People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — JOIN REED COLUMN. [ARTICLE]

JOIN REED COLUMN.

New Hampshire Republicans in Line with Massachusetts. Concord, N. H., April 1. — New Hampshire Republicans held their state convention Tuesday morning and elected delegates to the national Republican convention at St. Louis. Of the 700 entitled to seats Fi the convention 679 were present. But one ticket for delegate-at-large was presented, and that bore the names of Stephen S. Jewett, of Laconia; Gene’-al Frank S. Streeter ,of Concord; Charles T. Means, of Manchester, and Colonel James A. Wood, of Acworth, These four candidates were elected by acclamation. The platform demands of the national convention the nomination of candidates whose election will mean the speedy repeal of the infamous and luinous Democratic tariff and the substitution therefor of one based upon the principles of the McKinley act; the enactment of currency laws that will provide a circulating medium in gold; silver and paper which will always be interchangeable at its face value, because each and every dollar of it is of the same purchasing power as a gold dollar; liberal appropriations for an adequate navy and coast harbor defenses and internal improvements; fair and generous treatment of union veterans; a foreign policy characterized by sturdy Americanism, including the assertion of the Monroe doctrine and the moral and material support of the Cuban patriots, if they have not already achieved their independence, and an immediate return to all the policies in which the Republican party has so successfully illustrated the soundness of its principles, and to the methods by which it has demonstrated its ability to apply those principles in the administration of the government. The platform concludes: "We recognize as most conspicuous among such candidates New England’s noble and illustrious son, Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, and that pure and able statesman and champion of protection, William McKinley, of Ohio. We will give the electoral vote of New Hampshire to any nominee who worthily represents the party, but we prefer one of these, because either is in himself a platform.” Colonel Frank Rollins, of Concord, offered a substitute financial plank, identical with that adopted by the Massachusetts convention last week, as an amendment to the resolutions, but Chairman Putney, Senator Gallinger and others opposed the proposition, and the amendment was lost by an overwhelming viva voce vote. The adoption of the platform as presented by the committee was made unanimous. Adjournment followed the adoption of the platform.