The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-10-15
REPUBLICA ANS
ADOPT PLATFORM


The Republican candidates for Con-
gress met this ~eek in Baltimore and
adopted the following platform, upon
which they are willing to submit their
candidates. to the people The plat
form is as follows:
The Republican candidates for rep
resentatives from Maryland in the
Sixty-second Congress of the, Uaited
States .reaffirm their loyalty to the
principles Of the Republican party EN-
bodied in its platform OF 1908 and in
dorsed by the people in the election OF
President Taft, aud i elected we
pledge our effort in the coming Con-
gress to aid the President in securing
a complete fulfilment OF every promise.
expressed and implied, in our last ma
tional platform.
We favor the conservation Of our
natural resources for development un-
der such regulations and by such
means as may best assure the use of
the country's wealth for the country's
good.
We favor the effective supervision
by the Federal Government of inter
state and foreign commerce as a safe
guard against the dangers OF mono-
poly and to protect the commercial
liberties OF the people. thus preserving
their commercial equality.
The ne wtariff law was enacted with
out upsetting business. Rates of duty
on some articles of luxury were in
creased and on common food products
and necessities of life were either un-
changed or decreased; notwithstand-
ing general average reduction OF II
per cent in all duties, it resulted in
converting deficit into a surplus, and
unlike the last Democratic tariff law,
which blasted industry, closed mills
and factories and threw thousands OF
wage-earners out OF employment, the
new law has given renewed impetus to
industry, employment to labor at re-
munerative wages and to the agricul-
turist the greatest prosperity known in
years.
PRAISE FOR PRESIDENT TAFT,
We heartily approve the wise and
far-seeing decision of this Admins
tration that, in amending our tariff
laws hereafter, the attention of the
Congress and Of public opinion shall
be concentrated upon one schedule at
one time and that all changes shall be
made in the light OF trustworthy in
formation furnished by a permanent
and disinterested commission OF pub
lie experts, and we applaud the energy
and persistency OF President Taft in
seeking, and his success in securing,
appropriate legislation to give practi.
cal effect to this salutary determine
ton.
We are in hearty sympathy with the
great moral awakening OF the people
under the inspiring leadership OF men
like William Howard Taft, Theodore
Roosevelt and Charles E. Hughes, in
demanding the very highest integrity
n public life as being essential to the
perpetuity of the liberties of the peo-
pie. We insist upon this high stand
ard OF official conduct as vital to the
welfare OF our own State as we'll as the
Nation The unfortunate plight of
some of our cities and States where
exist bribery and corruption, govern
mental inefficiency in public affairs,
attempts to override organic law, ex-
travagance and increasing taxes, stanG
| out in bold contrast to that high stand
ard Of civic Righteousness for which
all right thinking men are today ear
nestly striving.
/ ABRAHAM LINCOLN DRYDEN,
First Congressional District.
WILLIAM B. BAKER
Second Congressional District
CHARLES w. MAIN,
Third Congressional District
| ADDISON E. MULLIKIN,
Fifth Congressional District.
BRAINERD Fl. WARNER, JR.,
Sixth Congressional District