The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-27
THE PLATFORM.
An Ingenious and DeIusiye Ap-
peal to ths People
ISSUED BY BOSS HANNA.
He Attributes all Prosperity to
the Republican Party and All
Disasters 70 tha Dsmo-
cratic Party.

cratic Party.
The following is the platform adopted
Wednesday by the Republican National
Convention:
The Republicans of the United
States, through their chosen representa-
tives, met in National Convention,
looking back upon an unsurpassed re-
cord of achievement, and locking for
ward into great field Of duty and op-
portunity, aud appealing to the judg.
ment of their countrymeu, make these
declarations:
The expectation in which the Ameri-
can people, turning from the Democratic
party, entrusted power four years ago
to Republican Chief Magistrate and
Republican Congress, has been met
and satisfied. When the people then
assembled at the polls, after term of
Democratic legislation and administra-
tion, business was dead, industry para
lyzed and the national credit disastrous
ly impaired. The country's capital was
hidden away and its labor distressed
and unemployed. The Democrats held
no other plan with which to improve
the ruinous conditions which they had
themselves produced than to coin sil.
Yer at the ratio Of l6 to l. The Re.
publican 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 law making gold the
standard Of value. The people by
great majorities issued to the Republi-
can party commission to enact these
laws. This commission has been exc
cuted and the Republican promise is
redeemed. Prosperity more general
and more abundant than We have ever
known has followed these enactments.
There is no longer controversy as to the
value of any Government obligations.
Every American dollar is gold dollar
or its assured equivalent, and Ameri:
can credit stands higher than that of
any nation. Capital is fully employed
and labor everywhere is proftably oc'
cupied.
And while the American people, sus-
tained by this Republican legislation,
have been achieving these splendid
triumphs in their business and COM
melce, they have conducted and in vic.
tory concluded a war for liberty and
human rights. No thought Of national
ACKNOWLEDGMENT tarnished the high pur-
pose with which American standards
we're unfurled. 1t was war unsought
and patiently resisted, but when 1t
came the American Government was
ready.
To ten millions of the human race
there was given "a new birth Of free
DOM" and to the American people
new and double responsibility.
We endorse the administration OF
William Mckinley. Its acts have been
established in wisdom and in patriotism,
and at home and abroad it has distinct
ly elevated and extended the influence
of the American nation. Walking un-
tried paths and facing unforeseen re.
sponsibilities, President Mckinley has
been in every situation the true Ameri'
can patriot aud the upright statcman,
clear in vision, strong in judgment,
firm in action, always inspiring and
deserving tue confidence of his country
men.
In asking the American people to en-
dorse this Republican record and to re-
new their commission to the Republi-
can party, We remind them Of the fact
that the menace to their prosperity has
always resided in Democratic principles
an no less in the general incapacity of
the Democratic party to conduct public
affairs. The prime essential of busi-
ness prosperity is public confidence in
the good sense of the Government and
its ability to deal intelligently with
each new problem Of administration
and legislation. That confidence the
Democratic party has never earned. 1t
is hopelessly inadequate and the coun-
try's prosperity when Democratic sue
cess at the polls is announced halts and
ceases in mere anticipation of Demo
cratic blupders and failures. We re-
new our allegiance to the principle Of
the gold standard and declare our con-
fdence in the wisdom of tbs legisla-
ton of the 56th Congress, by which
the party of all our money and the
stability Of our currency upon gold
basis has been secured.
We recognize that interest rates are
potent factors in production and busl,,
ness activity, and for the purpose OF
further equalizing, and Of further lower
ing, tie rates of interest, We favor such
monetary legislation as will enable the
varying needs of the season and OF all
sections to be promptly made, in order
that trade may be evenly sustained,
labor steadily employed and commerce
enlarged. The volume Of money IN cir
culation was never so great per capita
as it is today. We declare our stead
fast opposition to the Tree and unlimit-
ed coinage of silver. No measure to
that end could be considered which was
without the support Of the leading
commercial countries Of the world.
However firmly Republican legislation
may seem to have secured the country
against the peril of base and discredl-
ted currency, the election Of Demo
cratic President could not fail to impair
the country's credit and to bring once
more into question the intention OF the
American people to maintain upon the
! gold standard the parity Of their money
circulation. The Democratic party
must be convinced that the American
people will never tolerate the Chicago
platform.
We recognize the necessity and pro-