The Portland daily press., 1900-06-21


STATIONS yet hsard in the convention oc-
CURED.
The Quay amendment was opposed by
Mccall of Tennessee and Lynch Of Missis-
sippi on behalf Of the southern States.
The Quay amendment went over TIL to-
morrow, the remainder Of the report be-
ing adopted.
The committee completed its prepara-
ton Of the platform at ~ IS. Senator
Fairbanks, chairman OF the committee
Immediately left the Hotel Walton where
1t had been put in shape for the Conven-
tion hall. The following Is the fall text
of the document:
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans Of the United states
| through their chosen representatives met
| In National convention, looking back up
| ON an unsurpassed record OF achievement
and looking forward into great Held OF
duty and opportunity and appealing 20
the Judgment Of their countrymen, make
these deciarations:
The expectation in which the Ameri-
can people, turning from the Democratic
party entrusted power four years ago 70 u
Republican chief magistrate and lie,
satisfied. When the people then as
sembled at the polls, after term OF
Democratic legislation and adminfstra-
ton business was dead, industry para
| lyzed and the national credit disastrously
impaired The country's capital was hid
den away and its labor distressed and un-
employed. The Democrats had no other
plan with which TO improve the ruinous
conditions which they had themselves
produced than TO coin silver at the rail
OF is 20 /. The Republican party, de-
noupcing this plan as sure 70 prouuce
conditions even worse than those from
which relief was sou ght, promised TO re-
store prosperity by means OF two Ieg1sia-
| tive measures, protective tariff and n
| law making gold the standard of value.
| The people by great majorities issued to
the Republican party commission on 70 len, en-,
executed and the Republican promise Is
redeemed. Prosperity more general and
more abundant than we have ever known
has followed these enactmepts.
There Is no longer controversy as TO tho
value Of any government obngation.
Every American dollar Is gold dollar or
its assured equivalent, and American
credit stands higher than that OF any ma
tlon. Capital IL fully employed and labor
| everywhere Is probably occupied. No
single fact can more strtkingly tell the
story of what Republican government
1 means 10 Lnt CUuuAfL tiAtA bQAo-1AAeNN
while during the whole period OF one
hundred and seven years from 100 TO 1897
there was an excess of exports over I'M
ports of only 1888, 02S, 4Y7, there has been
| in the short three years OF the present Re
publican administration an excess OF ex-
ports over imports In the enormous sum
| of 81, 4S3, 537, O94.
And while the American people sus-
tanned by this Republican legislation
have been achieving these splendid
| triumphs on their business and COM
merce they have conducted and in victory
concluded a war for liberty and human
rights, No thought of national aggran-
di2ement furnished the high purpose with
which American standards We're UNI
| furled, IL was war unsought and
patiently resisted, but when IL came the
| American government was ready. Its
| fleets were cleared for action. Its armies
were in the field and the quick signal
| triumph 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 states
manship. 10 their millions of human
| race there was given "a new birth OF free
DOM, and to the American people new
and noble responsibility.
We endorse the administration of Will
| liam Mckinley. Its acts have been estab.
| lished In wisdom and III patriotism, and
at home and abroad 1t has distinctly
elevated and extended the influence of the
American nation. Walking untried paths
and facing unforeseen responsibilities,
| President Mckinley has been In every
situation the true American patriot and
| the upright statesman, clear in vision,
strong in Judgment, firm in action, al
ways inspiring and deserving the conf
dence OF his countrymen.
In asking the American people TO en-
dorse this Republican record and to renew
| their commission to the Republican party
we remind them of the fact that the
menace TO thsir prosperity has always re-
sided in Democratic principles and no
| less in the general incapaclty OF the
| Democratic party 20 conduct public AZ
| fairs The prime essential of business
prosperity is public confidence In the good
sense Of the government and in its ability
/ to deal intelligently with each new
problem of administration and legtsla-
| ton. That confidence the Democratic
party has never earned, IL is hopeiessly
| Inadequate and the country's prosperity
when Democratic success at the polls is
announced, halts and ceases In mere an
ticipation of Democratic plumbers and
| failures.
We renew our allegiance to the princi-
| pie OF the gold standard and declare our
confidence in the wisdom of the legisla-
ton of the 56th Congress by which the
parity of all our money and the stability
| of our currency upon gold basis mas
been secured. We recognize that interest
rates are potent factors in production
and business activity and for the purpose
of further equalizing and of further
| lowering the rates of interest, we favor
such monetary legislation as will enable
the varying needs OF the season and OF
all sections TO be promptly met in order
that trade may be evenly sustained,
labor steadily employed and commerce
enlarged. The volume of money in oircu-
lation was never so great per capita as 1t
| Is today. We declare our steadfast oppo
sition to the free and unlimited coinage
of silver. No measure to that end could
be considered which was without the
support of the leading commercial coun-
| tries of the world However firmly Re-
publican legislation may seem to have
secured the country against the principle
of base and discredited currency, the
election of a Democratic President could
not fail to impair the country's credit
| and to bring one more Einto question