The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-29
THE PARTY PLATFORM.
Principles cf the Republican Party
as Enumerated by the Phila-
deIphia Convention.

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 Ameri-
can people, turning from the Democratic
party, entrusted power four years ago to
a Republican chief magistrate and a Re-
publican congress, has been met and sat-
isfied. When the people then assembled
at the polls, after term of Democratic
legislation and administration, business
was dead, industry paralyZed. and the
national credit disastrously impaired. The
country's capital was hidden away and
its labor distressed and unemployed. Tho
Democrats had no other plan with which
to improve the ruiuous conditions which
they had themselves produced than to
coin silver ut the ratio Of i6 10 I. 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.
This 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 enactments. There is no
longer controversy as to the status of
any government obligations. Every
American dollar is n gold dollar or its
assured equivalent and American credit
stands higher than that of any nation.
Capital is fully employed and labor ev-
erywhere is proftaby occupied. No sin
gle factor more strikingly tells the story
of what Republican government means to
the country than this-that while dur
ing the whole period of 107 years from
1880 to 1897 there was an excess of eX-
ports over imports of only $3.50. OPS. .497.
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. .iS3. .537 09i.
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 a war for liberty and human
rights. No thought of national aggran-
dizement tarnished the high purpose with
which American standards were unfurl-
ed. 1t was a war unsought and patiently
resisted, but when it came the Ameri-
can government was ready. Its fleets
were cleared for action. Its armies were
in the field and the quick and signal tri-
| umph of its forces on Ian nd sea bore
equal tribute to the cou ge of Ameri-
can soldiers and sailors 6 to the skill
| and foresight of Republ IN statesman
/ ship. To ten millions of human race
there was given "a new L.-th of free
DOM and to the American people a new
! and noble responsibility.
The Endorsement CT Mckinley.
We endorse the administration of Will
lam Mckinley. It's acts have been es-
1 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-
fdence 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 its
ability to deal inteligently with each new
problem of administration and legislation
That confidence the Democratic party ha:
never earned. 1t is hopelessly made
quate, and the country's prosperity wher
Democratic success at the polls is an
nounced halts and ceases in mere an
ticipation of Democratic blunders anC
failures.
We renew our allegiance to the prin
ciple of the gold standard and declare ou
confidence in the wisdom of the legsla
tion of the Fifty-sixth congress. BY
which the parity of all our money and tn,
stability of our currency upon a golC
basis has been secured. We recogniz,
that interest rates are a potent factor il
production and business activity, and foi
the purpose of further equalizing and O.
further lowering the rate of interest, W,
favor such monetary legislation as will
enable the varying needs of the season
and of all sections to be promptly me-
in order that trade may be evenly sus
tanned, labor steadily employed and com
merce enlarged. The volume of money ir
circulation was never so great per capita
as it is today.
We declare our steadfast opposition tc
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
No measure to that end could be con.
sidered 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 dis
credited currency, the election of a Dem
| t., r.,s
the countrys 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
Condemnation of Trusts.
We recognize the necessity and pro.
priety of the honest operation of capital
to meet new business conditions and es-
pecially to extend our rapidly increasing
foreign trade, but we condemn all con-
spiracies and combinations intended to
restrict business, to create monopolies
to limit production, or to control prices
and favor such legislation as will ef-
fectlvely restrain and prevent all such
abuses, protect and promote competition
and secure the rights of producers, labor
ers and all who are engaged in industry
and commerce.
We renew our faith In the policy of pro.
lection to American labor. In that policy
eur Industries have been established. di.
versihcd and maintained. BY protecting
the home market competition has been
stimulated and production cheapened
Opportunity to the inventive genius OF
Our people has been secured and wages
In every department of labor maintained
at high rates, higher now than ever be.
fore. and always distinguishing oul
working people In their better condition
OF life from those Of any competing