Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-07
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM.

The republicans Of the United States,
through their chosen Representatives met
In national convention, looking hack upon
an unsurpassed record of achievement, and
looking forward into a great field OF duty
and opportunity, AM appealing to the
judgment of their countrymen, make these
declarations:
The expectation in which the American
people, turning from the democratic party,
intrusted power four years ago to q re
publican chief magistrate and alrepuDlcan
congress-, has been met and SATISFIED. When
the people then assembled at3 the polis,
after a term of democratic Hesitation and
administration, business was dead, indus
try paralyzed and the national credit dls,
astrously impaired. TIL country's capita!
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, tnan
republican party, denouncing this plan as
sure to produce conditions even worse than
i those from which relief was sought, prom
ised to restore prosperity by means OF two
legislative measureS-a protective tarltL
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. "a \ !,
the republican promise is redeemed. Pros
perity more general and more abundans
than we have ever known has followed
these enactments. There IS no longer
controversy as to the value of any govern
ment obligation. Every American dollar
is a gold dollar or its assured equivalent,
and American credit stands higher thnn
that Of any other nation. Capital is fully
employed and everywhere labor is proft-
ably 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 10l years
from 1890 to 1897. there was an excess OF
exports over imports of only $3S3,02S,4 9s,
there has been in the short three years OF
the present republican administration an
excess of exports over imports in the enor-
nous sum of $1,4S3, 537 ,094. -
THE WAR.
And while the American people, sus-
tanned by this republican legislation, have
their business and commerce, they have
conducted and in victory concluded a war
for liberty and human rights. No thought
Of national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tarnlshed the
high purpose with which American stand
ards were unfurled. It was a war un-
sought and patiently resisted, but when 1t
came the American government was ready.
armies were in the field, and the quick and
signal triumph of its forces on land and
sea bore equal tribute to the courage or
American soldiers and sailors, and to the
skill and 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.
We indorse the administration OF WI
Tam Mckinley. Its acts have been estab-
h lished in wisdom and In patriotism, and at
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 sthe
true American patriot and the upright
~xo, ~ al ale - - rs1sN 30 r+~Nr~ sy. v11r
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,
{ we remind them of the fact that the men
ace to their prosperity has always resided
In democratic principles and no less In the
general %incapacity of the democratic party
sential Of business prosperity is public con-
fdence in the good sense of the govern
ment and in its ability to deal intelligently:
With each new problem rob- Of administrator sa aanaa
ocratic party has never earned. It is hope
THE GOLD STANDARD.
lessly inadequate and the country's pros
Eperity, 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-
6dence in the wisdom of the legislation of
the ifty-sixth congress by which the
of our currency on a gold basis has been
secured. We recognize that interest rates
are a potent factor in production and bus
mess activity, and for the purpose Of fur
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
money in circulation was never so great
per capita as it Is 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
ever firmly republican legislation may seem
to have secured the country against the
peril OF base and discredited currency, the
election OF a democratic president could
not fail to impair the country's credit and
to bring once more into question the inten-
ton of the American people to maintain
upon the gold standard the parity of their
party must be convinced that the American
people will never tolerate the Chicago plat
form.
THE TRUST QUESTION.
We recognize the necessity and proprie-
" OF the honest cooperation of capital to
! meet new business conditions and espe-
cially to extend our rapidly increasing for
eigny 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
OF 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. II that
policy our industries have been established,
diversified and maintained. BY protecting
the home market the competition has been
stimulated and production cheapened. OPP
portunity to the inventive genius of our
people has been secured and wages in every
department of labor maintained at high
rates, higher nowtthan ever before, always
distinguishing our working people in their
better conditions of life from those Of any
competing country. Enjoying the blessings
OF American common schools, secure in the
Fight OF self-goyernment and protected In
the occupancy of their own markets, their
constantly increasing knowledge and skill
have enabled them finally to enter the mar
kets of the world. We favor the associated
policy OF reciprocity, so directed as to open
our markets on favorable terms for what
we 5tio not ourselves produce in return for
free foreign markets.
EaNH -.