The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26


to-day greater and more profitable than
ever before and in this field OF effort the
United States Is outstripping all the nations
of the world.
I'VE cordially indorse the wise and
patriotic administration CT President Nc
kiniey, whose signal achievements in war
and peace, I'm craftsmanship and diplomacy,
mark an epoch I'm the history of the Nation.
and whose brilliant success justifies and
demands In the highest interests of the
country the uninterrupted continuance
through another term of his great but I'M
completed work. Confronting unprece-
dented requirements at home and unex-
ampled responsibilities abroad, he has met
which have given him an enduring place
in the confidence and affection of his
countrymen.
Every pledge of his administration has
been faithfully redeemed. 1t has dispeled
long business depression, restored the pro-
lection OF American labor and industry.
reawakened universal confidence, re-estab-
ltShed prosperity unparalleled, assured to
labor the steadiest employment and the
highest pay, opened new fields of enter
prise and new markets for trade. 1t has
brought to agriculture better condition
than for many years, fixed the gold stand
ard upon firm foundations of law and made
our national currency larger in volume and
sure in value, and lifted our national credit
to the highest plane any nation has ever
reached.
In the broader field of world duty and
influence II has met an unavoidable war
for humanity with unequaled yigor and
success; has crowned the matchless tri-
umph of our arms on sea and land with
the courageous acceptance of its high and
solemn obligations; has faithfully studied
and sought equally the true honor of the
Nation and the greatest good of the peoples
VINO have come under our flag, and has
through the wise use of expanded oppor-
tunity led country on pathways of
greatness and renown.
I'VE reaffirm the principle in which the
Republican party had its birth and on
which Abraham Lincoln was elected Pres
icent; that the representatives of the
people have full power over territory be-
longing to the United States. in harmony
with and subject to the fundamental safe
guards of our free institutions for liberty.
justice and personal rights We sustain
the President and Congress in exercising
this power with due regard for the safety
and welfare of the Union. and with the
consideration for those over whom the
authority of the Nation is extended. We
advocate for them free schools, full Sc
curity for life liberty and property, the
Of their agriculture and industry, and the
largest degree of local self-rule for which
they are fitted. We have faith in Ameri-
can patriotism, character and capacity,
and We know that American government
will extend the inestimable blessing of
freedom, law and civilization to the peoples
who are brought under our protection.
The provision of the treaty of Paris,
which took from Spain her title to the
Philippine islands, and vested in the people
OF the United States unQuestioned soyer-
eighty over those islands, to be exercised
for securing to the people thereof the bless
ings of liberty and law, opened for those
people the only possible pathway of escape
from the oppression and placed them on
the road to enlightenment and civiiiZa-
ton. We approve the wisdom and human
ity of the President in negotiating the
treaty, of the Senate in confirming it by
two-thirds majority and of the Congress
in appropriating the sum of twenty million
dollars provided therein to be paid by
almost unanimous vote. The sovereignty
thus deliberately assumed by the conjoint
action of the great treaty and 1awmaking
powers of the United States, IL was the
duty of the executive TO maintain, and we
approve the vigor, the wisdom and the
success with which President Mckinley has
performed that duty, and the fortitude and
United States through whom ii was per-
formed. That sovereignty must not be re-
pudiated; and that high purpose of its ORR
gin must be accomplished in the establish
ment of peace and order and the blessings
of individual liberty among the peoples
Of the Philippine islands.
1.-THE thanks and appreciation of the Re-
publicans of Ohio are due and are hereby
rendered to Senators Foraker and Hanna
and the fifteen Republican congressman
from Ohio, who stood unfinchingly for Re-
publican principles. They have supported
and sustained the administration of Pres
ident Mckinley, and we hereby indorse and
ratify their public acts as our representa-
tives.
I'VE reaffirm our previous declaration In
favor of such legislation by Congress
will encourage and promote United States
merchant marine. so that American built
and American owned and American ships
may regain and retain the carrying of
her foreign commerce.
1.-The Republican party of Ohio stands
committed to legislative and executive OPP
position to the threatening combinations
of capital that seek to restrict competition
and sti1e independent producers: we invite
within our borders the capitalistic invest
ments that are material to the industrial
developments of the State and the largest
employment of labor, but we insist that in
furious combinations shall be forbidden and
so-called trusts shall be regulated from
time to time and be so restricted as to
guarantee immunity from hurtful monop-
oily and assure fair treatment and protec-
ton 20 all competing industries
The platform strongly indorses the adj
ministration of Governor Nash. and the
last Ohio Legislature and declares for
uniform system CT municipal government.
The State ticket and delegates were then
chosen, and the convention adjourned sine
Ito