The San Francisco call., 1898-08-24
::NE SHOULD HOLD . ~
 THE PHILIPPINES " \ ::  Platform of Missouri 
 Republicans. 
  IN FAVOR OF EXPANSION
BROADENING OF THE MONROE
 DOCTRINE.
President Mckinley Congratulated Upon the Skill With Which the War Was Waged
 and Won.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Q: ST. LOUIS, Aug. 23.-The Republican
 State Convention spent the afternoon . listening to speeches. Webster Davis of Kansas City, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, declared that the Repub- lican party was fortunate in having a national administration which needed no defense No administration had ac- complished so much in the same space of time In closing, MT. Davis said:
 "We have the Hawaiian and the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico, and we may have Cuba. That's not so bad for 113 days of McKinley's administra- . -tion, is it?" (Applause.)
 Richard c. Kerens, who represents Missouri in the Republican National .. Committee, was the next speaker. Speaking of the recent war with Spain and the results, Colonel Kerens de- clared that wherever "Old Glory" has been unfurled it should never be hauled down. He believed we should keep all the lands acquired.
 Dr. Stark Neff, secretary of the com ,mittee on resolutions, read the report of that committee, which was adopted.
 The following is a synopsis of the platform:
 The Republican ~arty of the State of Missouri, in convention assembled, con graduates the nation upon the unparal- leled success of the administration or President Mckinley, which has been dis tinguished for wise statesmanship and lofty patriotism in both its domestic and foreign policy. and for the efficient man. ner in which the war has been conducted to an early and honorable conclusion, and we hereby express our approval of the .. terms of the protocol Bite imposed oT by the the Spain as a necessary condition precedent as to the suspension of hostilities.
 We extend our thanks to the American nd noble in behalf of their country and their bril- liant achievements in the Spanish-Amer-
 We reafirrn our faith in the declaration of principles of the Republican party of 1896. We are in favor of increasing our navy to size commensurate with our expanding commerce and with the mag
 nitude of the interests of this republic which need protection. We favor an ade- quate system of harbor ana seacoast de- lenses and the maintenance of regular and a thoroughly equipped army. sufffi- cient in size adequately to insure the de- fense of the nation at all times.
 =. We are In favor of the completion and : control of the Nicaragua canal by the . United States as a necessary measure for the protection and extension Of American commerce and the perfection of our na- tional defense. We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its full extent as principle of our party and we believe that the United States should stand aloof from in- terference with the affairs and disputes of European powers when American in- terests are not involved; but we assert that the Monroe doctrine does not compel 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 conquest of the Spanish-American war been placed under our protecting care. And we fur ther assert that the Monroe doctrine does not forbid the enlargement and exten- sion of American territory or the protec- ton of American interests in the Eastern as well as the Western hemisphere, espec- ially in the 'acific Ocean, where our great coast line and the requirements of the commercial development of our Western States impose on our government cor responding duties: and we. therefore, ap- .:Droye of the annexation of the Hawaiian islands. and we favor the acquisition and ownership of additional naval stations and ports sufficient to afford ample pro- lection to our rightful and natural grow ing commerce with Asia and other coun- tries of the Far West: We believe in the upbuilding of the American merchant :. Congress as will accomplish that end.