called litigant act, which was devised to support pauper Democratic newspapers at public expense.

11. That the Republican party of this State are in favor of the General Government extending aid toward building a railroad from Portland, Oregon, to Salt Lake City, and from Jackson county to Humboldt; and we hereby pledge our party Representative to the same.

12. That the indiscriminate licensing of persons to sell spirituous liquors, without being placed under responsibilities for the abuse thereof, having been found by experience to promote the growth of crime and pauperism, and thereby seriously increase the rate of taxation,the Republican party recognize the right and duty of the law-making power to prevent and limit the evils and abuses of such sale, so far as concerns the public good and is consistent with individual liberty, by refusing to license others than law-abiding and responsible persons, who can furnish sufficient sureties for good conduct.

13. That the Republican party of Oregon is in favor of obtaining assistance from the General Government for the construction of a wagon-road from the city of Portland to the Dalles, recognizing this as a most important and necessary improvement for the State.

14. We affirm that the continuance in power of the Republican party is the only sure preservation of national peace and prosperity, and for reasons therefor we point to its brilliant record in the late civil war; to a complete nationality; to a united sisterhood of thirtyseven States; to our Territories rapidly warming into State life; to a nation freed from the taint of human slavery; to an elevated and enlarged citizenship; to our national standing at home and abroad; to the work of vigorous reform in all discovered abuses of authority or trust; to an unequaled foreign credit; to a successful and solid financial system, and the unparalleled peace and prosperity everywhere in our broad domain; and these are our pledges for the future.

Democratic, April 10, 1872.

1. That we, the Democratic party of the State of Oregon, are pledged to a strict construction of the Constitution; the restoration and preservation of the rights of the States to regulate their internal affairs, and especially the elective franchise, free from the control or interference of the General Government; the protection of individual rights in accordance with the fundamental laws of the land, including the rights to the writ of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.

2. That we are opposed to every species of corruption in all departments of the municipal, State, and national Governments.

3. That our motto is, no privileged classes and no privileged capital.

4. That we are in favor of a tariff to raise money only for the necessary expenses of the Federal Government, and not for the benefit of monopolists.

6. That we view with alarm the flagrant and

open violations of the Constitution by the party now controlling the General Government, in the passage and enforcement of the reconstruction and Ku Klux laws, and the corruption and fraud which characterize their administration of every department of Government, and we pledge ourselves to use all lawful and peaceable means to secure a speedy correction of these outrages and usurpations.

6. That the freedom, welfare, and rights of the people are superior to the interests of incorporators, and should be protected against the exactions of oppressive monopolies.

7. Favors the appropriation of the fund arising from the sale of the swamp lands to purposes of internal improvement, and to aid common schools.

8. Favors development of local commercial facilities.

9. Indorses the administration of Governor Grover.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Republican, April 10, 1872. Resolved, That we reaffirm our devotion to the principles of-the Republican party, and our belief that the co .tinned existence of that party is necessary to the maintenance and success of those principles. The grand and fundamental idea of the equality of all men in political rights is not professed by any other party, and can be sustained faithfully only by those who are sincerely committed to it.

2. That the adoption of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States has not been sufficiently acquiesced in by all to render certain and secure their permanent incorporation in that instrument, and nence the administration of the Government can safely be intrusted only to that party which is heartily and beyond question committed to them and the policy necessary to put them into successful operation.

3. That we are now more than ever called to sustain the policy of national protection to American industry. If the laborer is worthy of his hire, and a fair day's work entitles the worker to a fair day's pay, we must continue to throw the protecting arm of the Government around those who toil for their daily bread. The protective policy alone makes labor contented and capital secure. It renders employment certain, and pay ample and satisfactory, while free trade means that our laborers and mechanics must either work for lower wages or that our factories should be closed through foreign competition and the workingmenof the country deprived of employment.

4. That the public lands belong to the people, and should be reserved for the people. We therefore pronounce most decidedly against any further appropriation of the public lands in behalf of corporations or individuals. All lands not sold according to law should be open to preemption and actual settlement.

5. That we demand a continued adherence to the policy hitherto pursued under Republican auspices in our State and in the nation of a steady and gradual reduction of the public debt. The interests of the people require that the most rigid economy should be practiced in the administration of both the national and State Governments, and that taxes should be reduced in both as rapidly as is consistent with the honorable maintenance of the public Credit and the certain extinguishment of the public debt.

6. That we heartily approve of the act of General Grant in giving a trial to the plan of civil service reform. We demand that that plan, or any other that may be substituted in its place as better, shall have a fair and unembarrassed trial; that every effort shall be made to secure competent men for the public service, and that honesty and incorruptibility shall be deemed qualifications as essential as competency and intelligence.

7. That the Republican party has given full evidence during the past eleven years of its ability to administer the Government honestly, faithfully, and successfully. It has within that time maintained the honor of our national flag at home and abroad, preserved the Union from disruption, and restored it in its integrity, secured to all classes and conditions of me.n the rights given to them by their Maker, and having proclaimed liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof, has given to that proclamation the full effect to which it was entitled, and we therefore in its name claim from the people acontinuarice of their confidence,and fearlessly challenge their scrutiny into its acts.

8. That we point with pride to the record of General Grant's administration of the national Government. Not only has the weight of internal taxation been almost wholly removed from the people's shoulders, but three hundred millions of the national debt have been paid off, a result never before attained by any other people under like circumstances, and for which we are indebted to the rigid honesty, strict economy, and sterling integrity which the President has brought to the administration of national affairs.

9. That we present his name for renomina tion to the Presidency, confident that the people will again rally to the support of the man who so nobly fought their battles, who, under the guidance of Providence, brought the nation safely through its struggle to maintain its existence, and who has since so successfully administered the affairs of the Government as to command general admiration at home and abroad.

10. That we will stand by the Government in the foreign policy so firmly marked out and adhered to by President Grant. The honor of the nation, we feel, is safe in his hands, and the flag under which he never suffered defeat will not be dishonored while he is kept in the front.

11. That we congratulate the people of Pennsylvania on the final accomplishment of the call for a convention to revise and amend the constitution of Pennsylvania, and we earnestly urge upon our friends to see that

delegates are chosen in their respective districts committed to the policy of incorporating in that instrument a clear and decisive prohibition of special legislation.

12. That we hereby declare our opposition to every effort to withdraw from the sinking fund of the Commonwealth, by substitution, exchange, or otherwise, any of the bonds, securities, or moneys now pledged to it, and through it to the payment of the public debt, and our inflexible determination to preserve the same inviolably for the fulfilment of the common obligation.

13. Compliments Governor Geary.

14. That the oil-producing, mining, lumbering, and manufacturing interests of the State require protection from the efforts of dangerous combinations, and that such laws should be enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth as will promote said interests, both in their development and the transportation of their products to market.

15. That we are earnestly in favor of the earliest possible removal of the duties on tea and coffee, and urge the prompt passage of the bill for that purpose, now before Congress.

16. Asks popular support for nominees for delegates to constitutional convention.

Democratic, May 30, 1873.

1. That the Democratic party, while in the future, as in the past, firmly upholding the Constitution of the United States as the foundation and limitation of the powers of the General Government and the safe shield of the liberties of the people, demands for the citizen the largest freedom consistent with public order, and for every State the right of self-government; that to uphold the former and protect the latter the Democracy of Pennsylvania can find no better platform upon which to stand than the great leading principles enunciated in the inaugural of President Jefferson and the farewell address of the immortal Jackson. Upon these two great State papers we plant ourselves and enter the contest of 1872.

2. That, abused as the public confidence has been by a long period of official mismanagement, waste, and fraud, this convention invites the cooperation of all citizens of the Commonwealth in the earnest effort which the great constituency it represents is about to make to remove from our State administration every taint of political corruption. The interest of every Pennsylvania^ is directly and vitally concerned in the eradication of all unjust usages and practices by which individual fortunes may be created at public cost, and the attempt to do this can be made certainly successful by the union of upright and fair-minded men of all parties, and by sustaining candidates of unquestioned ability and unspotted reputation.

3. That this convention appeals to the people of Pennsylvania for the support of the candidate for Governor whom it has placed in nomination, because his election will secure at once a correction of existing wrongs and the

permanent future prosperity-of the State. It asks for his support because he has been nom inated not to subserve the views or promote the interests of any section or faction, but to meet the requirements of an urgent and common need; because he fully represents, and his life and character fairly illustrate, the true spirit and principles of popular government; because he has been an earnest, sincere, and efficient opponent of the fraudulent practices and false doctrines of the party that has held power through many long years of misrepresentation and misrule; because he stands pledged by the record of his whole life to administer his office, if elected, for the benefit, and only for the benefit, of the people; because he can be trusted to secure careful, economical, and responsible control of the agents and officials and the treasury of the Commonwealth; because he can be relied on to withstand unfounded and unjust demands to the prejudice of public rights, to oppose with vigor the encroachments of powerful corporations, and energetically resistthe grant to aggregated capital of privileges which could be used to injure, hamper, and impede the efforts of individuals in the various enterprises and fields of labor which the State affords; and because his action in the past is proof that his official influence will be used hereafter to prevent the mischief of special legislation, and to destroy the possibility of procuring the enactment of any statute by the use of money or any other corrupt means.

4 and 5. Eulogize candidates for judge of supreme court, auditor general, Congressmen at large, and delegates to the constitutional convention.

G. Thatthegrant by the Radical Legislature of this State of numerous charters creating such corporations as the South Improvement Company, Continental Improvement Company, and others of similar character, is unjust to the interests of trade, is dangerous to the rights and liberties of the people, and as such meets with our unqualified condemnation.

Labor Reform, May 7, 1813. Adopted the Columbus platform, and then resolved:

1. Absolute purity of the elective franchise as the sacred birthright of every citizen, the only safeguard of liberty, and the security of justice and equal rights to all.

2. The repeal of all partial and unjust legislation, by which corrupt politicians, irresponsible commissioners, and gigantic monopolies have been able to disregard and defy the people and grow rich at their expense.

3. That the present system of assessments, patronage, speculation, and defalcation of public officers in this Commonwealth shall give place to one requiring honesty, capacity, and fidelity, as necessary qualifications for employment as public servants, giving them just compensation in salaries for work done, and requiring the payment of all fees into the public Treasury.

4. An equitable system of taxation, legislative encouragement of cooperative enter

prises among the working people, and laws for the protection of the lives, limbs, and health of all employes on railroads, mines, factories, mills, &c, in Pennsylvania.

5. The question of the tariff and protection having been disposed of by the sixth resolution of the Columbus convention in a manner declared to be satisfactory by the earliest advocates of that policy, we deem it unnecessary for this convention to make any further declaration on the subject.

6. That we pronounce the existence of company stores, better known as the passbook or truck system, which prevails to such a great extent, against the workingmen, and that we demand by legal enactment the abolition of the same immediately.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Republican, February SO, 1873.

Resolved by the Union Republican party of the State of South Carolina in convention assembled, That we indorse the administration of President U. 8. Grant in its wise and successful policy, which has reduced the national debt, while lessening the public taxes, and at the same time preserved full faith with the public creditors.

2. That the profound gratitudeof the Republicans of South Carolina is due to the Republican majority in the Forty-Second Congress for their enactment of the act to enforce the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and to President CJ. S. Grant for his prompt and timely enforcement of that act, whereby 'the armed bands organized and operated by the Democratic party for the suppression of free speech and a free ballot in South Carolina have been themselves suppressed.

3. That while we thus accord a merited indorsement to the man who in peace as in war has deserved the "well done" of the whole country, we respectfully but earnestly remonstrate against the great majority of the Federal appointments that have been made in this State during the past ihree years, whereby ihe Republican party of South Carolina has been wounded in the house of its friends; and we do here express our belief that such appointments of persons not in sympathy with the Republican party of the State or nation is due largely to the misrepresentations of Senator F. A. Sawyer.

4. That the national Republican party having declared in its platform of 1868 in favor of amnesty, we do hereby instruct our delegates to the National Republican convention to move and advocate the adoption of a clause in the national platform in favor of the rigid enforcement of universal civil rights for every American citizen on every inch of American soil, and their full and equal enjoyment of all public privileges.

Democratic, June 18,1873. 1. That this convention recognizes the movement which was organized at Cincinnati in May last as the only one in this crisis calculated to revive individual liberty and restore local self-government.

2. That this convention accepts the Cincinnati platform as broad, liberal, and just to all portions and classes and citizens of the Republic.

3. That the interest of the whole country requires that no separate and distinct Democratic nomination should be made by the Baltimore convention, and the delegates appointed by this body are hereby instructed to oppose such nominations.

TENNESSEE.

Republican, May 15, 1872.

The Republicans of Tennessee, in convention assembled, appeal to the records of the country in exemplification of their principles, namely:

1. The American Union and the suppression of armed rebellion, and the abolition of slavery to maintain it.

2. Civil rights and political privileges for all, with protection to persons and property, and the elective franchise, not only from vindictive action of the Government, but against organizations which seek their ends by violence and other unlawful methods.

3. For those who suffered in our several wars, and the widows and orphans, bounties, pensions, and the payment of just claims for property taken or destroyed by the national Army.

4. The public credit maintained against all attempts to impair it by reducing and, as far as possible, repealing all taxes which fall upon industry, by impartially collecting and honestly applying such as remain; by curtailing expenditures and abolishing unnecessary offices; thus rapidly diminishing the public debt, while the burdens of the people are constantly lightened and the business of the country undisturbed.

5. The rigid accountability of all officials, punishing swiftly and sternly the dishonest, removing the incompetent, and making efficiency and fidelity tests of fitness in preference to political opinions, partisan service, race, color, or nationality.

6. The national honor inviolate, either by unwarranted demands upon other Powers, or by unworthy concessions to them, by menaces to the weak, or by discourtesy from the proud.

7. The interests of labor by free schools, free homes, and an industrial policy, which has doubled the rate of wages and increased the annual production of the country fourfold.

8. Immigrants from all other lands invited and cordially welcomed to the enjoyment of equal rights and privileges with the nativeborn, themselves descended from parents who arrived as emigrants to our shores.

9. Eulogizes President Grant and indorses him for renomination.

10. Proposes Horace Maynard for Vice President.

Democratic, May 9, 'i 872.

1. Indorses the administration of Governor John C. Brown, and renominates him for Governor.

2. Refers to the formation of a State executive committee.

3. That we recognize, among other things, as cardinal points in our political faith, the following:

The preservation of our local State governments against Federal encroachment and centralization of power.

The equality of all men before the law, and an equal participation of all citizens in the rights and benefits of government.

The subordination of the military to the civil authority.

The inviolability of the right of habeas corpus.

The purification of the corrupt civil service of the Government.

A rigid economy in the expenditures of Government* and a faithful compliance with its obligations.

The preservation of the national honor at home and abroad.

The Union of the States, and all the guarantees of the Constitution respected.

And, for the purpose of securing the recognition and faithful application of these principles in the administration of our national Government, we are ready and willing to cooperate with all good citizens in the pendingpresidential contest, without regard to other and minor differences of creed or policy or past political names or associations.

4. That inasmuch as the convention of Liberal Republicans, held at Cincinnati on the first and succeeding days of the present month, has presented to the country the names of Horace Greeley, of New York, and Benjamin Gratz Brown, of Missouri, as candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, pledged to the maintenance and enforcement of the doctrines above enunciated, and have invited the cooperation of all patriotic citizens in their support, we deem it but the part of patriotic duty to declare that in the contest now well-nigh upon us the said nominees deserve the support of every patriot in the land, as against a ticket representing the principles, policy, and practices of the present Federal Administration. And while reaffirming our purpose and desire to preserve the integrity of the Democratic party, we do nevertheless declare in our behalf, and, as we are well satisfied, in behalf of the people we here represent, that in our opinion, with the lights before us, the presentation of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, in the approaching contest, by the Democratic party of the nation, would be unwise, unnecessary, and exceedingly dangerous to the welfare of the people at large.

5. Appoints twenty-two delegates to the National Democratic convention at Baltimore, "with special instructions to carry out the spirit of the foregoing declarations, believing as we do that the election of the ticket presented by the Liberal Republicans, with the cooperation of the northern and southern people, would go far toward a healing of the nation."

6. Refers to nomination of electors.

TEXAS.

Republican, May 14:, 1873.

1. We declare our full fellowship with the national Republican party of the United States, and our unqualified devotion to its principles and to its fortunes.

2. We declare that the grand and fundamental idea of the political-equality of all men and their equal rights before the law is peculiarly Republican, and is not professed by any other party in this nation; that it is the mission of the Republican party to carry this idea into full practical effect, and therefore the Democratic party cannot safely be intrusted with the powers of Government, either national or local.

3. That there are but two political parties in the nation, the Republican and the Democratic; that the nomination of Horace Greeley for the Presidency of the United States was made in the interest of the Democratic party, and that the Republicans of Texas will follow no such lead, but will give their firm and zealous support to the nominees of the convention to assemble at Philadelphia on the 5th of June next.

4. Indorses the administration of President Grant and declares for his renomination.

5. Regards free education of all the children of Texas a sacred duty.

6. Declares emphatically for State internal improvements, but opposes State aid in bonds or money.

7. Indorses Governor E. J. Davis.

8. That we declare our unqualified condemnation of all corruption and peculation on the part of public officials; we will do all that in us lies to promote honest and wise legislation, to secure honest and just administration, and to guard with a jealous care all the interests of all the people.

9. That we will endeavor to give protection to our frontier by every means at our command, and we pledge ourselves to cut down every superfluous expense in the State government, and to reduce taxation to the very least amount compatible with efficient government.

Democratic, June 18, 1873. 1. That we have undiminished confidence in the time-honored principles of the Democracy as embodied in the platform of the Democratic State convention at Austin, January 25, 1871, hereto annexed and made part of this platform, and believe that the welfare and prosperity of the country will never be fully restored till those principles are in the ascendant; but we recognize as an alarming fact that the issues determined in the next presidential election not only concern matters of constitutional construction and expedience, but also involve the far greater and vital question whether we are hereafter to live

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under a government of law or a government of force.

2. That the present Administration has been subversive of constitutional government and free institutions throughout the country, and in the southern States has been a system of lawless spoliation and central tyranny; that its chief, by accepting gifts and bestowing offices in return, by appointing incompetent and unfit relations and personal adherents to positions of profit and trust, and by devoting to unbecoming pleasures and pursuits time that should be given to official duties, has been culpably reckless of the responsibilities and dignity of the high station, has set a bad example to the people, and has violated alike the obligation of good faith and the usages of common decency, and that, encouraged and aided by the party in power, he has attempted to usurp or control legislative and judicial functions, and thus establish a consolidated personal government, destructive of the rights of the States and the liberties of the people.

3. That in view of the threatening pretensions and great power of those now in authority we consider their expulsion from offices of honor or trust to be essential to the people and welfare of the country and to the preservation of constitutional government.

4. That we have seen with profound satisfaction that patriotic movement of the Liberal Republicans lately assembled in convention at Cincinnati, and we fully concur with them in believing that local self-government with impartial suffrage will guard the rights of all citizens more securely than any centralized power. The public welfare requires the supremacy of the civil over the military authority, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus. We demand for the individual the largest liberty consistent with public order, and for the State self government, and for the nation a return to the methods of peace and the constitutional limitation of power. The civil service of the Government has become a mere instrument of partisan tyranny and personal ambition, and an object of selfish greed, and is a scandal and reproach on free institutions, and broods a demoralization dangerous to the perpetuity of republican government. We therefore regard a thorough reform of the civil service as one of the most pressing necessities of the hour; that honesty, capacity, and fidelity constitute the only valid claims to the public employment; that the offices of the Government cease to be a matter of arbitrary favoritism and patronage, and again a post of honor. We demand Federal taxation which shall not necessarily interfere with the industry of the people, which shall provide the means necessary to pay the expenses of the Government, economically administered, pensions, the interest on the public debt, and a moderate reduction annually of the principal thereof.

5. That we recognize the movement of the Liberal Republicans in opposition to the present administration of the General Government in behalf of reform and constitutional