Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — Republican Platform. [ARTICLE]

Republican Platform.

We. the Republicans of Indiana, in delegate convention assembled, reaffirnj' our faith in the progressive principles of the Republican party. We believe its policies, 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 and patriotic, and we point to the contrast between the home and foreign policies of that administration and the present travesty on government inflicted on the whole people. We believe in the Republican doctrine of proteetioujand reciprocity. which furnishes a home market for file productions of our factories and our farms, and* protects the American laborer against the pauper labor of Europe. We denounce the unwise and unpatiictlc‘actio'n of the Democratic party in attempting to climate the reciprocity principle from our tariff syt.u-m.Ahe re,by closing a large foreign market to products of American farmers and depressing agricultural interests. We denounce- die present attempt of a Demoeratic Congress to overthrow and destroy the American industrial system, a course that, with a genera! fear of a violent readjustment of the country’s btr-im .■to a free-trade basis, has Increased the national debt and has plunged the country into the most business depression of its history. Im , closed !\rge numbers of banks and fae orles throughout the country, has thrown an unprectsiented number of Am ler can citizens out of employment, Ims compelled thousands of able bodied and mpn to humiliate themselves by asking Ifor chaVfty, and hast filled our broad land with free souphouses and food markets. We believe in currency Composed of gold, sliver and paper, p-eatllly convertible at a fixed standard of value, and eirfreiy under national control, and we favor thk imjxititioii of increased duties upon the hpports from all countries which oppose the coinage of sliver upon a basis to be determined by an international congress for such purpose. We denounce the avowed purpose <>( the Democratic party to restore the era of “wild-cat” money. We believe in a libera! construction of our pension laws, and we condemn the unjust policy of the present Administration of depriving ex-soldters of t .elr jtunskiu without a hearing—a iwllcy in-

tended to cast odiu/ii u|<ou loyalty and patriotism. We believe it Jto be Hie duty of the State, as well as a nation.) to make'suitable provision for the care and maintenance of iili'indigeu soldiers, their wives, and widows. We- there sore, favor the establishment by the State of a "suitable soldiers' home for the reception of such s< ddiers.i tltelr wives unit .widows as may be overtaken by adversity. We demand a rigid enforcement of all existing immigration laws by the national ;mvernmen£Tteet our people and institutions against the intieix of tiie criminal and vieicus classes. We denounce the unpatriotic action of t'ae Cleveland administration iff hauling down the American flag at Hawaii, and condemn the arrogant assumpt ion -of power displayed hr the effort to restore a tyrannical Queen over a free people who had thrown oil tlie yoke of despotism.

' We eondemn-the OTttrageotrs barg.atirmrd~saTe' of Federal patronage by the Cleveland aitminisi traticn hi ItsTrnbiusTulig efforts to usurp tiie prerogatives of the legislative branch of the government to force a favorite r measure through Congress and compel the confirmation ofJPresidenlial appointments by tiie Senate. We condemn tiie reckless and extravagant administration of the financial affairs of this state whereby the people areTjUlrJCcted. to unjust and unnecessary burdens of taxation, by an increased asessmen t of property and increased rate of taxation. and by multiplication of offices to be slip port, d liy tiie taxpayers of tiie State. ~’”We believe that tiie lieiiefolefftr'eiliivatlon'al and correctional institutions of tiie State should be placed iiiideihieii-partisan control. We believe in Midi legislation. State and National, as will protect tiie lives and limbs of employes of railways, mines and factories. We condemn the policies steadily pursued Try the I iemoersttie-Legislature of Indiana in so gerrymandering the State as to deny the peoptp a fair representation of their views-in file State Legislature and National Congress, tlius imperiling the foundations of our institutions.