The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-17
PARTY GREED.
Synopsis of the Platform That
VIII Be Adopted
With Some Notifications by the
Convention.
LABORS COMPLETED
By the Sub Committee at a Late
Hour.
There Are No Surprises in the
Platform.

ADOPTED the following QraIr OF the plat
form late last night:
1.-THE Republicans of the United
States assembled by their representa-
tives in national convention, appealing
for the popular and historical justihca-
ton of their claims TO the bitter fruits
of four years of Democratic control as
well as 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 following declaration of facts and
principles:
Tor the first time since the civil war
the American people have now witness
ed the ca1amitOus consequences Of full
and unrestricted Democratic control Of
the government It has been q record
of unparalleled incapacity, dishonOr and
disaster. In the administrative manage
ment it has ruthlessly sacrificed indis-
pensa BILE revenue, eked out ordinary cur
rent running expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt $751;
1000 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 meas
ures and results of successful Repubh-
can rule.
In the broad effect of its policy it
has precipitated panic, blighted indus
try and trade with prolonged depres-
sion, closed factories, reduced work and
wages, halted enterprise and crippled
American production, while stimulat-
ing foreign production for the Ameri-
can market Every consideration of
public safety and individual interest
demand that the government shall be
rescued from the hands Of those who
have shown themselves incapable Of
conducting it without disaster at home
and dishonor abroad and shall be re-
stored to the party which for thirty
years administered it with unequalled
success and prosperity.
I'VE renew and emphasize our adj
hesiOn to the policy of protection as the
bulwark Of American independence and
the foundation of American develop
ment and pros perity. This true Amer
lean policy tssXeS foreign producers and
encourages home Industries; it puts the
burden OF revenue on foreign goods
it secures the American market for the
American producer; it uphOIds the
American standard Of wages for the
American WOrkingman; it puts the fac
tory by the side of the farm and makes
the American farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and prices; it diffuSes
general thrift and POUNDS the strength
of all on the strength of each. In its
responsible application it is just, fair
and impartial equally opposed to for
eign control and American monopoly
to sectional discrimination and individ-
ual favoritism.
We denounce the present Demo
cratic tariff as sectional, partisan and
one-sided, and disastrous to the treas
ury and destructive OF business enter
prise, and we demand such an equita-
bic tariff on foreign imports which
come into competition with American
products as viii not only furnish ade-
quate revenue for the necessary e2z-
penses of the government, but viii pro
tect American labor from degradation
and the wage level of other lands We
are not pledged to any particular
schedule. The question of rates is q
practical question to be governed by
the condition of the time and of pro
ductiOn. The ruling and unCOmDrOnis-
ing principle of protection and devel-
opment Of American labor and indus
try.
THE country wants a right settle
ment and then it wants rest.
The Republican party renews its
pledge for the protection of all Ameri-
can Industries against foreign compe-
tition, and declares its faith that the
supremacy of the United States among
the nations is the result of such a pol
icy. We believe in reciprocity and just
retaliation and demand the application
future legislation affecting the tariff
and the foreign trade. We believe the
repeal of the reciprocity arrangement
negOtiat ted by the last Republican adj
ministratiOn was national calamity
and demand its renewal and extension
on such terms as viii equalize our
trade with other nations and remove
the restrictions that now obstruct the
sale of American products in the ports
of Europe and secure new markets for
the products Of cur farms, forests and
factories
I'VE favor restoring the early Amer
lean policy of discriminating duties for
the upbunding of our merchant marine
and the protection of our shipping in
the foreign carrying trade. 50 Ameri-
cans shipping the product of American
labor, employed in American ship
wards sailing under the stars and
stripes and manned differed and
owned by Americans, may regain the
carrying Of our foreign commerce.
fThe Republican party is unreserVed-
ly for sound money. 1t caused the
enactment of the law providing for the
redemption of specie payments in 1879
since then every dollar has been a s good
as gold We are unalterably opposed to
every measure calculated to debase
our currency or impair the credit of our
country. We are therefore opposed to
the free coinage of silver except by in
ternatiOnal agreement 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 now in circulation must
be maintained at a parity with gold and
we favor all measures designed to main
tain inviOlable the obligations of the
United States and all our money Wheth
er coin or paper, at the present stand
ard the standard of the most enlight-
ened nations Of the earth"
The foreign plank, drawn by Senator
Lodge is general in its nature, outlin-
ing a policy in regard to all current
foreign questions. 1t contains a de-
claration for the protection Of Ameri-
can citizens abroad, reafhrns the posi-
ton Of the party in favor of the Mon
roe doctrine endorses the administra-
ton of President Harrison on the atti-
tude Of this country towards HaWaiii