The Colorado statesman., 1916-06-17
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Progressive Features Conspicuous; !;
Tariff Big Issue, Equal Suffrage Fa-
vored and Protection of Amer
ican Lives and Property
Pledged.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Chicago.-The full text of the Re
publican national platform is as fol-
lows:
In. 1851 the Republican party stood
for the Union AS il stood FOR the
Union of States, it now stands for an
united people, true to American ideals
loyal to American traditions, knowing
no allegiance except to the constitution,
to the government and to the flag OF
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
cured to him by the constitution treat
ties and the law of nations, at home
and abroad, by land and sea. These
rights. which, in violation of the spe-
cific promise of their party made at
Baltimore in 1912, the Democratic
have failed to defend, we will unflinch-
| ingly maintain.
We desire peace, the peace of justice
and right, and believe in maintaining
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 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 Were or 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
ods of interference employed by this
administration in the internal affairs
| of Mexico and refer with shame to its
| country next friend to Mexico its
| duty to other powers who have relied
| upon us as such friend, and it's 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 on 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 reaffirm our approval of tn ,
| Monroe Doctrine and declare its main
tenance to be a policy of this country,
essential to it's 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
commercial. financial and social rela-
| tions between this country and the
countries of Latin America. wa
Philippines.
We renew our allegiance to the
| Philippine policy inaugurated by Nc
kinley, approved by Congress and con-
| sistently carried out by Rooseve
and Taft. Even in this short time it has
enormously improved the material and
| social conditions of the islands, given
creasing participation in their govern
ment and if persisted in will bring
still greater benefits in the future.
We accepted the responsibility of
| 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 j.
| 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.
ExpatriatiOn.
We reiterate our unqualified ap-
proval of the action taken in December,
| 1911, by the President and Congress to
| secure with Russia, as with other coun-
tries, treaty that will recognize the
vent all discrimination of any kind be-
tween Americans whether native bora
or aliens and regardless of race, re-
| liGion or previous political allegiance.
|
principle and to maintain the right
Of asylum which is neither to be sur
rendered nor restricted and we unite
in the cherished hope that the war
which is now desolating the world
may speedily end with complete and
lasting restoration of brotherhood
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 our peo-
| pic 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 n sufficient and effective regular
army and 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 n navy so strong and
| so well-proportioned and equipped. so
| thoroughly reauy ana prepared that no
| enemy can gain command of the sea,
| and effect a landing in force on either
our western or our eastern coast.
| To secure these results we must have
| a coherent and continuous policy of
national defense, which even in these
| 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 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 eXactions by monopolies
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