The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-05-26
Draft for the Committee Has Been
Completed.
THE PRESIDENT IS COMMENDED
His Conservative Diplomatic Policy
Approved and Protective Tariff Up
heId-SimIIar in Some Features to
That of Massachusetts.

the national convention by Senator
Lodge, the prospective chairman, as
the basis of its deliberations, is com
pleted. 1t is notably terse platform,
nowhere open to equivocal interpre
tation, sharply contrasting with any
thing a disorganized. fusion compro-
mise opposition can present for popu-
lar approval.
After the usual expression of con-
tidence in the eternal principles of
the Republican PARTY the platform
will specifically commend Theodore
Roosevelt, the man for his faithful
adherence to the policies of Mckinley,
for his fearless discharge of the duties
of his high Office with the single pur-
pose of promoting the public welfare,
for the important part he played in
the crisis of the anthracite strike,
and for representing the highest
ideals of American manhood.
The platform will then review the
foreign relations Of the United States
under President RoOsevelt's admins
tration, asserting that no function of
his Office rendered an untried and I'M
safe President more liable to involve
the nation in grave and ineXtricable
complications than the administra
ton of its foreign affairs.
Among the achievements of Theo-
dOre ROosevelt's administration will
be enumerated the accomplishment
of Cuban reciprocity and the ratitica-
ton of the treaty with Cuba which
incorporates the Platt amendment.
The wise and conservative course of
the administration in the Venezuelan
affair, which resulted in the most sig
nal recognition by foreign powers of
the Monroe doctrine, as an import
ant triumph for arbitration and in
the protection of Venezuela's Amer
lean creditors, will be so exhibited as
to throw into strong contrast the
Venezuelan message Of President
Cleveland.
The settlement of the Alaskan
boundary dispute, another triumph
for American diplomacy and for arbi-
tration. accomplished by peaceful
mean, under critical circumstances
will be made the basis for further APP
proval of Mr.. Roosevelt's administra-
ton.
The skillful and farseeing diplomacy
which effected the negotiations and
ratification of the treaty with China,
whereby the Uuited States, in tn e
face of subtle but powerful opposi-
ton, acquired treaty rights in Man
churia which the victor in the pres
ent war, be it Russia or japan, will be
bound to respect, and which guaran-
tees to American commerce wider
opportunity in China than has ever
before been accorded to any nation:
the subsequent not to the European
powers by which the administrative
entity of China is assured against
the desire of the powers to accomplish
= it's partition, and the world wide
diplomatic understanding that the
United States will be selected to
adjust the terms of peace when Rus
STA and Japan shall determine to
abandon their resort to arms will be
cited in substantiation of the asser-
ton that Theodore Roosevelt is an
exceptionally conservative and wise
executive.
The administration and Congress
will be warmly commended for the
acquisition of the Panama canal, the
completion Of which must accrue SO
largely to the advantage of the United
States and to the world at large.
The President will be praised for
his successful enforcement of the
Sherman antitrust law, which was
enacted by a Republican Congress
aud first applied by 1t Republican
President.
Grateful comment on the eXtraordi-
nary prosperity of the nation will be
followed by brief contrast of exist
ing conditions with those of 1893 and
by the assertion that the monetary
system OF the nation is now on such a
stable and satisfactory basis that men
look back with wonder and amaze
ment when they recall the wild
vagaries and still wilder Democratic
theories of 1896.
The section which deals with pro
lection follows:
Protection, which guards and de
velops our industries, is cardinal
principle of the Republican party
We insist upon the maintenance of
this principle, but we recognize that
particular tariff schedules are neither
sacred nor immutable. Rates for
duty may be altered when changed
conditions demand their alteration,
but no revision should be undertaken
unless it is clear that the benefit will
more than compensate for the dis