The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-23
THE GRAND HISTORY OF THE
.$3s REPuBLlcAN PARTY FOR
HALF a CENTURY.
rs AVERY STRONG AND CONCISE.
DEcLARATioN OF PRINCE
PLEsTaE COUNTRY is
:szss SAFE IN REPUBLICAN,
IS HANDS.

9sss CHICAGO. III, June 22.-The com
( mittee on resolutions reported the
following platform to the Republican
National Convention today:
Fifty years ago, the Republican
party came into existence dedicated
among other purposes to the great
task of arresting the extension Of hui
man slavery. In 1860 it elected its
first President. During twenty-four
of the forty-four years which have
elapsed since the election of Lincoln,
the Republican party has held com
&p1ete control of the government. For
eighteen of the forty-four years it has
held partial control through the pos
session of one or two branches of the
government, while the Democratic
party during the same period had had
complete control for only two years.
I This long tenure of power by the Re
publican party is not due to chance.
1T is in administration that the Repub-
1ican party has commanded the con-
fdence of the American people for
nearly two generations to a degree
neVer5 equa11ed in our history, and
q has displayed a high capacity for rule
= and government which has been
made conspicuous by the incapaci-
ty and infirmity of purpose shown by
its opponents.
Complete Supremacy In 1897.
The Republican party entered upon
its present period of complete SUI
spremacy in 1897. We have every
right to congratulate ourselves upon
the work since then accomplished, for
& itlahas added Iustre even to the ira
d ditions of the party which carried the
government through the storms of
civil war.
We then found the country after
fouryears of Democratic rule, in evil
plight oppressed by misfortune and
doubtful of the future. Public credit
S had been lowered, the revenues We're
declining, the debt was growing, the
administration attitude towards Spain
was feeble and notifying, the stan
sSdard of values were threatened and
Z uncertain, labor was unemployed.
( business was sunk in the depression
which had succeeded the panic of
s 1893, hope was faint, and confidence
gone:
We met these unhappy conditions
vigorously and at once.
We replaced a Democratic tariff
law based on free trade principles
and garnished with sectional protec-
ton by a consistent protective tariff,
4 and industry, freed from oppression
and stimulated by encouragement of
wise laws, has expanded to a degree
never before known; has conquered
& new markets and has created vol
Z ume of exports which has surpassed
Imagination Under the Dingey Tar
" if, labor has been fully employed,
h wages have increased and all indus
tries have revived and prospered.
+. We firmly established the gold stan
dard which was then menaced with
destruction. Confidence returned to
business and with confidence an I'M
+ exampled prosperity.
Cuba Set Free.
For deficient revenues. supplement-
ed 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
our one hundred million of annual
war taxes, reduce the public debt,
; and lower the interest charges of the
government. The public credit,
which had been so lowered that in
Y time of peace Democratic admins
tration made large loans at eXtrava-
& grant rates of interest in order to pay
IS current expenditures. rose under Re
4 publican administration to the highest
e point and enabled us to borrow at
n two per cent, even in time of war.
II We refused to palter longer with the
u miseries of Cuba We fought a quick
and victorious war with Spain We
5.set Cuba free, governed the islands
II for three years, and then gave it to
the Cuban people with order restored,
with ample revenues, with education
'aId public health established. free
debt, and connected with the
States by wise provisions for
50 ssSI interests. We have organ
Sacrament of Porto Rico
(! .lss aoW enjoy peace, free
philippines.
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