Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-06-30
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Principles Of the Party Enunciated
. at Philadelphia.

Principles of the Party Enumerated
at Philadelphia.
Tho Republicans OF the United States
tnrougn their chosen representatives met
In national convention looking back upon
an unsurpassed record of achievement
and looking forward into n great field of
duty and opportunity. and appealing to
these declarations:
The expectation in which the Amer,-
can people, turning from the Democratic
party, entrusted power four years ago to
Republican chief magistrate and a Re-
publican congress. has been met and sat
isned. When the people then assembled
at the polls, after a term OF Democratic
legislation and administration. business
was dead, industry paraIyzed, and the
national credit disastrously impaired. The
country's capital was hidden away and
Its labor distressed and 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 OF 16 to l. The
Republican party, denouncing this plan
as sure to produce conditions even worse
than those from which relief was sought
promised to restore prosperity by means
or two legislative measures-a protective
tariff and a law making gold the stand
ara or value The people by great ma
q commission to enact these laws.
This commission has been executed and
the Republican promise Is redeemed.
prosperity more general and more abund-
ant than we have ever known has fol-
lowed these enactments. There is no
longer controversy as to the status OF
any government obligations. Every
American dollar is a gold dollar or its
assured equivalent, and American credit
stands higher than that of any nation
Capital Is fully employed and labor ev-
erywhere is profitably occupied. No sin
gle factor more strikingly tells the story
or what Republican government means to
the country than this-that while dur
Ing the whole period OF 107 years from
17So to 1887 there was an excess OF ex-
ports over imports OF only $3S3, 028 4ST
there has been in the short three years
OF the present Republican administra-
ton an excess of exports over imports
In the enormous sum of 81, 4s3, 5S7, 094.
And while the American people sus-
tained by this Republican legislation.
have been achieving these splendid tri-
umphs In their business and commerce,
they have conducted and IN victory con-
cluded a war for liberty and human
rights. No thought of national aggran-
dizement furnished the high purpose with
which American standards were unfurl-
cd. 1t was war unsought and patiently
resisted, but when 1t came the Ameri-
can government was ready. It's fleets
were cleared for action. It's armies were
In the field and the quick and signal tri-
umph of its forces on land and sea bore
equal tribute to the courage of Ameri-
can soldiers and sailors and to the skill
ana foresight Of Republican statesman
ship. To ten millions of the human race
there was given "a new birth of free
dom," and to the American people a new
and noble responsibility.
The Endorsement of Mckinley.
We endorse the administration of Will
lam Mckinley. Its acts have been es-
tablished in wisdom and patriotism, and
at home and abroad 1t has distinctly ole
waited and extended the influence of the
American nation. Walking untried paths
and facing unforeseen responsibilities,
President Mckinley has been in every
situation the true American patriot and
the upright statesman, clear in vision,
strong In Judgment, firm in action, al
ways inspiring and deserving the con-
fidence OF his countrymen.
In asking the American people to en-
dorse this Republican record and to re-
new their commission to the Republican
party, we remind them of the fact that
the menace to their prosperity has all
ways resided IN Democratic principles,
and no lesa In the general ineapacity OF
the Democratic party TO conduct public
anairs. The prime essential OF business
prosperity Is public confidence In the
good sense OF the government and In its
ability to deal intelligently with each new
problem OF administration and legislation.
That confidence the Democratic party has
never earned It II hopelessly made
Quats. and the countrys prosperity when
Democratic success at the polls IL an
nounced halts and ceases In mere an
tieipation Of Democratic blunders and
failures.