The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-18
THE PARTY,S PLATFORM.
Roosevelt and FIatt Indorsed- Faith in
 Town system.

Roosevelt and FIatt IndOrsed- Faith in Town system.
 The committee on resolutions. which had in charge the formation of the platform to be adopted by the conven- ton, made it's report early in the after noon. Charles Hopkins Clark, the chairman of the committee, read the re- port. which was unanimously adopted. I It was as follows:
 We heartily approve and applaud President Roosevelt's vigilant care of | the country's interests, domestic and foreign. We share his pride in the mag nificent work of the American soldier 1 and sailor, and the American adminis- trator in the country's new dependen- cies. and his resentment against thelr unpatriotic traducers, and we taVor ms nomination for the presidency by the national republican convention or l9o4' we believe, with Lincoln, Garfield, Blaine, Mckinley and Roosevelt, i'll protective tariff that wisely fosters l American industries and safeguards American wages. We oppose a general revision of the tariff at this tune as both inopportune and unnecessary IT, in any schedule, import duties are found that have been notoriously per yerted from their true purpose to the inordinate enrichment of corporations monopolistic in fact or in tendency, we look to a republican congress to apply in it's wisdom the needed correctlVe without impairing the principle ot pro- lection.
 We believe, with William Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt, in the policy of trade reciprocity as the natural sup plement of tariff protection, and the key with which to unlock the world s markets for the surplus products or American fields and American mills Especially we commend the presidents efforts to perform a plain duty and on- tain for this country lucrative com merce by arranging a judicious reci- procity treaty with Cuba. And we also commend and thank the chairman Of
 the committee on relations with Cupa' lour honored and beloved senator, Q. Il.
 Platt, for his earnest support ot the
 president in these efforts.
 we take pride as state in the po-
 sition taken in national affairs by our
 delegation in Washington, and espe-
 cially in the great influence exercised
 by and the wide respect felt for our
 senior senator, Orville H. Platt, and
 we look with confidence for his re-
 election by the coming general assem-
 ''We believe that great aggregations
 of capital, commonly called trusts
 while necessary for the economic con-
 duct of large business and commercial
 enterprises, should be subject to such
 supervision. state or national, as will
 safeguard public and private interests
 "The republican party has ever rec
 ognized the value and dignity of labor
 which is the foundation of our national
 wealth, prosperity and happiness, and
 sought to enact such legislation as
 would safeguard the true interests of
 labor. and it will continue to favor all
 measures justly calculated to secure
 that end.
 "We thank Governor George P. Me
 Lean for one of the strongest, abest and most inspiring administrations 1T Connecticut's history, eminently hon. 1 orable to himself and serviceable to the
 state.
 "We congratulate the people of Con-
 necticut that the unpopular provision
 of the constitution which feuuired {
 majority of all the votes cast to effec
 an election to state office has beer
 amended out of existence by the re publican party, and that this fall ant hereafter those candidates who receive the most votes will also have the of fee.
 We pledge the republican party a the coming session of the general as sembly to a fair and equitable readjust ment of the senatorial districts in ac cordance with the constitutional amend ment passed by two republican legisla l lures and last year ratified by the peo pie at the polls,
 "We declare our faith in the histori . town system of Connecticut, but, recog nizing the natural desire of the popu lous towns for increased representation in the house, we believe that changes 3 which shall preserve the fundamenta 9 features of the present system and a
 the same time satisfy all reasOnabl demands, should be effected, and tha . they can be accomplished by the reg l ular process of constitutional amnd ] ment.
 We commend to the electors of tn l state of Connecticut the nominee of thi convention for governor of this state
 and his associates upon the ticket, am I declare that they are entitled to tn support, confidence and suffrages o = every citizen of the state, irrespectiv
 of party"