The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-28
acclamation:

by reclamation:
Crane, Eben S. Draper. Charles
Gould, ir
The following were elected alter
mates: Louis c. Southland of Easton,
Roland H. Boutwell, of Belmont, r. F.
Hawkins of Springfield, DR.. E. S.
Courtney of Boston.
THE PLATFORM.
Massachusetts has always given an
unwavering support to the national
candidates of the Republican party.
We now pledge her electoral vote to
the candidates to be chosen by Sse
convention at ST. Louis. That conven-
ton will declare the principles and pol
icies upon which the Republican party
will go to the country. AS the repre-
sentatives of the Republicans of Mas
sachusetts, we desire to not only
promise the national convention o ur
faithful support for the candidates
they shall nominate, but also set forth
the opinions of this great and steadfast
Republican state as to the questions
of the day and the policies to be pur-
sued.
Two years of uncontrolled Democrat
ic supremacy were enough to prove
to conduct the government without dis
aSter to the country. Thirty years of
rule have shown that the Republican
party. both in war and in peace, is able
to govern and legislate. For this rea-
son alone the national administration
should be taken away from those who
have failed, and returned to those who
have been successful and efficient.
We believe that the government
should have
AN AMPLE REVENUE
with a sufficient surplus over ordinary
expenditures to provide for coast de-
lenses, for the steady building UP of
the navy and for the constant reduc-
ton of the public debt
We believe that the present tariff
with its lowered rates and its destruc-
tive and dishonest system of under
valuations, should be replaced by one
framed on protection principles and
arranged to give ample protection to
American wages and American indus
try and to restore the reciprocity policy
of James G. Blaine.
We have always given protection to
our shipbuilders. In late years we
have neglected to protect our chip
owners we believe the time has come
to return to the policy of Washington
and Hamilton, which by discriminating
duties in favor of American bottoms,
secured 80 per cent of our carrying
trade to American ships, and which,
if now restored. would again revive
our shipping and cause American
1reights to be p2; & TO Americans.
We regard the
SILVER AGITATION AS HURTFUL
to business and destructive of conf
dence. and, as has recently been shown,
hostile to all tariff legislation designed
to give protection to our industries
and revenue to our treasury.
We are entirely opposed to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, and
to any change in the existing gold
standard except by International agree
ment Each dollar must be kept as good
as every other dollar. The credit of
the United States must be maintained
at the highest point, so that it can
not be questioned anywhere, either at
home or abroad Every promise must
be rigidly kept and every obligation
redeemable in coin must be paid in
gold
: We are opposed to the unsound and
dangerous system of state banks. We
support the national banking system
and believe that it should be so
amended as TO give it room for ex-
pansion and opportunity to meet the
demands of
THE GROWING BUSINESS
and population of the country.
The civil service laws which remove
the public service from the control of
favoritism, patronage and politics |
should be honestly and thoroughly en-
forced, and the classified service ex-
tended wherever it is possible.
T,,,y, ton, ~
the Republican party should pledge |
itself to pass at once law to exclude
at least the totally ignorant and Hitter |
ate.
The United States should adhere
rigidly to the American principle of [
the entire separation of cuhrch and |
state and no appropriation of public |
money for sectarian schools, whether !
for the Indians or others should be !
permitted
We believe in foreign policy which !
shall be at all times and with all ma
tons firm, vigorous and dignified.
Our interests in the American con-
tinents must be carefully guarded and |
for the protection of those interests,
we should maintain our influence in
the Hawaiian islands and build and |
control the isthmian canal.
WE HAVE NEVER INTERFERED.
and shall not now interfere with the
ong established possessions of any
European power in the Americas But
their possessions must not be extend
ed The Monroe doctrine, as declared
in 1923 and enforced in 1865 and 1895,
must always be upheld.
We sympathize with the Cubans in
heir struggle for independence. AS
friends of freedom everywhere, we
wish them success and believe that the
United States should use its influence
md good offices in the interests of
to bring to an end the use
ess and bloody war now desolating
Cuba and to give to the people of that
STAND peace and self-government.
Massachusetts Republicans have
lever undertaken to pledge or bind
heir delegates to a national conven-
ion. We do not intend to do so now.
But we think it fitting to declare our
iecided preference among the candi.
lates for the Republican nomination
o the presidency. We present to the
rational convention for nomination as
president, and we urge all our dele
yates to give their earnest, united and
active support to a fearless leader.
ried in many hard conflicts. a man of
rational reputation. of unblemisbed
character, answering Republicanism
md great abilities. the Hon. Thomas
3, Reed, of Maine.