The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-18


man Charles A. Chickering and Senator
Higgins as committee to escort Senator
Lexow to the chair. The Senator from
Rockland was introduced by the chairman
in the following words:
Republicans need no introduction to
Senator Lexow, Democrats want none"
Mr.. Lexow, in taking the char, said the
convention was both guarantee of pur-
pose and portend of victory. The Repub-
Ilcan victory which swept the choice of the
Republican Convention into the Executive
chair by more than 10000 majority was
a protest against Hillism and Tammany-
ism on one hand and the declaration again
against free trade and an unpatriotic for
elgn policy on the other. The people saw
their factories closed, their workshops de-
serted and their industries paralyzed.
But we are told by the Democratic press,
said he, that prosperity has returned and
that revival of the good old times is at
hand. The prosperity of this resourceful
and industrious people, while it may be
checked and impeded, may not be per-
manently ruined, even by the unpatriotic
legislation of fiamboyant free trade. 1t is
trusted from the bottom of our hearts that
prosperity is here, and is here to stay. But
it has taken long time to come"
When he concluded the report of the
committee on resolutions was called for
and Speaker Hamilton Fish handed up
the platform. 1t contained no excise
plank. The vote on omitting the plank
was 21 to I. The platform follows:
The Republican party of New York, by
its delegates in convention assembled,
makes the following declaration of its
principles: We denounce the Democratic
administration for its false and misleading
statements of the public expenditures, and
for its failure to promptly pay the Nations
honest debts that it may be able to presenta
delusive statement of the. treasury's actual
condition. We welcome the dawn of re-
turning prosperity following the Republi-
can victories of 1894-those victories giving
assurance that the Democratic party has
been rendered powerless to work further
destruction to American industries and
that the duty of preparing Democratic in
roads upon them will be prosecuted with
untiring vigor, and we denounce the at
tempts of the Democratic administration
newspaper organs to mislead and befog
restoration of wages.
with complete return of the Republi-
can party to power and the enactment of
such remedial legislation as the conditions
plainly require we confidently look for a re-
newal of the prosperity that marked the
quarter century of it's government of the
country. In behalf of American citizens
in other countries, who are entitled to the
most watchful and unyielding defense and
protection in all emergencies, we denounce
the infamous policy of the Federal ad-
ministration which has made the stars
and stripes the emblem of supine neglect
and wretched incapacity.
''In the broader field of our relations
with foreign powers where American doc
trine should have been the supreme guide
and inspiration, the administration, by
yielding established rights, trucking to
foreign influence and the wholesale sacri-
fee of American prestige and National dig
nifty, has furnished an unmatched spec
tacle of Federal disgrace and imbecility.
"We believe that the Nations honor as
well as the material interests of our citizens
demand the maintenance of National cur
rency, where every dollar, whether in gold,
silver or paper notes, shall be of equal
value and equal debt paying or purchasing
power, and we declare our unalterable op-
position to the free and unlimited coinage
of silver. Any imitation OF the currency of
the country by the degrading of the stand
ard of value to the silver basis is distinctly
repudiated.
1--WE denounce the Democratic party for
ba Of ha r,,iIliopc Of daIlorc of
hard-working farmers of this State through
free wool and the reduction of the tariff
upon agricultural products by the Wilson
tariff bill, and we demand adequate pro-
lection for our farm products. Last fall,
for the first time in twelve years, the peo-
pie of the State intrusted the Republican
party with the control of both the execu-
tive and legislative branches of the gov
ernment. The party was charged with the
duty of righting great wrongs which had
been embodied into law by discredited
Democratic administration of State affairs.
That duty has been discharged with care
and fidelity to the peoples interest.
THE reform measures which the people
of the city of New York asked for, and
which we're indispensable to the complete
overthrow of the corrupt political machine
that had so long plundered and betrayed
the great metropolis of the Stare, were
with single exception enacted into law
in the face of united Democratic opposi-
ton.
eve congratulate the people of the State
on the success of the long struggle which
the Republican party has waged to secure
honest electoral reform. The blanket bal
lot promises relief to voters from the cum
bersome and complex system of voting
which prevailed last year. Every advance
toward honest electoral reform has been
made step by step against the determined
opposition the Democracy of the State.
1.-The interests of labor have been care
fully protected by the Republican party
In State as well as National affairs, and we
urge the adoption and extension of the
principle Of arbitration in determining dis
putes between employer and employees.
I'VE heartily indorse the wise and ex-
cellent administration of Governor Levi P
Morton. He has been mindful of the de-
slres OF the people, and he has been always
in sympathy with the best impulses of the
time. The overwhelming expression of