarations for the elevation of the publio servioe on the basis of a secure tenure duringtbe faithful performance of official duties for a fixed term; for a pure, frugal and efficient administration of affairs, and tot unyielding resistance to any further land grants or subsidies to corporations or monopolies; for a grateful recognition of the brave soldiers and sailors of the Republic, and for common schools Apree from sectarian influence and unmenoced by sectarian appropriations. 8. While recognizing with satisfaction that many patriotic Democrats do not share its spirit and impulses, we arraign the dominant forces of the Democratic party os a constant diiiturber of pnblic tranquillity and peace; aaa wanton foe of public security in ito persistent assaults upon tne authority and stability of established Government; as attempting to weaken the Nation by crippling the army in a time of uncertainty and danger; as guilty of false pretenses in claiming for the Democratic House a reduction in the publio expenditures whose fraudulent character is proved by the necessity for heavy Deficiency bills; as dependent on a solid Sonth, and thereby subservient to all its demands; as aggravating the troubles of the country by mischievous agitation throughout the period of i»s supremacy m the House of Representatives; as faithless to the obligations of National honor and the chief support of wild schemes of inflation, repudiation and utter financial disorders which imperil the publio credit and business security. And its further or greater success would be a National calamity. 9. An emergency in the history of the country second only to the great struggle for its existence now confronts us. As then the Republican party was the sole organized political protection against National disruption, and patriotic oitilens of whatever party names rallied under the standard for the defense of the Union, so now the Republican organization is the only efficient bulwark against National repudiation and disgrace, invites all good citizens of whatever previous political ties, to unite with it in preserving the National honor. To ail Republicans this great exigency especially appeals to rise to its high obligations and join heart and hand for the triumph of those vital principles upon which the security and welfare of the Republic depend.