The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-06-06

The Democratic party proposed to
the people, as a remedy for all these
Democratic ills, deprecated and dis
honest currency, which intensified
every evil. During all this period of
depression and distress the Republican
party stood fast for the principles and
and policies under which American
industries had been built up and had
flourished beyond example-the prin-
ciples 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 Mckinley, the
best exponent of Republicanism and
true American ideas and policies, the
friend of every American industry and
the wise and patriotic defender and ad-
vocate of honest money.
Under his splendid Republican ad-
ministration public credit has been
restored, the prosperity of the people
has been developed, our commerce has
grown greater, our trade, domestic and
foreign, has increased to a degree
never before known, and the people
things to come.
L
army and navy in the war with Spain
for the liberation of the downtrodden
and oppressed people of Cuba from the
domination of Castilian despotism,
accomplished under the master guild
ance of a Republican administration,
are necessarily subjects for highest
encomium by convention of Ohio Re-
publicans.
To the same master guidance, con-
trolled by the great principles that
have shaped the high destiny of the
Republican party from Lincoln to
Mckinley, the people can safely COM
NIT the solution of the mOmentOus
problem of the future of Cuba, Puerto
Rico and the Philippines. Their wise
trade, spread American civilization
abroad and add to the honor and glory
of this great Nation.
We commend the President for the
judicious notifications of the civil
service rules, recently promulgated.
For the National defense, for the re-
enforcement of the navy, for the en-
largement of our foreign markets, for
the employment of American working
men in the mines, forests, farms, mills,
factories and shipyards, we demand the
immediate enactment of legislation
similar to that favorably reported to
each branch of the Fifty-fifth Congress
at its last session, so that American
built, American owned and American
manned ships may regain the carrying
of our foreign commerce.
We are proud of the brilliant and
conspicuous services rendered to the
people of the State and the country by
the Senators from Ohio, Hon. Joseph
B. Foraker and Hon. Marcus A. Hanna,
and of the matchless record of the dele
cation of Republican Congressman
now representing the Buckeye State.
The present administration of State
affairs under Governor Asa S. Bushnell
has been able, wise and economical.
1t is pure, free from scandal and
eminently satisfactory to the people OF
the State, without regard to party. No
State administration has enjoyed to a
greater degree the confidence of all the
people.
We commend the action of the
Seyenty-third General Assembly OF
Ohio in passing the stringent law now
on our statute books prohibiting the
Organization of ''trusts," and we
denounce such unlawful combinations
as inimical to the interests of the
people.
We congratulate the people of the
State upon the fact that a Republican
Legislature enacted this law and we
demand it's rigid enforcement.
We pledge our party to such further
Legislation as experience may determine
necessary to prevent the formation and
operation of such iniquitOus and
dangerous combinations.
We demand such readjustment of oul
tax laws as will impose the burdens o1
taxation more equally and uniformly
upon the various kinds Of property.
The growing evil of lynching, at,
tended at times by unspeakable horrors
is blot upon our civilization and q
menace to our republican form of gov.
ernment.
The Ohio Centennial and Northwest
| Territory Exposition, which is to be
held at the city of Toledo in the year
1902, is an event in which all the States
comprising the Northwest Territory
should feel deep interest. This is
especially true of the State of Ohio
which was the first State to be carved
from that great domain. This eX.
position will be held upon the one hun.
dredth anniversary of the admission oi
the State of Ohio into the Union, and
will be the first opportunity which the
State will have had to adequately ex.
hibit, display and show to the world
the great progress which it has made
in the first century of its existence, in
all of it's diversified industries and in.
| terests.
In order that the exposition may be
a credit to this State, it will be neces.
sary for the legislators to promptly
make liberal appropriation to that
end, and we recommend that the
Legislature, at it's next session, make
an appropriation for this purpose com.
mensurate with the great interests
involved.
We recommend that the Republican
State Central Committee adopt rule
as nearly uniform as practicable fol
the selection of delegates to the State
conventions of the Republican party.
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