The sun., 1900-06-21
THE CONVENTION
Continued From Page One.

Tie convention, aTrer rne aooprlon Oh
the platform, adjourned for the day.
The Platform.
The platform adopted by the national
convention is as follows;
'1The Republicans of the United States,
through their chosen representatives, met
in national convention, looking back upon
| an unsurpassed record of achievement
and looking forward into a great field
of duty and opportunity and appealing to
the judgment of their countrymen, make
these declarations
"The expectation in which the Ameri-
can people, turning from the Democratic
| party, intrusted power four years ago to
a Republican chief magistrate and a
4 Republican congress, has been met and
satisfied. When the people then assem-
bled at the polls, after a term of Demo-
cratic legislation and administration.
business was dead, industry paralyzed
and the national credit disastrously i'm
paired. The country's capital was hid
den away and it's 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 ratiL
| of ~ to /. The Republican party, de-
nouncns this plan as sure TO produce
conditions even worse than those from
which relief was sought, promised to re-
| store prosperity by meanstof two legisla-
| i've lneasures-;l protective tariff and
law making gold the standard of value.
lhe people by great majorities issued to
the Republican party a commission to
enact these laws. This commission has
4 MI tho
ise is redeemed. Prosperity more general
and more abundant than we have ever
known has followed these enactments.
| There is no longer controversy as to the
value of any government obligations.
Every American dollar is gold dollar or
its assured equivalent, and American
| credit stands higher than that of any ma
ton. Capital is fully employed, and la
| Dor everywhere is proiitably occupied.
No single fact can more strikingly tell
what Republican government means to
/ the country than this--that, while during
| the whole period of 107 years from 1870
TO 1891 there was an excess of exports
over imports of only 1888, OPS, ,497, there
has been in the short three years of the
present Republican administration an ex-
cess of exports over imports in the enor-
nous sum of 1,4S3, 1904.
And while the American people, sus-
tanned by this Republican legislation,
have been achieving these splendid tri-
umphs in their business and commerce
they have conducted and in victory con-
cluded war for liberty and human
rights. No thought of national aggran
dizement tarnished the high purpose with
which American standards were unfurl-
ed. 1t was war unsought and patient
ly resisted, but when it came the Ameri
can government was ready. Its fleets
were cleared for action, its armies were
in the field, and the quick and 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 1000A,00N of the human
race there was given "A now birth of
freedom" mi, to tie American people
new ana noble responsibility.
hdnsi-: iatrMtioa Endorsed.
we iflnrse the administration of vii
liaHl Mckinley, II aots have been es-
tailishrd n wisdom ard in patriotism,
gld IL E4mo and abroad it has distinctly
elevated and rHtea4al tllc influence of
the American nation Walking untricd
paths l3il facing unforeseen responsible
lies, i'rcsi,ient Mckinley has been in
every situation the true American patriot
and the upright statesman, clear in
vision, strong in Judgment, firm in ac-
rion, always inspiring and deserving the
confidence Of his countlymen.
In asking the American people to in
dorsc this Republican record and to re-
new their commission to the Republican
party we remind them of the fact that
m IN fhnip hoc nj
ways 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 it's abil-
ity to deal intelligently with each new
problem of administration and legisla-
tion. That confidence the Democratic
party has never earned 1t is hopelessly
inadequate, and the country's prosperity,
when Democratic success at the polls is
announced, halts and ceases in mere an
ticipation of Democratic blunders and
failures.
1--WE renew our allegiance to the prin- |
ciple of the gold standard and declare |
our confidence in the wisdom of the leg |
islation of the Fifty-sixth congress by |
which the parity of all our money and |
the stability Of our currency upon a gold |
basis have 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 il |
order that trade may be evenly sustain. |
ed, labor steadily employed and COM
merce enlarged. The volume of money in |
circulation was never so great per capita
as it is today. We declare our steadfast |
opposition to the free and unlimited coin
age of silver. No measure to that end |
could be considered which was without
the support of the leading commercial
countries of the world. However firmly
Republican legislation may seem to have
secured the country against the peril of
base and discredited currency, the elec-
tion of a Democratic president could not
fail to impair the country's credit and to
bring once more into question the inten-
tion of the American people to maintain
upon the gold standard the parity of
their money circulation. The Democratic
party must be convinced that the Ameri-
can people will never tolerate the Chi