ES S. Sherman, of New York, was nominated for Vice-President, the first ballot, to 77 for Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey: 75 of Massachusetts; 10 for George L. Sheldon, of Nebraska, and 1 inks, of Indiana. The Platform. pted on June 18, was as follows: epublican party, in national convention assembled, submits its shments of President Roosevelt have been, first and foremost, RAF AN VER States now owns one-fourth of the world's wealth and makes one-third of all moder manufactured products. In the great necessities of civilization, such as coal, th motive power of all activity; iron, the chief basis of all industry; cotton, the stapl foundation of all fabrics; wheat, corn and all the agricultural products that feed man kind, America's supremacy is undisputed. And yet her great natural wealth has bee scarcely touched. We have a vast domain of 3,000,000 square miles, literally burstin with latent treasure, still waiting the magic of capital and industry to be converte to the practical uses of mankind; a country rich in soil and climate, in the unha nessed energy of its rivers and in all the varied products of the field, the forest an the factory. With gratitude for God's bounty, with pride in the splendid productive ness of the past and with confidence in the plenty and prosperity of the future Republican party declares for the principle that in the development and enjoyment wealth so great and blessings so benign there shall be equal opportunity for all. Nothing so clearly demonstrates the sound basis upon which our commercia industrial and agricultural interests are founded, and the necessity of promotin The Revival their continued welfare through the operation of Republican policie as the recent safe passage of the American people through a finan cial disturbance which, if appearing in the midst of Democratic ru or the menace of it, might have equalled the familiar Democrati panics of the past. We congratulate the people upon the renewed evidence of Amer ican supremacy, and hall with confidence the signs now manifest of a complete restora tion of business prosperity in all lines of trade, commerce and manufacturing. Recent Since the election of William McKinley, in 1896, the people of this countr have felt anew the wisdom of intrusting to the Republican party through decisiv majorities the control and direction of national legislation. TH many wise and progressive measures adopted at recent sessions Congress have demonstrated the patriotic resolve of Republican lead ership in the legislative department to keep step in the forwar march toward better government. Notwithstanding the indefensibl filibustering of a Democratic minority in the House of Representatives during the las session, many wholesome and progressive laws were enacted, and we especially com mend the passage of the emergency currency bill; the appointment of the nations monetary commission; the employers' and government liability laws; the measures fo the greater efficiency of the army and navy; the widows' pension bill; the child labc law for the District of Columbia; the new statutes for the safety of railroad engineer and firemen, and many other acts conserving che public welfare. The Republican party declares unequivocally for a revision of the tariff b a special session of Congress immediately following the inauguration of the nex President, and commends the steps already taken to this en Republican Pledges in the work assigned to the appropriate committees of Con For Future Tariff. gress, which are now investigating the operation and effe of existing schedules. In all tariff legislation the true prir ciple of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equi the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with reasonable profit to American industries. We favor the establishment of maximu and minimum rates to be administered by the President under limitations fixed b the law, the maximum to be available to meet discriminations by foreign countrie against American goods entering their markets, and the minimum to represent th normal measure of protection t home; the aim and purpose of the Republican polic being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that security against foreig competition to which American manufacturers, farmers and producers are entitled, b also to maintain the high standard of living of the wage earners of this country, wh are the most direct beneficiaries of the protective system. Between the United State and the Philippines we believe in a free interchange of products with such limitation as to sugar and tobacco as will afford adequate protection to domestic interests. We approve the emergency measures adopted by the government during th recent financial disturbance, and especially commend the passage by Congress s the last session of the law designed to protect the country from Currency. repetition of such stringency. The Republican party is committed t the development of a permanent currency system, responding to ou greater needs, and the appointment of the national monetary commission by the pre ent Congress, which will impartially investigate all proposed methods, Insures th early realization of this purpose. The present currency laws have fully justified the adoption, but an expanding commerce, a marvellous growth in wealth and population multiplying the centres of distribution, increasing the demand for the movement crops in the West and South and entailing periodic changes in monetary condition disclose the need of a more elastic and adaptable system. Such a system must me the requirements of agriculturists, manufacturers, merchants and business men ger erally, must be automatic in operation, minimizing the fluctuations in Interest rate and, above all, must be in harmony with that Republican doctrine which insists the every dollar shall be based upon and as good as gold. We favor the establishment of a postal savings bank syster Postal Savings. for the convenience of the people and the encouragement thrift. The Republican party passed the Sherman anti-trust law over Democrat opposition, and enforced it after Democratic dereliction. It has been a wholesom Instrument for good in the hands of a wise and fearless administration But experience has shown that its effectiveness can be strengthened an its real objects better attained by such amendments as will give to th Trusts. federal government greater supervision and control over, and secure greater publicity in, the management of that class of corporations engaged in interstate commerce having power and opportunity to effect monopolies, We approve the enactment of the railroad rate law and the vigorous enforcement by the present administration of the statutes against rebates and discriminations, as a result of which the advantages formerly possessed by Railroads. the large shipper over the small shipper have substantially disappeared; and in this connection we commend the appropriation by the present Congress to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to thoroughly investigate, and give publicity to, the accounts of interstate ranroaus. We belleve, however. that the interstate commerce law should be further amended so as to give railroads the right to make and publish traffic agreements subject to the approval of the commission, but maintaining always the principle of competition between naturally competing lines and avoiding the common control of such lines by any means whatsoever. We favor such national legislation and supervision as will prevent the future overissue of stocks and bonds by interstate carriers, The enactment in constitutional form at the present session of Congress of the employers' liability law, the passage and enforcement of the safety appliance statutes, as well as the additional protection secured for engineers Railroad and and firemen; the reduction in the hours of labor of trainmen Government Employes. and railroad telegraphers, the successful exercise of the powers of mediation and arbitration between interstate railroads and their employes, and the law making a beginning in the policy of comensation for injured employes of the government, are among the most commendable ccomplishments of the present administration. But there is further work in this lirection yet to be done, and the Republican party pledges its continued devotion to Very cause that makes for safety and the betterment of conditions among those ybose labor contributes so much to the progress and welfare of the country. The same wise policy which has induced the Republican party to maintain rotection to American labor, to establish an eight hour day in the construction Vage Earners jenerally. of all public works, to increase the list of employes who shall have preferred claims for wages under the bankruptcy laws, to adopt a child labor statute for the District of Columbia, to direct an investigation into the condition of working women and chilren, and, later, of employes of telephone and telegraph companies engaged in interlate business; to appropriate $150,000 at the recent session of Congress in order to ecure a thorough inquiry into the causes of catastrophes and loss of life in the ines, and to amend and strengthen the law prohibiting the importation of contract abor, will be pursued in every legitimate direction within federal authority to ghten the burdens and increase the opportunity for happiness and advancement of who toil. The Republican party recognizes the special needs of wage workers enerally, for their wellbeing means the wellbeing of all. But more important than I other considerations is that of good citizenship, and we especially stand for the eeds of every American, whatever his occupation, in his capacity as a self-respecting tizen. The Republican party will uphold at all times the authority and integrity of he courts, state and federal, and will ever insist that their powers to enforce their process and to protect life, liberty and property shall be ourt Procedure. preserved inviolate. We believe, however, that the rules of procedure in the federal courts with respect to the issuance the writ of injunction should be more accurately defined by statute, and that no junction or temporary restraining order should be issued without notice, except here irreparable injury would result from delay, in which case a speedy hearing ereafter should be granted. armer. Among those whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of the whole country s is that of the wage earner is the American farmer. The prosperity of the country rests peculiarly upon the prosperity of agriculture. The he American Republican party during the last twelve years has accomplished extraordinary work in bringing the resources of the national government to the aid of the farmer, not only in advancing agricultre itself, but in increasing the conveniences of rural life. Free rural mail delivery as been established; it now reaches millions of our citizens, and we favor its extenon until every community in the land receives the full benefits of the postal serviec. Te recognize the social and economic advantages of good country roads, maintained ore and more largely at public expense and less and less at the expense of the butting owner. In this work we commend the growing practice of state aid, and we prove the efforts of the national Agricultural Department by experiments and otherise to make clear to the public the best methods of road construction. The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend f the American negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political ights of rights, and it believes to-day that his noteworthy progress in intellihe Negro. gence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, ithout regard to race or color; we declare once more, and without reservation, for e enforcement in letter and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth mendments to the Constitution, which were designed for the protection and advanceent of the negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American and repugnani the supreme law of the land. We indorse the movement inaugurated by the administration for the c servation of natural resources; we approve all measures to prevent the waste Natural timber; we commend the work now going on for the reclamat of arid lands, and reaffirm the Republican policy of the free tribution of the available areas of the public domain to the la less settler. No obligation of the future is more insistent : none will result in greater blessings to posterity. In line w this splendid undertaking is the further duty, equally imperative, to enter upo systematic improvement upon a large and comprehensive plan, just to all port of the country, of the waterways, harbors and Great Lakes, whose natural adaptab to the increasing traffic of the land is one of the greatest gifts of a benign Provide The present Congress passed many commendable acts increasing the efficie of the army and navy; making the militia of the states an integral part of national establishment; authorizing joint manoeuvres of army Army and militia; fortifying new naval bases and completing the construc Navy. of coaling stations; instituting a female nurse corps for naval hospi and ships, and adding two new battleships, ten torpedo boat destroy three steam colliers and eight submarines to the strength of the navy. Althoug! peace with all the world and secure in the consciousness that the American pe do not desire and will not provoke a war with any other country, we neverthe declare our unalterable devotion to a policy that will keep this Republic ready a times to defend her traditional doctrines, and assure her appropriate part in pror ing permanent tranquillity among the nations. We commend the vigorous efforts made by the administration to pro American citizens in foreign lands and pledge ourselves to insist on the just equal protection of all our citizens abroad. It is the unquestic Protection duty of the government to procure for all our citizens, wit} of American distinction, the rights of travel and sojourn in friendly count Citizenship and we declare ourselves in favor of all proper efforts tendinį Abroad. that end. Under the administration of the Republican party the foreign commerc the United States has experienced a remarkable growth, until it has a pre annual valuation of approximately $3,000,000,000 and g Extension of employment to a vast amount of labor and capital w Foreign Commerce. would otherwise be idle. It has inaugurated through recent visit of the Secretary of State to South America Mexico a new era of Pan-American commerce and comity which is bringing us closer touch with our twenty sister American republics, having a common histo heritage, a republican form of government and offering us a limitless field of le mate commercial expansion. are The conspicuous contributions of American statesmanship to the great c of international peace so signally advanced in the Hague conferences, occasion for just pride and gratification. At the last sessio Arbitration and the Senate of the United States eleven Hague conventions 1 Hague Treaties. ratified, establishing the rights of neutrals, laws of war on 1 restriction of submarine mines, limiting the use of force for collection of contractual debts, governing the opening of hostilities, extending application of Geneva principles and in many ways lessening the evils of war promoting the peaceful settlement of international controversies. At the same se twelve arbitration conventions with great nations were confirmed, and extradi boundary and neutralization treaties of supreme importance were ratified. We inc such achievements as the highest duty a people can perform, and proclaim the ob tion of further strengthening the bonds of friendship and good will with all nations of the world. We adhere to the Republican doctrine of encouragement to American ship and urge such legislation as will revive the merchant marine prestige of Merchant Marine. country, so essential to national defence, the enlargemen foreign trade and the industrial prosperity of our own pe Another Republican policy which must ever be maintained is that of gene provision for those who have fought the country's battles and for the wid and orphans of those who have fallen. We commend the incr Veterans of in the widows' pensions made by the present Congress and de the Wars. for a liberal administration of all pension laws, to the end that people's gratitude may grow deeper as the memories of heroic s fice grow more sacred with the passing years. Civil Service. Public Health. We reaffirm our declarations that the Civil Service laws, acted, extended and enforced by the Republican party, shall tinue to be maintained and obeyed. We commend the efforts designed to secure greater effici in national public health agencies and favor such legislatio will effect this purpose. In the interest of the great mineral indus Bureau of Mines and Mining. of our country we earnestly favor the estab ment of a bureau of mines and mining. The American government, in Republican hands, has freed Cuba, given p and protection to Porto Rico and the Philippines under our flag, and begun construction of the Panama Canal. The present conditions in t the native inhabitants of Porto Rico should be at once col- izona. 09, will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham l spirit, whose fame has brightened with the receding years d whose name stands among the first of those given to the orld by the great republic. We recommend that this cennnial anniversary be celebrated throughout the confines of the tion by all the people thereof, and especially by the public to stir the patriotism of the youth of the land. Ꭹ ention of the American people to the fact that none of the advocated by the Republican party could be enacted and none of the steps forward here proposed could be taken under a Democratic administration or under one in which party responsibility is divided. The continuance of present policies, therefore, absolutely requires the continuance in which believes in them and which possesses the capacity to put orm declarations there are fundamental differences between and its chief opponent which make the one worthy and the other unworthy of public trust. In history the difference between Democracy and Republicanism is that the one stood for debased currency, the other for honest currency; the one for free silver, the other for sound money; the one for free trade, the other for protection; action of American influence, the other for its expansion; the o abandon every position taken on the great issues before the eld and vindicated all. aces difference between Democracy and Republicanism is that one! e the other means prosperity; one means low wages, the other s doubt and debt, the other means confidence and thrift. ifference between Democracy and Republicanism is that one nd timidity in government, the other for strength and purpose; tion, the other for construction; one promises, the other perthe other finds work. cies of the two parties are even more marked by inherent difDemocracy is toward socialism, while the Republican party egulated individualism. Socialism would destroy wealth, Reent its abuse. Socialism would give to each an equal right to uld give to each an equal right to earn. Socialism would offer on, which would soon leave no one anything to possess; Reequality of opportunity, which would assure to each his share ng sum of possessions. In line with this tendency the Demobelieves in government ownership, while the Republican party regulation. Ultimately Democracy would have the nation own icanism would have the people own the nation, of principles and purposes, reaffirming our adherence to every laimed since the birth of the party, we go before the country. only of those who have acted with us heretofore, but of all regardless of past political differences, unite in the desire to erpetuate the blessings and make secure the achievements of DEMOCRATIC. tional convention was held in Denver, Col., on July 7-10. alifornia, was temporary chairman of the convention and Alabama, permanent chairman. On the permanent roll |