Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-04-29
The Republican Platform.

Following is the platform adopted by
the Republicans in convention assembled:
PREAMBLE.
We rejoice that in the semi-centennial
of the Republican party we can survey
record of progressive measures and
benefcent achievement without a paral-
lei since the founding of our republic Our
party has gained pre-eminence in CON
stuctive craftsmanship through measures
like the Morrill, tariff and successive
great systems of protection for American
industry, national banking, specie pay
ment and gold standard laws; the college
land grant for the benefit of our Ameri
can youth; emancipation, Southern re-
construction, and the opening and devel-
opment of our vast West; the glorious
launching of the Cuban republic; and
the extension the blessings of our Ameri-
can institutions and the possibility of pro-
gressive home rule to the long oppressed
inhabitants of the PHILIPPINES.
The Republican party has withstood
every assault upon our national integrity,
whether of slave power or of rebellion,
or of reputation, or of silver initiation,
or of subversion of our federal courts; and
it still stands as the peoples bulwark
which are ever breaking through their
democratic barriers and threatening to
dash upon the national capital.
In our semi-Centenary it is fitting for
republicans to recall the illustriOus SER
vices of host of great party leaders,
and to weave fresh garlands i'll memory
of our martyred Presidents, tho heroic
Lincoln. the revered Garfield, the be-
loved Mckinley.
The republicans of Vermont heartily
endorse the able honest, fearless and
thoroughly American administration of
President Roosevelt. He has been the
patron of no privileged bond syndicate,
but the champion of the people. He has
uncovered and punished dishonesty and
corruption in high places He has cut
that modern GOrdian knot, the trust
problem and assailed illegal combination
formed in restraint of trade. He has
been able to fling back the charge of
republican insincerlty on the lsthmlan
canal question, made in the democratic
national platform of 1900, and to test
both the sincerity and patriotism of OPP
position leaders by giving them an oppor-
tunity to support a republican treaty as
surfing American construction and own
ership of the Panama canal. His admin
tration, through the peerless John Hay,
has gained for the United States front
rank in. the worlds diplomacy, enabling
our government for the first time to secur
open recognition of the Monroe doctorine
by old world powers, to effectually pro
test against religious oppression and
cruelty in Europe, and to help limit the
field of war in the Far East, thus pre-
venting a threatened general conflict
over the partition of China.
While consideration of distinctively
Vermont issues will fall to later republic
can State convention upon whose province
we should not encroach, we cannot for
bear to commend the administration of
that stalwart republican leader, Govern
or John G.. Mccullough. We are justly
proud of the valuable services and highly
creditable records of United States Sena-
tors Redfield Proctor and William p.
Dillingham; and of Members of Congress
David j. Foster and Kittredge lHaskins.
PLATFORM.
The republicans of Vermont stand for
the following principles and policies;
Efficiency and honesty in our public
service, fostered by the merit system of
selection.
The greatest economy in our national
national progress.
Protection of American markets, sup
plemented by reciprocity with nom com
petitors, for the joint benefit of Ameri-
can labor and American capital.
The guarding of the people against the
extortion of unlawful monopolies.