New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-29
PRICE THREE GEMS.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
ADOPTED AT LAST NIGHTS CONVENTION.
NEED OF DESTROYING BRYANIsM DwELT UPON
IKINLEY BLACK. THE TARIFF LAW AMP
REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATION
PRAIsED-THE MUNICI-
PAL CAMPAIGN.

REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATION
PRAIsED-THE MUNIcI-
PAL CAMPAIGN
Following is the platform adopted by the
Republican City Convention last night:
There Is one great issue before the people at
this time It cannot be separated from any po-
Ntical contest 1t is the issue created by the
Chicago platform and nothing can be more OBJ.
vous than that the results OF every election,
National. State municipal until that plat
form has been formally abandoned by the party
that made it. must count for or against its
odious and destructive principles
Every intelligent voter knows that the first
Mayor Of the Greater New-York, with all hfs
tremendous power FOR good or evil, will be either
the candidate OF this convention, or a Tammany
Democrat Every intelligent voter knows that
II the first Mayor OF the Greater New-York 10
the candidate Of this convention, q mighty i'm
pulse will be given in support Of every sound
principle Of government. and the city will obtain
the services as its chief magistrate, Of a states
man Of the very highest rank in antecedents. In
character and in ability.
Every intelligent voter knows. the other
hand, that if the first Mayor OF the Greater
New-York is Tammany Democrat the effect
will be greatly to revive the hopes and promote
the schemes that grouped in the public mind
under the name OF Organism, and at the same
time to deliver this magnificent metropolis into
the hands OF an organized conspiracy for public
punder.
ASSURANCE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT.
The cause Of good government, meaning there.
by honest and intelligent administration, can
never he divorced from the Republican party.
and this convention will furnish TO the electorate
of New-York in the personality OF Its candidates
and in their public records an assurance OF good
government than which none could be more con-
vincing The welfare of the city Of ,New-York
will be their first consideration II VIII be their
highest duty.
We indorse the ST. Louis platform. We believe
that 1t needs the support Of the intelligent ana
patriotic people OF New-York as much to-day as
it did one year ago. 1t is not only the cause OK
sound money. 1t is pre-eminently the cause OK
social order Every vote cast against the candi'
dates OF this convention places both In peril.
We indorse the patriotic and successful adj
ministration Of William Mckinley. He was
truly the advance agent OF prosperity"
FRUITS OF THE TARIFF BILL.
We congratulate the people upon the passage
of a Republican Protective Tariff bill and point
to the revival Of business here and throughout
the country the first fruits Of its enactment
No duty can be more obvious than that OF the
people OF this commercial city 10 sustain the
party which has so swiftly and so completely
rescued the country from the financial distress
into which it had been plunged by Democratic
folles
We indorse the administration OF Governor
Black and the excellent record of the last Re-
publican Legislature.
The Greater New York, first among American
cities and soon to be first among cities OF the
world is the creation of the Republican party.
Its charter grants 10 the people Of the CONSOLE
dated municipalities almost complete right Of
self government. Its enactment will be last
ing tribute 10 the wise and patriotic leadership
which undismayed by factious opposition stead
fastly persisted in accomplishing the plan OF
consolidation. The scheme of the Greater New
York through all the years that were occupied
in completing it, was bitterly opposed by the
Democratic party. 1t is now universally COM
mended, and respectfully urge upon the elect
ors that the organization of the new city govern
ment should be committed TO those who con-
ceved and executed the plan OF consolidation
and not to those who were its constant enemies
NO RETURN TO CORRUPTION.
A vote for any other than the Republican
ticket Is vote to restore to power. with null
tped opportunities for harm, the self-same in
fuences and the self-same individuals that were
cast out OF office in so mighty storm Of right
eous wrath three years ago. The crimes Of
which the Tammany Democracy was then con-
victed should neve' be forgotten or forgiven.
They struck at the very heart of free govern
ment. There be pretence but that the
administration OF the last three years has been
in every department Of the city governments Of
n mr.
upon the administrations that preceded Il. To
return 10 the combined corruptions Of Tammany
Hall and Willoughbyst. instead OF progressing
to the attainment OF Republican ideals, should
not be possible to any voter who remembers the
past and observes the present.
We commend and insist upon the rigid en-.
forcement Of the wise provisions OF the new
charter with regard to the letting OF public fran.
chises. Such franchises should not become ths
unreserved or unlimited property Of individuals
and corporations. The city is entitled to and
should be enabled to reap its due benefit for the
bestowal of such franchises, and from such in
creases in their value as result from the Increase
Of population and the extension Of public i'm.
provements. We direct particular attention 10
the fact that the adoption OF these principles
was largely due to the strenuous efforts OF the
chairman Of the Charter Commission General
Benjamin F. Tracy.
THE EXCISE QUESTION
We commend the principle embodied In the
law that now regulates the sale OF liquor. The
abolition of local excise boards and the conces-
sion of the right to sell liquor to any citizen who
pays the tax and observes the law has taken the
saloon out of politics and has liberated the sa.
loonkeeper from the thradom of dishonest
politicians. In these respects the present law Is
the best that could be devised and its economic
features have operated TO the great advantage
Of this municipality and Of the whole State. The
city OF New-York, however. is unique In It's
cosmopolitan character, and excise provisions