Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-06-07
Resolutions At Republican State Convention

Resolutions At Republican State Convention
There we're one or two errors in the copy
from which the Journal printed the resolu.
tons adopted by the Republican State con-
vention at Lewiston and we publish here.
with the corrected form:
The Republican party of Maine invite all
the people of the State who are in accord
with the principles of the following platform
to unite in common course of action:
A financial policy not in favor of mono.
metallism, either Of gold or silver, as the
basi, of a financial system, but international
bimetallsm to be secured by all suitable
means and by the most strenuous efforts OF
the national power. Now, and in the future,
all dollars should be of equal value to the
end that suitable currency, abundant for
all wants shall secure to all the people the
full results of their labor.
The enactment and enforcement of all
laws required for the proper recognition and
protection of labor.
The American Union, its citizens and
their great privileges can be protected in
no surer way than by absolute exclusion
from our country of the paupers, criminals
and diseased Of Europe. The party, there
fore, favors the passage of such restrictive
legislation as will admit to our shores only
those immigrants who have the capacity
and the desire to become good American
citizens.
A firm and unbending foreign policy.
which will prevent the Interference of
European powers in the domestic govern
ment of American states and countries. The
party sustains the course of President Har-
rison, the lamented Blaine and ex-Minister
John L. Stevens toward the people of the
Haw allan Islands, and wholly disapproves
the un-American policy of the Cleveland
administration in relation thereto. -.
Legislation for the benefit of the Union
soldiers of the war of the rebellion, their
widows and children, and disapproval of
the present policy of the pension bureau
in making such laws, to a degree, nullity.
Full recognition of the benefits to all the
people of the State which have come from
temperance and prohibition.
A tariff for the protection of American
labor against the underpaid and pauper
labor of foreign countries.
The Republican party calls upon all the
voters of the State to express at the polls
their disapproval of the Wilson tariff bill,
the main vicious features of which are
maintained and added to in the bill now be-
fore the Senate, which surrenders the in
terests of Northern labor. while it protects
those of the South. and delivers nearly
every industry of Maine into the hands of
our nearest and most hostile rival, the Do
minion of Canada.
The Blaine system of reciprocity and op-
position to the Democratic policy which at
tempts its abandonment and repeal.
Cordial approval of the course of the
Maine delegation in the Senate and in the
House of Representatives in fighting the
Democratic tariff bill at every stsg,, and
continued support in every further effort to
obstruct and defeat the bill.
A full endorsement Of the conduct of the
affairs Of the State by the executive and
legislative branches and cordial recon
mendation Of Gov. Henry B. Cleaves for
reelection to the high Office he has so ad-
mirably filled.