Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-08-14
THE REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM
1t Sets Forth Succinctly and Clearly
the Position of the Repub-
lican Party.
MANY POLITICAL PROBLEMS
The Party Has Redeemed the Promises Made
In lSs6-It Will Also Keep the Pledges
Made At Philadelphia Prosper
GUS Administration.

The following is the text of the Re-
publican platform, as adopted by the
national convention at Philadelphia:
The Republicans of the United States,
through their chosen representatives in
national convention, looking back upon
an unsurpassed record of achievement,
and looking forward into a great field
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
ic party, intrusted power four years
ago to a Republican chief magistrate
and a Republican congress, has beer
met and satisfied. When the people
then assembled at the polls after a term
of Democratic administration blu siness
was dead, industry p~aralyzed and the
national credit disastrously impaired.
The country's capital was hidden away
and it's labor distressed and unem-
ployed.
The Democrats had no other plan with
which to improve the ruinous condi-
tons 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 to
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
than we have ever known has
followed these enactments. There is no
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-
labor is profltably occupied.
No single fact can more strisingly
tell the story of what Republican gov
eminent means to the country than
while during the whole pc
Rod 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 81, 4S2, 738, 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
concluded a war for liberty and human
No thought Of national aggran-
iizement furnished the high purpose
which American standards were
lnfurled.
It was a war unsought and patiently
resisted, but when it came the Ameri-
government was ready. It's fleets
we're cleared for action. Its armies were
n the field, and the quick and signal
of its forces on land and sea
bore equal tribute to the courage Of
American soldiers and sailors and to
he skill and foresight of Republican
craftsmanship. To 49, 900, 900 of the hui
nan race there was given "a new birth
freedom" and to the American peo-
Die a new and noble responsibility.
PRESIDENTS CRAFTSMANSHIP.
We indorse the administration of
William Mckinley. Its acts have been
in wisdom and patriotism,
at home and abroad It has distinct
y elevated and extended the influence
# the American nation. Walking un-
.rded paths and facing unforeseen re-
possibilities, President Mckinley has
,een in every situation the true Ameri-
an patriot and the upright statesman,
lear in vision, strong in judgment, firm
n action, always inspiring and dcserv-
ng the confidence of his countrymen.
DEMOCRATIC INCOMPETENCE.
In asking the American people to in
lorse this Republican record and to re-
lew their commission to the Republican
,arty, we remind them of the fact that
he menace to their prosperity has al
Ways resided in Democratic principles,
md no less in the general incapacity of
he Democratic party to conduct public
lffairs. The prime essential of business
prosperity is public confidence in the
rood sense Of the government and its
lbility to deal in%telligently with each
lew problem of administration and leg
That confidence the Democrat
party has eve earned. 1t is hope
essly Inadequate, and the country's
Prosperity when Democratic success at
he polls is announced halts and ceases
n mere anticipation Of Democratic
'lunders and failures.
THE GOLD STANDARD.
We renew allegiance to the prin-
iples of the gold standard, and declare
ur confidence in the wisdom of the leg
of the fifty-sixth congress by
which the parity Of all our money and
he stability Of our currency on a gold
'asis has been secured.
We recognize that the rates Of inter-
at are a potent factor in production
nd business activity, and for the pur-
rose of further equalizing and of low
ring the rates Of interest we favor
uch monetary legislation as will en-
bile the varying needs Of the season
md Of all sections to be properly met
n order that trade may be evenlv sus-
aimed. labor steadily employed andI