Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-04-27
Ohio Republicans Adopt a Plat
j. form Unqualifiedly Endors-
p ing Mckinley,
And Declaring His Administra'
tion Among the Best in Our
-, History.
Spanish Treaty and Subsequent
Events Endorsed.--The Trust
Question.

COLUMBUS, O., April 26.-The Repub.
ican state convention reassembled at
1920 q. m. Prayer was offered by Rev.
John Hewitt. The reports Of the com.
mittees were adopted, including the one
making the temporary organization per.
manent, when Chairman r. M. Nevin,
without further speech making, pro.
ceeded to dispatch business.
General Grosvenor, from the commit.
tee on refolutions, presented the follow.
ing platform, which was adopted:
The Republicans of Ohio, in convention
assembled, hereby renew their faith in
ciples made by the Republican party in
same to be in all respects the true princi.
pies of the Republican party.
Under it's wise and benificent admins.
law the Dingley tariff bill and restored
prosperity to the country.
The foreign trade of the United States
is today greater and more profitable than
ever before, and in this field of effort the
tions of the world.
Administration Cordially Endorsed.
We cordially endorse the wise any pat
riotic administration of President McKin-
ley, whose signal achievements in war
and peace, in statesmanship and diplo-
macy, mark an epoch in the history of
the nation, and whose brilliant success
justifes and demands, in the highest in
terests of the country, the uninterrupted
continuance through another term of his
great but uncompleted work. Confront
ing unprecedented requirements Mt home
and unexampled responsibilities abroad.
he has met them with courage, Fidelity
and strength which have given him an
enduring place in the confidence and af-
fection of his countrymen.
Pledges Fulfilled.
Every pledge of his administration has
been faithfully redeemed; it has dispelled
long business depression, restored the
protection of American labor and indus
try, reawakened universal confidence. re-
established prosperity unparalleled, as
sured to labor the steadiest employment
and the highest pay; opened new fields of
enterprise and new markets for trade. 1t
has brought to agriculture better condi-
tion than for many years, fixed the gold
standard upon firm foundations Of law
and made our national currency larger in
volume and sure in value, and lifted our
national credit to the highest plane any
nation has ever reached.
In the broader field of world duty and
influence, it has met an unavoidable war
for humanity with unequalled vigor and
success, and crowned the matchless tri-
umph of our arms on sea and land with
the courageous acceptance of it's high and
solemn obligations; has faithfully studied
and sought equally the true honor of the
nation and the greatest good of the peo-
pie who have come under our flag. and
has through the wise use Of expanded op.
portunity led our country in pathways of
greatness and renown.
Full Power Over Acquired Territory.
The platform further affrms the prin-
ciple that the representatives of the peo-
pie have full power over territory belong
ing to the United States; sustains the
president and congress in exercising this
power with due regard for the safety and
welfare of the Union, and with the most
just, generous, humane and fraternal
consideration for those over whom the
authority Of the nation is extended; advo-
Gates for them free schools, full security
for life, liberty and prosperity, and the
largest degree Of local self rule for which
they are fitted.
Continuing, the platform states:
"The provision of the treaty of of Paris.
which took from Spain her title to the
Philippine islands and vested in the peo-
pie of the United States unquestioned
sovereignty over those islands to be exer-
cised for securing to the people thereof,
the blessings Of liberty and law, opened
for those people the only possible path
way of escape from oppression and placed
them on the road to progress in enlighten-
ment and civilization. We approve the
wisdom and humanity of the president in
negotiating the treaty, of the senate in
confirming it by two-thirds majority,
and Of the congress in a appropriating
the sum of $2O,OOO,OOO provided
therein to be paid by an almost unan-
tmous vote. The sovereignty thus
deliberately assumed by the conjoint &C.
tion OF the great treaty-making and law
making powers of tie United States it
was the duty Of the executive to maintain
and we approve the vigor, the wisdom and
the success with which President McKin-
ley has performed that duty, and the for
titude and heroism Of the soldiers and
sailors Of the United States, through
whom it was performed. That sover-
eighty must not be repudiated;. and that
high purpose of its origin must be accom-
plished in the establishment of peace and
order, and the blessings Of individual lib
erty among the peoples Of the Philippine
islands,"
Favor Subsidy For Merchant Marine.
1--WE reaffirm our previous declaration
in favor Of such legislation by cor -. >: *