The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-06-19
GOLD PLANK GOES
Platform Presented by the ResO-
lutiOns Committee Was
Adopted.
Teller Pres, ,nts a Substitute and
Makes a Long Speech
On 1t.
Motion to Table the Substitute
Carried by a Vote Of 8181-2
to 1O5 -.

ST. Louis, June 1S.-The third and
probably the last day of the convention
began at 10 80, when, in response to
the kavel's rap, the delegates rose for
the prayer. The officiating minister
\ was DR.. John r. Scott of Jacksonville,
Fla, the second colored pastor who has
conducted the devotional prelude. AL
though DR.. SCOTS voice was strong
one, SO great was the confusion of en-
tering delegates and spectators, it could
be told only from the movement of the
minister's lips that he was praying.
Then the first opportunity for the del
egates to use their voices, fresh after a
nights rest, was afforded, when Chair
man Thurston, without any prelim-
inaries, plunged into business, announc-
ing that the first thing on the pro-
gramme was the report of the commit
tee on resolutions.
Senator Joseph B. Foraker, of
Ohio, chairman of the committee,
crowded to the front and climbed the
steps to the stage, while the crowd sent
up a shrill yell. The platform which he
began to read was, with few imma-
terial amendments i'll its verbiage the
one adopted by the subcommittee Tues
day hi yht.
Senator Foraker adjusted pair of
spectacles upon his soldierly face and
furnished for moment the same dumb
show of man talking which the colored
minister had given, until ories of
louder and ''order" from the galleries
impelled him to a stronger vocal effort
There was no opportunity in reading
the platform, for the strenuous, fiery
oratory with which the Ohio man has
often stirred the conventions of the
past. He wore a short black alpaca
coat and black string tie, aud was a
much less fashionable man than the
delegates from New York and Massa-
chusetts who sat below him. The plat
form was as follows:
assembled by their representatives in ma
tional convention, appealing for the pop
ular and historical justification of their
claims to the matchless achievements of 80
years of Republican rule, earnestly and
confidently address themselves to the
awakened intelligence experience and
conscience OF their countrymen in the fol-
lowing declaration of facts and principles:
For the first time since the Civil War
the American people have witnessed the
calamitous consequences Of free and un-
restricted Democratic control of the gov
eminent. 1t has been a record of unpar-
alelled incapacity, dishonor and disaster.
In administrative management it has
ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable reve-
nue., entailed an unceasing deficit eked
out ordinary current expenses with Dor
rowed money, piled up public debt $262,
100000 in time Of peace, forced an adverse
balance Of trade kept perpetual menace
hanging over the redemption fund, pawned
American credit to alien syndicates and
reversed all the measures and results of
successful Republican rule. In the broad
effect Of it's policy it has precipitated pallid,
blighted industry and trade with pro-
longed depression, closed factories, re-
duced work and wages, halted enterprise
and crippled American production, while
stimulating foreign production for the
American market. Every consideration
of public safety and individual interest de-
mands that the government shall be res
cued from the hands of those who have
shown themselves incapable to conduct it
without disaster at home and dishOnor
abroad, and shall be restored to the party
which for thirty years administered it with
unequalled success and prosperity.
Renew 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 pol
icy taxes foreign products and encourages
home industry; it puts the burden of
revenue on foreign goods; it secures the
American market for the American pro-
ducer; 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 founds the
strength of all on the strength of each.
In it's reasonable application, it is just,
fair and impartial, equally opposed to
foreign control and domestic monopoly, to
sectional discrimination and individual
favoritism.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional, injurious to the public
credit and destructive to business enter.
prise. We demand such an equitable tariff
on foreign imports which come into COM
petition with American products as will
not only furnish adequate revenue for the
necessary expenses Of the government, hut
still protect American labor from &c s,r.i ida-