Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21
concluding with declaration endors.
ing the administration of Mckinley.
senator Lod GO Takes tho Chair

The chairman then recognized Rep
resentative Payne, of New York, chair
man of the committe on credentials,
who mounted the platform and read
the report which was adopted unani-
mously without debate. General Gros-
venor, chairman of the committee on
permanent organization then presented
the committees report which was
adopted and Senator Lodge, the perma-
nent chairman, was escorted to the
chair by Governors Roosevelt and
Shaw. Lodge was introduced and be-
gan his speech.
At the conclusion of Lodges speech
the committee on rules made it's re-
port. Quay offered an amendment
Which embodied proposition to reduce
the representation from the several
tates giving one delegate for each
10000 votes cast with four delegates
at large for each state. This met with
much opposition from the southern
delegates and it was finally agreed that
rules one and twelve with Quay's
amendment go over until tomorrow.
The rules were agreed to.
Fairbanks. chairman of the commit
tee on resolutions, then presented the
platform. The reading was interrupt
ed by people leaving the hall and lit
was 3 O'clock before the reading was
completed. The platform was unani-
mously adopted with enthusiastic
cheers.
The Platform.
The republicans of the United States,
thru their chosen representatives, met
in national convention, looking back
upon an unsurpassed record of achieve
ment and looking forward into great
field of duty and opportunity and APP
pealing to the Judgment of their coun-
trymen, make these declarations:
The expectations of the American
people in turning from the democratic
party and trusting the power four
years ago to a republican magistrate
and republican congress have been
met and satisfied. When the people
then assembled at the polls after a
| term of democratic legislation and
administration business was dead, in
dustry paralyzed and the national cred
| it disastrously impaired. The country 5
capital was hidden away and it's labor
distressed and unemployed. The dem
ocrats had no further plan with which
| to improve the rulnous conditions
which they had themselves produced
| than to coin silver at the ration of Ii
to 1.
The republican party, denouncins
| this plan as sure to produce conditions
even worse than those from which re
lief was sought, promised to restore
| prosperity by means of two Legislative
measures, a protective tariff and a
law making gold the standard of value.
The people by great majorities issued
to the republican party1a commission
to enact these laws. This commission
has been executed and the republicans
promise is redeemed. Prosperity, more
general and more abundant than we
| have ever known, has followed these
enactments. There is no longer a
controversy as to the value of any
government obligations. Every Amer
| lean dollar is Il gold dollar or an as
surred 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 more strikingly tells the
story of what republican government
means to the country than this, that
while during the whole period OF one
hundred and seven years from 1890 to
1897, there was an excess of exports
over imports of only $as3,02s, 497, there
has been in the short three years OF
the present republican administration,
an excess of exports over imports in
the enormous sum of $1.4S3, 537 1894.
And while the American people, sus-
tanned by this republican legislation,
have been achieving these splendid
triumphs in their business and COM
merce, they have conducted and in
victory concluded war for liberty
and human rights. No thought of ma
tional ACKNOWLEDGEMENT furnished the
high purpose with which the Amer
| lean standards We're unfurled. T. was
a war unsought and patiently resisted
but when it came the American govern
ment was ready. Its fleets We're clear
ed for action, its armies were in the
field and the quick and signal triumph
of it's forces on land and sea bore eq-
ual 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 birth of freedom
and to the American people a new