Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-06-22
NO NOMINATIONS
MADE TODAY
But the Winning Ticket This Fall
Will Be Roosevelt and Fairbanks
1.-The Platform Was Adopted With
out Dissenting Vote.

nearly two generations to degree
displayed high capacity for rule and
government which has been made ev-
en- more conspicuous by the incapaclty
and infiirmity of purpose shown by It's
opponents. The Republican party en-
tered upon it's present period OF COM
pete supremacy in 1897. We have ev-
cry right to congratulate ourselves up
on the work since then accomplished.
for it has added luster even to the ira
ditions of the party which carried the
government through the storms OF the
Civil War. We then found the country
after four years OF Democratic rule in
an evil plight, oppressed with misfor-
tune and doubtful of the future. The
public credit had been lowered, the
revenues were declining, the debt was
growing, the administration attitude
toward Spain was feeble and mortify-
ing, the standard of value was
/ threatened and uncertain, labor was
crippled, business was sunk in the de-
preston which had succeeded the
panic of 1898 hope was faint and con-
fidence gone.
We met these unhappy conditions
vigorously, effectively and alone. We
replaced the Democratic tariff law
based on free trade principles and
garnished with sectional protection, by
a protective tariff, and industry, freed
from oppression and stimulated by the
encoura cement Of wise laws, has eX-
panded to a degree never before
known, has conquered new markets
and has created a volume OF exports
which has surpassed imagination. I'm
der the Dingley tariff. labor has been
fully employed, wages have risen and
all industries have revived and pros
pered. We have firmly established the
gold standard which was then men
aced with destruction. Confidence has
returned to business. and with conf
dence uneXamped' prosperity.
For deficient revenues, supplement-
ed by improvident issues of bonds, we
gave the country an income which
produces a large surplus and which
enabled us only four years after the
Spanish war had closed to remove ov-
er one hundred millions of annual war
taxes, reduce the public debt and low
er the interest charges of the govern
ment. We refused to palter longer
with the miseries of Cuba. We fought
a quick and vigorous war with Spain.
We set Cuba free, governed the island
for three years and then gave 1t to the
Cuban people with order restored,
with ample revenues, with education
and public health established, free
from debt and connected with the Uni
ted States by wise provisions for our
mutual interests. We have organized
the government of Porto Rico and its
people now enjoy peace, freedom, or
der and prosperity. In the Philippines
we have suppressed insurrection, es-
tablished order and given to life and
property a security never known there
before We have organized civil gov
ernment made it effective and strong
in administration and have conferred
upon the people of those islands the
largest civil liberty they have ever en-
joyed. BY our possession OF the
Philippines we were enabled to take
prompt and effective action in the re
lief of the legations at Pekin and de
cisive part in preventing the partition
and preserving of the integrity o1
China. The possession of the route
: for an Isthmian Canal, SO long dream
of American craftsmanship is now ar
accomplished fact We have passeo
laws which will bring the arid lands o
the United States within the area OF
cultivation. We have reorganlzed the
army and put it in the highest state O
efficiency. We have passed laws fol
: the improvement and support OF the
militia. We have pushed forward the
building of the navy as defense ant
protection of our honor and OF our In
terests. Our administration OF tht
great departments of the government
has been honest and efficient and wher
5 ever wrong has been discovered the
Republican administration has no
, hesitated to probe the evil and brin:
: the offenders to justice without regar'
: to party or political ties. The law
: enacted by the Republican party whicl
: the Democratic party failed to enforc
1 and which were intended for the pre-
: lection of the public against unjus
l discrimination or illegal encroachmen
. of the vast aggregations of capital
t have been fearlessly enforced by Re
e publican President and new laws er
f suring responsible publicity as to tn
C Operation of great corporations an
d providing additional remedies for tn
5. prevention of discrimination by col
) porations and providing additions
t remedies for the prevention of discrin
l. ination in freight rates have bee
l. passed by a Republican Congress. |
IF this record cs achievement during tn