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and are a fraud upon the rights of the people. 

 Therefore we demand the immediate calling in and 

 payment of all bonds in absolute paper money, with- 

 out regard to the time they may have to run on 

 their face, and no further issue by the Government 

 of any bonds. 



8. We demand the repeal of the national-bank 

 act,' the immediate withdrawal from circulation of 

 national bank notes, and the substitution therefor 

 of absolute paper currency. 



4. Equal taxation of all property owned by indi- 

 viduals or corporations. 



5. The increasing poverty of the working classes 

 is attributable, in a great part, to the monopoly of 

 the soil, the natural source of wealth, and therefore 

 we demand the adoption of land limitation laws. 



6. That it is the duty of the Legislature of this 

 State to limit the growth of railroad monopoly, and 

 save the citizens from the great abuses in railway 

 transportation that now prevail and make serious 

 inroads upon the business prosperity of all classes 

 of citizens, including the small stockholders of the 

 railways. To this end we recommend the appoint- 

 ment by the Legislature of a Board of Kail way Com- 

 missioners, consisting of men whose business does 

 not identify them with the railroads men of known 

 character and ability to investigate and ascertain 

 the actual cost of rail transportation, to the end that 

 proper legislation may be had for the control of the 

 railways by the State. 



7. We favor a protective tariff, prohibiting the im- 

 portation of all manufactured articles of which the 

 raw material is produced and the labor to manufac- 

 ture the same is found in this country ; all articles 

 which we do not or can not produce to be admitted 

 free. 



8. We demand the establishment of a labor bureau, 

 for the purpose of obtaining reliable statistics to form 

 a basis for intelligent legislation on labor questions, 

 espscially with regard to the hours of labor, which 

 should be reduced in proportion as_the use of ma- 

 chinery increases, and in conformity with other 

 causes which throw workers out of employment. 



9. We demand the abolition of the system of let- 

 ting out by contract the labor of convicts in our 

 prisons and reformatory institutions. 



10. An income tax, based upon a constitutional 

 limitation, and graduating upward, but leaving un- 

 touched all incomes under $1,000. 



11. We demand that the salaries of all officers of 

 our State, counties, and cities, who receive more 

 than $1,000 per annum, be reduced one half for all 

 salaries above that amount. 



12. That we recommend a wise and judicious sys- 

 tem of internal improvements. 



13. We demand a thorough reform in the system 

 of public-school education, so as to establish agricul- 

 tural, mechanical, and commercial schools, in addi- 

 tion to the common schools ; to prevent other schools 

 being established or sustained out of the public- 

 school funds, or said funds being used for other 

 than school purposes; to prevent the oft-repeated 

 changes and the monopoly of the sale of text-books 

 being forced upon the people ; as well as other mea- 

 sures which will insure a good common-school edu- 

 cation for the poorest in our State at the least ex- 

 pensa. 



14. As political suffrage is a primitive element in 

 the construction of law, we demand that any person 

 or organization of persons who may be convicted of 

 trafficking in votes, or in any manner, directly or 

 indirectly, designedly interfering with such rights, 

 shall be incapacitated for voting and for holding any 

 official position in the United States. 



15. We are opposed to the importation of servile 

 Chinese labor, to come into competition with the 

 honest labor of this country. 



The Republican State Convention assembled 

 at Saratoga on September 26th. The nomina- 



tion was George F. Danforth, of Rochester, for 

 Judge of the Court of Appeals, that being the 

 only State officer to be chosen by a general 

 election in this year. The following platform 

 was adopted : 



The Republicans of New York, appealing to twenty 

 years of struggles and triumphs as a proof of Repub- 

 lican patriotism and fidelity, and meeting the high 

 demands of the hour in the same unfaltering spirit 

 which saved the Union, and established it on a firm 

 foundation of freedom, make the following decla- 

 ration : 



1. The faith of the nation is sacredly pledged to 

 the payment of the public debt and the redemption 

 of the public promises, according to the spirit and 

 letter of the engagement, and our good name and 

 well-being require that the nation's honor shall be 

 kept as inviolate as the nation's life. 



2. Under the management of succeeding Republi- 

 can administrations, the country has advanced to 

 the point of specie resumption, and the highest in- 

 terests of business, no less than the plighted faith 

 of the republic, demand that there shall be no step 

 backward and no postponement. With this steady 

 progress we hail the auspicious signs of reviving 

 trade and industry, and congratulate the people upon 

 this practical evidence that, if the good work shall 

 be completed, the depression which grew out of the 

 financial disorders forced upon us by the war of the 

 rebellion will give place to the returning confidence 

 and permanent prosperity which can rest alone on 

 the fixed monetary standard of the commercial world, 

 on settled values and full security and certainty for 

 the future. 



3. Standing unalterably for the constitutional prin- 

 ciples of hard money, we insist that the greenback, 

 instead of being dishonored and depreciated, shall 

 be made as good as honest coin ; that the laborer's 

 dollar shall mean a real dollar ; that fluctuations and 

 uncertainties, which rob toil and paralyze trade, shall 

 cease ; that our currency shall be made the best cur- 

 rency, by_ making all parts of it, whether paper or 

 coin, equivalent, convertible, secure, and steady, and 

 all public servants whatever, executive officers, Sen- 

 ators, or Representatives, whose acts or votes conduce 

 to this high object, deserve our approbation. 



4. The Electoral Commission was a wise and hon- 

 orable mode of settling a dangerous dispute. All 

 parties were bound to abide its decision, and any 

 attempt to undo or impair the conclusion it estab- 

 lished is unpatriotic and revolutionary. 



5. While sincerely seeking fraternal relations in 

 all just efforts and aspirations, we summon the people 

 to renewed vigilance and unflinching warfare against 

 the vast horde of claims and raids on the Treasury, 

 which count for success on Democratic rule, under 

 the mastery of a solid South, and which would fall 

 with special hardship on New York, as the chief tax- 

 paying State in the Union. 



6. We demand full and unintimidated elections 

 in the South, as in the North, and full recognition 

 and observance of the equal rights and liberty of all 

 citizens, as ordained by the amended Constitution ; 

 and until they shall be secured, the work of the Re- 

 publican party, to protect human rights, will be un- 

 finished. 



7. We renew our declarations for the elevation of 

 the public service on the basis of a secure tenure 

 during the faithful performance of official duties, for 

 a fixed term, for the pure, frugal, and efficient admin- 

 istration of national, State, and local affairs, for un- 

 yielding resistance to any further land grant or sub- 

 sidies to corporations or monopolies, for grateful 

 recognition of the brave soldiers and sailors of the 

 republic, and for common schools free from secta- 

 rian influence and unmenaced by sectarian appro- 

 priations. 



8. While recognizing with satisfaction that many 

 patriotic Democrats do not share its spirit and im- 



