The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1900-05-29
Platform Of Kentucky Republi-
cans.

hlulCyg Anu NOhS Ae%t0@eF~N ~ r
upon the redemption by him and;bgs
Republican Congress Of every pledee
made in the Republicans national PLAT
form of 1896. We especially com'
mend the wisdom shown by both the
President, and by Congress in dealing
with the question ~ government in IN
the fhew possessions of the United
Staks sudzthe enactment of legisls'
tiof wMcRRpens up new and vast
markets to. American producers with.
out taking single dollar from the
wages of the American workingmans
Second-Through wise legislation
the Republican party has rendered
safe the monetary standard OF TINS
country and has always stood and now
stands for money laws which benefit
all our people alike, borrower as well
as lender, and to this end we favor
carefully guarded and practical laws
to secure elasticity in our bank cur
rency, so as to provide for constant
supply for enough currency for all
borrowers for business uses, at low
and steady rates of interest, for the
good of every worker, producer, far
mer, manufacturer and business man
and for the general business Of our
people.
Third-We favor proper legislation
by the National Congress leading to
the upbuilding of our merchant ma
rine, so that the products of American
farms, workshops, mines and forests
may be carried in American-built,
American-owned and American-man-
ned ships, and the marvellous progress
.: our inland industries be equsled by
commercial triumphs on the high
seas.
Fourth-We instruct the delegates
chosen by this convention to the Re-
publican National Convention to vote
for the denomination of President Nc
Kinley and the unequivocal indorse-
ment of his wise and patriotic admin
istration of the affairs Of the Govern
ment
Fifth-Important as are these ques-
tions of national policy, the Republi-
can party in Kentucky is compelled to
its other aims and purpo-
ses to the solemn duty of restoring the
right of suffrage 10 the people of this
Commonwealth. 1t unreservedly ded-
icates its organization and the undi-
vided effort of its membership TO the
single and paramount cause of civil
liberty, and invites the cooperation
and support of the right-thinking and
ibertvrc cherishing citizens of all par
les. I
Sixth-We demand the uncondi-
iQual Repeal Of the existing election
0w, under the operation of which in-
iividual citizens have been denied the
right to vote and whole counties have
been deliberately disfranchised, ,by au-
thority Of which certificates of cleo.
ton have been issued to men defeated
at the polls, and as disastrous result
Of which the government of the State
has become involved in hopeless con-
fusion and chaos. We demand the
prompt enactment, in the place of this
statute, of sn election
law that shall absolutely secure to ev-
cry voter the free exercise of the right
Of suffrage and that shall guarantee
the restoration and permanence of
government by the people.
Seventh-We deuounce the course
of the Democratic majority in the last
General Assembly from the hour
when it adopted rules in defiance of
right and the Constitution, down to
the final action by which it attempted
to deprive Gov. Taylor and Lieut..
Gov. Marshall of the high offices to
which they had been elected at the
polls.
Eighth-We indoese without re-
serve the resolute End patriotic course
OF Gov Willialzi 5. Taylor in resisting
with all Of the power at his command
the :..surpation OF the office to which
the people have elected him, and we
pledge him our unfailing support in
the prosecution of this course until the
Supreme Court of the United States
shall have determined the great ques-
ton whether the Government OF the
United States is to make good its
guarantee of republican form of
government to every State in the Un-
ion. We no less emphatically indorse
A., mil .o,,,ea of iauf Cow I0hu