The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-26
STAYED WITH SHIP
Republican Platform Was All
for Harmony.
Planks Leaned More for Party
Success This Year.

Playing true to advance dope, the
Republican party council threw bricks
at the Democrats, decorated the old
line party candidates for Office with a
near-Progressive platform and strad-
died the initi tive and referendum is
sue. On the floor Of tho council. the
prayer for party success was upper
most in tho hearts of the party lead
ers, and there was nothing emitted in
the presence Of the Newspaper re-
porters or general public that indi-
Gated the slightest discord.
The platform in a general way COW
ers the same ground travelled by the
state committee in tho tentative plat
form written last spring. The plat
form pledges:
National Issues.
Protection is q fundamental ele-
ment in the life and history Of the
Republican party. and inseparably
commercial supremacy Of this nation.
We reafi1rm our faith in a protective
tariff, with a schedule Of duties upon
imports high enough to afford protec-
ton to the American farmer, laborer
and manufacturer.
1.-The policy OF the present Demo-
cratic national administration has
changed a trade balance in our favor
to one against us in the worlds mar
ket in food products. In the last year
Of tho Republican tariff law we ex-
ported one hundred million dollars
more food products than imported,
while during the first six months of
the new Democratic tariff. ending
March I, 1914, we imported twenty
seven million dollars more Of food
products tina. we exported. And we
further condemn the tariff policy of
t. -s~A~
ton which has caused our gold to be
exported for the first six months Of the
present year in amounts unprecedent-
ed in the history Of this country.
I'VE condemn the present Demo-
cratic tariff law as injurious to our
destructive to our manufacturers, and
rutnous to our laborers: and assert
that it is deliberately sectional and
contrary to the expert information
gathered by the nonpartisan tariff
board, created by a Republican con-
gress and abolished by Democratic
congress.
1.-THE timely readjustment Of tariff
schedules is necessary to meet changed
conditions, but changes should be
based upon correct information COM
piled by a nonpartisan commission Of
tariff experts. We favor he appoint
ment of such a commission, and an
GUS work. it's recommendation to be q
prerequisite to any change in our
tariff law.
Republican Party Progressive.
From the earliest period in its his
tory the Republican party has been
the only party of genuine progress and
reform, and never in the history Of the
country has congress been as respon-
sive to the voice of the people as 1t
was during the last sixteen years Of
Republican control. It created q nom
partisan tariff board; It established q
postal savings bank; 1t provided for
the gold standard; 1t submitted an in
come tax amendment; it submitted an
amendment providing for the election
of United States senators by q direct
vote; it gave the farmers rural free de-
livery; it enacted the most liberal PEN
sion law for its soldiers ever granted
by any country; it provided for the re-
clamation of the arid lands: it con-
served our natural resources: 1t
amended the homestead law; 1t enact
ed the interstate and workingmen's
compensation laws; It made it a crime
to engage in the white slave traffic;
it enacted an anti-child labor law; 1t
created a children's bureau; it provid-
ed for the construction of the Panama
canal; and enacted other important
has crystalized its platform promises
into law.
The money Of a nation is the SYM
Dol of its honor. Eighteen years of
history have been a decisive vindica-
ton of the triumph of Mckinley and
the gold standard in 1896.
The bitterness of that campaign
has been superseded by the universal
recognition of the sagacity and cour-
age Of the Republican party in meeting
and settling that absorbing issue.
Suffrage and Prohibition.
THE experience Of Kansas for "a
years exemplifies the moral and eco
nomic value Of the prohibition of the
liquor traffic. Basing our judgment
upon our knowledge of the beneficent
results of this policy in the state, we
declare, unreservedly, for national pro-
hibiton.
THE Republican party Of Kansas
was the pioneer in recognizing the po-
litical rights Of women in three partic-
ulars: A Republican legislature passed
the first law permitting women to
vote at school elections, which took
effect September q, 1861. A Republi-
can legislature was the first to sub
NIT the question of woman suffrage
to popular vote in 1867. 1t was again
submitted by a Republican legislature
in 1912, by an amendment to the con-
stitution which was adopted. There
fore, believing that If the women of
the United States were given the right
of suffrage, they would exercise that
right in the best interest of their re-
Ispective states and the nation, we ia
vor the submission Of an amendment to
the constitution of the United States
providing for equal suffrage.
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