Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-29
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFoRM

anunsurpasse record of achievement and
hooking forward into q great heluH OF GUY
opportunity, and appearing 70 u.lne
Judgment Of their countrymen, make these tnessa
Tn expectation in which the American
people, turning from the dentocratic party
Entrusted power foul years 9 & TO a,re-
publican chief MAGISTRATE and q pu9 alS !;
sfhe people then assembled ut the polls,
after a term Of democratic legislation and
administration, business was dead, INDUS
try paraiyzed and ttih the n rnat aeI, a. r Sred capits'
was hidden and Its labor distressed and
unemployed. sE&
nh democrats had no other plan witt
which to improve the ruinous conaitions
to coin silver at the ratio of JIG to !. Ihe
renubIican party, denouncing this plan as
sure to produce conditions even worse Sthan
those from which relief was sought PROM tno
legislative measures-a protective tarifi
and a law making gold the standard OF
value. The people by great maJorltles rs
sued to the republican party q commlsslon
to enact these laws. ond
the republican promise Is redeemed. Rros.
perity more general and more ~Dnnaa
than we have ever known has $sfolloweo
these enactments. There Is no aonge
ment obligation. Every American dollar
is a gold dollar or its assured equivalent,
and American credit stands higner ma
that Of any other nation. capital as Lu.as
employed and everywhere lapor - aplooiAl-
ably occupied. -
No SINGLE fact can more strikingly tel
the story OF what republican government!
means to the country than Inis-ana.
while during the whole period ofslO7 years
from 1890 to 1887. there was an ne EXCESS 6es o.
axnorts over imports of only $3s3,O2S,4 9I
there has been in the short three years o,
the present republican administratl on az
excess Of exports over Imports IN the eno1-
nous sum Of $1,4S3, 537 ,O94.
THE WAR.
And while the American people. sus.
IA ined BY this republican legislation, nave
been achieving these splendid triumpns ~
their business and commerce, Ihey NAYS
conducted and in victory concinaet y VII "
Of national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tarnlshed the
high purpose with which American stand
ards were unfurled!s It was q war IN !.
sought and patiently resisted puI Wn ea ! !
It's fleets were cleared tor action. Its
armies, were in the field, and the quick and
signal triumph of its forces on iand an1
sea bore. equal tribute to the e courage ag tb ~
skill and foresight of republican statesman
shin. To ten millions of the human race
there was given "a new birth OF free-
DOM and to the American people a new new
ODl TE--..
We &indorse the administration OF WI
tam Mckinley. Its acts have been estab-
iished in wisdom and in patriotism, anu ~
home and abroad it has distinctly elevated
and extended the influence of the Amer
lean nation. Walking, untried paths and
facing unforeseen responsibilities, President
Mckinley has been in every situation the
true American patriot and the nprlght
statesman. clear In vision, strong In judg-
ment, firm in action, always inspiring and
deserving the confidence Of his country
men.
DEMOCRATS AS A MENACE.
In asking the American people to in
dorse this republican record and to renew
their commission to the republican party
ace to their prosperity has always resided
In democratic principles and no less In the
general incapacity of the democratic party
to conduct public affairs. The prime es-
sential of business prosperity is public con-
idence in the good sense Of the govern
ment and in its ability to deal intelligently
with each new problem Of administration
and legislation. h confidence the dem
ocratic party has never earned. It is hope
THE GOLD STANDARD. :
,essly inadequate. and the country's pros
perity, when democratic success at the
polls is announced, halts and ceases in
mere anticipation of democratic plumbers
and failures.
We renew our allegiance to the principles
Of the gold standard and declare our con-
adence 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 on q gold basis has been
are a potent factor in production and bus
mess activity, and for the purpose of fur
sther equalizing and of further lowering
tary LEGISLATION as viii enable the varying
needs of the season and Of all sections to
be promptly met in order that trade may be
evenly sustained. labor steadily employed
and enlarged. The volume OF
per capita as 1t 10 today.
We declare our steadfast opposition to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
No measure to that end could be aconsid-
cred without the support OF the leading
commercial countries of the world. How
ever firmly republican legislation may seem
to have secured the country against the
peril OF base and dlscredited euIrency, the
not fail to impair the eountry's credit and
to bring once more into question the inten-
tion of the American people to maintain
upon tn the IL g eIso, standard t T = a the parity od the e.
party must be convinced that the American
people will never tolerate the Chicago plat
form.
THE TRUST QUESTION.
We recognize the necessity and proprie-
ty Of the honest cooperation Of capital to
AAcCCsyhSW * DucAnCsSs ss SVAl1liSAS daA tOpS-
cially to extend our rapidly Increasing for
+eign trade, but we condemn all conspira-
icies and combinations intended to restrict
business, to create ~monopoltes, tOSIfnit
production or to con~trollprices and favor
such legislation as VIII effectually restrain
and prevent all such abuses, protect and
promote#competition and secure the rights
of producers, laborers and all who are n
gagged in industry and commerce.
THE POLICY OF PROTECTION.
We renew our faith in the policy OF
protection to American labor. IN that
policy our Industries have been established,
diversified and maintained. BY protecting
the home market the competition has been
stimulated md production cheapened. OPP
portunity to the inventive genius OF ouI
people has been secured q wages In every
of labor maintained ut high
rates, higher now than ever before. always
better conditions Of life from those of any
competing country. Enjoying the blessings
of American common schools, secure In the
right of self-gorernment and protected In
the occupancy of their own markets, their
constantly increasing knowledge and skill
have enabled them finally to enter the mar
sketsg OF the world. We favor the associated
policy of reciprocity, SO directed as to open
our markets on favorable terms for what
we do not ourselves produce Ina return for
fee foreign markets.
IN THE INTERESTS OF LABOR.
In the further interest Of American
W-orkingmen, we favor d more effective re-
striction OF the Immigration OF cheaper
labor from foreign lands. the extension OF