the repeal of the resumption act, and also the repeal of the national bank act, and the direct issue by the government of currency, receivable for all public dues, sufficient to supply the place of the present bank note circulation. Also favored reducing the tariff to a strictly revenue standard, and declared "that the interests of the great mass of people of the United States lie in the paths of unrestricted commerce." Also favored restriction of Mongolian immigration, and a subsidy for the Portland, Salt Lake and South Pass Railroad and the railroad to California, and an extenson of time to the Northern Pacific Railroad to build under reasonable conditions.
At the election in 1878 the following state officers were elected:
Governor, W. W. Thayer, democrat; secretary of state, R. P. Earhart, republican; state treasurer, Edward Hirsch, republican; state printer, William B. Carter, republican; superintendent of public instruction, L. J. Powell, republican; judge of supreme court, James K. Kelly, democrat; circuit judge, P. P. Prim, democrat; district attorneys, J. R. Neil, democrat; S. H. Hazard, democrat; J. J. Whitney, democrat; J. F. Caples, republican; L. B. Ison, democrat.
The legislature chosen was democratic, and organized with John Whiteaker as president of the senate and John M. Thompson as speaker of the house, and by a vote of forty-eight to forty, scattering, elected James H. Slater United States Senator for six years from March 4, 1879, to succeed John H. Mitchell.
In 1879 W. B. Carter, State Printer, died and W. P. Ready was appointed by the governor to fill the vacancy until the next general election.
In 1880 the republican state platform resolved in favor of a protective tariff. On the money question its declaration was somewhat notable, reading as follows:
