New Britain herald., 1916-09-06
Usual Sniping at Administra- tion's Policies, Followed By Promise to Aid Fight on Tuberculosis, Buy State Supplies in Bulk, Build Good Roads and Guard Treasury.

New Haven, Sept. 6.-The following platform was reported to the repub- lican state convention by Col. l. M. Ullman of New Haven, chairman of the resolutions committee:
 We the representatives of the repub- lican party of the state of Connecticut, in convention, assem bled, do hereby pledge our allegiance to the platform adopted by the national republican convention and express our hearty ap- proval of the republican candidates for president and vice president.
 We declare again our faith in the doctrine of protection for American industries and the American working man and advocate the enactment of laws which will remove the framing of tariff schedules from politics and place 1t in the hands of a commission of qualified experts.
 We express our pronounced dissat- isfaction with the weak and vacillat- ing policy of the present democratic administration, especially in relation to foreign affairs, which has brought this country into contempt among the
 
 nations.
 We express our profound convic- tion that not only the good name of our country but the safety of it's peO- | ple and their interests depend in the l highest degree upon a firm and digni- | fled maintenance of it's rights and the rights of it's people in all places and under any and all conditions. We commend and endorse the at titude of our Connecticut senators and l representatives in congress on the i'm portant questions which have claimed their attention.
 We recommend the adoption by congress and by our general assembly of such measures as will provide ade- quate military equipment and sane and reasonable training for our citf- zens.
 We heartily endorse the policy of previous republican administrations in creating a state organization and state institutions to combat the spread of tuberculosis and to provide care and treatment. for the unfortunate among our citizens afflicted with that disease. We recognize the large part which la Dor has taken in this humanitarian work apd emphatically declare for it's continuance by the state.
 We pledge the republican party to a continuance of the policy of building and maintenance good roads.
 We commend to the favorable con- sideration of the incoming legislature the wisdom of enacting laws for the installation of a uniform system of bookkeeping and accounting in all state institutions and advocate an in- Vestgation of the advisa b1lity of es- tablish1ng a central purchasing agency for state supplies.
 The pledges made by the repun1i- cans of Connecticut in their platform two years ago havo been honoabiy fulfilled. The present republican ad- ministration started with m aotual atate debt of S13,000,000. Today. tho sinking fund, wisely established by tho republican legislature of 1915, to- gcther with other accumulations, has provided'a @ sum sufficient to cancel ap- proximately fifty per cent. of this in- debtedness. We pledge tho party to g. continuing reduction of the state debt and to an economical use of the public funds, in accordance with the sound financial policy already inaugu- rated under republican auspices
 III SHdieS hVaHs nuBneS, the re- publican party has presented to the nation courageous. able and digni- fled candidate whose mental equip ment and experience give assurance of an administration worthy of the best traditions of our party and our country. His election will place the American name upon the high plane among the nations to which it's dig nity and importance justly entitle us