The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-23
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
 UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
PROTECTION THE CARDINAL
 POLICY OF THE PARTY.

Tariff Rates to be Adjusted Only When
 Conditions Have so Changed That
 ation-Plank on Recfprocity--De-
 creased Representation in South
 Where the Negro Has Been Disfran-
 chised-Presidenfs Home and For eign Policy Praised.
 | Chicago, June 22.-Following is the platform of the republican national convention unanimously adopted this afternoon:
 Fifty years ago the republican party came into existence, dedicated. among other purposes. to the great task of arr resting the extension of human slavery In 1860 it elected it's first president 2 During twenty-four of the forty-four years which have elapsed since the election of Lincoln the republican par ty has held complete control of the gov- ernment. For eighteen more of the forty-four years 1t has held partial con- trol through the possession of one or two branches of the government. while the democratic party 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 It Ii sa demonstration that the republican Iparty has commanded the confidence of the American people for nearly two lgenerations to a degree never equalled in our history, and his displayed a high Icapacity for rule and government which has been made even more con- spicuous by the incapacity and infirm- Iity of purpose shown by it's opponents. The republican party entered upon it's present period of complete supremacy 1 in 1897. We have every right to con- gratulate ourselves upon the work Isince then accomplished, for it has add ed lustre even to the traditions of the lparty which carried the government through the storms of civil war. We then found the country, after four years of democratic rule, in evil plight, op- pressed with misfortune and doubtful | OA tllG Luli1 c. JULIO NtIEQll IlctQ DE6Il lowered, the revenues were declining, 1.-the debt was growing. the administra- tion's attitude toward Spain was feeble land lnortifying, the standard of values was threatened and uncertain, labor was unemployed, business was sunk in the depression which had succeeded the Ipanic of 1883, hope was faint, and conf- dence was gone
 We met these unhappy conditions Vigorously, effectively, and at once. We replaced a democratic tariff law based on free-trade principles and gar lnished with sectional protection by Ieonsistent protective tariff, and indus try, freed from suppression and stir1l- lulated by the encouragement of wige Jaws, has expanded to a degree never before known, has conquered new mar kets and has created a volume of ex- Iports 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 stand- ard, which was then menaced with de- lstruction. Confidence returned to bus- mess, and with confidence an unexarr- pied prosperity.
 For deficient revenues supplemented by irnprovident issues of bonds we gave the country an income which produced a large surplus, and which enabled us lonly 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 lcharges of the government.
 The public credit which had been so l lowered that in time of peace a demo- 1 (Continued on Third Page.)