The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-06-17
PLATFORM
Progressive Features Conspicuous;
Tariff Big Issue, Equal Suffrage Fa-
vored and Protection of Amer
lean Lives and Property
Pledged.
Western Newspaper Union News service.

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no allegiance except to the constitution.
to the government and to the flag or
the United States. We believe in Ameri-
can policies at home and abroad
We declare that we believe in and
| viii enforce the protection OF every
American citizen in all the rights Sc
ties and the law of nations. at home
and abroad; by land and sea These
cific, promise OF their party made at
Baltimore in 1912, the Democratic
President and the Democratic Congress
| have failed to defend, we will unflinch-
| ingly maintain.
We desire peace. the peace of justice
and right, and believe in maintaining
straight and honest neutrality be
tween the belligerents in the great
war in Europe. We must perform all
our duties and insist upon all our
rights as neutrals without fear and
| without favor. We believe that peace
and neutrality as well as the dignity
and Influence of the United States can
not be preserved by shifty expedients,
by phrase-making. by performances in
| language, by armed bands of despera-
| does led by self-seeking. constituencies
agitators who. when temporarily sue
cessful in any locality have neither
sought nor been able to restore order
or establish and maintain peace.
| Wilson Interference Denounced.
| We express our horror and indigna-
| tion at the outrages which have been
and are being perpetrated by these
| bandits upon American men and wom-
| en who We're are in Mexico by invi-
| tation of the laws and of the govern
| ment OF that country, and whose rights
| to security of person and property are
guaranteed by solemn. treaty obliga-
| tions.
We denounce the indefensible meth
| DDS of Interference employed by this
| administration in the internal affairs
| of Mexico and refer with shame to its
failure to discharge the duty Of this
| country next friend to Mexico, its
| duty to other powers who have relied
upon us as such friend. and its duty. to
| our citizens in Mexico. in permitting
the continuance OF such conditions;
| first, by failure to act promptly and
firmly. and second by lending its in
| fluence to the continuation of such
conditions through recognition of one
OF the factions responsible for these
| outrages.
We pledge our aid in restoring order
and maintaining peace in Mexico. We
| promise to our citizens and near
our border, and to those in Mexico.
wherever they may be found, adequate
| and absolute protection in their lives.
| liberty and property.
Monroe Doctrine.
We reafflrm our approval of ths
| Monroe Doctrine and declare its main
| tenance to be "A policy of this country,
essential to its present and future
peace and safety, and to the achieve
| ment of its manifest destiny.
| Latin America.
We favor the continuance of Repub
| lican policies which will result in
drawing more and more closely the
tions between this country and the
| countries of Latin America
Philippines.
We renew our allegiance to the
kinley, approved by Congress and con-
| sistently carried out by Roosevelt
and Taft. Even in this short time II has
| enormously improved the material and
social conditions of the islands, given
the Philippine people a constantly in
creasing participat ion in their govern
| If DsTSisteI in Will bring
still greater benefits in the future.
We accepted the responsibility of
the islands as n duty to civilization and
the Filipino people. To leave with our
task half done would break our
pledges. injure our prestige among
| nations and imperil what has already
been accomplished.
We condemn the Democratic admin
| istration for its attempt to abandon
the philippines, which was prevented
only by the vigorous opposition OF Re
publican members of Congress aided by
| a few patriotic Democrats.
Expatrintion.
We reiterate our unqualified ap-
proval of the action taken in December,
| 1914. by the President and Congress to
| secure with Russia, as with other coun-
tries. treaty that will recognize the
| absolute right of expatriation and pre-
vent all discrimination OF any kind be-
| tween Americans whether native bora
| or aliens and regardless of race. re-
lision or previous political allegiance.
We renew the pledge to observe this
| principle and to maintain the right
Of asylum which is s,,, neither to be sur,
| in the cherished hope that the war
which is now desolating the world
| lasting restoration of brotherhood
among the nations of the earth and
the assurance of full equal rights.
civil and religious, to all men in ev
| cry land.
Protection of the Country.
In order to maintain our peace and
make certain the security of peo
pie within our own borders, the coun
| try must have not only adequate, but
| thorough and complete national defense
ready for any emergency. We must
| have sufficient and effective regula:
| army and n provision for ample re-
serves. already drilled and disciplined,
| who can be called at once to the colors
| when the hour of danger comes.
We must have a navy so strong and
so well-proportioned and equipped, SO
thoroughly ready and prepared that no
| enemy gain command of the -sesi,
and effect a landing in force on either
our western or our eastern coast.
To secure these results we must have
| n coherent and continuous policy of
national defense. which even in thes3
| perilous days the Democratic party has
utterly failed to develop but which we
promise to give to the country.
| Tariff.
| The Republican party stands now,
always has in the fullest sense for the
| policy of tariff protection to American
| industries and American labor, and
| does not regard an anti-dumping pro-
vision as an adequate substitute. Such
| protection should be reasonable In
| amount but sufficient to protect ade-
| quately American industry and Ameri
can labor, and be so adjusted as to
| prevent undue eNactions by monopolies
| or trusts. 1t should, moreover, give |
special attention to securing the in.
| dustrial Independence of the United |
States, as in the case of dyestuffs
| Through wise tariff and Industrial
| legislation our industries can be or
ganized that they will not be only 4 |
| commercial but powerful aid to ma
| 6onal defense.
The Underwood tariff act is COM
| plete failure, in every respect. Under |
| Its administration imports have enor- |
| nnnnslN Increased in snite of the fact