The National tribune., 1900-06-28
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Full Text of the Document Adopted at the
Convention.

| Full IexL Of Lne pCCumeut AUOptSu AZ VI
Convention.
| Follonng is the full text of the docu
ment:
The Republicans of the United States
| through their chosen representatives me'
| in national convention, looking bach
| upon an unsurpassed record of achieve
ment and looking forward into grea1
| field of duty and opportunity, and appeal
| ing to the judgment of their countrymen
| make these declarations:
The expectation in which the American
people, turning from the Democratic
party, intrusted power four years ago tt
| Republican Chief Magistrate and Re
| publican Congress, has been met and sat
| isfed. When the people then assembled
at the polls, after term of Democratic
| legislation and administration, bushes:
was dead, industry paralyzed and the Ma
| tional credit disastrously impaired.
The country's capital was hidden away
| and its labor distressed and unemployed
| The Democrats held no other plan with
| which to improve the ruinous conditions
which they had themselves produced than
| to coin silver at the ratio of 16 to j. The
| Republican party, denOuncing this plan as
sure to produce conditions even worse
| than those from which relief was sought
| promised to restore prosperity by means
| Of two legislative meaSures-a protective
tariff and law making gold the stand
| ard of value. The people by great ma
jorities issued to the Republican party a
commission to enact these laws.
This commission has been executed
and the Republican promise lis redeemed
Prosperity more general and more abund-
ant than we have ever known has fol
lowed these enactIaents. There is no
longer controversy as to the value of any
Government obligations. Every Ameri-
can dollar is @ gold dollar or its assured
equivalent, and American credit stands
higher than that of any nation. Capital il
fully employed and labor everywhere is
profitably occupied
No single fact can more strikinSly tell
the story of what Republican Government
means to the country than this-that while
during the whole period of lot years, from
1880 to 1897, there was an excess of ex-
ports over imports of only $685., OPS, ,49I
the present Republican Administration an
excess of exports over imports in the
enormous sum of 81 ,4S3, ,537 ,094.
And while the American people, sus-
tanned by the Republican legislation, have
been achieving these splendid triumphs in
their business and commerce, they have
conducted and in victory concluded war
for liberty and human rights. No thought
of National ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tarnished the
high purpose with which American stand
ards We're unfurled. 1t was war un
sought and patiently resisted, but when it
tHc was
ready. Its fleets We're cleared for action.
Its armies were in the field and the quick
and signal triumphs of its forces on land
and sea bore equal tribute to the courage
OF American soldiers and sailors, and to
the skill and foresight of republican
statesmanship. To ten millions of the hu.
man race there was given "a new birth of
freedom" and to the American people
new and double responsibility.
MKINLEY's ADMINISTRATION INDoRsED.
We endorse the administration of Will
lam Mckinley. Its acts have been estab-
lished in wisdom and in patriotism, and at
home and abroad it has distinctly elevated
and extended the influence of the Ameri-
can Nation. Walking untried paths and
facing unforeseen responsibilities, Presi-
dent Mckinley has been in every situation
the true American patriot and the upright
statesman, clear in vision, strong in judo.
ment, firm in action, always inspiring and
deserving the confidence of his country
men.
In asking the American people to in
dcrse this Republican record and to renew
their commission to the Republican party,
we remind them of the fact that the men
ace to their prosperity has always resided
in Democratic principles and no less in
the general incapacity of the Democratic
party to conduct public affairs. The
prime essential of business prosperity is
public confidence in the good sense of the
Government and in its ability to deal in
telligently with each new problem of ad-
ministration and legislation. That con-
hdence the Democratic party has never
earned. 1t is hopelessly inadequate and
the country's prosperity, when Demo
cratic success at the polls is announced,
halts and ceases in mere anticipation of
Democratic blunders and failures.
ALLEGIANCE TO GOLD STANDARD.
We renew our allegiance to the princi-
pie of the gold standard and declare our
in the wisdom of the legislation
Oh the fIfty-sixth Congress, by which the
parity OF all our money and the stability
OF our currency upon a gold basis has
been secured. We recognize that interest
rates are potent factor in production and
business activity, and for the purpose of |
further equalizing and of further lower |
ing the rates Of interest. we favor such |
monetary legislation as will enable the |
varying needs of the season and Of all sec
tions to be promptly met in order that |
trade may be evenly sustained, labor |
steadily employed and commerce en-
larged. The volume Of money In circula-
tlon was never so great per capita as it is
today. We declare our steadfast opposi- |
tion to the free and unlimited coinage of |
silver. No measure to that end could be
considered which was without the sup
port of the leading commercial countries |
Of the world: However firmly Repub-
itaH ltSiSIutiOH may seem 10 nave Sc |
cured the country against the peril of base
and discredited currency, the election of a
Democratic President could not fail to
impair the country's credit and to bring
,nce more into question the intention of
.he American people to maintain upon the
gold standard the parity of their money
circulation. The Democratic party must
De convinced that the American people
will never tolerate the Chicago platform.