The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-08-22
REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM.
Selfish Bosses Denounced and Specific
Reforms Promised.

unanimously adopted by the Repub-
hcan State Convention on the 9th
instant, in Baltimore. 1t is strong
presentation of the issues upon which
the fight in this State will be made
this fall, and deserves a careful per-
usal by all our readers
The Republicans of Maryland, in
State Convention assembled, reaffirm
the National platform adopted at
Philadelphia.
Under President Mckinley and a
Republican Congress, the United
e States has become a great world
power. Industry has revived. Labor
is employed at the highest wages.
The gold standard is firmly fixed.
e Our export trade leads the world.
A Republican Congress has just re-
duced taxes S40,000,0 900, yet our credit
is the highest i'll the world. Our
National Treasury, in place of a
Democratic deficit, shows an in
creased surplus.
In diplomacy the successful man
agement of President Mckinley in
China has added new glory to the
American name. In Cuba the ma
tion's pledge is being faithfully full
filed. To Hawaii and Porto Rico
American administration already
brings marvellous progress.
In the Philippines instruction has
been suppressed, and civil govern
ment is steadily superceding military
control. Under our flag personal
freedom and government of liberty
regulated by law are the benificent
&c Coo 10 hn Ia ,Nf
our distant possessions. We conf
IDENTIFY pledge our Republican Sen
ator and our Representatives in Con-
gress to uphold our great President
in his successful Administration; to
support the Republican insular pol
icy, now sanctioned by the Supreme
and to guard the protective policy
which has brought us such prosperity
at home, and an export trade which.
the world envies.
After a generation of fraud and vio-
lence at the polls, Republicans gave
our people peaceful, fair and free
elections, reassessed property, and
equalized the burden of taxation in
ease of the laborer and the farmer,
assessed $50, 00,000 additional stocks
our children, gave Baltimore a mod
ern city charter, refunded the public
debt at lower interest, and so reduced
the debt that it would have been
wiped out in four more years of Re
publican rule.
The Republican party compelled
officials of the Gorman-Rasin admin
situations to disgorge public moneys,
and collected public dues from long
exempted corporations. Republicans
first gave, in counties and cities, min
GRITTY representation in the admins
tration of our schools.
In four years Republican State adj
ministration redeemed every pledge
wherein it was elected. In two years
the present Democratic administra-
ton has broken every pledge where
by Democracy regained power. 1t
promised to pass laws to repress the
great and growing evil of trusts. The
Democratic Legislature defeated a
bill to redeem this pledge, which the
Democratic Convention was ashamed
even to repeat in this years platform.
1t pledged a non-partisan administra-
ton to the Police Department of Bal
timore and to emancipate the force
from partisan control. Instead, the
administration of the police law is
sham and a fraud. 1t pledged reduc-
ton of State taxes, yet in the regular
session the Legislature was extrava-
CANT and corrupt beyond precedent,
and in extraordinary session wasted
money on partisan census useless to
the State, but valuable to the Demo
cratic campaign workers, at the tax
payers expense; perpetrated most
unfair gerrymander of Baltimore city
districts, and made itself infamous by
it's unconstitutional DISTINGUISHING
election law.
1t twice defeated the corrupt prac-
tees act, which it promised to enact
1t promised non-partisan admins
tration of the public schools, and yet
promptly so empowered a partisan
Governor that he forthwith turned
out every non-partisan board and put
the public schools in every county
upon a political basis.
The Republican party, which re-
deemed all its pledges to The people
of our State, now gives these new
promises, which it will as surely per-
form:
In the words of our own Declaration
of Rights, we reaffirm that 1.-The right
of the people to participate in the
Legislature is the best security of lib
erty and the foundation of all free
government" 80. +.
And every male citizen having the
qualifications prescribed by the Con-
stitution ought to have the right of
suffrage Therefore, a Republican
Legislature will repeal our unconsti-
tional election law, and enact the
bill prepared by the same association
that formulated the election law of
1896, and restore manhood suffrage in
Maryland.
1t will enact the corrupt practices
bill prepared by the same organiza-
tion, and thereby decrease or prevent
the bribery of voters. 1t will take
out of politics the police of Baltimore
city, secure appointments by the
merit system, and put an end to pro-
motions and dismissals for political
reasons. 1t will pass a new police bill
prepared by the same organization.
1t will regulate primary elections.
1t will adopt a compulsory primary
election law, and make the primaries
as fair as it has made our general
elections.
1t will bring the local control of the
schools in the counties near to the
school district, and yet remove it fur