The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-06-28

for three years and then gave it to the
Cuban people with order restored, free
from debt and connected with the
United States by wise provisions for
our mutual interests.
We have organized the government
of Porto Rico and its people now en-
Joy peace, freedom, order and prosper
ity.
In the Philippines we have sup
pressed insurrection, established or
der and given to life and property a
security never known there before.
We have organized civil government,
made IL effective and strong in ad-
ministration and have conferred upon
the people of those islands the largest
civil liberty they have ever enjoyed.
By our possession of the Philippines
we were enabled to take prompt and
effective action in the relief of the
legations at Pekin and a decisive part
in preventing the partition and pre-
serving the integrity of China.
The possession of a route for an
isthmian canal, so long the dream of
American statesmanship, is now an
accomplished fact The great work
of connecting the Pacific and Atlantic
by a canal is at last begun and 1t 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 efficiency.
| 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 defense and pro-
lection of our honor and our interests.
Our administration of the great de-
partments of the government has
been honest and efficient and
wherever wrong doing has been dis
covered the republican administration
has not hesitated to probe the evil
and bring offenders to justice without
regard to party or political ties.
Laws enacted by the republican
party which the democratic party fail
ed to enforce and which were intend
ed for the protection of the public
against the unjust discrimination or
the Illegal encroachment of vast ag-
gregations of capital have been fear
lessly enforced by a republican presi-
dent, and new laws ensuring reason
able publicity as to the operations OF
great corporations and providing ad.
ditional remedies for the prevention
of discrimination in freight rates have
been passed by a republican congress
In this record of achievement dur.
ing the past eight years may be read
the pledges which the republican
party has fulfilled. We promise Il
continue these policies and we declare
our constant adherence to the follow.
ing principles:
The Tariff Plank.
> Protection which guards and devel
ops our industries is a cardinal policy
of the republican party. The measure
of protection should always at leas
equal the difference in the cost o.
, production at home and abroad. We
insist upon the maintenance of thu
principles of protection, and therefore
, rates of duty should be readjustet
only when conditions have so changed
, that the public interest demands thei
, alteration. but this work cannot safel.
. be committed to any other hands thai
those of the republican party.
) To entrust 1t to the democratic
party is to invite disaster. Whether
as In 1892, the democratic party de
, clared the protective tariff unconstitu
, tional, or whether it demands tarii
I reform or tariff revision, its real OBJ
ject is always the destruction of tn
, protective system. However speciou
, the name, the purpose is ever tn
Z same. A democratic tariff has alway
been followed by business adversely
h a republican tariff by business pros
a perity. To a republican congress an
/. a republican president this great Ques
i tion can be safely entrusted. Whe