Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-06-28
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Wise and EminentIy Successful Course
of RepubIicanism Is Commended.

of RepubIicanism Is Commended.
The full text of the National Republican
platform is as follows -
The Republicans of the United Stetes,
through their chosen representatives, met
in national convention, looking back upon
an unsurpassed record of achievement and
looking forward into great field of duty
and opportunity, and appealing to the
Judgment of their countrymen, make these
declarations -
The expectation in which the American
people, turning from the Democratic party,
entrusted power four years ago to Re-
publican Chief Magistrate and Republi-
can Congress, has been met and satisfied.
When the people then assembled at the
polls, after term of Democratic leglsla-
ton and administration, business was
dead, industry paralyzed and the national
credit disastrously impaired. The coun-
try's capital was hidden away and its labor
distressed and unemployed. The Demo
Gratis had no other plan with which to i'm
prove the ruinous conditions which they
had themselves produced than to coin sll'
yer at the ratio of 16 to l. The Republl'
can party, denouncing this plan as sure to
produce conditions even worse than those
from which relief was sought, promised to
restore prosperity by means Of two legisla-
tive measures-a protective tariff and a
law making gold the standard OF value
The people by great majorities issued to
the Republican party a commission to
enact these laws. This commission has
been executed, and the Republican prom
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
status 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 labor
everywhere is proftably occupied.
No single factor more strikiDgly tells the
story of what Republican government
means to the country than thls-that
while during the whole period of 1O7 years,
from 1890 to 1897, there was an excess OF
exports over imports of only 1888 OPS, 49,
There has been in the short three years OF
the present Republican Administration an
excess of exports over imports in the enor-
NOUS sum of 81 ,489 ,537 ,094.
And while the American people, sus-
tanned by this Republican legislation, have
been achieving these splendid triumphs In
their business and commerce, they have
conducted and in victory concluded war
for liberty and human rights. No thought
of national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT furnished the
high purpose with which American stan
dards we're unfurled. 1t was war un'
sought and patiently resisted, but when it
came the American Government was
ready. Its fleets we're 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. To 100000 of the human
race there was given "a new birth of free
DOM" and to the American people new
and noble responsibility.
We indorse the administration of VIII.
lam Mckinley. Its acts have been estab-
lished in wisdom and in patriotism, and
at home and abroad it has distinctly ele-
waited and extended the influence of the
American nation. Walking untried paths
and facing unforeseen responsibilities,
President Mckinley has been in every Sit
uation the American patriot and the up
right statesman, clear in vision, strong in
Judgment, firm in action, always inspiring
and deserving the confidence of bis coun'
trymen.
In asking the American people to In
dorse this Republican record and to renew
their commission to the Republican party,
we remind them of the fact that the men,
ace to their prosperity has always resided
in the Democratic principles, and no less
in the general incapacity of affairs. The
prime essential of business prosperity is
public confidence in the good sense OF the
Government and its ability to deal intelli'
gently with each new problem Of admins
tration and legislation. That confidence
the Democratic party has never earned.
1t is hopelessly inadequate, and the coun-
try's prosperity, when Democratic success
at the polls is announced, halts and ceases,
in mere anticipation of Democratic blum
ders and failures.
We renew our allegiance to the princi'
pies of the gold standard and declare our
confidence in the wisdom of the legislation
of the Fifty.sixth Congress, by which the
parity of all our money and the stability
of our currency upon gold basis has been