Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-09-17
THE OHIO PLATFORM.
IL Is In Accord With the Ma
tional Utterance.
CONTRAST DEMooRA0Y's POSITION
Tho Effort TO Divert the Peoples
Attention to Malseshift Questions u
Futile bourbon IexpedIent.

principles of the party. 1t commends
itself to the thoughtful consideration
of all voters. 1t reafiirna. the cordinal
principles of the entire, united party,
not only in Ohio, but in the nation.
1t announces no now or impracticable
theories, proposes no wild or vision
ary schemes of legislation, state or ma
tional, promises no relief from just
and lawful obligations. 1t adheres
rightly to those great and highly sue
cessful policies adopted by the party
under Lincoln, and applied in practice
under him and subsequent leaders.
Under it's wise and conservative legls-
ilation 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 Drac-
tical 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-
tion, 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
q 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 "rump" of
the party today.
The Republican party of Ohio today
is the legitimate, strong and aggres-
Siye heir of the grand old party found
ed and immortalized by Lincoln, and
represents the same wise, conserva-
five and statesmanlike principles of
the party for the last half a 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
lpon 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, no
step backward Its policy has been,
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 actual
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 in
general, and to prepare them for a
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 record OF the
latter; and therefore. the record and
| achievements of the party in the ad-
ministratlon of the national govern
ment will be the fighting ground of
the party in Ohio this fall. Upon that
record it glands square-y and unfiinch-
gly,-claiming a due measure OF BEN
eft for the great achievements OF the
party, domestic and foreign, and abid-
ing the judgment Of the people upon
the merits thereof.
The Democratic press says very lit
tie against Governor Nash's admins