The sun., 1900-08-24
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Reaffirmed by the Union Repub-
licans at Dover Yes
terday.
WIN. M'KINLEY Is ENDORSED
State Party Reiterates its Allegi-
ances to the National Organi-
cation and Set Forth De-
ciaration of Principals.

The platform Of the Union Republi
can party, re-afiirmed at Dover yester
day is as follows:
State convention assembled again re-
affirm their devotion to the Republican
party of the union, and their confidence
in the administration of the National af-
fairs under the presidency of William
Mckinley.
They express their satisfaction with
its financial policy, and the legislation of
the last Congress, whereby the pledges
of the party to restore the public Gre
dit to revive national confidence the
commercial industry and agricultural
life of the American people, have been
so completely redeemed.
They express their unqualified approx
al of the management Of the late war
with Spain, and Of all the acts of the
administration for securing peace, pros
perity and equitable government in
Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines,
including the retention of all the terri
tory ceded to this nation by the treaty of
Paris, and they further express their
full satisfaction and approval of the de-
termination of the government to with
draw our troops from the Island of
the State of Delaware who oppose the
principles of Bryanism, who favor the
present stable international gold stand
ard, who oppose national political eX-
periments and who desire the mainten-
ance OF the acknowledged and unpre-
cedented prosperity of the American
people under the present administra-
ton to unite in Il common effort to
maintain this happy condition of na-
tiOnal affairs.
They oppose free silver and free
trade as dual agencies in producing ma
tiOnal stagnation, individual poverty and
national loss.
They favor national expansion, Sy-
nonym and corollary of national growth
and progress. and point to the history
of the Republican party. the party al
ways of Il free ballot and Il fair count,
the party Of free suffrage and the party
of emancipation, as Il full and complete
refutation Of the absurd charges of i'm
perialism.
They denounce as cowardly and un-
patriotic, on the part of the Democratic
party, the effort TO deprive the colorcd
citizens Of the Southern States Of the
right of suffrage in violation of the con-
stitutional guarantee of political equal
ity before the law and pledge the Re
publican party to resist the enactment
of a grandfather" clause in our con
stitutiOn as Il basis for the elective fran
chise.
They oppose all aggregatons of capi-
tai, commonly called Trusts. whose
manifest purpose is to obtain unjust
and illegitimate profits for the promo
tors at the expense of the people, as Il
menace to healthy ana normal compct
tion in our industrial and commercial
life.
They commend the matchless state
manShip of the President in the compli
cations brought about hy the present
insurrecton in China, in which til,
official representatives, Of our own il,
well as those of other nations hav,
been subjected to murder, to cruelty an,
indignity; and demand that this govern
ment in the interest of national honor
of common humanity, and civilization a
large, bear its full part in the conse
quent national obligations and duty.
We refer the citizens of Delaware t,
the well known Democratic advocac.
of the War with Spain, as not only
sufficient answer to the charge o
militaryism but confess our inability L
understand how "a stable form Of GOV
ernments Independence" and ''pr0
lection from outside interference" ca
be had even upon the Democratic pla
without an increase in our Army an
Naval forces.
They favor a just and economical
government in the State of Deawai'
and pledge the people if intrusted wit
power, Il correction of the gross abuse
which in every direction have fastene
themselves upon the administration q
State and county affairs Iur { periO
of more than thirty years under continu
ous Democratic administration.
They favor the making of all electiv
State and county officers salaried, an
at such compensation as CORE,
ponds with the salaries for equal sci
vice paid in private enterprises.
They favor the maintenance of til
present incorporation act of the Stat,
and unquaifiedly oppose its abolutiol
Its validity stands between an empt
treasury and State tax upon the pc,
pie.
They favor thorough investigatio
OF the present condition of our State an
county finances and the method pursued
ana careful inquiry into the varior
sources of State revenue, the d