The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-16
Here Is the Platform of the Republican Party as Drafted;
Fight in the Convention on Injunction Plank IS Promised

in the mines, and to amend ant
strengthen the law prohibiting the i'm
portation of contract labor, will be pur.
sued in every legitimate direction with
in Federal authority to tighten the bur
dens and increase the opportunity fol
happiness and advancement of all wht
toll.
Among those whose welfare is as vita
to the. welfare of the whole country as
is that of the wage Garner Is the Ameri-
can farmer. The prosperity of thu
whole country rests peculiarly upon the
prosperity of agriculture.
The rural mail delivery was estab-
lished over earnest Democratic opposi-
ton; it now reaches millions of our
citizens, and we favor its extension
uatil every community in the land re-
ceives the full benefits of h postal
service.
In good roads work we recommend
the growing factors of State aid and
believe in such national assistance as
car be appropriately rendered.
We declare for such amendments
of the statutes of procedure in the
Federal courts with respect to the
use of the writ of Injunction as will.
ON the one hand. prevent the sum-
mary issue of such orders, without
proper consideration, and, on the
other, will preserve undiminished
the power Of the courts to enforce
their process, to the end that JUS
tice may be done mt all times and to
all parties.
The Republican party has been for
more than fifty years the consistent
friend of the American negro, which
gave him freedom and citizenship. 1t
wrote into the organic law the declaraA
lions that proclaim his civil and po-
litical rights, and ii believes today
that his noteworthy progress in intel
ligence, industry and good citizenship
has earned the respect and encourage
ment of the nation. We demand equal
justice for all men, without regard to
race or color
We approve the efforts of President
Roosevelt and the Republican majority
in Congress over a solid Democratic
opposition to secur equal accorhmoda-
tions on railroads and other public car
riers for all citizens, whether white or
black.
We reaffirm former declarations that
the civil service laws, enacted, extend
ed and enforced by the Republican
party, shall continue to be maintained
and obeyed.
We indorse the movement inaugu-
rated by the President for the CO.
operative conservation of natural re-
sources. No obligation of the future is
more insistent, n non will result in
! greater blessings to posterity.
The SiXtieth Congress passed many
commendable acts increasing the eff
ficiency of the army and navy making
the militia of the States an integral
part of the national establishment,
authorizing joint maneuvers of the
army n militia, fortifying new naval
bases and completing the construction
of coaling stations, instituting a female
nurse corps for naval hospitals and
ships and adding two new battleships,
ten torpedo-boat d~estroyers, three
steam golfers and eight submarines to
the strength of the navy. We declare
our unalterable devotion to a policy
that will keep this republic ready at
all times to defend her traditional doc
trines, protect her citizens at home and
abroad and assure her an appropriate
part in promoting permanent tran
guilty among the nations
The conspicuous contributions of
American craftsmanship to the great
cause of international peace so signally
advocated in The Hague conference are
an occasion for just pride and gratifica-
tion.
We adhere to the Republican doctrine
of encouragement to American ship
ping, and urge such legislation as will
revive the merchant marine prestige of
the country. SO essential to national de-
Tense, the enlargement of foreign trade
and the industrial prosperity of our own
people.
We indorse the movement designed to
secure the organization of all existing
national public health agencies into q
single national health department, and
favor such legislation as will effect this
purpose.