Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-04
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Approved by the Convention at Chicago and Showing Pn
 cples For Which It Stands.

Nention declares it's unchanging faith 1n government of the people, by the people, for the people. We renew our allegiance to the principles of the Re- publican party and our devotion to the cause of the Republican institutions established by the fathers.
 It is appropriate that we should now recall with a sense of veneration and gratitude the name of our first great leader, who was nominated in this city, and whose lofty principles and superb devotion to his country are an Inspiration to the party he honored- Abraharh Lincoln. fn the present Etate of public affairs we should be inspired by the broad statesmanship end by his tolerant spirit toward man.
 The Republican party looks back up- on its record with pride and satisfac- tion and forward to it's new responsi- bilities with hope and confidence. Its achievements in government institute the most luminous pages in our his tory. Our greatest national advance has been made during the years of its ascendancy in public affairs It has been genuinely and always a party of progress; it has never been either stationary or reactionaTy- It has gone from the fulf1lment of one great pledge to the fulfillment of another in response to the public need and to the popular will.
 We believe in our elf-controlled representative democracy, which is E6vernment of laws, not of men, and in which order is the prequisite of progress.
 The principles of constitutional gov ernment, which make provision for orderly and effective expression of the popular will, for the protection of !, 1 for the interpretation of the law by an untrammeled and independent ju- dietary, have proved themselves ca pablo of sustaining the structure of a government which, after more than a century of development, embraces one hundred millions of people scattered over wide and diverse territory, but bound by common purposes, common ideals and common affection to the Constitution of the United States.
 Under the Constitution and the prin- ciples asserted and vitaIized by ii the United States has grown to be one of the great civilized and civilizing pow CTS of the earth. It offers a home and opportunity to the ambitious and the industrious from other lands Rest ing upon broad basis of a peoples confidence and a peoples support and managed by the people themselves, the government of the United States will meet the problems of the future as satisfactorily as ii has solved those of the past
 A Progressive Party.
 The Republican party is now, as al- ways, a party of advanced and con- Btructive states1nanship. It is prepar- ed to go forward with the solution of those new questions. which social, n1r.N5 have brought into the forefront of the nations interest It will strive, not only in the nation, but in the several gtates, to enact the necessary 1egfsla- tion to safeguard the public health, @ limit effectively the labor of Wo- men and children and to protect wage esrners engaged in dangerous occupa- lions; to eIact comprehensive and gen. erous workTnan's compensation in place of the present wastefui and u1l- just system of employers liability. and in all possible ways to satisfy the just demand of the people for the study and solution of the complex and constantly changing problems of so- cfa1 welfare.
 In dealing with these questions, it [ 5s important that the rights of every indEtdual to the freest possible deyel- P opment of bis own powers and re- sources an dtO the control of his own justly acquired property, so far as those are compatible with the rights asf others, shall not be integfsTed with X or destroyed. The social and political structure of the United States rests rpon the civil liberty of the ind4vddz x nal; and for the protection of that iib~ | @rtV the people have wisely, in the nA- ! tiozaa and state consti utAons, Dta deY- indte Limitations upon themSelyes and E rTpon their governmental officers and j agencies, To enforce these limitations r tO seense the orderly and eoaAsent ez- |, eyc1ae of g0ESrnsneftal bsOHeFs, and te 4 po04ec4 the rights Of eSeh the hHrn- 5 bLeGt and Least favored individual are the functions of independent courts Oi 3nstice.
 UPbelds the Courts. The Republican party reanilrns its { fnasnatSCm to Tphol1 at all times the ' Aer&eg1tT and integrity of the courts huth E1ste and federal and i1 wfTl evea z fnEsEt that their powers to em6wrce th@tr process and to protect life. llber- z ty a6s& property salalN be preserved in. vin1ate- An orderly method is pro- vide6 under ouS system of g0vegnnaerl, ] bT which the people may, when tbey 1 Chpnee- alter or amend the constt4u- ! ii0m provisions which underline tha-
 
 ' 4l provisions are So altered or amend ! ed. tn ostsersy fashion .it is the duty 1 the courts to see to if that wher challenged they are eDfOreed.
 That the courts. both federal and
 stale may bear the heavy burden laid ' upon them to the complete satisfaction rf puibAsc opinion. we favor lexisla-
 tion to prevent long delays and the te-
 dsoue and costly appeals which havt
 20 often amounted to a denial of jus-
 t1oe in ctvn cases and to failure tG
 ksotect the public at large in crimin-
 M eases.
 Since the responsibility of the in.
 dtctsT5 is so great the standards o
 judicial action must be always an(
 everywhere above suspicion aud re. [ proach- While we regard the recall o Judges as unnecessary and nnwise
 Ws favor such action as may be nee
 essary to simplify the process b.
 which any judge who is found to b,
 deTeiiet in his duty may be remove.
 from office.
 Together with peaceful and order
 ly development A home. the Republi
 can party earnestly fsyors all meas
 ures for the establishment and pro
 lection of the peace of the world an, for the development of closer rela tious between inc various nations c the earth If believes most earnest | is tn tts peaceful settlement of inter national dispttes and in the referenc of ali tustifabls controversies betvee,
 the nations tc sn international conr
 cf justice.
 ! Mcrepoiy and Privilege.
 The Rerubiican party ie opposed t
 speclAl privilege and tc monopoly. l | rlscAd upon the statute books the if,
 terstats Commerce Act of 1887. and t1a 1 important arsndruents thereto, an !; the Antitrust Act Of 1890, and it ila consistently and successfully enforc cd ths provisions of these laws. I, wifi take no backward step to perrni ths re-sstebtishrisHt in any degree ( ! conditions which were int6lerabte. BKpsrisnee makes 1t plain that t1l business of the country may be carrie