Milford chronicle., 1902-09-12
The Union Republican Party Platform.
Adopted at the State Convention HelS
at Dover Tuesday Sept. and.
INDORsED ADMINISTRATION OF PRES
IDENT ROOSEVELT.

IDENI ROOSEN ELL
The Union Repu blican party of Delaware,
in state convention assembled By its dele
delegates, duly elected, on the second day o.
September, A. D., 1902. asserts and declares
That we congratulate the people Of on
state that government Oflaw has been re-
established and maintained therein.
Wemost emphatically endorse and approve
of the conduct and management of the pre-
ent executive administration of the af1ai
and business OF this State, and we pledge t.
said administration our steady and 10y /
support during its continuance in office.
We demand wise, honest and economical |
ADM nistration OF the affairs Of the State |
both in state and in county government.
We demand the enactment OF legislation |
providing for good roads throughout the |
state and pledge our support to secure IL.
We demand the General Assembly shall en-
act legislation providing for the proper safe
guarding OF all workmen in establishments |
using complex machinery, boilers and dan
gerous appliances, and the appointment OF
competent officials to rec that such leglsla
sion is enforced
That the constitution and laws OF this state
should be so amended that they provide for
and furnish a permanent registration OF the
qualified voters Of the State and for opportu-
nifty prior to each election for corrections Of
and additions thereto.
That all county officials should be recon-
pensed by salaries and that the fees received
by them should be turned into the several
county treasures.
We assert our firm beliefin and adherence
to the organic principles Of the National Re
publican party and reafiirm every plank OF
the platform OF said party made and promul
gated at Philadelphia In the year A. D., nine
teen hundred.
That the present prosperous condition Of
the people OF the United States is best pro
tected and insured by the wise, sound, careful,
I ,.rudent and patriotic management, control
and direction Of the national affairs by the
present Republican administration; and while
we emphatically protest that in return for
T loyal support and the ELECTORAL vote Of this
state in the year 1900, the Union Republicans
OF this State have received unfair and unjust
treatment by the present administration,
yet we believe that the general welfare and
the exigencies OF the nation demand and re-
quire the loyal support of the Union Repub-
licans Of Delaware OF the principles Of said
administration which we here pledge to it.
istration's attitude and policy in regard to
the Republic of Cuba.
That we emphaticaiiy condemn the ma
nevolent and unpatriotic at acls made upon
the soldiers of the United States who have
been engaged in restoring law and order in
the Philippine Islands, and demand that any
bona Tide charge OF cruelty against said sol
diars shall be impartially investigated,an il
any one is ascertained to be guilty OF cruel
and inhuman treatment that he shall be adj
equately punished.
That the Isthmian canal connecting the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans should be rap
idly and speedily completed, and that in It's
construction the government should employ
the best, most honest, most skillful and mos
competent men to superintend and manage
its erection and construction, and that whei
it is erected said canal should be operated
managed. directed, controlled and guarded
solely by the government of the United
States.
That our coasts should be strongly and eff
ciently depended with the most approves
mauitiOns, weapons, defenses and men at
tainable.
That our present navy should be increases
by the addition of effective and strong yes
sells OF war
We again assert that imposts and dutie
m should be continued on the manufacture
goods of foreign countries, which enter int
1, competition with the American workman
for his protection: and that such imposts an
duties should be so laid that they discrim
&c nate in favor Of goods i'm ported in America
It. ships.
We again assert that all combinations
u trusts, sO-called, whose operation, manage
ment and control increase the cost of an
article or commodity to the consumer are
d. menace to the safety OF the country an
should be so regulated and controlled b
proper and adequate legislation Tor constitl
h. tiOnal mendment, II necessary, that said o.
, Grafton, management and control will in Il
III future inure to the benefit of the people. Al
IL II for the good OF the people II is found in
possible to permit the existence ofsuch cor
- blnatiOns or trusts under such restricted co
70 ditiOns, then we demand such legislation
shall completely abolish them.
~ That just, fair and honorable pension
ri should be granted to all those men who
the time OF peril to the nation devoted the
~ services to the defense thereof, and who
m such service became disabled,a and to the fai
lilies of those who lost their lives in Eighth
- for their country, the same pensions shOu
On be given by grateful country.
, That we condemn the legislation Of tho
III states by which a full and free opportuni
er for the honest expression of the will OF I
electors is prevented, aud by which, und
Ol forms of law, elections are farce, and t
Dli true principles of government are ignor
and set aside, and by which citizens are d
II. franchised.
wv That the Interstate Commerce Law Dug
to be rigidly and impartially enforced, so IL
shippers of goods over a shorter haul shot
tie not be Disseminated against In favor o
, shipper OF goods over a longer haul.
ne We demand that the anthracite coal mil
inf OF the country, which are at present clos
z. shall be opened and operated, and coal 81
Iii plied to the people nt fair and reasona
III price therefor, and we believe that the oy
, ers of said mines, having devoted them t,
ne public use, have granted to the public an
I'D terest in such use, and must, to the extent
the use, submit to be controlled by the D
Cn lie for the common good; that this pull
aU- interest in said mines demands that they
Immediately opened and operated, aud Il
OF this interest is one that should be protec
II and conserved by the courts Of the count
We assert that said Dr. l.. Heisler Ball
wilfully, Obstinately, and designedly mis-
Iii vised the administration at Washington
the true status of the affairs and conditi,
OF OF the Republicans of the State OF Delaw,
On that he has totally ignored all persons {
cially charged with the management OF
the Union Republican party OF Delaware VIII
nto party gave him a great majority OF / he nj
Der OF votes he received at the general e
III ton A. d 1900, for the office OF COngressm