Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-27
THE PLATFORM.
Full Text of the Resolutions Adopted 3,
the Republican Convention-Eote on tn


the Republican Convention-vote the
Financial Plank.
ST. LOUIS, June 19.-The finance
plank in the platform recommended
by the committee on resolutions was
adopted by the convention by vote of
s12M ayes to 100 nays, the balance
being adopted by viva voce vote.
The platform is as follows:
The republicans of the United States. as
semb led by their representatives in national
convention, appealing for the popular and his
torical justification of their claims to the
lican rule, earnestly and confidently address
themselves to the awakened intelligence, ex-
perience and conscience of their countrymen
IN the following declaration OF facts and prin-
ciples: For the first time since the civil war
the American people have witnessed the ca
lamitous consequences of full and unrestricted
democratic control of the government 1t has
been a record of unparalleled incapacity, dis
honor and disaster. In admin istrative man.
agement it has sacrificed indispensable reve-
nue. entailed an unceasing deficit, eked out
ordinary current expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt by
s26so00.00O in time of peace, forced
an adverse balance OF trade, kept perpetual
menace hanging the redemption fund.
pawned American credit to alien syndicates and
reversed all the measures and results of sue
cesSful republican rule In the broad enect or
it's policy it has precipitated panic, blighted
Industry and trade with prolonged depression.
closed factories, reduced work and wages,
matted enterprise ana crippled American pro-
duction while stimulating foreign produc tion
for the American market Every considera-
ton of public safety and public interest de-
mands that the government shall be rescued
from the hands of those who have shown them
selves incapable of conducting it without dis
| aster at home and dishonor abroad, and shall
be restored to the party which for 30 years ad-
ministered it with unequaled success and
prosperity. And in this connection heartily
lndorse the wisdom, the patriotism and the
success of the administration of President
Harrison
We renew and emphasize our allegiance to
the policy of protection the bulwarlS of
American industrial independence and the
foundation of American developments and pros
perity. This true American policy taxes for
eign products and encourages home industry:
it puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods:
1t secures the American market for the Amer
lean producer: it upholds the American stand
ard of wages for the American workingman; it
puts the factory by the side of the farm and
makes the American farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and price: it difuses general
thrift and POUNDS the strength of all on the
strength of each In its reasonable applica-
ton 1t is just. fair and impartial, equally OPP
posed to foreign control and domestic monop-
ply. to sectional discrimination and individual
tavoritism-
We denounce the present democratic tariff
sectional, injurious to the public credit and
destructive to business enterprise. We de-
mand such equitable tariff on foreign i'm
ports which come into competition with Amer
lean products will not only furnish adequate
| revenue for the necessary expenses of the gov
| eminent but will protect American labor from
degradation to the wage level of other lands
We not pledged to any particular sched-
ules- The question Of rates is a practical
question to be governed by the conditions Of
the time and production; the ruling and IN
com promising principle is the protection and
development of American labor and industry.
TAe country demands right settlement, and
then it wants rest
We believe the repeal of the reciprocity ar
engagements negotiated by the last republican
administration was a national calamity. and
we demand their renewal and extension on
such terms as will equalize our trade with other
nations, remove the restrictions which now
obstruct the sale of American products in the
ports of other countries and secure enlarged
markets for the products of our farms, forests
and factories. Protection and reciprocity are
twin measures of republican policy and go
hand in hand. Democratic rule has recklessly
struck down both. and both must be re-estab
Iished. Protection for what we produce: free
admission for the neceSSarieS OF life which We
do not produce; reciprocal agreements of
mutual interest which gain open markets for
US in return for open market to others.
Protection builds up domestic industry and
trade, and secures own market for our
selves; reciprocity builds up foreign trade and
finds outlet for our surplus.
We condemn the present administration for
not keeping faith with the sugar producers of
this country The republican party favors
such protection as will lead to the production
| on American soil of all the sugar which the
| American people use, and for which they pay
other countries more than 1cO0J0,es 80 annually.
To all our products-to those Of the mine and
| deld, well to those of the shop and fac
tory, to hemp, to wool, the product of the great
| industry of sheep husbandry well to the
finished woolens of the mill-we promise the
most ample protection
We favor restoring the early American pol
| icy of discriminating duties for the up-build-
| Ing Of our merchant marine and the protection
| Of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade,
| so that American shipS-the product of Amer
lean labor. employ ed in American Shipyards,
| sailing under the stars and stripes and manned,
ofhcered and owned by Americans-may re-
/ gain the carrying of our foreign commerce.
The republican party is unreServedly for
| sound money 1t caused the enactment of the
law providing for the resum ption of specie
payments in 1879; since then every dollar has
| been good as gold We are unalterably op-
posed to every measure calculated to de base
| our currency, or impair the credit of our coun-
| try. We are. therefore. opposed to free coin
| age of silver except by international agreement
| with the leading commercial nations OF the
| world which pledge ourselves to promote,
| and until such an agreement can be obtained
| the existing gold standard must be preserved
All our silver and paper currency must be
| maintained at parity with gold, and favor
| all measures designed to maintain inviolably
| the obligation of the United States and our
| money, whether coin or paper. at their present
| standard. the standard of the most enlightened
nations of the earth
| The veterans of the union army deserve and
should receive fair treatment and generous
| recognition. Whenever practicable they should
| be given the preference in the matter of em-
ployment and they are entitled to the enact
| ment of such laws as are best calculated to Sc
| cure the fulhllment of the pledges made to
| them in the dark days of the country's peril
We denounce the practice in the pension bu-
| reau, recklessly and unjustly carried on by
| the present administration. OF reducing PEN
sions and arbitrarily dropping names from the
roll. deserving the SevereSt condemnation
of the American people
Our foreign policy should be at all times firm.
Iup 5irynif fad all our inf in