The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-10-16
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

publican party, IN meeting
reaffirm our belief in, and our loyalty
to, the principles Of the Republican
party as laid down by it's founders, and
exemplified by its great leaders.
l. We affirm our loyalty to the Re
publican principles of protection and
believe that the tariff should be so re-
vised as to reduce the increasing cost
of living, and at the same time pro,
tect more equitably our agricultural in.
terests; that the tariff should be re-.
vised upon the principle that the du.
ties shall represent the actual differ
ence between the cost of production IN
the United States and in foreign com.
peting countries. We also recommend
and urge that tariff revision in the fu
ture shall be by separate schedules.
We favor the creation Of a perms,
nent non-partisan Tariff Commission
with ample powers and charged with
the duty Of investigating the cost Of
production, both at home and abroad,
and whose findings shall be made dt.
rect to Congress.
We charge the national Democratic
administration with bad faith in the
enactment Of the present tariff law.
That tariff has flooded our markets
with the products of foreign factories
and farms, while the serious question
OF advancing cost of living still re.
mains unsettled and unanswered.
II. We condemn the present nation.
al Democratic congress for its wasteful
extravaganza of public funds.
III. We favor such national and
state legislation as will develop a mod
ern system of farm credits.
w. We believe that the disastrous
effects of Democratic misrule upon the
industries of this nation have convinc.
ed our people of the folly of party dis.
sension, and that all electors who have
in the past affiliated with the party
should now unite in a determination
to relieve the country from Democratic
misgovernment. Experience convinces
us that it is only by means of the rule
of the Republican party that industrial
prosperity can be restored and main.
tanned.
V. We recommend and urge that
the representation by delegates at the
next national Republican convention
shall be based upon the Republican
vote cas-: in each of the several states.
as shown by the official returns there.
in, at the general election next proceed.
ing the national convention.
VI. We heartily endorse Governor
L. B. Hanna, and We commend the
present Republican state administra.
ton as an honest, efficient, and eco.
nomical administration of the public
affairs of this state.
We pledge u support to the Repub.
lican state and congressional tickets
nominated by the people at the June
primaries.
VII. The primary election law being
devised to give to the individual voter
a direct vote and a large participation
in the political affairs of the state, we
pledge ourselves to the maintenance Of
the primary principle, and favor only
such modification of the law as wisdom
and practical experience clearly DEM
onstrate will serve to strengthen and
carry out its purpose.
VIII. We affirm our belief in the
wisdom of the principle OF the initia-'
tive and referendum.
TX. Good roads are Of the greatest
possible Importance to the proper de-.
velopment of Our state. The extent
and excellence of good roads is the
perditure Of state funds. We endorse
ati urge prompt legislation of this
character.
x. A growing and grave necessity
Of our state is the pressing need of
getting more people to settle and build
homes upon our rich, extensive vacant
lands. We therefore urge the next
legislative assembly to pass such laws
a. will intelligently and speedily &C!
complish this much desired, %far-reach.
Ing and important purpose.
X!. We believe that the time has
arrived when a certain limited portion
of our school, institution and capitol
building lands should be sold annually
for the express purpose of creating a
farm loan fund, thus affording a safe
and ready e of investing these
trust funds, ana giving our farmers a
longer loan-time period at low rates
of interest.
XII. North Dakota is, and always
will be, an agricultural state. We are
therefore in hearty sympathy with ev-
cry movement that has for it's pur-
pose the organization and cooperation
Of the farmers within our common
wealth. We pledge them our hearty
and earnest support in securing such
helpful legislation, both state and ma
tional, as will secure for them Just
compensation for the products of their
Ldll.
XIII. We favor legislation reducing
The maximum contract rate of interest
from IL, per cent to net to exceed 16
per cent, and the legal rate of interest
from z per cent to 6 per cent. We
also favor a Strengthening of our usury
laws with proper penalties attached.
XIV. We endorse the principle Of
the tax commission as an instrument
of government.
XIV. The Republican party, believ-
ing the people competent to settle just
ly and in%telligently all questions per.
tanning to their collective and indi.
vidual welfare, and the Legislative as
senbly having given the electors the
opportunity to vote at the next general
election upon the question of woman
suffrage, we earnestly urge upon tho
attention Of the electors the import.
ance Of this question, to the end that