Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-10-01
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM

The repub. leans Of the United States.
through their chosen representatives met
IN national convention, looking back upon
| an unsurpassed record of achievement, anu
looking forward into a great helu OF SdnIy
| md Opportunity, and appealing to the
Judgment OF their countrymen, make these
declarations: 5
The expectation In which Cne american
people, turning from the democratic party,
fntrusted power four years ago to a re-
| publican chief magistrate and 1 repuDMean
congress, has been met and satisfied. When
| the people then assembled at the polls,
| after a term of democratic legislation and
| administration business was dead, indus
try paraiyzed and the national credit dis;
astrously impaired: The cogntry,s cap.tai
| was hidden and Its LABOR dlstfesseu anu
| unemployed. - ~
The. democrats had no other plan with
| which to Improve the ruinouS condltlons
| which they had themselves. produced, than
to coin silver at the ratio of 16 to /. The
| republican party, denouncing TINS plan as
| sure to produce conditions, even worse than
| those from which relief was sought, prom
lsed to restore prosperity by means OF two
| legislative measures protective tariff
| 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 " -
This commission has been executed, and
the republican promise is redeemed. Pros.
| perity more, general and more aDuhuanss
than we have ever known mas 1on W.
controyersy4a as to the value of any govern
ment obligation. Every American dollar
! is a gold dollar or it's assured equivalent.
and American credit STANDS ntg1e e fniu
| employed and everywhere LABOR Is proht-
| ably occupied. ~ -,
No single fact can more striklngiy teiI
| the story of what republican government
means to the country than thss-tnaI
| while during the whole period of 107 years
| from! 1870 to 1897. there was an excess OF
exports over imports OF hoo only tbr Ssoo 700 s y
| the present republican ADMINISTRATOR an
excess Of exports over imports in the enor-
| NOUS sum Of 81, 4S3, 537 .0s4.
~ THE WAR. 81
And while the American people, sus-
tained by this republican legislation, have
heen achieving these splendid triumphs In
their business and commerce, they naIe
conducted and in victory. concludeo a Wat
for liberty and human rights. No thought
| Of national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tarntshed the
high purpose with which American stand
| ards were unfurled. 1t was a war IN
sought and patiently resisted, but when II
| IFS fleets were cleared for action. Its
armies were in the field, and the quick and
signal triumph of it's forces on land and
sea bore equal tribute to the e courage +S Na
| 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 d ne"
We indorse the administration OF VIII
lam Mckinley. Its acts have been estap.
| 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 thn Mnr,s shf
statesman, clear in vision, strong In judg-
! ment, firm in action, always inspiring and
| deserving the confidence OF his country
men,. ' aHggf5 20
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
general incapacity Of the democratic party
| to conduct public affairs. The prime es-
| sential of business prosperity is pubic con-
fdence in the e. g S9so;d1,+s sense ms as OF hne igieset5T
with each new problem OF administration
and legislation. That confidence the dem
| ocratic party has never earned. 1t Is hope:
THE GOLD STANDARD. r
iessly Inadequate and the country's pros
| perity. when democratic success at the
polls is announced, halts and ceases in
mere anticipation of democratic plumbers
and failures. .- h
We renew our allegiance 10 the principles
of the gold standard and declare our con-
| fdence in the wisdom of the legislation of
the ffty-sixth congress by which the
parity of all our money and the stability
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 O.. 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
money in circulation was never SO great
per capita as 1t Is today. 4
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
commercial countries of the world. How
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 eountry'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
moneys circulation. The democratic
party must be convinced that the American
people will never tolerate the Chicago plat
form. }#
THE TRUST QUESTION. "a
We recognize the necessity and proprie-
ty Of the honest cooperation of capital to
meet new business conditions and eSpe-
cially to extend our rapidly increasing for;
eign 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, slaborers and all who are en-
gagged in industry and &' ~
| ss THE POLICY OF PROTECTION.
We renew our faith in the policy Of
protection to American labor. In 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 ut high
rates, higher now than 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
right 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
sauY "a ar1yotu ~ avrcroI SO +1,r,a - So -io 4