Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM
Adopted at the Chicago Convention
Last Week.
The platform adopted by the Repub
Hcan National convention at CniCaSo
June %, 1904, is as follows:
Fifty years ago the Republican party
came into existence dedicated Among
other purposes to the great task or
arresting the extension of human
slavery. In 1860 it elected it's first
President. During twenty-four VI the
forty-four years which have elapsed
since the election of Lincoln the he
publican party has held complete con-
troll of the government. For eighteen
more of the forty-four years it has held
partial control through the possession
of one or two branches of the govern
ment, while the Democratic party dur
ing the same period has had complete
control for only two years. This long
tenure of power by the Republican
party is not due to chance 1t is a
demonstration that the Republican
party has commanded the confluence
of the American people for nearly two
generations to a degree never equaled
in our history and has displayed a
high capacity for rule and government
which has been made even more con-
spicuOus by the incapa city and inform
fty of purpose shown by it's opponents.
The Republican party entered uDon
its present period of complete suprem-
acy in 1897. We have every right to
congratulate ourselves upon the work
since then accomplished, for 1T has
added luster even to the traditions of
the party which CARED the govern
ment through the storms of Civil war
THE COTNTRY'S CONDITION.
We then found the country after four
years of Democratic rule in evil plight
oppressed with misfortune and doubt
full of the future. Public credit had
been lowered the revenues were do
Ginning. the debt was growing. the ad-
ministration's attitude toward Spain
was feeble and notifying. the stand
ard of values was threatened and I'M
certain, labor was UNEMPLOYED, pusi-
ness was sunk in the depression which
had succeeded the panic of 1898. hope
was faint and confidence was gone.
We met those unhappy conditions
vigorously. effectively and at once
We replaced a 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-
banded to a degree never before
known, has conquered new markets
and has created volume of exports
which has surpassed IMAGINATION. I'm
der the Dinglev tariff labor has been
fully employed. Wages b"ve rise"
and all industries have revived and
prospered.
We firmly established the eol
standard which was then menacea
with destruction. Confidence returned
to business and with confidence an un-
examined prosDeritv.
MADE FINANCES BETTER.
tor, arof
ed by improvident issues of bonds, we
gave the country an income which pro-
duced a large surplus. and which en-
abled us only four years after the
Spanish war had closed to remove
over 100 millions of annual war taxes
to reduce the public debt and lower
the interest charges of the govern
ment.
The public credit which had been sc
lowered that in time of peace a Demo
cratic administration made large
loans at extravaeant rates of interest
in order to nav current expenditures
rose under Republican administrator
to the highest point and enabled us tic
borrow at 2 per cent even in time OF
war.
We refused to palter longer with
the miseries of Cuba. We fought g
quick and victorious war with Spain
We set Cuba free. governed the is
land Tor three years ana fnen P7Ve u
to the Cuban people with order re
stored. with annie revenues. with ed"
cation and nublic health established
free from debt and connected with the
United States bv wise provisions Iol
our mutual interests.
We have organized the government
of Porto Rico and it's people now en-
jov neace freedom, order and pros
peritv
PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
In the Philippines we have sup
pressed instruction. established order
and given to life and property sec';r
fly never known there before. We
have organized civil government
made 1t effective and strong in admin
istration and have conferred upon the
people of those islands the largest
civil liberty they have ever enjoyed-
BY our possession of the Philip
pines we were able to take prompt and
effective action in the relief of the lega
lions of Pekin and decisive part IL
preventing the partition and the pre-
serving of the INTEGRITY of China.
The possession of a route for an 18th
milan canal. so long the dreaIn o
American craftsmanship. is now al
accomplished fact. The great work o
connecting the Pacific and Atlantic
oceans by a canal is at last begun, All;
1t is due to the Republican party. =
We have passed laws which viii
bring the arid lands of the Unitet
States xithin the area of cultivation
We have reorganized the army an
put 1t in the highest state OF ef