The Convention of the Republican party in the United States
met at Cincinnati on Wednesday, to choose their candidate for the Presidency. There were 756 members, and they adopted a plat- form declaring that the United States form a nation, and not a league ; that a return to specie payments is advisable ; that capa- city should be the passport to office ; that grants of money to sectarian schools should be prohibited by the Constitution ; that Congress should inquire into the moral and political effect of Chinese immigration ; that women's claims to the suffrage should be respectfully considered ; that polygamy ought to be suppressed ; that the Democratic party is unchanged in its worthless character and spirit, and that President Grant has deserved well of the people. There was no division, except on the subject of Chinese immigration, the clause about this being denounced as contrary to the Declaration of Independence. It was, however, retained, by a vote of 532 to 215.
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