The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-20
M'KINLEY AND HOBART
Nominated by the RePubli-
cans at St. Louis.
A GOLD PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Only One Ballot Necessary to a Choice
for President and Vice-PresIdent.

b Only One Ballot Necessary to a Choice
If for President and Vice-PresIdent.
Mckinley was nominated at st
: Louis on the first ballot. The vote fol
president TODD: Mckinley, 66l1a
Reed, SAY; Morton, IS; Allison
= 35%; Quay, 61I. There were 90
votes east. Missouri voted solid fol
: Mckinley.
. Hobart, of New Jersey, was nomi-
mated for vice-president. The vote
was: Evans, 227la; Hobart, $685.,
and the rest scattering. Missouri
voted % for Evans and 10 for Hobart.
Kerens was elected national commit
teeman, and Warner was chairman OF
the delegation. Filley was turned
. down.
The platform is as follows:
The republicans of the United States
assembled by their representatives in
Z national convention, appealing for the
, popular and historical justification of
their claims to the matchless achieve
ments of thirty years OF republican
rule, earnestly and confidently address
themselves to the awakened intelligence,
experience and conscience of their
countrymen in the following declara-
ton of facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil war
the American people have witnessed
the calamitOus consequences of full and
unrestricted democratic control of the
government. It has been a record of
unparalleled incapacity, dIshonOr and
disaster.
In administrative management it has
sacrificed indispensable revenue, en-
tailed an unceasing deficit, eked out
ordinary current expenses with bor-
rowed money, piled up the public debt
by $780,, 600, 900 IN time of peace,
forced an adverse balance of trade,
kept a perpetual menace hanging over
the redemption fund, pawned American
credit to alien sy~ndicates, and reversed
| all the measures and results of success
full republican rule. In the broad effect
of its policy it has precipitated panic,
blighted industry and trade with pro-
longed depression, closed factories,
ECuuCCu HOLh iii "dSCSs w
prise and crippled American production
while stimulating foreign production
for the American market. Every con-
sideration of public safety and public
interest demands hat the government
shall be rescued from the hands of
those who have shown themselves inca
pable of conducting it without disaster
at home and dishonor abroad, and
shall be restored to the party which
for thirty years administered it with
u~nequaled success and prosperity.
And in this connection we heartily
indorse the wisdom, the patriotism
and the success of the administration
of President Harrison.
II Il PLANK.
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 !
products aud encourages home l
industry, it puts the burden of revenue |
on foreign goods, it secures the Amer s
lean market for the American producer, E
it upholds the American standard of Il
wages for the American ~workingman,
it puts the factory by the side of the
farm and makes the American farmer II
less dependent on foreign demand and II
price, it diffuses general thrift and e
founds the strength of all on the o
of each. In its reasonable 0
1t is just, fair and impair u
.ial, equally opposed to foreign control c.
md domestic monopoly, to sectional G.
discrimination and individual favor
tIsm.
We denounce the present democratic o.
ariff as sectional, injurious to the pub W
&c credit and destructive to business II
Enterprise. We demand such an equit- W
Lble tariff Oh foreign imports which o'
,ome into competition with American te
as will not only furnish u
revenue for the necessary TT
expenses of the government, but will
American labor from degreda-
ion TO the wage level of other lands. IL
We are not pledged to any particular p'
chedules. The question of rates is a al
PRACTICAL question to be governed by u
he conditions of the time and prOduc- h'
ion; the ruling and uncQmprOmising e'
IS the protection and devel-
pment of American labor and industry.
he country demands a right settle U
lent, and then 1t wants rest. oil
TO RENEW RECIPROCITY. ~
We believe the repeal of the reel ie
rocity arrangements negotiated by
ne last republican administration was !
national calamity, and we demand =.
leir renewal and extension ON such "a
as will ~equalize our trade with III
Their nations, remove the restrictions >"
'hich now obstruct the sale of Amer U"
an products in the ports of other
ountries and secure enlarged markets
n the products of our farms, forests W
nd factories. Iu
Protection and reciprocity are twin oe
easures of republican policy, and go ."
and in hand. Democratic rule has
struck down both, and both
Iust be ~re-established. Protection for 10
hat we produce; free admission for nc
le necessaries of life which we do not 60 -
reciprocal agreements of WI
utual interest which gain open
arkets for us IN return for our open
arket to others. Protection builds II
} domestic industry and trade, and ,
our own market for ourselves; @
ciprocity builds up foreign trade and a. a,
ads an outlet for our surplus. "a
SUGAR AND WOOL. n,
We condemn the present admins ria
alton for not keeping faith with the ac,
gar producers of this country. The
publican party favors such protection
will lead to the production on sa,
nerIcan soil of all the sugar which orr,
e American people use, and for RI,
tney pay other countries niore Zig
To all our products-to those of the
inc and field, as well as to those of loo
e shop and factory, to hemp, to wool, The
e product of the great industry OF mo
eep ~husbandry, as well as to the
lished woOlens of the mill, we prom ,
the most ample protection. ,h,
THE MERCHANT MARINE. PR
We favor restoring the early Amer elm
an policy of discriminating duties for for
g u%pbuilding of our merchant marine boI
"A tho npotaotion Df our Shinninn in