Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-06-21
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THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Party Principles Enumerated by the
PhiIadeIphia Convention.


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 a great field of
duty and opportunity, and appealing to
the Judgment OF their countrymen, make
these declarations:
The expectation In which the Ameri-
can people. turning from the Democratic
party entrusted power four years ago to
a Republican chief magistrate and Re-
publican congress. has been met and sat
lsfied. When the people then assembled
at the polls. after a term of Democratic
legislation and administration, business
was dead. industry paralyzed. and the
national credit disastrously impaired. The
eountry'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 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 protective
tariff and a law making gold the stand
ard of value The people by great ma
jorities issued to the Republican party
a commission to enact these laws.
The 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 enaetments. 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
afa Oh hut Of
Capital is fully employed and labor ev-
erywhere is proftably occupied. No sin
gle factor more strikingly tells the story
of what Republican government means to
the country than this-sthat while dur
ing the whcas period of 107 years from
1870 to 1897 there was an excess of ex-
ports over imports of only $3.50. OPS. 4S7
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 537. 094.
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 con-
cluded war for liberty and human
rights. No thought of national aggran-
dizement furnished the high purpose with
which American standards were unfurl-
ed. 1t was a 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
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.
The Endorsement of Mckinley.
We endorse the administration OF Will
lam Mckinley. It's acts have been es-
tablished in wisdom and patriotism, and
at home and abroad 1t has distinctly ele-
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 thai