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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



lowing declaration of principles as the basis of our 

 political action : 



1. Public officials to be held strictly accountable 

 as the servants of the people, honesty and capacity 

 being the only tests for official position. 



2. No congressional usurpation, no Executive dic- 

 tation, no military intimidation. The people of each 

 State to regulate their own domestic affairs in their 

 own way, subject only to the Constitution of the 

 United States. 



3. Economical administration and an honest cur- 

 rency the only assurance of national prosperity ; 

 no more financial shams in congressional legislation. 

 Specie payments are the demands of the people. 



4. A tariff for revenue, no tax upon the masses for 

 the aggrandizement of the few. 



5. Free speech and a free press, and religious tol- 

 eration and freedom in all things not inconsistent 

 with the public good. 



6. Eotation of office essential to the preservation 

 of republican institutions ; no third presidential 

 term. 



7. The public lands and the public funds the prop- 

 erty of the whole people ; no more subsidies in land 

 or money for the benefit of individuals or corpora- 

 tions at the expense of the people. 



8. Equal and exact justice to all ; protection for 

 the people against any and all encroachments of 

 corporate power and capital ; protection for corpora- 

 tions in all their chartered rights. 



9. Honest legislation in State and nation the only 

 safeguard of popular liberty ; the lobby the worst 

 enemy of free government. 



10. Prohibition fails to suppress intemperance. 

 A stringent license law, fairly enforced, is the only 

 remedy for that growing evil. 



11. Besolved, That the present Federal Adminis- 

 tration, backed by the radical majority in Congress, 

 by its persistent violation of the constitutional 

 rights of the States and the people, and especially 

 by its interference in the governmental affairs of the 

 State of Louisiana to defeat the will of the people 

 and uphold a corrupt and usurping government, 

 and by the constant prostitution of all its powers to 

 promote the base purposes of self-aggrandizement 

 and partisan supremacy, has merited, as it has re- 

 ceived, the emphatic condemnation of the people. 



12. Resolved, That we have implicit confidence in 

 the honesty, the capacity, and the democracy of the 

 candidates this day nominated, and that we will 

 spare no honest means to secure their triumphant 

 election at the polls. 



The Republicans of New Hampshire assem- 

 bled in State Convention at Concord on the 

 12th of January, 1875. The delegates present 

 were almost as numerous as at the Democratic 

 Convention. 



For the office of Governor, Person C. Che- 

 ney, of Manchester, received 392 votes, and 

 was declared the nominee of the convention. 



For the office of Railroad Commissioner, 

 Charles H. Powers, of Jaffrey, received 242 

 votes, and was declared nominated. 



The following platform was then reported 

 from the Committee on Resolutions, and adopt- 

 ed by the convention : 



The Eepublicans of New Hampshire, in annual 

 convention assembled, hereby pledge their fealty to 

 the following platform of principles and declara- 

 tions : 



1. Equal civil rights and a free and honest ballot 

 .for all citizens, under the Constitution and the laws. 



2. Uncompromising hostility to all forms of official 

 venality and corruption. 



3. The lowest rate of taxation compatible with a 

 gradual payment of the public debt, and a rigidly 



honest, economical, and efficient administration of 

 all branches of the State and national Governments. 



4. Unalterable opposition to the election of any 

 man to the presidency of the United States for a 

 third term. 



5. Congratulations and thanks to those Eepubli- 

 cans who, in the recent elections, secured the defeat 

 of salary-grabbers and corruptionists, who had 

 brought reproach upon the country and disgrace to 

 themselves. 



6. A State policy that shall encourage home en- 

 terprise, industry, and temperance, improve and 

 spread the advantages of free education, and secure 

 good wages and steady employment to labor, and a 

 fair return to capital. 



7. A financial policy based on free banking and 

 the earliest possible resumption of specie payments, 

 inasmuch as such resumption affords the only safe 

 and permanent remedy for the present financial de- 

 pression ; and we heartily and entirely concur with 

 the views on this subject expressed by the President 

 in his late message, and so cogently elaborated in the 

 accompanying report of the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury. 



8. Prompt and unyielding denial by Congress of 

 all applications for subsidies in aid of any scheme of 

 individual or corporate aggrandizement. 



9. We earnestly desire the same peace, protec- 

 tion, and prosperity for the people of the South that 

 we ourselves enjoy, and we condemn all rapacity and 

 mal-administration on the part of any Eepub'lican 

 officials, whether white or black, and all lawlessness 

 and intimidation on the part of White-Leaguers or 

 white employers. "Let us have peace;" and we 

 call on Congress to give peace and a republican 

 form of government to Louisiana without further 

 delay. 



10. While we condemn the use of the military 

 power of the nation for any purpose not clearly de- 

 fined in the Constitution, we denounce the armed 

 political organizations in some of the Southern States 

 as the chief source of all their troubles ; and particu- 

 larly in Louisiana, where they have seized the arms 

 of the State, overturned the existing government, 

 and foully murdered thousands of innocent citizens. 



11. In declaring for equal rights and specie pay- 

 ments in their platform, and in opposing the en- 

 actment of laws to secure equal rights and fix a date 

 for resumption, we have renewed proof of the chronic 

 tendency of the Democratic party to promise one 

 thing and do another. 



12. We arraign the Democratic and dominant 

 party of this State as guilty of the following acts and 

 misdemeanors, in reckless disregard of the fame, dig- 

 nity, and welfare of the State : 



It has shown a greed for office and a spirit of pro- 

 scription that proved the insincerity of its decla- 

 ration that honesty and capacity should be the sole 

 tests for official position ; 



It has rearranged the councilor and senatorial dis- 

 tricts of the State for partisan purposes, in absolute 

 disregard of the spirit and letter of the requirements 

 of the Constitution ; 



It has Gerrymandered the cities of the State, and 

 arbitrarily ejected duly-elected officials from office, 

 and conferred their duties upon partisans of its own 

 appointment ; 



It has legislated 'out of office all the higher as well 

 as nearly all the inferior judicial officers of the State ; 



It has discouraged the cause of education by abol- 

 ishing teachers' institutes, disfranchising students, 

 and introducing a partisan removal from and anoint- 

 ment to the office of State Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction ; 



It has refused to enact a wholesome and needed 

 law to secure greater purity at elections, and prevent 

 bribery and corruption ; 



It has openly professed to the people a purpose to 

 promote the cause of temperance in the State, and 

 at the same time has secretly sought and obtained 



