The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-25


ST. LOUIS, June 19.-The following is
the platform adopted by the Republican
national convention:
The Republicans of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in ma
tional convention, appealing for the pop
ular and historical justification of their
claims TO the matchless achievements of
80 years of Republican rule, earnestly and
confidently address themselvers to the
awakened intelligence, experience and
conscience of their countrymen in the fol-
lowing declaration of facts and prin-
ciples:
For the first time since the civil war the
American people have now witnessed the
calamitous consequences of full and un-
restricted Democratic control of unpar-
alleled incapacity, dishonor and disaster.
In the administrative management IL has
ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable revenue,
eked out ordinary current running ex-
penses with borrowed money, piled up the
public debt S262, 100000 in time of peace,
forced an adverse balance of trade, Kept a
perpetual menace hanging over the re-
demption fund for pawned American
credit to alien syndicates and reversed all
the measures and results of successful
Republican rule. IN the broad effect Of
this policy IL has Irecipitated panic, re-
duced work and wages, halted enterprise
and crippled American production while
stimulating foreign production for the
American market. 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 conducting
it without disaster at home and dishonor
abroad, and shall be restored to the party
which for 30 years administered u with
unequal success and prosperity.
Declares For Protection.
We renew and emphasize our allegi:
ance to the policy of protection as the bull
wark of American industrial indepen-
dence and the foundation of American
development and prosperity. This true
American policy taxes foreign products
and encourages home industry; it puts
the burden of revenue on foreign goods;
it secure the American market for
American producers; 1t upholds the Amer
lean 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; il diffuses general thrift and
of each. In its responsible application it
Is just, fair and impartial, equally op-
posed to foreign control and domestic mo-
nopoly, to sectional discrimination and in
dividual favoritism. And in this connec-
ton we heartily endorse the wisdom, pa
triotism and the success of the admins
tration of President Harrison.
We denounce the present Democratic
tarlh as sectional, partisan and onesided
and disastrous to the treasury and de-
structive of business enterprise, and we
demand such an equitable tariff on for
Oh IL
with American products as will not only
furnish adequate revenue for the neces-
sary expenses of the government but will
protect American labor from degradation
and the wage level of other lands. We
are not pledged to any particular sched-
ules. The question of rates is a practical
question to be governed by the condition
of times and of production. The ruling
and uncompromising principle is the pro-
lection and development of American labor
and industry. The country wants right
settlement and then ii wants rest.
We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the last Re
publican administration was national
calamity, and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as will equal
ize 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 mar
kets for the products Of our farms, forests
and factories.
Must Re-Establish Reciprocity.
Protection and reciprocity are twin
of Republican policy ana go
hand in hand. Democratic rule has reck-
lessly struck down both and both must be
re established.
Protection for what we produce; free
admission for the necessaries of life which
we do not produce; reciprocity agreements
OF mutual interests which gain open mar
kets for us in return for our open market |
to Others. Protection builds up domestic |
Industry and trade and secures our own |
market for ourselves reciprocity builds |
up foreign trade and finds an outlet for |
our surplus.
We condemn the present administration |
for not keeping faith with the beet 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 Americans use, and |
Tor which they pay to other countries more |
than 800 100000 annually.
To all our .products-to those of the |
mine and field as well as to those of the |
shop and the factory-to hemp, to wool, |
the product of the great industry of sheep |
husbandry, as well as to the finished |
woolens of the mili-we promise the most
ample protection.
We favor restoring the early American
policy OF discriminating duties for the up
OF our merchant marine and the
of our shipping in the foreign
,arrying trade, SO that American shipping,
he product of the American labor EN-
)loyed in American shipyards sailing
lnder the Stars and Stripes and manned
,fficered and owned by Americans, may
'egain the carrying OF our foreign COM
nerce.
The Republican party is undoubtedly
or sound money. 1t caused the enact
nent Of the law providing for the resump-
ion of specie payments in 1879; since then
very dollar has been as good as gold.
We are unalterably opposed TO every
calculated TO debase our CURRENCY
,r impair the credit Of our country. We
ire, therefore, opposed TO the free coin
Ige OF silver except by international agree
nent with the leading commercial nations
II the world, which we pledge ourselves tn
promote, and until such agreement can be
obtained the existing gold standard must
'e preserved. All our silver and paper
currency now In circulation must be mair-
aimed at parity with gold, and we favor
ii measures designed to maintain inyiola-
'ly the obligations of the United States,
md all our money, whether coin or paper,
. the presene standard, the standard OF
he most enlightened nations of the
arth.
The veterans of the Union army deserve
nd should receive fair treatment and gem
rous recognition. Whenever practicable
hey should be given the preference in the
natter OF employment, and they are en-
tiled TO the enactment OF such laws as are
est calculated to secure the fulflllment
4 the pledges made TO them in the dark
ays Of the country's peril. We denounce
he practice in the pension bureau, SO
ecklessly and unjustly carried on by the
resent administration, of reducing pen
ions and arbitrarily dropping names
rom the rol1a ne Aacarxfnf, tha ua.,a.aet |