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NEBRASKA. 



period now fixed by law, and that resumption be as 

 soon as the needs of the country will admit. We 

 demand the liberation of coin in the Treasury; the 

 removal of all restrictions to the coinage of silver 

 and the reestablishment of silver as money metal 

 the same as gold, as it was before its fraudulent de- 

 monetization. The limit of either gold or silver to 

 be determined by the demand for it ; the gradual 

 substitution of United States legal-tender paper for 

 national-bank notes, and its permanent establish- 

 meut as the sole paper money of the country, made 

 equal tender with coin for all dues to the Govern- 

 ment ; the amount of such issue to be so regulated, 

 by legislation or organic law, as to give the people 

 the assurance of stability in volume and value ; the 

 immediate repeal of the national banking act ; no 

 further issue of interest-bearing bonds ; no further 

 sale of bonds for the purchase of coin for resump- 

 tion purposes ; but a gradual extinction of the pub- 

 lic debt. Our warmest sympathy is extended to the 

 laboring classes, who have been thrown out of, or 

 crippled in, their employment by the ruinous financial 

 policy or unjust legislation of the Eepublican party, 

 and we pledge the Democratic party to the reversal 

 of that policy and to the restoration of all rights 

 thus wrongfully wrested from them, upon its as- 

 cendancy to power. 



We deprecate the employment of organized forces 

 in this country, except to execute the law and main- 

 tain public peace. No violence should be counte- 

 nanced to obtain redress for any alleged grievance, 

 but should be repressed at any cost and redress 

 sought and secured by legal methods. 



The Republican Convention opened at Lin- 

 coln on tl:e 2d of October, and continued in 

 session two days. The following nominations 

 were made : For Supreme Judge, Amasa Cobb ; 

 for Congress (long term), E. K. Valentine; 

 for Congress (short term), Colonel Thomas J. 

 Majors; for Governor, Albinus Nance; for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, E. 0. Carnes; for Sec- 

 retary of State, S. J. Alexander ; for Audi- 

 tor, L. Liedtk ; for Treasurer, G. M. Bartlett ; 

 for Superintendent of Public Instruction, R. 

 Thompson ; for Attorney- General, General J. C. 

 Dilworth ; for Commissioner of Public Lands, 

 F. W. Davis. The following platform was 

 adopted : 



The Republicans of Nebraska in reaffirming the 

 principles that carried the nation successfullythrough 

 the crisis of rebellion, the dangers of reconstruction, 

 and the readjustment of social and business elements 

 of the people, and making the issue of the hour in 

 the same unfaltering spirit with which they con- 

 fronted the grave problems that met them upon the 

 threshold of their power, declare 



1. Elections shall be free in the South as in the 

 'rth.the equal rights of all citizens ordained by the 



amended Constitution shall be guaranteed, and it 

 shall not be dangerous to the life or limb of a citizen 

 o hold and express an opinion and to vote as he 

 please?. 



2. The public service shall be elevated on a basis 

 of a rm re economical and efficient administration of 



aira, the tenure of an office to be secure for the 



y^Tr r , reRcr , lbed in the commission or during the 



thful performance of the dutiep. The rights and 



ivilefire* of an official, as a sovereign citizen of the 



bhc, 8hou Id not be interfered with so long as 



they are excrc.sed without neglect of his duties.* 



rely seeking fraternal relations with the 



& S^ on ' we Rummo " tfce people to 



t ha MhSTm Unflincmn K Wflrf are against the demand 



that the damages Buaia.ned by the people of these 



LHCfESn ?i f v he provoke<f war waged 

 against the Union shall be paid out of the national 



Treasury, and the raids of the solid South, in antici- 

 pation of Democratic control of the national purse, 

 must be met with the same unfaltering spirit of re- 

 sistance which foiled the attempt to take possession 

 of our public property with armed hand. 



4. The authority conferred upon Congress by the 

 Constitution to regulate inter-State commerce, and 

 the authority reserved to the several States in their 

 domestic aifairs, is amply sufficient to afford the rem- 

 edy against the growing impressions of powerful cor- 

 porations, and the rights of the people should be 

 zealously guarded against extensions and anarchy 

 on the part of corporations and their combination of 

 massed capital, by adequate State and national legis- 

 lation. 



5. The faith of the nation shall be sacred, and its 

 contracts shall be redeemed in spirit and in letter, 

 and the nation's honor shall be held as inviolate as 

 the nation's life. 



6. We hail the auspicious signs of reviving trade 

 and industry, and congratulate the people upon this 

 practical evidence that the depression which grew 

 out of the financial disorders forced upon us by the 

 rebellion is giving place to returning confidence and 

 permanent prosperity which can rest alone on a fixed 

 monetary standard, settled values, and full security 

 and certainty for the future. 



7. The greenback shall not be dishonored or de- 

 based, but shall be made as good and honest as coin. 

 The laborer's dollar shall mean a real dollar ; the 

 uncertainty of its value, which robs toil and para- 

 lyzes trade, shall cease, and our currency shall be the 

 best currency, because, whether paper or coin, it 

 shall be equal, convertible, secure, and steady. 



8. The demonetization of silver worked a fraud 

 upon the people by crippling the nation's sources 

 of paying its debts. The act restoring its legal-ten- 

 der character and providing for the coinage of stand- 

 ard silver dollars was timely and just, but its coin- 

 age should be free, and the thirty million trade-dol- 

 lars now in circulation should be made legal tender. 



9. The record of the Democratic party in its recent 

 attempt to steal the Presidency by violence, intimi- 

 dation, and murder during the campaign, at the polls 

 by the stuffing of ballot-boxes, falsifying returns, and 

 obstructing the canvassing of votes, by bribery of 

 electors, and by pretended returns from false *and 

 fraudulent electors, followed by the device of an ex- 

 tra-constitutional method of canvassing the electoral 

 votes, its repudiation of its own pffs'pring, the elec- 

 toral commission, as soon as it failed to carry out its 

 partisan designs ; its plot to precipitate anarchy and 

 revolution by filibustering in the House of Eepre- 

 sentatives until the expiration of the constitutional 

 time in which the electoral canvass could be com- 

 pleted, and the corrupt bargain which it attempts to 

 prove it made as a condition or precedent to the aban- 

 donment of the conspiracy, illustrates the spirit of the 

 so-called Democracy, being subversive of the Con- 

 stitution, destructive of law and order, and in con- 

 tempt of public honor and decency. We arraign this 

 party as a constant disturber of public tranquillity 

 and as a wanton foe of public security, in its persist- 

 ent assaults upon the authority and* stability of its 

 established Government ; as fa'lse to the nation in 

 crippling its army ; as an active agent of uncertainty 

 and danger, equally false in its pretenses of claiming 

 for the Democratic House a reduction in public expen- 

 ditures to be replaced by deficiency bills ; as depend- 

 ent upon a solid South, and thereby subservient to its 

 demands as joining hands with the miscalled Green- 

 back Work and Labor party to repudiate the nation- 

 al obligations, and to support its wild schemes of 

 inflation with fiat money, and its further or greater 

 success would be a national calamity. 



10. We earnestly protest against the proposition 

 to withdraw the public lands west of the 100th me- 

 ridian from settlement, the homestead preemption 

 and timber culture, and we demand that as soon as 

 practicable the Indians now within our borders be 



