Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-08
A RISING PLATFORM
The Ohio Republicans stand by st.
Louis Platform and MCKinley'S
Administration.

tration of William Mckinley 1t is distln-
guished to remarkable degree in. the his
tory of national administrations. Under
the last administration, as a result OF
Democratic principles and policy, our in
dustries were destroyed, capital and labor
were unemployed, the poor suffered as
never before in our history, agricultural
products could not be sold because consum-
ers could not earn money with which to
buy, and every branch Of trade felt the
blighting influence Of the Democratic ia
riff reform hard times tie treasury of the
United States was depleted and the gold
reserve disappeared. The government bor-
rowed money to pay current expenses, in
creasing the public debt in times of peace
by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Democratic party proposed to the
people as a remedy for all these Demo
cratic ills deprecated and dishonest cur
rency, which intensified every i'll.
During all that period of depression and
distress the Republican party stood fast
for the principles and policies under which
American industries had been built up
and had flourished beyond example-the
principles and policies under which the
people had prospered and the nation had
grown great for generation stood fast
for a sound and honest currency, and in
1896 elected to the Presidency William Nc
Kinley, the best exponent of Republican
ism and true American ideas and policies,
the friend of every American industry,
and the wise and patriotic defender and
vocate of honest money.
ADMINISTRATION GLoRIFIED.
Under his splendid Republican admins
tration, public credit has been restored,
the prosperity of the people has developed,
our commerce has grown great, our trade,
domestic and foreign, has increased to a
degree never before known, and the peo-
pie are looking with confidence for greater
things to come.
The magnificent achievements of our
army ard navy in the war with Spain for
the liberation of the down-trodGen and
oppressed people of Cuba from the domi-
nation of Castilian depotism, accomplish
ed under the master guidance of a Repub-
lican administration, are necessarily
subjects of highest encomium by conven-
ton of Ohio Republicans.
To the same master guidance, controlled
by the great principles that have shaped
the destiny of the Republican party from
Lincoln TO Mckinley, the people can safe
ly committee solution OF the momentous
problem of the future of Cuba, Porto Rico
and the PHILIPPINE Islands. The wise So
luton will vastly increase our foreign
nade, spread American civilization abroad
and add to the honor and power and
glory Of this great nation.
We commend the President for judi
cious notifications Of civil service rules
recently promulgated,
For the national defense, for the rein
forcement of the navy, for the enlwge-
ment of our foreign markets, for tie
employment of American workingmen in
the mines, forests, farms, mills, factories
and shipyards, we demand the immediate
enactment Of legislation similar to that
reported to each branch of the F,fty-liith
Congress at its last session, so that Ameri-
can-built, American-owned and American
manned ships may regain their carrying
OF our foreign commerce.
We commend the action of the seventy
third Assembly of Ohio in passing the
stringent law on our statute books prohb-
iting the organization Of ''trusts" and we
denounce such unla Sful combinations as
inimical to the interests of the people.
We congratulate the people of the State
upon the fact that Republican legisla-
ture enacted this law and we demand its
rigid enforcement. We pledge our party
to such further legislation as experience
may determine necessary to prevent the
formation and operation Of such iniqutous
and dangerous combinations.
Other resolutions commend the meas
ures for equalizing taxes, uniform system
of selecting delegates for State conyen-
tons, protesting against lynching, and
favoriug the Ohio centennial at Toledo in
1902.
MEXlCO,S RURAL POLICE