The record-union., 1896-06-19
THE PLATFORn.
Protective Tariff and Gold Standard
the Leading Features.

The Chairman said the first order
of business was the reception Of the
report of the Committee on Resolutions,
and the Chair recognized for the pur-
pose Sena ator-elect Foraker.
Foraker, as he stepped upon the plat
form, was received with hearty ap-
plause. AS Chairman of the Commit
tee on Resolutions, he said he had the
honor to report as follows:
The Republicans of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in
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 intelli-
gence of their countrymen in the fol-
lowing declaration of facts and princi-
pies:
For the first time since the civil war
the American people have witnessed
the calamitous consequences of full and
unrestrained Democratic control of the
Government. 1t has been a record of
unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and
disaster. In administrative manage
ment it has ruthlessly sacrificed indis-
penSable revenue, entailed an unceasing
deficit, eked out ordinary current ex-
penses with borrowed money, piled up
the public debt by $262, 10000 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 Republican rule. In the
broad effect of its policy it has pre-
cIpitated panic, blighted industry and
trade with prolonged depression, closed
factories, reduced work and wages
halted enterprise and crippled Ameri-
can production while stimulating for
eign production for the American mar
ket Every consideration of public
safety and individual interest demands
that the Government shall be rescued
from the hands of those who have
shown themselves incapable of con-
Quoting it without disaster at home and
dishonor abroad, and shall be restored
TO the party which for thirty years ad-
ministered it with unequaled success
and prosperity.
TARIFF.
We renew and emphasize our allie
glance to the policy of protection as the
bulwark of American industrial inde-
pendence and the foundation of Amer
lean development and prosperity This
true American policy taxes foreign
products and encourages home indus
try; 1t puts the burden of revenue on
foreign goods; ii secures the American
market for the American producer; it
uphoids the American standard of
wages for the American workingman:
1t puts the factory by the side of the
farm, and makes the American farmer
less dependent on foreign demand and
price; it diffuses general thrift and
rounds the strength of all on the
strength of each. In it's reasonable ap-
piicaIon ii is just fair and impartial
equally opposed to foreign control and
domestic monopoly, to sectional dis
elimination and individual favoritism
we denounce the present Democratic
tarin as sectional, injurious to the pub
lie credit and destructive to business
enterprise. We demand such an equft-
able tariff on foreign imports which
come into competition with America n
/ products as will not only furnish ade-
quate revenue for the necessary e..-
penses of the Government but will pro-