The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-06-30
The PARTY'S CREED
Clear Enunciation Of Principles. by
Chicago Convention.
REPUBLIcANIsM's PROUD HISTORY

REPUBllCANlSM'S PROUD HISTORY
, Found the Country In the Slough of
Commercial Despond and Placed Its
| Feet on the Firm Rock Of Prosper
ity-Pro.ection Cardinal Doctrine
| Of ublicanism-splendid Record
Of the Administration ct Theodore
| Roosevelt.
The full-text platform adopted by
the National convention of the Repub-
lican party at Chicago on June 22nd is
| as follows:
| Fifty years ago the Republican party
, came into existence dedicated among other
| purposes to the great task of arresting the
extension Of human slavery. In 1850 1t
| elected it's first president. During twenty
four of the fortyfour years which have
elapsed since the election e;d OF Lincoln the
Of the government. For eighteen more of
the forty -four years it has held partial con-
branches Of the government, while the Dem
ocratic party, during the same period, has
had complete control TT t0r Only I'M t Two p yeI
| can party is not due to cnance. ii Is Il
demonstration
has commanded the confidence Of the Amer
lean people for nearly two generations to
degree never equaled in our history. and
has displayed high capac.iy fvr f.4S ...-d
government which las been made even mocc
conspicuous by the incapaclty and intfiil-
ig r6 ol PRep"5lican parfy entered npon IT'S
! present period of complete supremacy ii
1897. We have every right to cJhgraiui',f"
ourselves upon the work since men ac-
compiished, for it has added luStcr even TO
the traditions of the party which carried
the government through the storms OF tue
), We then found the country after four
wears of Democratic rule in evil plight.
) oppressed with misfortune and doubtful Of
the future Public credit had been low
cred, the revenues were declining the debt
was growing, the Administrations S attitude
! toward Spain feeble and mortifying,
the standard of values was threatened and
uncertain, labor was unemplOyed business
, was sunk in the depression which had sue
ceeded the panic of 1893, hope was faint
) We met these unhappy conditions vigor-
ously,. effectively and at once. We re-
placed Democratic tariff based on free
trade principles and garniShed with sec
, tional protection by a consistent protective
tariff, and industry, freed from oppression
and stimulated by the encOurag cement of
wise laws, has expanded to a degree never
before known, has conquered new markets
. and has created volume of exports which
has surpassed imagination.
fully employed. Wages have risen and all
Industries have revived and prospered. We
firmly established the gold standard which
was then menaced with destruction. Con
fdence returned to business and with con
| fdence uneXampled prosperity.
| For deficient revenues, supplemented by
improvident issues of bonds, we gave the
country income which produced large
surplus and which enabled us. only four
years after the Spanish war had closed
nual war taxes, reduce the public debt and
. lower the interest charges of the govern
/ ment.
cred that in time of peace a Democratic
administration made large loans at extrav-
rent expenditures, rose under Republican
I administration its highest point, and en-
abled US to borrow at per cent, even in
= time of
We refused to palter longer with the mis-
cries of Cuba. We fought quick and
and then gave it t. the Cuban peonle VIII
e education and public health established
4 free from debt, and connected with tho
United States by wise provisions for oul
| mutual interests.
In the Philippines we have suppressed
insurrection. established order and given t.
| life and property security never known
there before. We have organized civil gov
V eminent. made it effective and strong il
administration. and have conferred upol
= the people of those islands the largest civil
liberty they have ever enjoyed. By GU
[ possession of the Philippines we were en-
| abled to take prompt and effective action
| in the relief of the legations at Pekin ant
4 decisive part in preventing the partition
!
The purchase of route for an isthmiar
craftsmanship. is now an accomplished
fact; The sreat work of of connecting tn
G last begun, and it is due to the Repubica
. party. We have passed laws which viii
bring the arid lands of the United State
within the area of cultivation.
We have reorganized the army and pu
!: it in the highest state of efficiency.
l. Our administration of the great depart
| government been homes
- and efficient, and wherever wrOngdoing ha
= been discovered the Republican admnistra
l. bring offenders to Justice without regard t
n Laws enacted by the Republican which
" the Democratic party failed to enforce ant
= which were intended for the protection o
il the public against the unjust discrimination
,, or the illegal encroa chment of vast aggre
IL cations of capital have been fearlessy en-
forced by Kepubliean Presdsent and net
the operations of great CORPORATIONS, an
providing additional remedies rem, fort. for the pre
have been passed by Republican congress
In ,his record of achievement during tn
last eight years may be read the pledge
II which the Republican party has fulfilled.
We propose to continue these policies an
N we. declare our. constant adherence to tn
\, following principles:
Protection which guards and develops on
~ Industries is a cardinal policy of the Repul
should always at least equal the differenc
in the cost of production at home an
abroad. We insist upon the maintenance
the principles of protection and, therefor
J rates of duty should be readjusted onl
r, when conditions have so changed that til
ID PUBLIC interest demands their alteration
" but this work cannot safely be committe
s. to any other hands than those of the r.
publican party.
IL To trust it to the Democratic party 10 {
G. invite disaster. whether as in 1852, til
Democratic party declared the protecti,
tar1f unconstitutional, or whether it d
mands tariff reform, or tariff revision, 4
real object is always the destruction of tt
protective system. However specious Il
. name, the purpose Is ever the same.
Democratic tariff has always been fo
lowed by business adversely, a Republics
tariff by business prosperity. To Repu
lican congress and a Republican presidel
III this great question can be safely intruste
i When the only free trade country amor