Evening journal., 1914-09-03
- PLATFORM WITH A POWERFUL APPEAL.

= A PLATFORM WITH A POWERFUL APPEAL.
IN ELAWAREANS regardless OF partisan afiliation.
II cannot fail be impressed and influenced by
the platform adopted by the Republican State Conven
tion in Dover yesterday.
It has about it the ring of true Americansm 1t
enunciates principles which stand for patriotism pro-
gress and prosperity and It proclams political truths
which appeal with irresistible force to human inell-
gence AS party declaration it places the Republi-
organization in Delaware in an imDregnabe posi-
ton to prosecute winning fight in all three counties
this fall The issues outlined we're happily conceived
and forcofully expressed In short, it is platform
upon which any American who loves his country, his
State his family his neghbor and himself may stand
squarey without doing violence to his convictions.
We print that platform in full and in official form
IN another part Of this paper. We commend it to
the careful perusal Of every Delawarean, matter
what his partisan affiliations may be. II is something
that may be read and reread with profit. With each
new reading it will take stronger hold upon the in
teieence and patriotic spirit of the reader. It is
something that appeals to the reason and not to the
passion or prejudice of the Delaware elector and It
will have an important bearing upon the result at the
polls in November.
The declaration in favor Of extending fair and
reasonable protection to American wage-earners and
American industries is especially timely. With our
country suffering from industrial and commercial de-
preston; with hundreds industrial plants closed
down or working only part time, and with thousands
of wage-earners thrown out OF employment while the
cost Of living mounts steadily upward, the suffering
American public, which for many years enjoyed pros
perity under Republican rule, is in peculiarly recep
tive mood with respect to such declaration.
Nor will the denunciaton of the Wilson admnistra-
tion for the antagonstic and Injurious policy has
maintained toward American business fail to receive
sympathetic hearing in the court Of human reason.
The declaration that that policy is unparotc and sub
versve Of the common good is clothed with truth
which makes it invunerable to Democratic attack That
rIof ling p1tb
attention to the hypocrisy the Democratic pretense
Of favoring equality for all and special privileges to
none" and It's shameful disregard of the projections
thrown about the public service by the Civil Service
laws.
The denunciaton Of gross extravaganza by Demo
cratic Congress pledged to economy; criticism Of the
"weak pusianimous and unsatisfactory foreign pol
icy of the Wilson administration expression of re-
gre at the un-Amercan policy OF President Wilson In
bringing about the repeal Of the oll-exempton clause
Of the Panama Canal act will meet with public APP
proval as did the action Of Senator DUPONT. the only
Republican Representative in Congress from this
State when he spoke against and protested against
the passage of the Presidents blow American coast
wise shipping
Every patriotic American will in the declara
tion in favor OF a reasonable and adequate army and
navy Deawareans will be especially we'll pleased with
the platform commendation of the administration o
Governor Miller The demand that the American mer
chant marine be rebuilt but that the Wilson admins
tration refrain from any shipping other Legislation
that will tend in anyway to impair the peaceful re
latons which exist between our nation and all the ma
tons of the world Is both opportune and based upoI
sound sense especially in view Of existing con
ditions American spirit also win be appeale
to by the opposition expressed in the platform to Pres
dent wilson's plan to rebuild the American merchan
marine by spending $250OO00O to buy lot of foreign
built ships to be operated by the government The de
mand that, If government-owned ships are to be pu
in service they shall be built in American shpyard
and by American artisans, breathes the Amer
can spirit and will receive commendaton in all part
of State.