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universally recognized and cheerfully obeyed, the 

 work of the Republican party is unfinished, and the 

 Republican party of Kansas will stand by its colors 

 ana fight the good fight to the end. 



8. The permanent pacification of Southern sections 

 of the Union, and complete protection of all citizens 

 in the free enjoyment of all their rights, is a duty to 

 which the Republican party stands sacredly pledged. 

 The power to provide for an enforcement of the 

 principles embodied in recent constitutional amend- 

 ments is vested by those amendments in the Con- 

 gress of the United States ; and we declare it to be 

 the solemn obligation of the legislative and execu- 

 tive departments of the Government to put in imme- 

 diate and vigorous exercise all their constitutional 

 power for removing any just causes of discontent on 

 the part of any class, and for securing to every 

 American citizen complete liberty, and exact equali- 

 ty in the exercise of all civil, political, and public 

 rights. To this end, we imperatively demand of 

 Congress, and of the Chief Executive, a courage and 

 fidelity to these duties which shall not falter until 

 the results are placed beyond dispute or recall. 



4. The public credit should be sacredly main- 

 tained, and all the obligations honestly discharged ; 

 and we denounce the issue of an irredeemable " ab- 

 solute money," legal-tender scrip, as a species of 

 repudiation, which would ruin the credit of the na- 

 tion and the business interests of the country. 



5. That experience has shown the greenback cur- 

 rency (the creation of the Republican party, and un- 

 der whose fostering care it has been brought to a 

 par with coin) to be admirably adapted to the wants 

 of trade ; and to the end that there may be but one 

 class of paper currency, we favor the withdrawal of 

 the national-bank notes, substituting therefor green- 

 back currency, issued directly by the Government, 

 as the sole paper currency of the country. And we 

 demand that it be issued in sufficient volume to fully 

 meet the wants of business without depreciating its 

 value, and that it shall be received in payment of all 

 debts and dues, public and private, except as other- 

 wise specified by contract ; that we are in favor of 

 an honest greenback, that shall always be worth its 

 face in coin, and that it be issued in the largest vol- 

 ume that can ba kept afloat at par with coin, to 

 which end we favor a law of Congress by which the 

 volume of greenback currency in circulation shall 

 always obey the natural law of supply and demand. 



6. That as we believe a double coin standard of 

 values is preferable to a single standard, we are in 

 favor of placing the coinage of gold and silver on an 

 equality, giving to neither an advantage or prefer- 

 ence. 



7. That we heartily endorse and approve of the 

 late decision of the Secretary of the Interior, restor- 

 ing to market lands unsold by certain land-grant 

 railways, as a wise and just interpretation of the 

 laws relating to land grants ; and if any further le- 

 gislation is necessary to confirm and ratify the same, 

 we urgs our Congressional delegation to do all in 

 their power to secure this. 



8. That railways are the creatures and exist by 

 the breath of legislative enactment ; that as servants 

 of the people they should be compelled to do their 

 bidding, and obey the wholesome requirements and 

 restrictions of the law ; and we demand of the Le- 

 gislature the establishment of such passenger and 

 freight tariffs as shall advance the interests and pro- 

 mote the industries of the people. 



9. That the investment of capital_ in this State 

 should be encouraged by wise and liberal legisla- 

 tion ; but we condemn the policy of granting subsi- 

 dies at the public expense to either individuals or 

 corporations for their private use. 



10. That we demand the most rigid economy in 

 all departments of the Government, and that taxa- 

 tion be limited to the actual wants of public expen- 

 ditures. 



11. That we hold it to be a solemn obligation of 



the electors of Kansas to bo earnest in securing the 

 election to all positions of public trust of men _of 

 honesty and conscience, who will faithfully admin- 

 ister the laws ; to the Legislature, men who will rep- 

 resent upon all questions the best sentiment of the 

 people, and who will labor earnestly for the enact- 

 ment of such laws as the bust interest of society, 

 temperance, arid good order shall demand. 



12. That we rejoice in the honorable name of 

 Kansas ; that we are proud of the State's achieve- 

 ments, of the degree of purity with which its public 

 affairs have been conducted, and of the soundness of 

 its credit at home and abroad ; and we pledge to do 

 whatever may be done to preserve unsullied the repu- 

 tation of the State. 



The Democratic State Convention assembled 

 at Leavenworth on September 4th, and was 

 organized by tbe appointment of Thomas P. 

 Fenton as President. Tbe following nomina- 

 tions were made: for Governor, John R. 

 Godin; Lieutenant-Governor, George Umme- 

 thum ; Secretary of State, G. W. Barton ; 

 Treasurer, 0. 0. Black ; Attorney-General, J. 

 T. Cox ; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, O. F. McKein ; Chief Justice of Supreme 

 Court, R. M. Ruggles; Auditor, Osbun Shan- 

 non. The following platform was adopted: 



1. That the induction of Rutherford B. Hayes 

 into the office of President, notwithstanding the 

 election of Samuel J. Tilden thereto, was a high 

 crime against free government, which has not been 

 condoned and will not be forgotten. The same 

 spirit of patriotism which forbore contest upon the 

 first offense will resist and punish any attempt at a 

 second. 



2. That the declaration to reform the civil service 

 which has been proclaimed by the present Adminis- 

 tration, is, like its adopted Southern policy, a con- 

 fession of the failure of radicalism, and a just tribute 

 to Democracy, which has long and earnestly de- 

 manded the overthrow and punishment of corrupt 

 officials. 



3. A cheerful obedience to, and the rigid enforce- 

 ment of, the forms of law, are inseparable from a 

 stable condition of society and due protection of 

 private rights. 



4. That we accept the admonition of Jackson in 

 saying, concerning standing armies as dangerous to 

 free government in time of peace, "I shall not seek 

 to enlarge our present establishment, nor disregard 

 the salutary lesson of political experience, which 

 teaches that military should be held subordinate to 

 civil power." Accordingly the increase of the Fed- 

 eral army, or any attempt to employ it as a partisan 

 agent of Federal authority, or for interference with 

 the sovereign rights of States, will receive the con- 

 tinued earnest opposition of the Democracy of this 

 State. 



5. That the enforced idleness of hundreds of thour 

 sands of heretofore industrious, honest, and patri- 

 otic laboring men, and the threatened spread of a 

 dangerous spirit of communism in this country, is 

 the legitimate outgrowth of the vicious financial 

 legislation of the Republican party, 



6. That as Congress has sole power to coin money 

 and regulate the value thereof under the Constitu- 

 tion, it should also exercise the sole power to provide 

 a paper currency to be used as money ; that such 

 money be issued in sufficient volume for the conve- 

 nient transaction of business at all times, and stimu- 

 late enterprise, secure a fair recompense to labor and 

 its products, and promote a due development of the 

 vast agricultural, material, and mechanical resources 

 of the country. 



7. That we favor the unconditional repeal of the 

 resumption act of 1875, the full remonetization of 



