Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-25
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The 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 q great Held OF dnLy
and opportunity. and appearing 70 tne
i judgment OF their countfymeil, MAKE the0S
declarations:
The expectation in which the American
people, turning from the democraGc party,
| Entrusted power four years to a re-
publican chief magistrate and q republican
Il congress, has been met and satisfied. When
| the people then assembled at the polls,
Il after a term of democratic legislation ana
administration business was dead, Indus
try paraiyzed and the national credit dis,
astrously impaired. The country's capital
was hidden and its labor distressed ana
unemployed. ),
The democrats had no other plan with
which to improve the ruinous conditions
which they had themselves produced, than
to coin silver at the ratio o. ~ ITO TO l. n,on in ne
sure to produce conditions even worse than
/ those from which relief was sought, prom
ised to restore prosperity by means of Two
Legislative meaSureS-a protective tarlH
and a law making gold the standard OF
value. The people by great majorities IS
sued to the republican party a commission
to enact these laws.
the republican promise is redeemed. Pros
perity more general and more anIhaans
than we have ever known has foiioWed
these enactments. There Is no longer
controversy as to the value of any govern
ment obligation. Every American dollar
/ is d gold dollar or its assured equivalent,
and American credit stands higher ti,,in
4 employed and everywhere labor is pfoht-
ably occupied. :,
No single fact can more strikingly tel
i G.x,1,n - 80, Elioor ~ pnvnrnmQnf
means to the country than this-that
while during the whole period of 107 years
from 1900 to 1897, there was an excess OF
there has been in the short three years Of
the present republican Administrator az
excess Of exports over imports in the enor-
NOUS sum Of 81 s4s3. 5s7 ,094.
THE WAR.
And while the American people, sus-
tained by this republican legislation, have
been achieving these splendid triumphs M
their business and commerce, they have
conducted and in victory concluded q war
for liberty ~andEhuman rights. No tn9ug en-
high purpose with which American stand
ards were unfurled. It was q war IN
sought and patiently resisted. but when y
came the American government was ready.
Its fleets were cleared tor action. lts
armies were in the field, and the quick and
signal triumph of its forces on land and
American soldiers and sailors, and to the
skill and foresight Of republican statesman
ship. To ten millions Of the human t lace
there was given "a new I bl nadn,e Of I peev
and noble responsibility.
We indorse the administration of Will
Fam Mckinley. Its acts have been estab-
home and abroad it has distinctly elevated
and extended the influence of the Amer
lean nation. Walking untried paths and
facing unforeseen responsibilities, President
II NdnITip7ox yE hoc 3h onn In nvnrvE Sitng fl0n@ fnQ
true American patriot and the upright
statesman, clear in vision, strong IN 1udg,
ment, firm III action, always inspiring and
deserving the confidence of his country
men.
DEMOCRATS AS "A MENACE.
IN asking the American people to I'M
dorse this republican record and to renew
their commission to the republican party,
we remind them OF the fact that T the ms men,
fHa democratic principles and no less IN the
general incapacity Of the democratic party
TO conduct public affairs. The prime es-
idence In the good sense of the govern
ment and In it's ability to deal intelligently
with each new problem Of administration
and legislation. That confidence the DEM
ocratic party has never earned. 1t is hope
THE GOLD STANDARD.
lessly inadequate and the country's pros
perity, when democratic success at the
II polls is announced, halts and ceases IN
mere anticipation of democratic blunders
4 and failures.
We renew our allegiance to the principles
Of the gold standard and declare our con-
idence in the wisdom of the legislation OF
the ffty-sixth congress by which the
parity of all our money and the stability
of our currency on a gold basis has been
secured. We recognize that interest rates
mess 8 a paiIshE 1a ana for On P Phe psspose a1 Il 5f fus-
ther equalizing and of further lowering
the rates Of interest we favor such none
tary legislation as will 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
"a money In circulation was never SO great
per capita as 1t lis today.
We declare our steadfast opposition to
the free and unlimited coinage Of silver.
No measure to that end could be consid-
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 discredited currency, the
election OF q democratic president could
not fail to impair the country's credit and
to bring once more into question the inten-
upon the gold STANDARD the parity Of their
moneys circulation. The democratic
party must be convinced hat the American
people will never tolerate the Chicago plat
THE TRUST QUESTION.
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ty of the honest desperation of capital to
meet new business conditions and espe-
cially to extend our rapidly increasing for
eign trade, but we condemn all conspira-
cies and combinations intended to restrict
business, to create monOpolies, to limit
production or to control prices and favor
such legislation as will effectually restrain
and prevent all such abuses, protect and
promote competition and secure the rights
Eof producers; laborers and all who are en-
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 and production ~cheapened. OPP
p0rtunity to the inventive genius of our
people has been secured and wages in every
Department of labor maintained at high
rates. higher now than ever before, always
distinguishing our working people In their
better conditions of life from thosesO any
competing country. Enjoying the blessings
OF American common schools, secure In the