Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-03
THE REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM
It Sets Forth Succinctly and Clearly
the Position Of the Repub-
lican Party,
MANY POLITICAL PROBLEMS
The Party Has Redeemed the Promises Made
In 1861 Will Also Keep the Pledges
Made At Philadelphia "A Prosper
GUS Administration.

The following Is the text of the Re
publican platform, as adopted by tn
national convention at Philadelphia:
The Republicans of the United State.
through their chosen representatives Il
national convention, looking back upol
an unsurpassed record Of achievement
and looking forward into a great fiel
of duty and opportunity and appealing
to the judgment of their countrymen
make these declarations:
PROMISES REDEEMED.
The expectation in which the Ameri
can people, turning from the Democrat
lie party, %intrusted power four year
ago to a Republican chief magistrate
and a Republican congress, has beef
met and satisfied. When the peopl
then assembled at the polls after a tern
of Democratic administration business
was dead, industry paralyzed and tn
national credit d~isastrously impaired
The country's capital was hidden ava
and its labor distressed and unem,
ployed.
The Democrats had no other plan will
which to improve the ruinous condi.
lions which they had themselves pro
duced than to coin silver at the ratio
Of 16 to 1. The Republican party, de
nouncing the plan as sure to produce
conditions even worse than those from
which relief was sought, promised tt
restore prosperity by means of two ex
ecutive measures-a protective tariff
and a law making gold the standard Of
value. The people by great majorities
issued to the Republican party a com
mission to enact these laws. This com
mission has been executed and the Re-
publican promise is redeemed.
SOLID PROSPERITY.
Prosperity more general and more
abundant than we have ever known has
followed these enactments. There is nc
longer controversy as to the value of
any government obligations. Every
American dollar is a gold dollar, or its
assured equivalent, and American cred
it stands higher than that of any ma
ton. Capital is fully employed, and ev-
erywhere labor is profitably occupied.
No single fact can more strixingly
tell the story of what Republican gov
eminent NEAR to the country than
this-that while during the whole pc
riod Of 107 years, from 1890 to 1897, there
was an excess Of exports over imports
Of only $3.50, 026, 497, there has been in the
short three years Of the present Repub-
lican administration an excess of ex-
ports over imports in the enormous sum
of s1.4S2. 1888, O94.
A SUCCESSFUL WAR.
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
a war for liberty and human
No thought of national aggran-
dizement furnished the high purpose
with which American standards were
unfurled.
1t was a war unsought and patiently
resisted, but when 1t came the Ameri-
can government was ready. Its fleets
were cleared for action. It's armies were
in the field, and the quick and signal
triumph Of its 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 10000. 900 of the hu-
race there was given "a new birth
of freedom" and to the American peo-
pie a new and noble responsibility.
PRESIDENTS CRAFTSMANSHIP.
We indorse the administration Of
William Mckinley. Its acts have been
established in wisdom and patriotism,
and at home and abroad 1t 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 and the upright statesman,
clear in vision, strong in judgment, firm
In action, always inspiring and deserv-
ing the confidence Of his countrymen.
DEMOCRATIC INCOMPETENCE.
In asking the American people to in
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
The prime essential Of business
prosperity Is public confidence in the
good sense Of the government and its
to deal intelligently with each
problem Of administration and leg
islation. That confidence the Democrat
ic party has " earned. 1t is hope
lessly inadequate, and the country's
prosperity when Democratic success at
the polls Is announced halts and ceases
In mere anticipation of Democratic
blunders and failures.
THE GOLD STANDARD.
We renew our allegiance to the prin-
ciples of the gold standard, and declare
our confidence in the wisdom Of the leg
islation Of the flfty-sixth congress by
the parity Of all III money and
the stability of currency on a gold
ho clio hoc hoon unc,Irad. a.
We recognize that the rates Of inter-
est are a potent factor in production
and business activity, and for the pur-
pose Of further e%qualixing and Of low
ering the rates Of interest we favor
such monetary legislation as will en-
able the varying needs Of the season
and Of all sections to be properly met
in order that trade may be evenly sus-
tained, labor steadily employed and
enlarged. The volume Of
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