The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-21
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
PLANKs ON CURRENCY, TRUSTS AND
EXPANSION.

Claim That the Party Has FULFILLED Its
Pledges of Four Years Ago-EndOrse-
ment of the Way i'm which Spanish
War Issues Were Met-Reaflir mation
of the Gold Ssandnrd-Restraimto of
Trusts by Legislation-War Tax Re
duction - Isthmian Canal - Pro-
gramme for the PhiIippines--Pledge
to Cuba Rcncwe
tee on resolutions of the republican ma
tional convention completed its prepar-
alton Of the platform at 1885 p. m. to-
day. and Senator Fairbanks, chairman
of the committee Immediately left the
Hotel Walton, where it had been put IN
shape, for the convention hall to pre-
sent the report 1t was presented to
the convention soon after p. m. Fol
lowing is the text of the document.
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
great field of duty and opportunity,
and appealing to the Judgment OF their
countrymen, make these declarations:
The expectation in which the Amer1-
can people, turning from the democrat
ic party, intrusted power four years ago
to a republican chief magistrate and
republican congress has been met and
satisfied When the people then assem-
bed a the polls after term OF demo-
cratic legislation and administration,
business was dead industry paralyzed
and the national credit disastrousy i'm
paired The country's capital was hid
den 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 1. 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
of two legislative measures-a protec-
tive tariff and a law making gold the
standard of value.
The people by great majorities issued
to the republican party commission to
enact these laws. This commission has
been executed and the republican prom
Use is redeemed. Prosperity more gen.
eral and more abundant than we have
ever known has followed these enact
ments. There is no longer controversy
as to the value of any government. OBJ
legations. Every American dollar is
gold dollar or it's assured equivalent,
and American credit stands higher than
that of any nation. Capital is fully
employed, and labor everywhere is prof
itably occupied. No single fact can
more strikingly tell the story of what
republican government means to the
country than this-that while during
the whole period of one hundred and
seven years, from 1890 to 1897, there was
an excess of exports over imports OF
only $3.50, OPS, 497, there has been in the
short three years of the present repub-
lican administration an excess of eX-
ports over imports in the enormous sum
of SLASH, 537094
And while the American people, sus-
tanned by this republican legislation,
have been achieving these splendid tri-
umphs in their business and commerce,
they have conducted and in victory
concluded, a war for liberty and human
rights No thought of national aggran-
dizement furnished the high purpose
with which American standards were
unfurled. 1t was a war unsought and
patiently resisted but when 1t came
the American government was ready.
It's fleets were cleared for action. It's
armies were in the field, and the quick
and signal triumph of it's forces on land
and sea bore equal tribute to the cour-
age of American soldiers and sailors,
and to the skill and foresight of repub-
lican craftsmanship. To ten millions of
the human race there was given "a new
birth of freedom" and to the Ameri-
can people a new and noble response
blity.
We endorse the administration of
William Mckinley It's acts have been
established in wisdom and in patriot
ism, and at home and abroad it has
distinctly elevated and extended the in
f1uence of the American nation. Walk
ing untried paths and facing unforeseen
responsibilities, President Mckinley has
been in every situation the true Amerl-
can patriot and the upright statesman,
clear in vision, strong in Judgment, firm
in action, always inspiring and deserv-
ing the confidence 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 al
ways resided in democratic principles,
and no less in the general incapacity of
the democratic party to conduct public
affairs The prime essential of business
prosperity is public confidence In the
good sense of the government and in it's
ability to deal ntelligently with each
new problem of administration and leg
islation That confidence the democrat
ic party has never earned. 1t Is hope
lessly inadequate, and the country'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 prin-
ciple of the gold standard, and declare
our confidence in the wisdom of the leg
islation of the Fifty-sixth congress, by
which the parity of all our money and
the stability of our currency upon
gold base have been secured. We recog-
nze that interest rates are potent fac
TORS in production and business actiV-