Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-06-24
Vie vote WAS as follows:-

the roll call
The Convention then adjourned
sine die
National Republican Platform.
The folio wing is the platform adopt
ed
The Republicans of the United
States. assembled by their representa-
tives in national convention. appeal
ing for the popular and historical
justification OF their claims to the
bitter frnits of four years of Demo
cratic control, as well as the matchless
improvements of thirty years of Re
publican rule, earnestly and confident
ly address themselves to the awakened
intelligence, experience and conscience
of their eountrymen in the following
declaration of facts and principles.
For the first time since the civil war
the American people have now wit.
messed the calamitous consequences OF
full and unrestricted Democratic con.
troll of the government. 1t has been a
record of unparalleled incapacity. dis
honor, and disaster. In the admins
trative management it has ruthlessly
sacrificed indispensable revenue. eked
out ordinary current running expenses
with borrowed money, piled up the
public debt $685., 100000 IN time OF
peace, forced an adverse balance of
trade, kept q perpetual menace hang
ing over the redemption fund for
pawned American credit to alien syn
oicates, and reversed all the measures
and results of successful Republican
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
stimulating foreign production for the
American market. Every consldera-
ii IN of public safety aud individual
interest demands 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 restored to the party
which for thirty years administered 1t
with unequalled success and prosperl-
ty.
PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
We renew and emphasize our allie
glance to the policy of protection as
the bulwark of American industrial
independence and the foundation OF
American development and prosperity.
This true American policy taxes for
eign products and encourages home
industry; puts TIE burden of revenue
on foreign goods; secures the American
market for the American producers;
upholds the American standard OF
wages for the American workingman;
puts the factory by the side OF the
farm, and makes the American farmer
less dependent on foreign demand and
price; diffuses general thrift, and
POUNDS the strength of all on the
strength of each. In its responsible
it is just, fair, and impair
tial, equally opposed to foreign control
and domestic monopoly. to sectional
discrimination and individual favOrit=
ism.
We denounce the present Democratic
tariff as sectional, partisan, and one
sided, disastrous to the Treasury, and
destructive of business enterprise; and
we demand such an equitable tariff on
foreign imports which come into com
petition with American products as
will not only furnish adequate revenue
for the necessary expenses of the gov
eminent, but will protect American
labor from degradation and the wage
level of other lands. We are not
pledged to any particular schedule.
The question of rates is practical
to be governed by the con
ditions of the times and of production
The ruling and uncompromising prin
eiple is the protection and develop
lnent of American labor and industry.
The country wants right settlem ant.
aud then it wants rest.
The Republican party renews its
pledge for the protection of all Ameri-
eau industries against foreign competi
ton. and declares it's faith that the
supremacy of the United States among
the nations is the result OF such a
policy. We believe in liberal reciproc
ity and Just relation, and demand the
application of the golden rule of com
nerce to all future legislation affecting
the tariff and our foreign trade. We
believe the repeal of the reciprocity
negotiated by the last
administration was q ma