Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — Republican Platform. [ARTICLE]

Republican Platform.

We. tlie Republicans of Indiana, in delegate convention assembled, reaiiirm our faith in the .•progressive principles of the~iteiniMrcaTrpaTt}‘: We believe its poHeies, past and present, best calculated to promote the happiness and prosperity of the' people. The administration of President Harrison and the Congressional legislation of that party were wise, pure apd patriotic, and we point to the contrast between the home and foreign policies of that administration ami the'present travesty on government inflicted on the whole people. We believe in the Republican doctrine of protections "and reciproelty, which furnishes a home market for the productions of our factories and our farms, and - protects the American laborer against the pauper labor of Europe. We denounce the unwise and unpatriotic action of tiie Democratic party in attempting to elimute the reciprocity principle from our tariff system, thereby closing a large foreign market to products of American farmers and depressing agricultural interests. We denounce the present attempt of a Democratic Congress to overthrow and destroy N -tlie American industrial system, a course that, with a general fear of a violent readjustment of the country's business to a free-trade basis, has increased the national debt and has plunged the country into the most disastrious business depression of its history, has closed large numbers of banks and factories throughout the country, has thrown an unprecedented number of American citizens out of employrpent, has compelled thousands of able bodied and Jindustrious men to humiliate themselves by asking for charity, and lias filled our broad land with free souphouses and food markets. We believe in currency composed of gold, silver and pager, Jreadlly convertible at a fixed standard of value, and entirely under national control, and we favor the imposition of increased duties upon the imports from all countries which oppose the coinage of silver upon a basis to he determined by an international congress for such purpose. We denounce the avowed purpose of the* Democratic party to restore tiie era of “wild-cat" money. We believe in a liberal construction of our pension laws, and we condemn tiie unjust policy of the present administration of depriving ex-soldters of their pension without a hearing— a policy in-1 tended to cast odium upon loyalty and patriot-i, ism. We believe it to he the duty of the. State, • as well as a nation, to make suitable provision for the care and maintenance of all indigent •oldlers, their wives, and widows. We. tiiere*ore, favor the establishment by the State of a ultahle soldiers’ home for tiie reception of such soldiers, their wives and widows as may be overtaken by adversity. We demand a rigid enforcement of all existing letmlgrat'on ‘laws by the national government, sod demand such further legislation as w ill proteetjsucpeople and institutions against the influx of the criminal and vicious classes We denounce the unpatriotic action of the Cleveland administration in hauling down the American flag at Hawaii, and condemn thew■uurflnt luuiuniDtlon o( DDunr displayed in tlu* effort to restore a tyrannical Queeh over a free

people who hail thrown off the yoke of despot ism. . We 9ondemn the outrageous bargain and sale of Eeddral pafroriagO l>y tiieTTevcland adniinls* tratlon In Us finbliishitig 'efforts to usurp the prerogatives of fife legislatiTP branelrof the government to force a favorite .measure,-through Congress aHff compel the confirmation ofjFresTMcutial appointments by the Senate. We condemn the reckless ami extravagant administration of the financial affairs of this state whereby the people are subjected to unjust and unnecessary burdens of -taxation, by an ' lncreaieias-1 sessinent of projierty and inereiised rate of taxation, and by: inultipiicaflou of offices to be sttnported by the taxpayers of the Slate. We believe that the.hehetplent, educational and correctional Institutions of the State should be placed under non-partisan control. We believe in sueli legislation, State and National, as will protect the lives- and limbs of employes-of rallwaysv inhies and factories. We condemn tlie policies steadily pursued by the Democratic Legislature of Indiana in so gerrymandering 'the.State-"as to deny the people a fair representation, of their views in tne State Legislature and National Congress, tints imperiling the foundations of our Institutions.

Indiana its now so strongly and safely Republican that even their' Villianous gerrymander will not save the Democrats from overwhelming defeat this fall. The city elections of last week, were the most tremendous landslide ever known in the state; and the town elections this week were off the same piece. Senator Turpie* - “Shot off his mouth” at Senator Aldrich, a few days ago, in a manner to justify his old sobriquet of “Dirty. Dave.” Turpie evidently had a Yoorheessized jag on at the time. r Isaac 11. Phares, of Benton Co. the Republican nominee for State Senator, is an able and most honorable man, whose standing in the community where he is best known, is of the highest. Aside from the fact that we believe that the Jasper county candidate ought to have been chosen by the convention we have no fault to find with Mr. Phares’s nomination. And even in that particular we attribute no unfairness to Mr, Phares, lie has been known most ! y as a teacher and a lawyer, but now he is a represent ative of that profession which labors hardest and is rewarded the least, for party success, namely the editorial. He is at present the able editor of the Fowler Republican Era, the recognized Republican organ of Renton county. He will be triumphantly elected and represent the district with faithfulness and marked ability.