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a right which ought not to be exercised by any State 

 or corporation. 



9. That no further contraction of the volume of 

 legal-tender Treasury notes ought to be allowed, and 

 they should be received for customs, taxes, and pub- 

 lic dues as well as private debts, and reissued as fust 

 as received. 



10. That the national-bank notes should be re- 

 tired, and instead thereof there should be issued by 

 the Government an equal amount of Treasury notes. 



11. That subsidies in money, bonds, lands, or 

 credit ought not to be granted by the Federal Gov- 

 ernment. 



12. That the bankrupt law ought to be immediate- 

 ly repealed. 



13. That the courts should be brought as close to 

 the homes of litigants as economy in government 

 will justify, and that, therefore, the judicial power 

 of the United States should be so regulated as to 

 prevent, in controversies between citizens of differ- 

 ent States, the transfer of cases from the State to the 

 inferior Federal courts, which are so far removed 

 from the people as to make justice therein inconve- 

 nient, expensive, and tardy ; and, further, that not 

 less than five thousand dollars should be fixed as 

 the minimum jurisdiction of such courts in such con- 

 troversies. 



14. That the appointment by Federal courts of re- 

 ceivers of corporations who resist the payment of 

 taxes, disregard the rights of the citizen, and turn 

 the earnings of the corporations into foreign chan- 

 nels, is an evil which ought to be corrected by law ; 

 and Congress ought to enact such laws as will pro- 

 hibit such evils and prevent the interference by Fed- 

 eral courts with collection of State, county, and mu- 

 nicipal taxes by the appointment of receivers, grant- 

 ing injunctions, or other procedure. 



15. That the wages of employees of corporations 

 engaged in mining, manufacturing, and transporta- 

 tion should be made a first lien upon the property, 

 receipts, and earnings of said corporations, and that 

 said lien should be declared, denned, and enforced 

 by appropriate legislation. 



16. That the system of leasing convict labor ought 

 to be immediately abolished by the Legislature, and 

 some measure adopted to protect the manufacturers, 

 mechanics, and laborers from unjust competition 

 with the convict labor of other States. 



Resolved, That the contract recently made by the 

 Commissioners of the Penitentiary at Joliet, with the 

 Commissioners of the Eastern Insane Asylum, to 

 build and complete that asylum, is without the au- 

 thority of law ; and the act of the Penitentiary Com- 

 missioners in subletting the entire work is a like 

 violation of law and a flagrant wrong to the mechan- 

 ics and workingmen of this State; and the Attorney- 

 General is hereby requested to take immediate steps 

 to have such contract annulled, and to compel the 

 letting of the work according to the statute. 



Resolved, That the acts of the leaders of the Repub- 

 lican party, in defeating the choice of the people for 

 President and Vice-President, is the monster politi- 

 cal crime of the age a crime against free government 

 and the elective franchise which can only be con- 

 doned when the criminals are driven from power and 

 consigned to infamy by the people whom they have 

 outraged. And we denounce the act of the President 

 in appointing to high office the corrupt members of 

 the Returning Board as a reward for their infamous 

 conduct, and we condemn the officers of the Federal 

 Government who have attempted to interfere with 

 the administration of justice in the courts of Louis- 

 iana. 



Resolved, That it is the duty of our Legislature to 

 enact laws for the protection of depositors in savings 

 and all other banks, and for the incarceration of de- 

 faulting bank officers. 



The Republican Convention assembled at 

 Springfield on June 26th, and organized by the 

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appointment of Charles E. Lippincott for Pres- 

 ident. John C. Smith was nominated for State 

 Treasurer, and James P. Slade for Superinten- 

 dent of Public Instruction. The following plat- 

 form was adopted : 



The delegated representatives of the Republican 

 party of the State of Illinois, in convention assem- 

 bled, do hereby declare 



1. Our unfaltering faith in the principles and pa- 

 triotism of the Republican party, State and national, 

 and in its permanent fitness and ability over all oth- 

 er parties to administer the government of both the 

 State and nation wisely and successfully. 



2. That the Democratic party, being largely com- 

 posed of recent rebels and their sympathizers, can 

 not be_safely intrusted with the administration of 

 the affairs of the Government ; that the partial success 

 of that party in Congress, as well as in several of 

 the States, only shows its grossly partisan character, 

 and general incapacity and lack of honor and patri- 

 otism. 



3. For the financial system created by the Repub- 

 lican party during the war, and in epite of the vio- 

 lent opposition of the Democratic party, we express 

 our unqualified admiration. By its provisions the 

 people have been supplied with a larger amount of 

 paper currency, safer andmore uniform in value, than 

 they have ever before enjoyed. The credit of the 

 nation has steadily improved, while both the prin- 

 cipal and interest of the public debt as well as the 

 burdens of national taxation have been steadily di- 

 minished. Such results can only be produced by 

 honesty, economy, and wisdom in the management 

 of financial affairs. 



4. We are also opposed to any further contraction 

 of the greenback currency, and are in favor of such 

 currency as can be maintained at par with and con- 

 vertible into coin at the will of the holder. We are 

 in favor of such currency being received for import 

 duties, and we deprecate the defeat of the recent bill 

 for that purpose by the Democratic House of Rep- 

 resentatives. 



5. The permanent pacification of the Southern por- 

 tion of the Union, and the complete protection of all 

 its citizens in all their civil, political, personal, nnd 

 property rights, is a duty to which the party stands 

 sacredly pledged. In order to redeem this pledge 

 it placed the recent amendments in the Constitution 

 of the United States, and upon the righteous basis of 

 said amendments it will go forward in the work of pa- 

 cification until peace shall come through right doing 

 and contentment through justice. 



6. That the criminal code should be amended for 

 the protection of depositors in savings banks by 

 providing for the punishment of dishonest bank 

 managers. 



7. And finally, 2k it resolved, We believe that those 

 who preserved the country should govern it, instead 

 of those who attempted to destroy it. 



The election for State officers and members 

 of the Legislature is held on the same day as 

 the election for members of Congress. In 18V8 

 the day of the general election was November 

 5th. The election for Governor takes place in 

 this State once in four years. The present in- 

 cumbent, Shelby M. Cullom, wss elected in 

 November, 1876. The next election for Gov- 

 ernor will be in 1880. 



The proposition for the amendment of the 

 State Constitution above mentioned received 

 295,960 votes, to 6,008 cast against it, out of a 

 total vote of 448,796. 



The vote for Representatives in Congress 

 was as follows : 



