Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-08-21
Republican State Platform

| hesOtVeu, Dy tne republicans o
Iowa, in convention assembled: tha
we congratulate the people upon thu
prosperity that prevades every part o
the country, stimulating every industr,
in the highest degree of activity, Great
ing an unprecedented demand fol
labor and rapidly advancing the Unit
ed States to a more commanding post
| ion in the commerce of the world. The
country today and its progress during
the past five years is acomplete answer
to the theories and predictions of those
who opposed the republican policies al
that time, and affords conclusive argu
ment in favor of continuance of the
policies and the administration under
which such manifest benefits have been
enjoyed.
"We deplore the untimely death of
our great and beloved leader, William
Mckinley, and express our horror at
the crime of his assassination. We
mourn the loss to the country, coming
in the fullness Of his powers and use-
fullness, and pledge our fealty anew tc
the public policies with which his
administration was identified.
CONFIDENCE IN Roosevelt
We declare our confidnece in the
leadership of President Roosevelt and
our loyalty to his administration, and
we express our qualification that two
neutrality-suspicious. of Iowa republi-
canismhaye seats.at hiscouncilboard.W We
indorse his recommendation as to rec
iprocity with Cuba and believe his
policy is necessary to preserve and
complete the beneficent work we have
done in that island, and that it will be
mutually beneficent to the people of
Cuba and the United States. We
approve the determination of President
Roosevelt to enforce the laws of the
land, wherever violated, without preju-
dice or favor. Approving his purposes
and assured that he has the confidence
OF the people, we look forward to his
election to the presidency in 1904 as to
aforeshadowed event demanded by the
popular will and one that will main
tain and promote the national pros
perity and conserve every national in
terest.
COMMEND LAST CONGRESS-.
"We express our approval of the
work done by the Fifty-seventh con-
gress in it's first session and our pride
in the important. part of that work
borne in the delegation. The legis-
lation for the reduction of taxation,
for the establishment of the civil govern
ment in the Philippines, for the con-
sfru ction Of an isthmian canal, for the
protection of our dairy products, with
other measures of practical usefulness,
distinguish the session.
"We rejoice that the firm but en-
lightened policy pursued in the Philip
pines has secured peace in the islands
and that the work of education, civili-
cation, upbuilding and development is
begun. We urge that contention over
our policy in the Philippines should
now cease and the beneficent plans OF
the civil government be given the
united and cordial support of all our
people.
eve are proud of the high standard
of good conduct pursued by members
of American families doing duty in the
army; while they are executing our
laws and carrying civilization to peoples
in the far east under exacting condi-
tions, we give them assurance of our
sympathy and confidence.
TARIFF QUESTION.
"We stand by the historic policy OF
the republican party in giving protec-
ton to home industries, and point for
its ample yindication to the extraordi-
nary rapidity with which our national
resources have been depressed and our
industrial and financial independence
secured. We favor such changes in
the tariff from time to time as become
advisable through the progress of our
industries and their changing relations
to the commerce of the world. We in.
dorse the policy of reciprocity as the
natural complement of protection and
urge its development as necessary to
the realization Of our highest CONNER.
cial possibilities.
PROTECTION AGAINST TRUSTS.
"We assert the sovereignty of the
people over all corporations and aggre-
cations of capital and the right residing