The Holly chieftain., 1916-06-16
REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM

publican national platform is as fol-
lows:
In 1861 the Republican party stood
IGri Irio the Union. AS IL stood for the
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
cured to him by the constitution treat
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-
We desire peace. the peace of justice
and right. and believe in maintaining
a straight and honest neutrality be-
tween the belligerents in the great
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
does led by self-seekipg, conscienceless
agitatOrs who, when temporarily sue
cessful in any locality have neither
sought nor been able to restore order
or establish and maintain peace.
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 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-
items
We denounce the indefensible meth
DDS of interference employed by this
administration in the Internal affairs
of Mexico and refer with shame to it's
failure to discharge the duty of this
country as next friend to Mexico. it's
duty to other powers who have relied
upon us as such friend, and it's duty to
our citizens in Mexico in permitting
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
wherever they may be found. adequate
and absolute protection in their lives,
liberty and property
We reaffirm our approval of tn,
Monroe Doctrine and declare it's main
tenance to be policy of this country,
essential to it's present and future
peace and safety. and to the achieve
ment of its manifest destiny.
We favor. the continuance of Repub
drawing more and more closely the
commercial. financial and social rela-
tions between this country and the
countries of Latin America.
We renew our allegiance to the
r,a "a tod h,, No
kinley, approved by Congress and con-
sistently carried out by Roosevelt
and Taft. Even nxthis short time it has
enormously improved the material and
social conditions of the islands, given
the Philippine people constantly in
creasing participation in their govern
ment and if persisted IN will bring
We accepted the responsibility of
the islands as duty to civilization and
the Filipino people. To leave with our
pledges, injure our prestige among
| nations and imperil what has already
been accomplished.
We condemn the Democratic admin =.
istration for it's attempt to abandon
the Philippines. which was prevented
only by the vigorous opposition of Re
publican members of Congress aided by
few patriotic Democrats.
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, a 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-
ligion or previous political allegiance.
We renew the pledge to observe this
principle and to maintain the right
of asylum which is neither to be sur
in the cherished hope that the war
which Is now desolating the world
may speedily end with a complete and
lasting restoration of brotherhood
the assurance of full equal rights,
civil and religious, to all men in ev-
cry land.
In order to maintain our peace and
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 a sufficient and effective regua?
army and a 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 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.
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
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