The Republican journal., 1896-06-25

Garrett A. Hobart was boan az Long
Branch, n j., IN 18Th admitted to the barin
1866; IN 1872 elected member of til" New
Jersey house, and reelected and chosen
speaker. He declined election in 1873. In
1877 he was elected Senator from Fassaic
county; reelected to this position and
served in the office from that time until the
pro tenn of the body the last two years lie
was member. In 1885 he was nominated
by the Republican caucus of the legislature
for United States Senator, but was not
elected, the Legislature was Democratic
and John r. Mcpherson was chosen. In
1884 he became a member of the Republican
national committee, He IS the president Of
the Passaic Water company the Acquack-
anonk Water company, the Patterson Rail-
road company, consolidated lines, the Nor
ris county railroad and the Peoples Gas
company. He is d director in several
national banks, and on the directory boards
of some forty or more additional corpora
tions. Mr.. Hobart is resident of Patterson.
THE PLATFORM IN FULL.
The Republican of the United States as
sembled by their representatives in ma a+ional
convention, appealing for the popular and
historical justification of their claims to the
matchless achievements of 30 years of Re
publican rule, earnestly and confidently ad-
dress themselves to the awakened intell-
countrymen in the following declaration of
facts and principles.
For the first time since the Civil War the
American people have witnessed the calam-
itous consequences of full and unrestricted
Democratic control OF the government. 1t
has been record of disaster. In admins
trative management it has ruthes5ly sacri-
feed indispensable revenue, entailed an in
creasing deficit, eked out ordinary current
expenses with borrowed money, piled Il ,
the public debt by 1852 900, 600 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 Republi-
can rule. In the broad effect of its policy it
has precipitated panic blighted industry
and trade with prolonged depressions, clos
ed factories, reduced work and wages, halt
ed enterprises and crippled American pro-
ductlon while stimulating foreign produc-
tion for the American market Every con-
sideration of public safety and individual
interes demands that the government shall
be rescued from the hands Of those who
have shown themselves incapable of con
ducting it without disaster at home and dis
honor abroad, and shall be restored to the
party which for 30 years administered it
with uneQualled success and prosperity, and
in this connection heartily indorse the
| wisdom, the patriotism and the success of
lie aunl lnlStrdLlon OF fFtSluenG HARRISON.
TARIFF.
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
| takes foreign products and encourages home
| industry it puts the burden of revenue on
| foreign goods it secures the American mar
| ket for the American producer; it upheds
| the American standard of wages for the
| American workingman; it puts the factory
| by the side of the farm and makes the Amer
lean farmer less dependent foreign de-
| mand and price it ditfuses general thrift
and founds the strength of all on the
| strength of each. In its reasonable appli-
| cation it is just, fair and impartial, equally
| opposed to foreign control and domestic
monopoly, to sectional discrimination and
| individual fayoritsm.
| We denoUnce the present Democratic tar
| if sectional, injurious to the public credit
| and destructive to business enterprise. We
demand such an equitable tariff ON foreign
| imports which come into competition with
| American products as will not only furnish
| adequate revenue for the necessary expenses
| of the government, but will protect Ameri
| can labor from degradation to the wage
| level of other lands. We are not pledged tc
| any particular schedules. The question OF
rates is a practical question to be governed
| by the conditions of the time and of produc
I ton; the ruling and uncompromising prin