Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-06-16
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
A Ringing and Patriotic Declaration OF
Principles.
Hurrah For Protection. For Honest Mon
ey, and For the Gieat Record of
President Harrison

glorious chapter of history is the record
of the Republican party, congratulate
their country men on the majectic march
of the nation under the banners incrib
ed with the principles of our platform
of 1888, vindicated by victory at the
polls and prosperity in our fields. work
shops and mines, and make the follow
ing declaration of principles.
We reaffirm the American doctrine OF
protection. We call attention to its
growth abroad. We maintain that the
prosperous condition of our country is
largely due to the wise revenue legisla
tion of the Republican Congress. We
believe that all articles which cannot be
produced in the United States, except
| luxuries, should be admitted free of du-
ty, and that all imports coming into
competitsion with the product of Amer
lean labor, there should be levied duties
equal to the difference between wages
abroad and at home. We assert that
the prices of manufactured articles OF
general consumption have been reduced
under the operations of the tariff act OF
| 1890.
| We denounce the efforts of the Demo
cratic majority of the House of Repre-
sentatives to destroy our tariff laws by
piecemeal, as is manifested by their at
tacks upon wool, lead and lead ores, the
chief products of number of States,
and we ask the people for their judg-
ment thereon.
We point to the success of the Re-
4 Of
which our export trade has vastly in
creased and new and enlarged markets
have been opened for the products of
our farms and workshops. We remind
the people of the bitter opposition of
the Democratic party to this practical
business measure, and claim that exc
cuted by Republican administration
our present laws will eventually give US
control of the trade of the world.
The American people from tradition
and interest favor bi-metallism and the
Republican party demands the use of
both gold and silver as standard money,
with such restrictions and under such
provisions, to be determined by legisla-
ton, as will secure the maintenance of
the party of values of the two metal, so
that the purchasing and debt-paying
power of the dollar, whether of silver,
gold or paper, shall be at all times equal.
The interests of the producers of the
country, its farmers and its workingmen,
demand that every dollar, paper or coin,
issued by the government, shall be as
good as any other. We commend the
wise and patriotic steps already taken
by our government to secure an inter
national conference to adopt such meas
ures as will insure a parity of value be-
tween gold and silver for use as money
throughout the world.
We demand that every citizen of the
United States shall be allowed to cast
one free and unrestricted ballot in all
public elections, and that such ballot
shall be counted as cast; that such laws
shall be enacted and enforced as will
secure to every citizen, be he rich or
poor, native or foreign born, white or
black, this sovereign right guaranteed
by the Constitution. The free and honest
popular ballot, the just and equal repre-
sentatlon of all the people as well as
their just and equal protection under the
laws, are the foundation of our Repub- |
lican institutions and the party will
never relent in its efforts until the in
tegrity of the ballot and the purity of |
elections shall be fully guaranteed and
protected in every State.
We denounce the continued inhuman |
outrages perpetrated upon the American |
citizens for political reasons in certain |
Southern States of the Union.
w favor the extension of our foreign |
the restoration of our mer-
camille marine by home built ships, and |
the creation of navy for the protection
of our national interests and the honor |
of our flag, the maintenance of the most
friendly relations with all foreign powers,
alliances with none, and the
protection of the rights of our fishermen.
We reaffirm our approval of the
Mon. oe doctrine, and we believe in the
achievement of the manifest destiny of
the Republic in its broadest sense.
We favor the enactment of more strin-
gent laws and regulations for the re
friction of criminal auper and contract
|
yress to protect the life and limbs of
employees of transportation companies
engaged in carrying on interstate com
nerce, and recommend by the respective
states action that will protect employees
engaged in State commerce, in mining
md manufacturing.
The Republican party has always been
he champion of the oppressed and rec
'gnized dignity of manhood irrespective
# faith, color or nationality; it sympa-
hiZes with the cause of home rule in
reland, and protests against the prose-
ution of the Jews in Russia.
The ultimate reliance of free popular
is the intelligence of the
'eople and the maintenance of freedom
We therefore declare anew our devotion
o liberty of thought and conscience, of 9
peech and press, and approve all q
gencies and instrumentalities which 8
to the education of the
hildren of the land; but while insisting {
pom the fullest religious liberty, we are
pposed to any union of any church and
tate.
We reaflirm our opposition, declared
4 the Republican platform in 1888, to
II combinations of capital organized in {
rust or otherwise to control arbitrarily
ne condition of trade among our citizens.
We heartily endorse the action already
aken upon this subject, and ask for l
nch further legislation as may be re- {
uired to remedy any defects in existing {
Iws, and to render their enforcement v
lore complete and effective. C
We approve the policy of extending 8
, towns, villages and rural districts the s.
1vantages of the free mail delivery t
,rvice, now enjoyed by the larger cities s.
the country, and reaffirm the declara- d
on contained in the Republican plat Il
'rm of 1888, pledging the reduction of a
tier postage to one cent at the earliest IL
)ssible moment consistent with the 81
of the DOstOffice dena-tment