The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-06-25
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
~ HICAGO, June 22.-The platform
adopted by the National Re
publican Convention follows:

Fifty years ago the Republican party
came into existence, dedicated among
other purposes to the great task of ar
resting the extension of human slavery
In 1860 ii elected it's first president.
During twenty-four of the forty-four
years that have elapsed since the cleo
ton of Lincoln the Republican party has
held complete control 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 government, while the Democrat
ic 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. 1t
is demonstration that the Republican
party has commanded the confidence of
the American people for almost two gen
erationS To degree never equaled in
our history, and has displayed a high ca
pacity for rule and government which
has been made even more conspicuous
by the incapacity and intirmity of pur-
pose shown by its opponents.
The Republican party entered upon
it's present period of complete suprem-
acy in 1897 We have every right TO
congratulate ourselves upon the work
since then accomplished, for 1t has add
ed lustre to the traditions of the
through the storms of Civil War.
I'VE then found the country after four
years of Democratic rule in evil plight.
oppressed with misfortune and doubtful
of the future. Public credit had been
lowered, the revenues were declining. the
debt was growing, the administrations
attitude towards Spain was feeble and
notifying, the standard of values was
threatened and uncertain. labor was
crippled, business was sunk in the de-
preston that had succeeded the panic
of 1898; hope was faint and confidence
was gone
Effective and Alone.
I'VE met these UNHAPPY conditions
vigorously. effectively and alone. We
rnT.1n 10. unsf
on free trade principles and garnished
with sectional protection by protective
tariff and industry. freed from
oppression and stimulated by the en-
enlargement of wise laws has expanded
to degree never before known. has
conquered new markets and has created
volume of exports which has sur
passed ina gination. Under the Dingley
tariff labor being fully employed
Wages have risen and all industries
have revived and prospered.
We firmly established the gold STAN
dard which was then menaced with de-
struction. Confidence returned to bust
ness. and with confidence an unexampled
prosperity.
For deficient revenues. supplemented
by improvident issues of bonds, we gave
the country an income which produced
a large surplus and which enabled us
only four years after the Spanish war
of annual war taxes. reduce the public
debt and lower the interest charges of
the government
The public credit. which had been
so lowered that in time of peace a Dem
ocratic administration made large loans
at eXtravagant rates of interest in or
der TO pay current expenditures, rose
under republican administration TO its
highest point and enabled us TO borrow
at : per cent even in time of war.
Miseries OF Cuba.
we refused TO palter longer with the
miseries of Cuba. We fought a quick