Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-29
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS.
The Republican Ticket-The Indiana Senator
Gets Second Place--The Platform.

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Chicago, July 23.-The National
Republican Convention adjourned
this afternoon at 2.30 O'Clock, after
nominating Theodore Roosevelt for
President, and Senator Charles w.
Fairbanks, of Indiana, for Vice
President.
Without the slightest break, with
out even creak or the suspicion OF
one, the well. oiled machinery of the
Republican National Convention
performed its allotted work. The
end was accomplished on schedule
time, with the accompaniment of
spectacular features, to the prepara-
tion of which the management had
devoted much care and attention.
There were the usual demonstra.
tions at proper times, calculated, as
they were intended, to carry the con.
viction of genuiheness to the unsus.
pecting. There were highly lauda.
tory speeches, some of them from
men whose hearts were not all in
sympathy with their own utterances,
but these were taken at full face
value by the great majority of those
who filled the galleries set apart for
visitors just as they will be by the
masses of the Republicans through
out the country, and there was SUR
face harmony as thick as a London
fog. This harmony was referred to
by many of the speakers as more
than making up for the absence of
real enthusiasm, which among them
selves they deeply deplored.
The Platform.
After reciting the alleged evil re-
suits of Democratic rule the platform
says:
We met these unhappy conditions
vigorously, effectively and at once.
We replaced Democratic tariff
law, based on free trade principles
and garnished with sectional protec-
ton, by consistent protective tariff,
and industry, freed from oppression
and stimulated by the encourage
ment of wise laws, has expanded to
degree never before known, has
conquered new markets and has Gre
ated volume of exports which has
surpassed imagination. Under the
Dingley tariff labor has been fully
employed, wages have risen and all
industries have revived and pros
pered.
We firmly established the gold
standard which was then menaced
with destruction. Confidence re-
turned to business aud with conf
dence an unexampled prosperity.
For deficient revenues, supple
mented by improvident issues of
bonds, we gave the country an in
come which produced large surplus
and which enabled us only four years
after the Spanish war had closed to
remove over one hundred millions of
annual war taxes, reduce the public
debt and lower the interest charges
Of the government.
The public credit, which had been
80 lowered that in time of peace
Democratic administration made
large loans at eXtravagant rates of
interest in order to pay current ex-
penditures, rose under Republican
administration to its highest point
and enabled us to borrow at 9 per
cent, even in time of war.
We refused 70 palter longer with
the miseries of Cuba. We fought
quick and victorious war with Spain.
We set Cuba free, governed the
island for three years, and then gave
it to the Cuban people with order
restored, with ample revenues, with
education and public health estab-
lished, free from debt and connected
with the United States by wise pro-
visions for our mutual interests.
We have organized the govern
ment of Porto Rico, and it's people
now enjoy peace, freedom, order and
prosperity.
In the Philippines we have sup
pressed insurrection, established
order and given to life and property
a security never known there before.
We have organized civil government,
made it effective and strong in ad.
ministration and have conferred
upon the people of those islands the
largest civil liberty they have ever
enjoyed.
The possession of a route for an
1sthmian Canal, 80 long the dream Of
American craftsmanship, is now an
accomplished fact. The great work
of connecting the Pacific and Allan
tic by canal is at last begun, and it
is due to the Republican party.
We have passed laws which will
bring the arid lands of the United
States within the area of cultivation.
We have reorganized the army and
put it in the highest state of eff
ciencey.
We have passed laws for the i'm
provement and support of the militia.
We have pushed forward the build
ing of the navy, the defence and pro-
lection of our honor and our interests.
Our administration of the great
department of the government has
been perfect and efficient, and wher-
ever wrong doing has been disuov-
cred the Republican administration
has not hesitated to probe the evil
and bring offenders to justice with
our regard to party or political ties.
BY our possession Of the Philip
pines we were enabled to take prompt
and effective action in the relief of
the legations at Pekin and decisive
part in preventing the partition and
preserving the integrity of China.
Laws enacted by the Republican
party, which the Democratic party
failed to enforce, and which were in
tended for the protection of the pub
lic against the unjust discrimiD alton
or the illegal cncroachment of vast
aggregations of capital, have been
fearless|y enforced by a Republican