The Monitor-register., 1896-06-19
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.


1t Declares for II Gold Standard and "A
Return to Protection.
The platform, which was prepared by a
subcommittee headed by Ex-Governor
Foraker, of Ohio, was the great bono of
contention in the convention. The prin-
cipal points are as follows:
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 rove
nue. on foreign goods; it secures the Amer
lean market for the American producers;
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 IN foreign demand and price; it
diffuses general thrift and POUNDS the
strength of all on the strength of each. In
its reasonable application 1t is just, fair
and impartial, equally opposed to foreign
control and domestic monopoly, to sec
tional discrimination and individual ia
voritism.
The Republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. 1t caused the enactment
of the law providing for the resumption of
specie payments in 1879. Since then every
dollar has been as good as gold.
We are unalterably opposed to every
measur calculated to debase our cur
rency or impair the credit of our country.
We are, therefore, opposed to the free coin
age of silver except by international agree
ment with the leading commercial nations
of the world, and until such agreement
can be obtained we believe the existing
gold standard must be preserved. All our
silver and paper currency must be main
tanned at parity with gold, and we favor
all measures designed to maintain in
violable the obligations of all our money,
whether coin or paper, at the present STAN
dard-the standard Of the most enlight-
ened nations of the earth.
The government of Spain, having lost
control of Cuba, and being unable to pro-
tect the property or lives of President Amer
lean citizens or to comply with its treaty
obligations, we believe that the govern
ment of the United States should actively
use its influence and good offices to restore
peace and give Independence to the island.
We condemn the present administra-
ton for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this country. The Republi-
Cdu party IdNOf SuCA pTOUcCGlOn as Will
lead to the production On American soil
of all the sugar which the Americans use,
and for which they pay to other countries
more than 800, OO0, 1000 annually.
Civil service reform is approved and the
extension of the principle wherever prac-
ticable. The use of public money for sec
tartan purposes and the union Of church
and state are opposed. A declaration is
made in favor of arbitration between en-
ployes and employers, but no specific leg
islation is demanded.
A declaration is made in favor of liberal
pensions and the present administration is
denounced for dropping from the rolls
without examination deserving soldiers.
The restoration of discriminating duties
for the upbuilding of the merchant marine
Is favored.
A plank favoring liberal reciprocity is
Incorporated and the repeal of the reciproc-
ity agreements is condemned.
There are planks favoring the extension
Of civil service reform; a declaration
against the use of money for sectarian
purposes; in favor of labor arbitration;
for liberal pensions, and the building of
the Nicaragua canal by the United States
government.