Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-06-28
THE REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES
FOR THE CAMPAIGN OF 19OO-CREDIT IS
TAKEN FOR PROSPERITY.
PRESIDENT N k|NLEY IS ENDORSED
Republican Legislation is Approved, and the
People Asked TO Support the Party.

pnu.ADElrmIA, June 20.-Thc
committee on resolutions completed
its preparation of the platform at
l2.35 p. m, to-day.
Senator Fairbank, Chairman Of
the Committee, Immediately left the
Hotel Walton, where it had been
put in shar for the Convention
Hall.
Following is a text of the docu-
mcnt
The Republicans Of the United
States, through their chosen repre-
scntativrs, met in convention, look
ing back upon an unsurpassed record
of achievement and looking forward
into a great field of duty and oppor-
tunity, and appealing to the judg-
ment OF their countrymcn, make
these declarations:
The expectation in which the
American people turned from the
Democratic party, in power four
years ago, to the Republican Chief
Magistrate and Republican Congress
has been met and satisfied. When
the people then assembled ut the
polls after term of Democratic
legislation and administration, bust
ness was dead, industry paralyzcd
and the national credit disastrously
impaired. The country's capital
was hidden away and its labor dis
tressed and unemployed. The
Democrats had no other plan with
which to improve the ruinous con-
ditions, which they had themselves
produced, than to coin silver at the
ratio of 16 to |. The Republican
party denouncing this plan as sure
to produce conditions even worse
than those from which relief was
sought, promised to restore pros
perity by means Of two legislative
measurcs--a protective tariff ani Il
law making gold standard of
value. The people by great inajori-
ties issued to the Republican party a
commission to enact these laws.
This commission has been exc
cutcd and the Republican promise is
redeemed. Prosperity, more general
and more abundant than we have
ever known, has followed these en-
actmcnts. There is no longer con
'rovcrsy rs to the value of any gov
crnment obligations. Every Amcri-
can dollar is gold dollar or its as
surcd equivalent, and its American
credit stands higher :han that of any
nation. Capital is fully employed
and everywhere labor is proiitably
occupied. No single fact can more
strikingly tell the story of what Re
publican government means to the
country than this-that while during
the whole period OF one hundred and
seven years from 1890 to 1897, there
was an excess of exports over i'm
ports Of only $GS3, ,02S, ,lGG, there has
been in the short three years Of the
present Republican administration
and excess Of exports over imports
IN the enormous sum Of 81 ,IS3, ,537,
09l, and while the American people,
sustained by this Republican lcgiS,
latI"n, have been achieving these
splendid trumphS in their business
and commerce, they have conducted
and IN victory concluded a war 70,
liberty and humanity. no thought
OF national aggrandzcmcnt tarniShcd
the high purpose with which Amcri-
can standards were uniurlcd II
was war unsought and paticntl,
resisted, but when it came the
American government was ready
It's ilccts were cleared for action Its
armies were in the field and the uuick
and signal triumph Of it's forces ON
land and sea bore equal tribute to
the courage Of American soldiers ana
to the skill and foresight of RcpuEi.
can craftsmanship. TO ten millions
OF the human race there was givcr
"a new birth Of frccdom," and t,
the American people new and nobl,
responsibility.