The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-09-24
THE Ohio PLATFORM.
II Is In Accord With the Ma
tional Utterance.
CONTRAST DEMoORAOY's POSITION
The Effort to Divert the Peoples
Attention TO Makeshift Questions a
Futile Bourbon Expedient.

The Effort to Divert the Peoples |
Attention TO Makeshift Questions a
Futile Bourbon Expedient.
The platform adopted by the Repub- !
licans of Ohio is a clear, emphatic, !
and unequivocal declaration of the |
principles of the party. 1t commends |
itself to the thoughtful consideration
of all voters. 1t reafiirms the cordinal /
principles of the entire, united party,
not only in Ohio, but in the nation. |
1t announces no new or impracticable
theories, proposes no wild or vision
airy schemes of legislation, state or ma
tional, promises no relief from just
and lawful obligations. 1t adheres
rigidly to those great and highly sue
cessful policies adopted by the party
Under Lincoln, and applied in practice
under him and subsequent leaders.
Under its wise and conservative legis-
lation the country has emerged from
a condition of bankruptcy and disun-
ion to the position of mighty world
power.
The Republican platform is an ex-
ponent of the highest degree of prac
ticai and successful craftsmanship. 1t
is not mere expression of party poll
cies, or Of individual ideas. 1t pro-
claims and defends the great principles
under which the party has made glor-
ious achievements. and has exalted the
power and prestige of the nation at
home and abroad. 1t is not an an
nouncement of something proposed,
but of great results attained; not Of
things to be hoped for, but of positive
facts. That platform was dictated by
the onward, irresistible, and success
full march of public events, under the
wise and statesmanlike guidance of
the Republican party. Recall the glor-
ious achievements of the administra-
ton, at home and abroad, in the re-
Mobilization of our domestic manufac-
lures and industry under the fostering
influence of the Dingley tariff; the
restoration of the national credit, and
a vast extension of our foreign trade,
through the maintenance of sound
money and improved financial system;
the liberation of Cuba, the emancipa
tion OF Porto Rico and the Philippines,
and the establishment of liberal, re-
publican governments in our inSular
possessions; the protection OF Ameri-
can interests in China and in other
countries; and the rapid extension Of
American power and prestige, both
political and commercial, in all parts
of the world.
The Democrats go into the fight on
an emergency issue. They will take
up anything with which they may hope
to huggermugger the American people.
The course of the Democratic party for
over fifty years has been dictated
solely by policy" entirely by the
| emergencies of a given campaign, and
has been adjusted solely by the sue
| cessful, irresistible march of the party
| of progress. Democratic principles
have been framed and ruthlessly mas
sacred from year to year,-and to such
| an extent that no one can trace legit-
innate connection between the old
Bourbon, slave-holding, disunion DEM
| ocracy of 1860. and the sadly disor-
| ganized and demoralized trump" of
the party today.
| The Republican party of Ohio today
is the legitimate, strong, and aggres-
| sive heir of the grand old party found
| ed and immortalized by Lincoln, and
| represents the same wise, conserva-
tive and statesmanlike principles of
| the party for the last half century,
the practical application of which have
| given the nation a golden age of pros
perity and progress. In Ohio, as in
| the nation, it stands today sQuarely
upon the strong and secure ground
to which it advanced in 1861 and since
that date, and there it will remain
valiant, strong and aggressive. 1t will
act in the future, as in the past, as the
natural leader and guardian Of the
| national honor, the exponent of safe
and conservative governmental poll
cies. 1t has taken, 1t shall take, nc
now is, and will be forever: Progress
Prosperity and Victory.
| The campaign in Ohio this fall will
be fought entirely upon national is
sues. 1t will be distinctly national
campaign, and national issues will be
at stake, despite the fact that actua
electoral action will be confined to the
state of Ohio. The discussion of the
great questions of national character
and Importance and interest during the
Ohio campaign will tend to educate
the people throughout the country il
general, and to prepare them for g
more extended and intelligent study
of these questions in the future,-but
especially during the congressional
campaign next year. The Republican
party in Ohio is an integral unit Of
the party in the nation, and stands
| upon the platform and d-secord of the
latter; and therefore, the record ant
achievements of the party in the ad
ministration of the national govern
ment will be the fighting ground o
the party in Ohio this aall. Upon tha
record it stands square.y and unfiinch
lngly,-claiming a due measure of ben
eft for the great achievements of tn,
party, domestic and foreign, and abid
ing the judgment of the people upoI
the merits thereof.
The Democratic press says very lit
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