Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-20

| CHeeFeu WHeA he COHClup0u Win Lie staeS-
ment that he~presenj<d the gavel as
| pledge of the conc9n0ed devotion Of Ken
| lucky to the principles of republicanisn
and a hostage that the state would this
| fall give its electoral vote to Mckinley and
| Roosevelt.
! L. E Olsen of Minnesota presented a
table which had been used at the republican
| national convention at Minneapolis and St
| Louis. Senator Lodge received each of
these presentations with graceful speech.
| The Convention AdjOurns.
| CONVENTION HALL. June 20, 3:13 Pm.
The convention adjourned at 3:13 pm. I'M
| til 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. -. :. :.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Political Greed Upon Which the,Party
Will Ask Support.
| PHILADELPHIA, June 2O-The commit
tee on resolutions completed it's preparation
of the platform at 12:35. Senator Fair
| banks, chairman of the committee, immedi-
ately left the Hotel Walton, where it. bad
| been put in shape, for the Convention Hall.
| Following is the full text of the document:
| The republicans Of the United States,
| through their chosen Representatives met
| in international 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 American
people turning from the democratic party.
! lntrusted power four years ago to repub-
llcan chief magistrate and republican
| Congress, has been met and satisfied. When
| the people then assembled al the polls, after
a term of democratic legislation and admin
istration, business was dead, industry par
aiyzed and the national credit disastrously
| impaired.
| The country's capital was hidden away
and its labor distressed and unemployed.
| The democrats held other plan with
which to improve the ruinous conditions
which they had themselves produced than
| to coin silver at the ratio Of IL to |. The
| republican party, denouncing this plan as
sure to produce conditions even worse than
those from which relief was sought PROM
| ised to restore prosperity by means of two
| legislative measures-a protective tariff and
| law making gold the standard of value.
The people by great majorities issued to the
| republican party a commission to enact these
laws
Commission Has Been Fulhned.
| This commission has been executed, and
| the republican promise Is redeemed. Pros
perity more general and more abundant
| than we have ever known has followed
| these enactments. There Is no longer con-
troversy as to the value of any government
obligations. Every American dollar is a
gold dollar or Its assured equivalent. and
American credit stands higher than that OF
1
labor everywhere is profitably occupied.
No single fact can more strikingly tell
the story of what republican government
means to the country than this-that while
during the whole period of 107 years, from
l!O to 1897, there was excess of eX-
ports over imports of only $685.. OPS. 497,
there has been in the short three years Of
the present republican administration an
| excess Of exports over imports In the enor-
| nous sum of 81. 4s3. 537.G94. >''.-s IL 80
And while the American people, sustained
by this republican legislation. have been
achieving these splendid triumphs in their
business and commerce. they have con-
Quoted and in victory concluded war for
liberty and human rights. No thought of
national ACKNOWLEDGMENT furnished the high
purpose with which American standards
were unfurled. 1t was war unsought and
patiently resisted. but when it came the
American government was ready. Its fleets
We're cleared for action Its armies were
| in the field and the quick and signal tri
umph of it's forces on land and sea bore
equal tribute to the courage of American
soldiers and sailors, and to the skill and
foresight of republican craftsmanship. To
ten millions of the human race there was
given "a new birth Of freedom and to the
American people new and double respon-
sbility.
! Mckinley's Administration Endorsed.
| We indorse the administration of Will
| lam Mckinley. Its acts have been estab-
| lished in wisdom and in patriotism, and at
l IOILe anu dDTOdu II 1ldb uiSllilCtl$ tttkdIeu
and extended the influence of the Ameri-
can 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 judg
| ment, firm in action, always inspiring and
deserving the confidence Of his country
men.
| In asking the American people to indorse
| this republican record and to renew their
I No re-,
mind them of the fact that the menace to
| their prosperity has always resided in
democratic principles and no less in the
general incapacity of the democratic party
| to conduct public affairs. The prime es
sential of business prosperity Is public con-
| fidence in the good sense Of the govern
ment and in its ability to deal intellfgent1y
with each new problem OF administration
| and legisla tion. That confidence the demo-
| cratic party has never earned. 1t Is hope
lessly Inadequate and the cOuntrys pros
perity. when democratic success at the polls
| is announced, haltS and ceases in mere an
ticipation of democratic blunders and fall
ures.
| Renew Allegiance to Gold Standard.
| We renew allegiance to the principle
| Of the gold standard and declare our con-
| fidence in the wisdom of the legislation of
| the Fifty-sixth Congress, by which the
parity of all our money and the stability
| Of our currency upon a gold basis has been
secured We recognize that interest rates
| are a potent factor in production and bust
ness activity, and for the purpose OF fur
| Their equaliZing and of further lowering
| the rates of interest, We favor such none
| tary legislation 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 en-
ployed and commerce enlarged. The vol
ume of money in circulation was never so
great per capita as it Is today. We de-
| clare our steadfast opposition to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. No meas
ure to that end could be considered which
| was 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 countrys 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
| money circulation. The democratic party
| must be convinced that the American peo-
| Pile will never tolerate the Chicago plat
| form.
Slap at the Trusts.
| We recognize the necessity and propricty
| of the honest cooperation of capital to
| meet new business conditions. and es-
| pecially to extend our rapidly increasing
l do