Middletown transcript., 1894-08-25
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Declaration of the Principles That
Dominate the Republicans OF
D0IaWare.

The representatives OF the RepuD1lcanS {
Delaware in convention assembled, max
the following declaration of principles an
urge all good citizens without regard I
previous political affiliations to unite i
giving them effect:
1. We re-affirm our belief in the Amer
ican doctrine of protection to home indus
tries. While we believe that all article
which cannot be produced in the Unite'
States-luxuries excepted-should be ad
mitted free of duty. we hold that dutie
should be levied on all other imports; ant
we favor the speedy enactment and enforce
ment of stringent laws for the protection
of American institutions and American
labor from the evils of unrestricted immi
grafton.
2. We denounce the revenue bill passed BY
the present Democratic Congress as a cow
ardly makeshift that will reduce the wages
of labor, cripple our agriculture, manufac
lures and shipping and continue in the fu
ture that feeling of uncertainty and dis
trust which has attended Democratic as
tendency in the General Government. We
hold that the provision of the bill in favol
of the interest of the Sugar Trust framed
in pursuance of corrupt bargain made by
Democratic leaders imposing a duty or
raw sugar as we'll as discriminating in fa
vor of refined sugar is an outrage upon the
American people, imposing an unnecessary
burden upon them, and that such legisla
ton must be corrested as soon as possible.
We denounce the income tax, provided fol
in the bill, as unequal, unjust inquisitorial
and contrary to the spirit of American in
stitutions, and we demand it. repeal. We
denounce the futile efforts of the popular
branch of the present Congress and of the
executives to open to the world the Ameri
can markets for coal and iron as absolutely
ruinous to our mining industries.
8. We MAINTAIN that the Republican policy
of reciprocity has largely increased our
foreign trade and should be fostered and
extended for the benefit of our farmers,
workshops. manufactures and shipping.
4. We favor bimetalism and demand the
use of both gold and silver as standard
money at such ratio and under s1ch con-
ditions as shall be fixed by international
agreement. We believe that the CONNER
cial welfare of the world is seriously pre-
judiced by the dislocation of the parity of
the value between silver and gold and that
full prosperity will not be re-established
until silver is restored to its proper place as
a money metal of equal debt-paying power
with gold in the currency of the nations,
and we urge such policy upon the part of
the United States as will finally bring
about this most desirable end.
5. We denounce the action of the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives in passing
the bill to repeal the tax on the issues of
state banks as intended to destroy the pres
ent system of national currency and re-es-
tablish an unsafe and ruinous currency
issued under the authority of the separate
states.
6. We denounce the present Democratic
administration as utterly incompetent to
conduct the affairs of the government at
home or abroad. 1t has by its cowardice
and ignorance brought us financial distress
at home, and abroad has detracted from
our fair name by its underhand and un-
American treatment of the Republic of
Hawaii. All of Its dealings have been
marked by an uncertainty of purpose and
lack of true patriotism alike ruinous to our
prosperity and unworthy of the counsels of
a great nation.
We favor the extention of our foreign
commerce, the restoration of our merchant
marine by home built ships, the further
increase of the navy for the protection of
our national interest and the honor of our
flag, the maintenance of friendly relations
with all foreign powers, but entangling al
liances with none. We demand an equal
right in the fisheries and the maintenance
of a coasting and an interstate carrying
trade for the exclusive benefit of our own
interests.
We demand for the people of this state
irrespective of party affiliation, the right
of self government, which hiss been Sc
riously impaired by partisan Dem ocratic
legislation. We demand that our elections
shall be fair and vote fairly cast shall be
counted and returned. We de-
nounce the partisan legislation of the
party in the re enactment of
the odious delinquent tax laws, applicable
to the counties of Kent and Sussex, as done
rrst I, af dafa f1,ox
of the majority of the citizens of these
counties.
8. We denounce the present system of the
of electors in force in our
state as framed and used as cloak for de-
frauding our people of the right to elect
their own officers, and we demand its i'm
mediate repeal. and that no other useless
linderances to an honest election be de-
yised for purely partisan purposes,
10 We denounce the legislation which
gives to the Democratic majority of .the
of Elections for the city of
Wilmington the power to appoint the Re-
publican registrars and Judges of election
thus taking from their political opponents
the right still enjoyed by the rest of the
state. and never before denied to any of its
people to select the officers who are to
guard their rights at the polls and to have
the vote fairly counted.
IL. We denounce the Democratic party |
for retaining on the Statute Book the |
law for the appointment by the governor
of special constables for the electi on in the |
city of Wilmington, after over SIG, 900 had |
been perverted for the payment of 800 such |
at the election of 1892, and the !
money Incorporated from the state
school fund.
II. We favor ship canal between Della |
ware and Chesapeake bays, the deepening |
of the barbor of Wilmington for the ac-
of the largest ocean-going
steamers. the completion ofthe canal be-
tween Chincoteague and Delaware bays,
and the improvement of the rivers and |
harbors of the state to their full capacity |
by the general government.
13. We renew to the veteran Soldiers of
the republic offs generous recognition of
their just claims upon a grateful people
and condemn the unfriendly and unjust
policy of the present Democratic admins
istration toward them.