Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-04-15
Platform,
Fayors Maintaining the Present
Gold Standard"
But Refuses to Condemn the So-Called
Legislative Hold-Up.

NJ saIJ. 1lpeS, Vi mulbuuudus pOiN
Democrat, offered the following res
olution, which was carried with the
utmost enthusiasm, and the conven--
tion rose to its feet and cheered
wildly for Mckinley:
"Resolved, That the follow Ting
message be at once wired to President
Mckinley: The Republicans of Or
egon, to the president of the United
States, greeting; With the utmost
confidence in the wisdom of your aG-
mlnistration and pledging you the
support of the state of Oregon,
we express our earnest con-
victions that the Maine was destroyed
by the design or criminal neglect of
SPANS officers, and that this outrage
is just the cause for the United
States to drive the Spanish nation
from the Western hemisphere.
At O'Clock the convention was
re-assembled, and the committee on
platform reported. F. s. Barnes, of
Washington, offered a resolution con-
demning the so.called hold-up of the
legislature year ago. and motion
was made by Wallace McCamant to
lay the amendment 'on the table. in
the interest of harmony
THE PLATFORM.
This motion prevailed, and then
the platform was adopted as follows:
1--WE are in favor of the mainten-
ance of the present gold standard, we
are unqualitiedly opposed to the free
coinage of silver and to all other
schemes looking to the debasement
of the currency aud the repudiation
of debt.
"We believe that the best money in
the world is none too good to be as
sured by the government to the
laborer as the fruit of his toll, and to
the farmer as the price Of his crop,
owe condemn the continued agita-
tion for free silver as calculated to
jeopardise the prosperity of the coun-
try and to shake the confidence of the
Eeople in the maintainance of wise
financial policy.
"We particularly condemn the un-
patriotic efforts of the free-silYer agi-
tators to array class against class and
section against action,
1--WE declare the interests of all
classes and of all section of our cOun-
try alike demand sound and stable
financial system.
"While we deplore the imminence
of war, we recognize that the country
is on the eve Of war undertaken for
the yendcation of our national honor
and the performance of work dictated
by every Instinct of humanity.
"We declare that the administra-
tion is entitled in this conflict to the
confidence and support of the entire
people.
"We are firmly attached to the
principles of our federal constitution;
we recognize that the representative
government is one of those principles
and we are opposed to any change in
toe law of constitution which will
aorogate this time-hOnored principle,
"We are in favor of retrenchment
and reform in state and county mats
ters.
"We demand strict economy In pub
lie affairs, and the abolition of all
needless offices and commissions.
1.-THE salmon and fishing industry,
so fruitful a source of revenue 10
the state, should be fOstered, and to
that end we favor state aid in the
artificial propagation of salmon, and
its distribution in the wat ers of this
state.
"We re-af1irm our allegience to
the principles of the Republican
party cf the United States, as enuncI-
ated by the Republican convention
at st. LOUIS In 1896.
1--WE denounce the fusion party Of
Oregon as an aggregation of spoils-
men, who are ready TO subordinate
principles to Office Each OF the
parties to this compact sis willing to
stultlfy Itself and form allegiance
with the elements which it mas here.
tofore denounce as dangerous and un.
fit to be entrusted with power; we
declare that good government cannot
come from such alliance.