Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-06-14
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The Wicked Democrats are Destroying the
Country, Only the G. 0. P. can Save it.

" VAN
lions in full, of the platform
adopted by the national Re.
publican convention at Chi
cago last week:
"In 1861 the Republican,
party stood for the Union .
Al it stood for the unitn of
States it now stands for ali
united people, true to Ameri
can ideals. loyal to American
traditions, knowing no al
legiance except to the con-
stitution, to the government
and to the flag of the United
States. We believe in Amer
lean policies at home a n d
abroad.
1--WE declare that We be-
lieve in and will enforce the
protection of every American
citizen in all the rights sacur~
ed to him by the constitution,
treaties, and the law of ma
lions, at home and abroad, by
land and sea. These rights,
which in violation Of the
specific promise Of their party
made at Baltimore in 1912,
the Democrtic President and
the Democratic Congress have
failed to defend, we will un~
fenchingly maintain.
"We desire peace. the peace
of justice and right, and be-
lieve in m a n t a i n II g a
straight and honest neutral
ity between the beligerents
in the great war in Europe.
We must perform all our du-
ties and insist upon all oul
rights as neuturals without
fear and without favor. We
believe that peace'and neu>
trality as we'll as the dignity
and influence of the United
States cannot be preserved
b y shlfty expedients, b y
phrase>making, by perform
ances in language, OF by atti'
tudes ever changing in an
effort to secure groups Of vo>
tiers. T b present admins
tration has destroyed our
influence abroad and humi-
lated US in our own eyes.
I b g Republican party be.
lieves that a firm consistent
and courageous foreign poli-
cy, always maintained by Re-
publican Presidents IN &C.
cordance with American ira.
ditions, is the best, and it is
the only sure way to preserve
our peace and restore us to
our rightful place among the
nations. We believe in the
pacfc settlement Of interna-
tional disputes and favor the
establishment of a worl d
court for that purpose.
Nv 9 deeply sympatbize
with the 5000, 900 leople Of
Mexico who for three years
have seen their country de-
wasted, their homes Destroy
ed, their fellow citizens mur~
dered and their women OUT
ragged, bv armed bands Of
desperadoes led by self-seek~
ing, constituencies agitators
who, when temporarily in
any locality have neither
sought nor been able to re-
store order or establish and
maintain peace.
We express our horror and
Indignation at the outrages
which have been and are be-
ing perpetrated by these ban
dts upon American men and
women who were or are in
Mexico by invitation Of the
laws and of the government
of that country, and whose
rights to security of person
and property are guaranteed
by solemn treaty obligations.
We denounce the indefensi~
BILE methods of interference
employed by this administra
ton in the internal affairs of
Mexico aud refer with shame
to it's failure to discharge the
duty of this country as next
friend to Mexico, duty to
other powers who have relied
upon us as such friend, and
and it's duty to our citizens
in Mexico, in permitting the
continuance of s h condi
tons, first by failure to act
promptly and firmly, and sec
ond, by lending it's influence
to the continuation of such
conditions through recogni
ton of one of the factions re