Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-06-24
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
.s ADOPTED AT THE NATIONAL
CONVENTION IN CHICAGO.
vuAr THE GRAND OLD PARTY WILL
sr.Np FOR IN THE COMING PREsI-
DENTAL CAMPAIGN.


sr.Np FOR IN THE COMING PREsI-
DENTAL CAMPAIGN.
Following is the full text Of the plat
,,rm adopted at the republican national
conventional in Chicago last week:
Once more the republican party. in national
.orvention assem- bled. submits its cause to the
asople. This great historic organization,
mai DESTROYED slavery. preserved the Union.
.os,ored credit, extended the national do
r,sir. established q sound financial system,
saveloped the industries and resources OF the
country and gave to the nation her seat of
bonor in the councils of the world, now meets
the new problems of government with the
same courage and capacity with which it
solved the old.
RoosBvHLr's ADMINISTRATION.
In this, the greatest era of American ad-
vancement, the republican party has reached
its highest service under the leadership of
Theodore Roosevelt. His administration is
an epoch in American history. In no other
neriod since national sovereignty was won
uuder Washington or preserved under Lin
coin, has there been such mighty progress In
those ideals of government which make for
Justice. equality and fair dealing among men.
The highest aspirations of the American
psopie have found q voice. Their most ex-
allied servant represents the best aisls and
worthiest purposes of all his countrymen.
American manhood has been lifed to q nobier
sense Of duty and obligations. Conscience
and courage in public station and higher
standards OF right and wrong in private life
have become cardinal principles Of political
faith; capital and labor have been brought
into closer relations Of confidence aud inter-
de pendence, and the business OF wealth, the
tyranny OF power and all the evils OF privi-
lege and favoritism have been put to scorn by
the simple. manly virtues OF justice and fair
play.
The great accomplishments off President
Roosevelt have been, first and foremost, q
brave and impartial enforcement Of the law;
the prosecution Of Illegal trusts and monopo-
lies: the exposure and punishment Of evil
doors in the pu bic service: the more effective
regulation OF the rates and service OF the
great trans portation lines; the complete over
throw of preferences; rebates and discrimi-
nations: the arbitration OF labor disputes:
the amelioration Of the condition of wage
workers everywhere; the conservation OF the
national resources of the country; the for
ward step in the improvement OF the inland
waterways. and always the earnest support
and defense of every wholesome safeguard
which has made more secure the guarantees
Of life. liberty and property.
These are the achievements that will make
for Theodore Roosevelt his place in history,
but more than all else the great things he has
done will be an inspiration to those who have
yet greater things to do. We declare our un-
faltering adherence to the policies thus
inaugurated and pledge their continuance
under a republican administration Of the
government.
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY.
Under the guidance Of republican princi-
pies the American people have become the
richest nation in the world. Our wealth to-
day exceeds that Of England and all her colo
MES, and that OF France and Germany COM
bined. When the repub lican party was born
the total wealth Of the country was $4,000
900 900. 1t has leaped to ello.0oo, 100000 in .
generation, while Great Britain has gathered
but go. 900 900 900 in 800 years.
The United States now owns one-fourth Of
the worlds wealth and makes one-third of all
modern manufactur red products. In the great
necessities of civilization, such as COAL the
motive power Of all activity; iron. the chief
basis OF all industry; cotton, the staple
foundation of all fabrics; wheat. corn and all
the agricultural products that feed mankind.
Americas supremacy is undisputed. And yet
her great natural wealth has been scarcely
touched. We have n vast domain Of 100000
square miles, literally bursting with latent
treasures. still awaiting the magic of capital
and industry TO be converted to practical uses
of man'ind; a country rich in soil and
climate and in the embarrassed energy of its
rivers and in all the varied products OF the
field, the forest and the factory.
With gratitude for Gods bounty, with pride
in the splendid productiveness of the past
and with confidence in the plenty and pros
perity of the future, the republican party
declares for the principle that in the develop
ment and enjoyment of wealth so great and
blessings so benign, there shall be equal
opportunity for all.
REVIVAL OF BUSINESS.
Nothing so clearly demonstrates the sound
basis upon which our commercial, industrial
and agricultural interests are founded, and
the necessity of promoting their continued
welfare through the operation of republican
policies, as the recent safe passage OF the
American people through financial disturb
ance which IL appeari lg in the midst or dem
ocratic rule or the menace of 1t, might have
equailed the familiar democratic panics of the
past. We congratulate the people upon this
renewed evidence of American supremacy,
and hail with confidence the signs now OF a
complete restoration of business prosperity