Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-19

The platform in detail follows
The Republican party, assembled
by its representatives In national
convention, declares its unchangins
faith in government of the people, by
the people and for the people 1t re-
affirms Its devotion to the funda-
mental principles of constitutional
government established by the
fathers, those principles which make
provision for orderly and effective
expression of the popular will, for the
protection of civil liberty and the
essential rights of man, and the In
depreciation of the law by an un-
trammelled and Independent ju-
dietary; that have proved themselves
capable of sustaining the structure of
a government which, after more than
century of development embraces
one hundred million people, scattered
over a wide and diverse territory, but
bound by common purpose. common
ideals and common affection to the
constitution of the United States.
Under the constitution and the prin-
ciples asserted and vitalized by 1t
the United States has grown to be
one of the great civilized nations of
the earth IT offers a home and op-
portunity to the ambitious and the
industrious of every race and from
every cline. The Republican party
faces the problems of the future con-
fident in the strength and wisdom
that the experience of the past has
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either changing or overthrowing the
American form of government.
Ready TO Face Problem.
The Republican party is now. as al
ways, party of progress and of con-
structive statesmanship IT is pre-
pared, If again intrusted with power
by the people. to go forward with the
solution of those new problems which
social, economic and political develop
ment have brought into the fore
front of the nations interest 1t will
strive not only in the nation, but in
the several States. to enact the neces-
sary legislation TO safeguard the pub
lie health; to limit effectively the
labor of children who should be at
school: to protect wage-earners en-
gagged In dangerous occupations; to
substitute the principle of workmena
compensation for actions at law to
recover damages in case. of injury; to
retain public ownership and control
of those natural resources that are
still the public property, and In all
possible ways to satisfy the just de-
mand of the people for the study and
solution of the complex and con-
stantly changing problems OF social
welfare.
In dealing with these questions II
IL vitally important that the rights
Of every individual to the freest pos
sible development of his own powers
and resources and to the control of
his own Justly acqired property, so
far as these are compatible with the
similar rights of others shall not be
nterfered with or destroyed. The
social and political structure of the
United States rests upon the civil
liberty of the individual, and for the
protection of that liberty the people
nave wisely, in the national and State
put definite limitations
TO secure the orderly and coherent
exercise of governmental powers. and
TO protect the rights of even the
aumblest and least favored individual
IS the function Of independent courts
of justice.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY RE-
AFFIRMS IT'S INTENTION TO UP
HOLD AT ALL TIMES THE AU-
AND INTEGRITY OF
THE COURTS, BOTH STATE AND
FEDERAL, AND 1T WILL EVER
THAT THEIR POWERS TO
ENFORCE THEIR PROCESS AND
TO PROTECT LIFE, LIBERTY AND
PROPERTY \ SHALL BE PRE-
SERVED INVIOLATE. AN ORDER
LY METHOD is PROVIDED UN-
DER OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERN
MENT BY WHICH THE PEOPLE
CONTINUED On Second PaRe.)