Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-29
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

The following is the complete text of
the platform adopted by the Republican
National Convention:
The Republicans of the United States,
through their chosen representatives
met 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 coun-
trymen, make these declarations
The expectations in which the Ameri-
can people. turned from the Democratic
party, entrusted the power of the United
states four years ago to Il Republican
Chief Magistrate and Republican Con-
gress, has been met and satisfied. When
the people then assembled at the polls,
after term of Democratic legsla ion
and administration, business was dead ,
Industry paralyzed and the National
credit disastrously impaired. The coun-
try's capital was hidden away and its
labor distressed and unemployed. The
Democrats had no other plan with which
to improve the ruinous conditions which
they had themselves produced than to
coin silver at the ratio of Is to /. The
Republican party, denOuncing this plan
as sure to produce conditions even worse
than those from which relief was sought,
promised to restore prosperity by means
OF two legislative measures-a protective
tariff and law making gold the stand
ard of value. The people, by great ma
jorities, issued to the Republican party
commission to enact these laws. This
commission has been executed, and the
Republican pledge is redeemed and
prosperity more general and more abun-
dant than we have ever known has fol-
lowed these enactmeuts.
There is no longer any controversy as
TO the value of any government obliga-
tions, Every American dollar is COLA
dollar or it's equivalent, and American
credit stands higher than that of any
other nation. Capital is fully employed,
and everywhere labor is profitably oc-
cupied,
No single fact can more strikingly tell
the story OF what Republican govern
ment means to the country than this
that while during the whole period of 90
years from 1901 to 1897 there was an ex-
cess OF exports over imports of only
1881, OPS, ,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
N,4S3, 73S, ,049, and while the American
people, sustained by this Republican
legislation, have been achieving these
splendid triumphs in their trade and
commerce, they have conducted, and in
victory concluded, a war for liberty and
human rights. No thought of national
aggrandizement furnished the high pur-
pose with which American standards
were unfurled, 1t was war unsought
and patiently resisted, but when it came
the American Government was ready.
Its fleets were cleared for action. Its
armies were i'll the field, and the quick
and signal triumphs of its forces on
land and sea bore equal tribute to the
courage OF American soldiers and sailors
and to the foresight of Republican
statesmanship. To ten millions of the
human race there was given "a rev
birth of freedom" ," and to the American
people new and noble responsibility.
We endorse the Administration of
William Mckinley. Its acts have been
established in wisdom and in patriotism,
and at home and abroad it has distinctly
elevated and extended the influence of
the American Nation. Walking untried
paths and facing unforeseen responsible
tiles, President Mckinley has been in
every situation the true American pa
trlot and upright statesman, clear in
vision, strong in judgment, firm in
action, always inspiring and deserving
the confidence of his countrymen.
In asking the American people to in7
dorse this Republican record and to
renew their commission to the Repub-
lican party, we remind them of the fact
that the menace to their prosperity has
always resided in Democratic principle
and no less in the general incapacity of
the Democratic party to conduct public
affairs, The prime essential of business
prosperity is public confidence in the
good sense of the Government and its
ability to deal iutelligently with all new
problems of administration and legisla-
uon. That confidence the Democratic
party has never earned. 1t is hppelessly
inadequate, and the country's prosper
ity, when Democratic SUCCESS vt the polls
is announced, halts and ceases in mere
anticipation OF Democratic hlunders and
failures.
We renew our allegiance to the princi.
pie OF the gold standard, and declare our
confidence in the wisdom of the legisla-
ton OF the Filty-siXth Congress, by
which the parity OF all our money and
the stability of our currency ON n gold
basis has been secured, We recognize
that interest rates are Il potent factor in
protection and business activity, and for
the purpose OF further equalizing and of
further lowering the rates OF interest we
favor such monetary legislation us will
enable the varying needs OF the season
and Of aii sections tobc property met in