Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-17
PLATFORM BUILT.
Sub.committee Gets the Dec.
Iaration Completed.
DEMOCRACY GErsA RAK1NG FIRST.

Several Propositions, but Get no Salts
factiOn-Other Committee Work.
ST Louis, June 1.-THE subcommittee
tional Republican convention last night
adopted the following draft of platform
end put it in the hands of q typewriter for
preparation for their meeting at O'Clock
this morning, at which time it will be
again considered and some verbal amend
ments probably made
The Republicans of the United States
assembled by their representatives in ma
tional convention appealing for the popu-
lar and historical justification of their
claims Of the bitter fruits of four years of
Democratic control as well as the match
less improvements Of thirty years of Re
publican rule, earnestly and confidently
address themselves to the awakened in
telligence, experience and conscience of
their cOuntrymen in the following declara-
ton of facts and principles:
Democratic Control . Calamity.
"For the first time since the civil war
the American people have now witnessed
the calamitous consequences of full and
unrestricted Democratic control of
the government. 1t has been q
record of unparalleled incapacity,
dishonor and disaster. In the adj
ministrative management it has ruthlessly
sacrificed Indispensable revenue, eked out
ordinary current running expenses with
borrowed money, piled up the public debt
$262, ,0OO, 600 in time of peace, forced an ad-
verse balance of trade. kept a perpetual
menace hanging over the redemption
fund, pawned American credit to alien
syndicates and reversed all the measures
and results Of successful Republican rule.
Charged with Precipitating Panic.
I'm the broad effect of its policy it has
precipitated panic, blighted industry and
trade with prolonged depression, closed
factories, reduced work and wages, halted
enterprise and crippled American produc-
ton while stimulating foreign production
for the American market. Every consid-
GRAFTON of public safety and individual in
terest demand that the government shall
be rescued from the hands of those who
have shown themselves incapable of con-
Quoting it without disaster at home and
dishonor abroad, and shall be restored to
the party which for thirty years admins
tered it with unequal success and prosper
ity.
Renewed Allegiance to Protection.
''We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark
of American industrial Independence and
the foundation of American development
and prosperity. This true American policy
taxes foreign products and encourages
home industry; it puts the burden of rev
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American market for the American pro
ducers; it upholds the American standard
of wages for the American workingman;
it puts the factory by the side of the farm
and makes the American farmer less de
pendent on foreign demand and price; it
diffuses general thrift and POUNDS the
strength of all on the strength of each. In
It's responsible application it is just fair
and impartial, equally opposed to foreign
control and domestic monopoly, to sec
tiOnal discrimination and individual fa.
voritism.
Democratic Tariff Denounced.
1--WE denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional partisan and one-sided
disastrous to the treasury and destructive
of business enterprise, and we demand
such an equitable tariff on foreign imports
which come into competition with Ameri
can products as will not only furnish
adequate revenue for the necessary ex
penses of the government, but will pro
,cct American labor form degradation and
the wage level of other lands. We are no,
pledged to any particular schedule
The question of rates is to be gov
erned by the condition of the time:
and Of production. The ruling and un
compromising principle is the protection
and development Of American labor ant
| industry.