Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-06-23
THE PLATFORM
Adopted by the Republican Conven-
ton in Minneapolis.
The Needs Of the Country and People
Provided for.

oeo SA"pe0i VA hipooi 10 WIZ hOOoiu va
the Republican party, congratulate
theircOuntrymen on the ma jestic march
of the Nation under the banners in
scribed with the principles of our plat
form of 1888, vindicated by victory at
the polls and prosperity in our fields,
workshops and mines, and make the
following 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-
ton of the Republican Congress.
We believe that all articles which
can not be produced in the United
States, except luxuries, should be ad-
mitted free of duty, and that on all i'm
ports coming into competition with the
products of American labor, there
should be duties laid equal to the diff
ference between wages abroad and at
home.
We assert that the price of manufac-
tured articles Of general consumption
have been reduced under the operations
of the tariff act of 1890.
We denounce the efforts of the DEM
ocratic majority of the House to destroy
our tariff laws by piecemeal, as mani
tested by their attacks on wool, lead
and lead ore, and we ask the people for
their Judgment thereon.
We point to the success of the Repub-
lican policy of reciprocity under which
export trade has vastly increased 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, executed 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-metalism, and the
Republican party demands the use OF
both gold and silver as standard mon.
ey, with such restrictions and under
such provisions, to be determined by
contemplation of values of the two
metals, 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 working
men, demand that every dollar, paper
or gold, issued by the Government
shall be as good as an other. We com
mend the wise and patriotic steps al
ready taken by our Government to se
cure an international conference tC
adopt such measures as will insure q
parity of value between 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 unrestrained ballot in all
public elections, and that such ballots
shall be counted and returned as cast
that such laws shall be enacted and en-
forced 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 representation of all the
people as well as the just and equal
protection under the laws as the founda
ton of our republican institutions, and
the party will never relax its efforts
until the integrity of the ballot and the
purity of the elections shall be fully
guaranteed and protected in every
State.
We denounce the continued inhumaI
outrages perpetrated upon American
citizens for political reasons in certain
States of the Union.
We favor the extension of our for
eign commerce, the restoration of on
merchant marine by home built ships
and the construction of navy for tn
protection Of our national interests ant
the honor of our flag; the maintenance
of the most friendly relations with al
foreign powers; entangling alliance
with none, and the protection of tn
rights of our fishermen.
We reatfirm our approval of the Nor
roe doctrine, and believe in the achieve
ment of the manifest destiny of the RI
public in its broadest sense.
We favor the enforcement of NOR
stringent laws and regulations for tn
restriction of criminal, paupcr and COZ
tract immigration.
We favor efficient legislation by Cor
gress to protect the life and limbs {
employees of the railroad companies Ell
gagged in carrying interstate commerc'
and recommend legislation by the n
spective States that will protect EN-
ployes engaged in interstate commerce
in mining and in manufacturing.
The Republican party has alway
been the champion of the oppressed
and recognizes the dignity of manhoo'
irrespective of faith, color or natiol
ality. 1t sympathizes with the caui
Of home rule in Ireland and protes