, 1900-05-18
REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM.

htHl hCNlhItS- III the Whole history
of our country there has been no peri
Cd so distinctively marked by prosper
.ity and progress as that of this splendid
administration. II furnishes
a most practical illustration of the diff
ference between a party of capacity
and one of incapacity. Under its poll
cies the country has passed from ex-
IRENE depression to unparalleled pros
'perity. Party pledges. have been scrup-
~uSously kept; the dignity and honor Of
the nation maintained everywhere; the
dangers and p~erplexities of a, great for
.eign war successfully met: the glory of
the flag augmented; imperishable fame
added to our army and navy; the public
credit strengthened until the nations
bonds, bearing a lower rate OF interest
than any like securities in the world,
command a premium in the market;
new opportunities to labor created; ad-
ditional markets opened to our surplus
products Of every kind, taxing produc-
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sumption and demand; Spanish cruelty
and oppression forever banished from
this hemisphere and the Philippine ISL
ands; the open door policy in China
secured TO all commercial nations of
the world through American diploma
cy; and a more fraternal feeling incul-
Gated between the north and south.
We offer this partial review of magnif-
cent achievements of the administra-
ton of william Mckinley as a suffi-
cient warrant for its continuance in
power. And we peldge the party sup
port of the republican party in Wyo-
ming to his denomination and ~re-elec-
ton as a just and well deserved re-
ward for his splendid services to the
nation.
We reafirm the principles in which
the republican party had its birth and
president, that the representatives of
the people have full power over terri
tory belonging to the United States. in
harmony with and subject to the funda-
mental safeguards of our free institu-
tons for liberty, justice and personal
rights.
The provisions of the treaty of Paris
which took from Spain her title to the
Philippine islands and vested in the
people of the United States unques-
toned sovereignty over those islands
to be exercised for securing to the peo-
pie thereof the blessings of liberty,
law. and self-government, opened for
those people the only possible pathway
of escape from oppression and placed
them on the road to progress in en-
lightenment and civilization. We ap-
prove the wisdom and humanity of the
the senate in confirming it by a two
thirds majority. and of the congress
in appropriating the sum of 100000 900
provided therein to be paid, by an al
most unanimous vote. The sovereign
ty thus deliberately assumed by the
conjoint action of the great treaty-mak-
ing and law-making powers Of the Uni
ted States it was the duty of the exec
utive to maintain. and we approve the
vigor, the wisdom and the success with
which President Mckinley has per-
formed that duty, and the f%ortitude
and heroism of the soldiers and sailors
of the United States through whom it
was performed. That soveignty must
not be repudiated: and that high pur-
pose of its origin must be accomplish
ed in the establishment of peace and
order and the blessings of individual
liberty among the people of the Phil
|ippine islands.
The republican party of Wyoming
congratulates the country OIL the gen.
eral prosperity throughout the nation
which has followed the triumph of the
republican party upon the financial is
sue of 1896. The public credit has
thereby been raised higher than ever
before under any administration of any
party, and higher than that of any
other nation. The republican party has
always stood and now stands for mon
|ey laws that benefit all Jul people
alike, that consider the interest of the
borrower as well as the lender, that
tend to equalize the rate of interest in
all parts of the country at all seasons
of the year to the farmer, the stock
man, the merchant and the manufac-
turer, and that make it possible for
our people to obtain and extend credit
on terms as favorable and at rates as
low as their foreign competitors.
The republican party Of Wyoming,
therefore, pledges itself to support such
further legislation as will provide a
flexible and sufficient medium of ex-
change to the end that capital may
continue to obtain fair returns. h a
American m may be enlarged,
and that labor may be assured of
steady employment, and of the largest
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