The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1904-06-24
PLATFORM ADOPTED.
1t Gives q Review of the Work
Of the Party.
MaiutaiEance Of Principles is Urged
Rates of Duty Should be Re-
adjusted Only When Con-
ditions Warrant 1t.

form to the republican, national conven-
ton Wednesday:
Fifty years ago the republican party
came into existence dedicated, among
other purposes. to the great task of ar
resting the extension of human slavery
In 1860 it elected its first president. Dur
ing a of the "A years which have elapsed
since the election of Lincoln, the republic
can party has held complete control of
the government. For IS more of the 4
years it has held partial control through
the possession of one or two branches
Of the government, while the democratic
,arty during the same period has had
complete control for only two years.
This long tenure of power by the re-
publican party is not due to chance II
is a demonstration that the republican
party has commanded the confidence of
the American people for nearly two gen.
erations to a degree never equaled in our
history, and has displayed a high capacity
Tor rule and government which has been
made even more conspicuous by the in
capacity and infirmity OF purpose shown
by its opponents.
The republican party entered upon its
present period OF complete supremacy in.
1851. We have every right TO congratulate
ourselves upon the work since then accom-
plished. for it has added luster even tc
the traditions of the party which car
Tied the government through the storms
of civil war.
We then found the country, after four
years Of democratic rule, in evil plight.
oppressed with misfortune and doubtful
Of the future. Public credit had been
lowered, the revenues were declining, the
debt was growing, the administration $
attitude toward Spain was feeble and
mOrtifying, the standard of values was
threatened and uncertain, labor was I'M
employed, business was sunk in the de-
preston which had succeeded the panic
OF $685. hope was faint and confidence was
gone.
We met these unhappy conditions Wig
orOusly, effectively and at once.
We replaced a democratic tariff law
based on free trade principles and gar
niShed with sectional protection by a
consistent protective tariff, and industry,
freed from oppression and stimulated by
the encouragement of wise laws has eX-
panded to degree never before KNOWN
has conquered new markets, and has
created volume of exports which has
surpassed imagination.
Under the Dingle% tariff labor has
been fully employed W&Ees have risen
and all industries have revived and pros
pered.
We firmly established the gold stand
ard, which was then menaced with de-
structiOn. Confidence returned to bust
ness, and with confidence an uneX-
ampled prosperity
For deficient revenues. supplemented
by imprOvident issues of bonds, we gave
the country an income which produced
large surplus and which enabled us
only four years after the Spanish war
had closed, to remove 800, zoo, 900 of an
nual war taxes, reduce the public debt
and lower the interest charges of the
government
The public credit, which had been so
lowered that in time of peace a demo-
cratic administration made large loans
at eXtravagant rates of interest, in order
IN rar7f
republican administration to its highest
point. and enabled us to borrow at 2
per cent. even in time of war.
We refused to palter longer with the
miseries of Cuba. We fought a quick
and victorious war with Spain. We set
Cuba free. governed the island for three
years. and then gave it 20 the Cuban
people, with order restored, with ample
revenues. with education and public health
established, free from debt and connect
ed with the United States by wise provis-
ions for our mutual interests.
We have organized the government of
Porto Rico, and its people now enjoy
peace, freedom. order and prosperity.
In the Philippines we have suppressed
insurrectiOn, established order and given
TO life and property security never
known there before. We have organized
civil government, made it effective and
strong in administration. and have con-
ferred upon the people of those islands
the largest civil liberty they have ever
enjoyed.
BY cur possession of the Philippines we
were enabled to take prompt and effec-
tive action in the relief of the legations
at Pekin, and a decisiAe part in prevent
ing the partition and preserving the in
tegrity Of China
The possession OF a route for an 18TH
mian canal so long the dream of Ameri-
can craftsmanship, is now an accomplish
ed fact. The great work of connecting
the Pacific and Atlantic by a canal is at
last begun. and it is due TO the repubn
can party.
We have. passed laws which will bring
the arid lands Of the United States with
in the area of cultivation.
We have reOrganized the army and pI
Il in the highest state of efficiency.
We have passed laws for the improve
menu and support of the militia.
We have pushed forward the building
Of the army, tie defense and protection
Of our honor and our interests.
Our administration of the great depart
ments of the government: mas been hon
est ana ef1cIent and wherever WrOngdO-
ing has been discovered the republican
administration has not hesitated to probe
The evil and bring offenders TO justice
without regard to party or political ties.
Laws enacted by the republican party,
which the democratic party failed to en-
force. and which We're intended for the
protection of the public against the I'M
JUST discrimination or the illegal encroach-
ment of vast aggregate OF capital.
hcan president. and new laws. 1nsuring
reasonable publicity as to the operations
OF Sreat corporations. and providing ad-
dltional remedies for the prevention of
discrimination in freight rates, have been
passed by a republican congress.
In this record of achievement during
the past eight years may be read the
pledges which the republican party has
Iulhlled. We promise to continue those
policies, and we declare our constant ad-
herence to the following principles:
Protection which guards and develops
our industries is a cardinal policy of the
republican party. The measures Of pro
lection should always at 1east equal the
difference in the cost Of production al
home and abroad We insist upon the
maintenance o. the principle of protec,
don. and, therefore, rates Of duty should
De readjusted only when conditions have
Sc changed that the public interest de-
mands their alteration; but this work can
not safely be committed to any other
hands than those of the republican party.
To intrust it to the democratic party IS
To invite disaster. Whether, as in 1S92
the democratic party declares the protec-
tive tariff unconstitutional, or whether IL