The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-24
work done by the Republican party in

work done by the Republican party in
Missouri.
At its conclusion Dr. Emil Pretorius,
editor of the st. Louis Westliche Post,
was introduced as temporary chair
man. Mayor Henry Zeigenhein, on
behalf of st. Louis, welcomed the
delegates and visitors to the city. He
referred to the work of President Nc
Kinley and the boys in blue" in the
war with Spain, eliciting prolonged
and enthusiastic applause. He said he
was in favor of holding every bit of
land we had acquired and declared
that our flag should never be taken
down where it had once been raised.
This sentiment met with almost uni
versal approval judging from the out
burst of applause.
It was 2:15 o'clock before the conven-
ton resumed its work. Time was given
the committees to retire and prepare
their reports and the convention spent
the afternoon in listening to reports.
Webster Davis of Kansas City, as
sistant secretary of the interior, re-
sponded to repeated calls, and was re-
ceiYed with enthusiasm. He declared
that the Republican party was fortu-
nate in having a national administra-
ton which needed no defense. No adj
ministration had accomplished so much
in the same space of time. In closing
Mr.. Davis said:
we have got the Hawaiian and the
Philippine Islands, and Porto Rico, and
we may have Cuba. That's not bad for
lib days of McKinley's administration,
is it?" (Applause.)
Richard c. Kerens, who represents
Missouri in the Republican national
committee, was the next speaker.
The report of the committee on per-
manent organization and order of bus
mess recommending that the tempo
rary organization be made permanent,
was adopted.
DR.. Starkneff, secretary of the COM
mittee On resolutions, read the report
of that committee, which was adopted,
and the convention adjourned until to-
morrow morning at 8 o'clock.
PLATFORM ADOPTED.
The following is synopsis of the
platform:
The Republican party of the state
of Missouri, in convention assembled,
congratulates the nation upon the I'M
paralleled success of the administra-
ton of President Mckinley, which has
been distinguished for wise statesman
ship and lofty patriotism in both its
domestic and foreign policy, and for the
efficient manner in which the war with
Spain has been conducted to an early
and honorable conclusion. And we
hereby express our approval of the
terms of the protocol imposed by the
president between this country and
Spain as a necessary condition prece-
dent TO the suspension of hostilities
We reaffirm our faith in the declara-
ton of principles of the Republican
party in 1926. We are in favor of in
creasing our navy to a size common
SUrate with our expanding commerce
and With the magnitude of the interests
Of this republic which need protection.
We are in favor of the completion
and control of the Nicaragua canal by
the United States as a necessary meas
ure for the protection and extension
of American commerce and the per-
lection of our national defenses. We
assert the Monroe doctrine, in its full
extent, as principle of our party, and
we believe that the United States
should stand aloof from interference
with the affairs and disputes of Eu-
ropean powers, when American inter
ests are not involved, but we assert
that the Monroe doctrine does not com
pei our government to abandon or to
return to the tyranny of Spanish rule
any of the helpless peoples who have,
by force of circumstances in the con-
quest of the SpaniSh-American war;
been placed under our protecting care.
We approve of the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands. and we favor the
acquisition and ownership of. additional
naval stations and ports sufficient to
afford ample protection to our rightful
and naturally growing commerce with
Asia and other countries of the far
west. We believe in the upbuilding OF
the merchant marine, and we favor
Such legislation by congress as will ac-
complish that end.