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V(! [.. •;. NO. 20.
I Dollars and Cents Proposition!
IT CONCERNS YOU
znoxs the value of One Dollar in purchasing Dry
Clothing, Shoes, Carpets, Luce Curtains, Draper
? [f you do, the following prices will send you
MONTAGUE & McHUGH
FAIRHAVEN, WASH. |
- Goods. @ 25 cents per yard
- <ioo»ls @ 35 cents per yard
, — (ioods @ 45 cents per yard
; >ress ( ioods @ 50 cents per yard
\\ .... ! »ress <ioods (jab 60 cents per yard
-- (ioods From 60c up to $1 75 per yard
fable Linen* @ 50 cents per yard
,nhie I'amapk Table Linens Up tos2.ooper yard
■h all Bleached Damasks. Craehes in all grades and widths.
" New Dutch Suitings is brimful of new styles, which we are
Low l'ricee.
t line of Lawns, White Goods, Sateens, etc., all this year's
o'ir stock of Standard Indigo Blue Calicos at 5 cents per yard.
Konr-tjiiarter Sheeting at 5 cents per yard.
-haniß at 5 cents per yard.
ig makes in Hamilton-Brown's Fine Shoes at reduced prices.
Carpets! Carpets! Carpets!
nigs this sale of Brussels and Ingrain Carpttts at
. »- that will astonish you. Call and inspect them.
It in impossible to enumerate the many
Great Bargains
We are now offering. Call and see us.
... .DON'T DELAY BUT 60 AT ONCE TO
MONTAGUE & McHDGH
FAIRHAVEN, WASHINGTON.
H«.w England ls Fed.
i only a trifle over
g under wheat, England
. 7,300.000 quarters at home,
. -I'i.n hi quarters of wheat
19,13< 1,000 hundredweight
Ls to say, a total of
rs, allowing for flour.
en, three out of every four
lived wholly upon foreign
1 i >"-V owing to the tremen
of the area under wheat,
i ev< rv five drew his bread
■ rv.
vad eomos to us from
:■ this is not the only neces
import Of foodstuffs
uceivably be produced
i'.rv wo purchase from the
hi arlv half of our meat, near
i worth of butter and marga
.ooo worth of fruit and
ps, Go tOO, 000 worth of cheese,
1 worth of eggs, £1,000,000
itoes, £778,000 worth of
£1,090,000 worth of vegeta
tion to these there are the
Is of colonial produce, of
alone could be grown in
A small rise in each of these
aid inflict innumerable hard
■nr working population. A
lild mean starvation. Gen
t peaceful development have
belief that England will
i »u>ly attacked, and that
7 way with safety be starved,
that a fresh and even more
burden than the safeguard
raw material and manufao
n laid upon it in the need
'■' > '•'t our food supplies.—Nine
' ■ nrury.
iionlires.
sterGaaetto tells a story
f who ran across an old stat
ing that any one who lights a
jthin ton rods of a building
"■a fine of $20. Then it
• him that he would have to
rubbish in cleaning up his
He told a brother lawyer, who
'it., burn some leaves. They
■ Reveal hours, until the ex
the lure of justice looked up
• in the dictionary. Its
is "a large fire built in the
" r as an expression of public joy
or for amusement, " So
to their rights fled from the
»unds of the lawyers.
When Navigation Ml e ht Cease.
™y fisl ieg and other marine ani
&'niV •> ce in the most wonderful
thonT'i sai(la fisherman. '' A hundred
mnn < epgs from a sinle fish is com
calfv?n ?il\ and it may be that practi
to n,,ti Ch out But they are subject
-^T1^ 03- Many die, many
thoi r " v-1 by other fishes, perhaps by
«*ipir n"xS some are caught by men;
all thp «T y feAT wach maturity. -If
tb-v.L L<*es born should survive and
fa^j, ? ntinne reproduce in the
before t i o> lt Wouldll be so very long
*** fish xh T m WOul<i 'to so clogged
Possible "v navigation would bo im
ie —>ew York Sun.
THE ISLANDER
Interruptions by the Coart.
Lord Chief Justice Erie was prone to
interrupt counsel when it was found that
the judges had already made up their
minds against him. On one occasion Mr.
Bovill, Q. C, soon "afterward made a
judge, was stopped with: "Here we
stand, we four men, and we have all
firmly (emphasizing the adverb) made
up our minds that there must be a new
trial, but if you think it worth your
while going on after that (playfully),
why of course we'll keep on hearing
you.'' Whereupon the Q. C. laughingly
sat down.
On another occasion he again inter
rupted with "I beg to inform the coun
sel 'there is a time in the mind of ev
ery man at which he lets down the flood
gates of his understanding and allows
not one more drop to enter,' and that
time, in my mind, has fully arrived.''
He Wanted to Ride.
"Wait a minute, mister; I want to
wide up," said a toddling, ragged little
codger to an elevator operator in the
Monadnock building yesterday evening.
"Get in," replied the manipulator of
levers and compressed air.
When they reached the thirteenth floor
and the child had called no number, the
elevator man asked:
"Where do you want to go to, boy?"
"Way up to the top."
At the top he made no move to get
out.
"Well, where did you want to go?"
"Down."
"How far down?"
"Way down to the bottom."
"Oh! You just wanted to ride?"
"Yeth. Didn't I say I wanted to
wide?" —Chicago News.
Avoid Purple Ink.
The purple ink fad seems to be spread
ing. It is, of all correspondence fads,
the most disagreeable.
To read many pages written in this
glittering, shining color is enough to
give the reader an attack of mental pros
tration as well as to precipitate blind
ness.
The faculty which purple ink pos
sesses of .growing positively alive and
making all tbe curves of letters seem
like wriggling snakes is something re
markable and something which should
banish purple ink from polite corre
spondence.—Strand Magazine.
Audley, the great money-lender of tbe
Stuart times, purchased an office in the
Court of Wards, which practically
placed the fortunes of what are now
called "wards in chancery" la his
hands: and to one who asked the value
of it he replied: "It might be worth
some thousands of pounds to him who.
after his death, would instantly go to
heaven; three times as much to him
who would go to purgatory; and nobody
knows to him who would venture fur
ther."
The foreign immigration to United
State* for the last year was the small
est since 1879. The total number of
arrivals was 255.535. . . . i
FRIDAY HARBOR, SAN JUAN CO.. WASH.. THURSDAY, JULY 2. 1896.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TEESE TICKS FBOM THE WIRES
Au Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in » Condensed Form.
The opposition has decided to re
quest the Spanish government to in
troduoe a bill providing for sufficient
resources to prosecute the campaign in
Cuba.
Miss Lansing Rowan, an actress, of
the Frawley company, playing in San
Francisco, has challenged Champion
Corbett to meet her in a scientific spar
ring contest.
Henry Gardner, a farmer, living
near Mount Dale, Washington county,
Or., was accidentally killed by being
struck in the stomach by a falling tree
which he had just cut down.
A cyclone swept a section of country
four miles south of Clayton, Wis., and
a number of dwellings and barns were
demolished. One man, name un
known, waa fatally injured.
A Constantinople dispatch says dis
turbances of a serious character occur
red at Van. Many Armenians were
killed. Many sought refuge at the
British consulate. It is estimated that
400 persons were killed on both sides
in the rioting last week.
It is now believed that the skeleton
recently discovered at Dry creek, near
Pendleton, is that of J. Keith, who,
about a year ago started with Ben
Bowers to go to the higher mountains
and was never seen again, although
Bowers soon returned. The two men
are known to have had some trouble
over a woman.
A London paper says that Great
Britain and the United States have
agreed to publish simultaneously,
within a fortnight, all the arbitration
correspondence exchanged between the
governments of the two countries. Its
publication has been delayed pending
the arrival of Secretary Olney's latest
communication.
t>rln a collision between Chicago,
Minneapolis & St. Paul and Chicago
& Burlington trains at Davis Junction,
111., in a deep cut, thirty-five cars were
piled in a heap and burned fiercely all
day. Thomas F. Moran, a fireman,
was instantly killed, and Fred Blair, a
brakeman, fatally hurt. Engineer
Daly was injured.
Controller Eckels, a Washington dis
patch says, has undertaken an extensive
inquiry to learn the various kinds of
credit instruments and money held by
all the banking institutions in the
United States. He has sent out 21,000
letters to national banks, state and pri
vate bunks and loan and trust com
panies asking for information on these
points. A year ago the controller made
an investigation of this kind, but he
confined it to the 5,000 national banks.
The returns will be published in his
annual report wihch issues in Decem
ber.
Twenty-four hundred additional
Turkish troops are now on their way
to Crete.
It is thought the Turks are preparing
for another massacre. Houses of
Christians are being marked by the
Turkish soldiers.
Sir Joseph Prestwich, porfessor of
geology at Oxford, and the author of
valuable geological works, died in Lon
don, aged 84.
French officers were grossly insulted
at Canea by Turkish soldiers. They
were cursed and reviled and swords
were drawn threatening their lives.
G. H. Penderson, a fisherman of As
toria, is missing, and, as he was very
despondent previous to his disappear
ance, it is believed that he has com
mitted suicide.
Notices have been posted at all the
collieries of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre
Coal Company, of Pennsylvania, that
work is discontinued until further no
tice. Eight thousand men apd boys
are idle.
President Jordan, of the Stanford
university, has arrived at Seattle to
take charge of the expedition which is
to sail on the steamer Albatross to in
vestigate the seal fisheries on the
islands of the north, and study the life
and habits of the seals.
The largest single night's catch of
salmon which has been made for many
years in the Columbia river, was taken
between midnight and dawn Tuesday
morning. The canneries were com
pelled to limit the boat to a certain
amount of fish each, as they were un
able to handle all that was brought in.
Unless significant signs fail, the
squadron of United States warships,
just now stationed in the harbor of
New York, will be dispatched soon on
an important mission. Those who
should be in a position to know say the
destination will be the coast of Cuba.
During the last week work on all the
vessels has been doubled in response to
a special order received from the sec
retary of the navy. The nature of this
order cannot be ascertained.
A Requisition Provided For.
Washington. —Acting Secretary of
the Interior Sims has approved and
provided for a requisition on the treas
ury for the payment of $22,000 to every
state included in the Morrill act of
1890 for the endowment of agricultural
and meohanioal colleges in the United
States. This is to apply for the fiscal
year 1896-97. _^____
Glasgow. — The Pan-Presbyterian
oounoil unanimously accepted the invi
tation to hold its meeting at Washing
ton in 1899, and thanked San Franois
oo for the invitation extended.
A Big Railroad Deal.
The Chicago Evening Post has a
sensational piece of railway news to
the effect that Henry Villard, backed
by European capitalists, has about
completed a deal which will give them
a through line from the Atlantic to the
Pacific seaboard. The intention of the
Villard syndicate is to buy the North
ern Pacific road, then the Baltimore &
Ohio, at the receivers' sales. It is said
that the syndicate has already prac
tically obtained control of the Chicago
& Great Western road, the connecting
link between the Baltimore & Ohio,
and the Northern Pacific.
rhoti'jrapliy in Colors.
Photography in colors is assured.
James W. McDonough, of Chicago, and
Professor Joly, of Dublin, who were
attempting to secure patents, agreed
that the successful one should pay the
other a fee, and the capitalists in the
undertaking would support the success
ful man. McDonough v/on after a con
test. A company has now been incor
porated in Richmond, Va., with a
capital of $700,000 for the purpose of
pushing the new invention.
A Cloudburst in Ohio.
A cloudburst took place near Mari
etta, O. The water covered a wide
area of territory and was the most de
structive ever known there. Houses
were swept away, stock drowned and
many persons narrowly escaped death.
In some streams the water rose twenty
feet in ten minutes. The flood came
almost as suddenly as did the Johns
town flood. Crops are rained on the
Little Muskingum for twenty miles,
and on many small tributaries of the
Ohio above there.
He Wai a Clever Swindler.
Edward Trask, a former partner of
Murderer Holmes, and who was sen
tenced to the penitentiary from Chi
cago in 1892 for eighteen years for his
gigantic real estate swindles, is dead.
He succumbed to consumption. Trask
was notorious for the daring of his
ventures.
Lvinan Trumbull Ig Dead
Ex-United States Senator Lyman
Trumbull, the distinguished jurist,
died in Chicago. He had been ill a
long time, but rallied at intervals,
causing hope that he might eventually
recover.
Crops a Failure.
Reports from Polk county, Or., say
that the apple and prune corps of that
section are almost a total failure this
year, and that there is a large shortage
in the yield of other fiuits.
Must Be Brought to Trial.
A Cape Town dispatch says the sec
retary of state for the Transvaal has
telegraphed the British high commis
sioner there that, having in view the
welfare and peace of South Africa, the
Transvaal government is convinced
that the proofs in its possession, which
are at the disposal of Great Britain,
now completely justify and compel the
bringing to trial of Cecil Rhodes, Al
fred Beit and Dr. Harris, all of the
British South Africa Company, and
connected with the raid into the Trans
vaal. The eecretary adds that the
Transvaal secretary is obliged to press
this step on Great Britain, and also to
urge that all control of the British
Chartered South Africa Company be
transferred to Great Britain.
The Justice Was Speedy.
Paul Kamaune, a kanaka, was hang
ed in the prison corridor in Folsom,
Cal., for the murder of Mrs. Ellen
Robinson at Latrobe, Eldorado county,
on May 6, 1896. The execution was
deovid of sensational incidents, and
was witnessed by only the few persons
required by law. The murderer died
without a word or a tremor on the
scaffold. He was pronounced dead
exactly 11 minutes after the fall of the
drop, his neck being broken. It was
the quickest execution on record, the
body being cut down just 12 minutes
after the prisoner left his cell.
Tew Troops Will be Moved.
The programme for the annual move
ment of troops has been definitely ar
ranged at last, and the necessary oraers
will go forward at once to department
commanders. There will be much
disappointment over the fact that with
the exception of two companies of the
11th infantry, the movements are con
fined to two regiments. It is under
stood that lack of funds is the cause for
limited cLanges.
Ten Thon sand Drowned.
; A Yokohama dispatch says: It is
estimated that 10,000 people were !
drowned by the tidal wave on the !
island of Yesso, in the northern part of
Japan, which accompanied a succession
of frightful earthquakes lasting about
twenty hours. In addition to the town
of Kumassia, which was wholly de
stroyed, many other coast towns have
been washed away entirely or in part [
Venezuela' for Gold.
Minister Andrada, of Venezuela, has
received advices from Caracas as to
the final ratification of the oonstitu- j
tional amendment by which Vene
zuela adopts the gold standard.
Fortune's Favorite. ;.
George Delong, who had been pick
ing strawberries in : Benton Harbor, '
Mien , has fallen heir to a fortune of (
f 50,000 by the death of an unole in
! the St. Louis tornado.
'■ ■ * -'■'■■.'; ——■ —■ —— ■ ','..'- 1 r*S
.'■ FJght With Druse*. t
Constantinople.— dispatch ■ from
Beyrout, Syria . says : that during the ,*■
recent fight between the Turks and in-'
surgent Druses in the Hauran district,
the former lost fifty-five men killed.
. Injured by Dynamite.
Tom Strang, the son of R. L Strang, I_,
of Woorlburn, Or., was ; playing with a^
piece of dynamite ; one day : recently
when the stick exploded, badly burning
the young ; man's V face;^arid - causing;
Loth of his eyes to be tightly closed for ■
several days...-, ..
CHOiCE OF THE REPUBLICfINS
MeKinley for President, Ho
bart for Vice-President.
NOMINATED ON FIRST BALLOT
Thrilling Scenes in the Hall When the
Keanlts Were Announced— Men
Bolted the Gold Standard Platform.
St. Louis, Mo.—The Republican na
tional convention has nailed its prin
cipals to the masthead and placed in
sommanc of the ship, which is to bear
it to fortune or disaster in November,
its popular idol, William McKinley, of
Ohio, and Garret A. Hobart, of New
Jersey.
Bat there was mutiny aboard, and,
before the lines were oast off, some of
the members of the crew - who had
shipped on many a voyage refused to
subscribe to the new shipping artioles
and walked down the gang plank.
Tote by States fur President.
_____
■a ia I I g §
STATES. Si C roh* j
I i » |• i : j • . •
:*<:•::
Alabama | 22! 19 2 1
Arkansas » ' 16 16
California 18 18
Colorado 8 ....!....
Connecticut ....... 12 7 5 ! !
Delaware I 6i 6 ' 1
Florida ! 8 6 .... 2i ........
Georgia I 26i 22 2 i 2 ....
Idaho ! 6 I 1...J..
Illinois ; 4S!; 46 2 ..
Indiana ' 30' 30 j !....
lowa \26 '. ! i 26
Kansas : 20 20 : i.. L...
Kentucky j 26j 26 ' j [....
Louisiana J 16! 11 4 I »zi V2
Maine 121 12 ....'......
Maryland 16 15 1
Massachusetts .... 301 1 129 .... .1 ....
Michigan i 28 28 1.... ■
Minnesota ! 18 18 :
Mississippi ! 18j 17 ....!.... 1 ....
Missouri ! 34 34 ...J............
Montana* | 6l 1 i I ! ....
Nebraska , 16! 16 ........ j....
Nevada I 6i 3 I | |
New Hampshire... 8 ]8 j •—
New Jersey 20 :19 1 ; :
New York ; 721 17 ' .... I 55'.. '
North Carolina.... 22i 19V.'! 2V0;...J
North Dakota j 6 6 j ..." ■:...!
Ohio ! 46 46 -|....!.:..
Oregon l 8j 8 ....{.... |....
Pennsylvania 64 6 | i 58 !
Rhode Island I 8 8 \....\....\....
So ith Carolina....! 18! 18 L... ....|....|....
South Dakota j 8j 8 j ....! ....(....(....
Tennessee ; 24:24 ' f ' ....
Texas ' 30 21 i 5 ! ! I 3
Utah i 6 3 ............ 3
Vermont ' 81 8 i | I
Virginia 24 23 : 1 j
Washington 8| 8 1....
West Virginia 12! 12
Wisconsin ! 24,24
Wyoming ; 61 6 I
Arizona i 6| 6 j |
New Mexico j 6| 5 .... i : 1
Oklahoma i 6 4 1 I ....I 1
Indian Territory.. 6 6 ! I I |
Dist. of Columbia. 2 1 1 I 1
Alaska 4| 4 j ....}....
j;' | !
_Total | 922|6t51^'84«2 ftifl%!36Mi
Vote by States for Vice-President.
X H 0
STATES. p. S E
*1 ■ it
r: ■ x
: ! ?
, ; | i
Alabama 10 11 \ 1
Arkansas 10 5 1
California 14 3 1
Colorado !
| Connecticut j 12 |
Delaware 6 | !
Florida 5 j 3 i
Georgia ! 5 i 21 j ......
Idaho I J ..
Illinois I 44 4 ......
Indiana j 12 145
lowa I 8 5 i 10
Kansas 20 i !
Kentucky 8 j 17 j
Louisiana ;...... 8 8 j
Maine | 5 i 2
Maryland ! 14 1 i 1
Massachusetts 14 12 4
Michigan 2 7
Minnesota 6 12
Mississippi ' 13 5
Missouri i 10 23 !
Montana ' 1 : '
Nebraska 16 I
Nevada I 3 I
New Hampshir* 8 j !
New Jersey I 20 ■■
New York .. ! 72 j ;
North Caiolina | \Vz 20%
North Dakota \ 3 ! 3 ] ......
Ohio | 25 I 15 |
Oregon ' 8 [ \
Pennsylvania 64 ' '
Rhode Island .. ! I i
South Carolina 3 15
South Dakota : 8 . —
Tennessee 24
Texas 11 12 ......
Utah 5 1
Vermont 8
Virginia ......
Washington 8 ............
West Virginia 12
Wisconsin . 3 20
Wyoming 6
Arizona 4 1 1 .j
New Mexico ............... ...... _.6 ......
Oklahoma 4 2 ....;.
Indian Territory .......... 6
District of Columbia 2 ........:..
Alaska 4 ............
Totals ..................... I 553M; 250% 39
The last day of the convention was
held in session for ten hours to accom
plish the work out out for it, and the
scenes at different times were tragic,
dramatic and inspiring. Fully 15,000
j people were in the vast auditorium to
hiss or cheer by turns.
The bolt of the silver men from the
West furnished the most dramatic in
cident of the day. Led by Senator
Teller, 1 they had previously declared
i their intention of refusing to subscribe
to the gold plank in the platform, but,
after Senator Teller had made his final
appeal to the convention not to take
the step which would drive him and
his colleagues out of the ranks of the
party whioh in the past honored them,
and they had delighted -to serve, the
convention had voted, 818)£ to 105%>
to stand by the gold declaration in the
platform. When Senator Teller made
his declaration, saying: "I must sever
my connection with the political party
which makes the gold plank one of the
principal artioles of its faith," he
I paused and swpet ; hii eyes , across the
• hall. The galleries rose with a yell,
| and mingled with the yell I was a fusi
lade of hisses. There was a pathos in
the senator's voice, and those nearest
could detect a glimmer of ? tears while
he said theie would be heartburnings
and grief in the sacrifice he and his
colleagues were to make for their oon
sciences.
■ Cheers then came fronvthei silver
delegates and '■*. the 'j gold \ men were on
their feet from the admiration of the
man, hot of < his cause. " The v hisses
were few this time. '] . \;.'*.': <_- _ :-/-,
No one who witnessed the scenes will
forget them to bis dying day, the pio-
tnr« of Senator Frank Cannon, ol
Utah, faoing from the platform 10,000
irate, hissing, jeering people, as he
read the valedictory of the silver men.
The very oourage displayed by him i
won for him the admiration which
compelled silence. When he had fin
ished he turned and shook hands with
the chairman and other friends on the
platform.
He then locked arms with Senator
Teller, and the two men left the stand
and moved down between the walls of
yelling delegates to where the standard
of the Idaho delegation stood. There
th'-y were joined by the handsome, |
stalwart Dubois, and the three con
tinued their march to the main door,
their followers falling in behind them
us they left the building.
Carter and Mantle of Montana, kept
their seats, signifying their willingness
to abide by the plartfom.
The silver men who bolted imme
diately perfected plans to place Senator
Teller in nomination as an independent
silver candidate for president.
After this sensational incident the
convention turned to the work of
selecting the standard-bearers. It was
a foregone conclusion that McKinley j
would be nominated.
Baldwin, of Council Bluffs, nomi
nated Allison, Senator Lodge nominat
ed Reed, Hastings nominated Quay,
Depew nominated Morton, and For
aker, in a masterly effort which turned
the convention into bedlam, nominated
MoKinley.
Save for the tumult that followed
Wolcott's speech placing Blaine in
nomination four years ago, the demon
stration had no parallel in the nation,
at least in length. The applause
lasted twenty-seven minutes.
Just at the close of the shouting
thousands were ready to sink from
sheer exhaustion. Altogether the scene
was a remarkable one, and testified to
the popularity of the candidate who
had been placed in the field.
The ballot was then taken and Mc-
Kinley 's vote exceeded the expectation
of his friends, as he received 661 %,
within a vote and a half of 200 more
than a majority, and almost three
timea as many as his five opponents.
Major William McKmley.
The nomination was made unanim
ous with enthusiastic speeches from the
representatives of the other candidates.
After the deoision of the Platt forces
not to present the name of Governor
Morton, the nomination of Hobart, of
New Jersey, for vice-president, became
a certainty. The MoKinley force was
thrown for him, which was too potent
to overcome, besides, it was the general
sense of the delegates that the situa
tion required the nomination of an
Eastern man for vice-president. The
nominating speeches wer« brief.
Bulkley, of Connecticut; Lippitt, of
Rhode Island, and General Walker, of
Virginia, were also placed in nomina
tion, but it only required one ballot to
determine the result. Hobart received
530 votes, 90 more than a majority.
Evans, his nearest competitor, received
280 There were scattering votes for
Reed, Thurston, Grant, Depew, Morton
and Brown.
PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Protective Tariff, Reciprocity and the
Gold Standard.
The platform adopted by the national
Republican convention is as follows:
"The republicans of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in na
tional convention, appealing for the popu
lar and historic justification of their claims
to the matchless achievements of 30 years
of republican rule, earnestly and confi
dently address themselves to the awak
ened intelligence, experience and con
science of their countrymen, in the follow
ing declaration of faats and principles:
"For the first time since the civil war,
the American people have witnessed the
calamitous consequences of full and unre
stricted democratic control of the govern
ment. It has been a record of unparal
leled Incapacity, dishonor and disaster.
! "In administrative management, it has
ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable revenue,
entailed an unceasing deficit, eked out or
dinary current ' expenses With borrowed
money, piled up the public debt by $262,
---000,000 in itime of peace, forced an adverse
balance of trade, kept a perpetual menace
hanging over the redemption fund, pawned
American credit to alien syndicates, and
reversed all the measures and results of ;
successful republican rule. .
"In the broad effect of its policy, it has
precipitated panic, blighted Industry and
trade with prolonged depression, closed
factories, reduced work and wages, halted
enterprise and crippled American produc
tion while stimulating foreign production
for the American market. Every consider
ation of public safety and individual - in
terest demands that the government shall
be rescued from the hands of those who;
have shown themselves incapable to con
duct it without disaster at home and dis
honor abroad, and shall be restored to the
party which for 30 years administered it
with unequaled success and prosperity, and
in this connection we heartily indorse the
wisdom, patriotism and 3uccess of the
administration of President Harrison. %
"We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark
of American industrial independence and
the foundation of American development
and prosperity. This true American policy,
taxes foreign products, encourages • home
industry, and puts the burden of revenue on
foreign goods; it secures the American mar
ket for the American producer; it upholds
the American ' standard 'of 'i wages t for the
American workingman; it puts the factory.
by the side tof ■ the . farm and makes the
American farmer, less dependent on foreign
demand and price; it diffuses general thrift
and founds the strength ~i; of . all ■on ; the
strength i of" each. -In • its reasonable \ appli
cation it is just, fair and impartial; equal
ly opposed to foreign control and | domestic
monopoly; to sectional : discrimination and \
individual favoritism. ' 1 -..n«
"We denounce the present democratic
tariff as sectional, ; injurious ito the public.
credit and | destructive Ito | business - enter
prise. We demand such ;an equitable \ tar
iff, on < such ; foreign imports ascome into
competition * with American products, . aa
will not only furnish adequate revenue forj
The necessary expenses of the government,
but protect American labor from degreda-
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conditions of the time and of production: •
tiie ruling and uncompromising ? principle
la the protection and development of
American labor and Industry. The country
demand* a right settlement and then it
wants iesi. • ■ ■ .
"We believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangement:* negotiated by the last re
publican administration was a national
disgrace, and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as will equal
ize our trade with other nations, remove
the restrictions which now obstruct the
sa;e or American products in the ports of
other countries, and secure enlarged mar
kets for the products of our farms, reStß
and factories.
'•Protection and reciprocity are the twin
measures of republican policy, and go
hand in hand. Democratic rule has reck
i lessly struck ; 1OW?. both, and both must be
re-established. Protection, tot what we
; Produce; free admissions for the necessaries
of life which we do not prodfes; recip
; rocal agreements of mutual interest*
which gain open markets in return for our
open markets to others. Proie<*ion builds
I up domestio Industry and trade and se
-1 cures our own market for ourselves; re
; »nr cii y t builds ' up forei S« trade and finds
1 an outlet for our surplus.
"We condemn the Present administra
, tion for not keeplmj faith with the sugar
Da°rtv C? rs °f thl\ country. The republican
paity favors such protection as will lead
to the production on American soil, of all
the sugar which the American people use
and for which they pay other countries
more than' $ 100,000, annually CoUntrlfi!l
"lo all of our products—to those of the
mine and field, u well as those of the
sheep and the factory-to hemp, to wool
the Kprouct of the «reat industry or sheep
husbandry, as well as to the finished wool
j protecti mill> we romise the most ample
i n«i' We favor rf storin ff the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the up
building of our merchant marine, and the
protection of our shipping interests in the
foreign-carrying trade, so American shtps,
the product of American labor, employed
in American shipyards, *ailint,' under the
Stan and Stripts, and manned, officered
and owned by Americans, may regain the
carrying of our foreign commerce?
"The republican parly is unr/servelly
for sound money. It caused the enact
ment of the law providing for the ie
sumptiun of specie payments in 1879; since
then every dollar ha* been as good as
gold; we are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our cuirency
or impair the credit of our country
™7na e are f' therefore, opposed to the free
coinage of silver except by international
agreement with the leading commercial
nations of the world, which we pledge
ourselves to promote, and until such
agreement can be obtained the exl3tin*
gold standard must be preserved
"All our silver and paper currency must
be maintained at parity with gold and we
favor all measures designed to maintain,
inviolably the obligations of the United*
States, and all our money, whether cuin
or paper, at the present standard the
standard of the most enlightened nations
of the earth.
"Tne veterans of the Union armies de
serve and should receive kind treatment
and generous recognition. Whenever
practicable they should be given the pref
erence in the matter of employement and
they are entitled to the enactment of such
fnTifii™ are best ca' cu!ated to secure the
fulfillment of the pledg.s made to them
In the dark days of the country's peril.
We denounce the practice in the pension
burl au> rcklesslv and unjustly carried
on by the present administration of re
ducing pensions and arbitrarily dropping
names from the rolls, as deserv the
severest condemnation of the American
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"Our foreign policy should be at all
times, firm, vigorous and dignified and
™r?f, rn InteretBJ3i the w, stern hemisphere
carefully watched and guarded. The
Hawaiian islands should be controlled by
the l-nited States, and no foreign power
should be permitted to interfere with
them; the Nicaragua canal should be built
owned, and operated by the United States'
and by the purchase of the Danish Islands
we should secure the proper and much
needed naval station in the West Indlts
a. The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and just in
dignation of the American people, and we
believe the United States should exert all
the influence it can properly exert to bring
these atrocities to an end. In Turkey
American residents have been exposed to
the gravest dangers and American proper
ty destroyed. There, as everywhere, Amer
ican citizens and American property must
be. absolutely protected at all hazards and
at any cost.
"We reassert the Monroe doctrine in Ita
fullest extent, and we reaffirm the right
°L th. G v .lnited States to give the doctrine
effect, by responding to the appeals of any
American state for friendly intervention
in case of European encroachment.
"We have not interfered and shall not In
terfere with the existing possessions of any
Kuropean power in this hemisphere, but
those possessions must not, on any pretext,
be extended. We hopefully look forward to
the eventual withdrawal of the European
powers from this hemisphere and to the
ultimate union of all the English-speaking
parts of the continent by the free consent
of its inhabitants.
"From the hour of achieving their own
Independence, the people of the United
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of our American people to free
themselves from European domination. W«
watch with deep and abiding interest the
heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against
cruelty and oppression, and our best hopea
go out for the full success of their deter
mined Pon>;est for liberty.
"The government of Spain, having lo3t
control of Cuba, and being unable to pro
tect the property or lives of resident
American citizens, or to comply - with Its
treaty obligations, we believe the govern
ment of the United States should actively.
use its influence and good offices to re
store peace and give independence "to the
island.
"The peace and security of the republic
and the maintenance of its rightful influ
ence among the nations of the earth, de
mand a naval power commensurate with
its position and responsibility. We, there
fore, favor the continued enlargement of
the navy and a complete system of harbor
and seacoast defenses. .
"For the protection of the quality of our
American citizenship and the wages of
our workingmen against the fatal competi
tion of low-priced labor, we demand chat
the Immigration laws be thoroughly en
forced and so extended as to exclude from
entrance to the United States those who
can neither read nor write.
"The civil service law was placed on the
statute books by the republican party,
which has always sustained it, and we re
new our repeated declarations that it shall
be thoroughly and honestly enforced and
extended wherever practicable.
"We demand that every citizen of the
United States shall be allowed to cast
one free and unrestricted ballot, and that
such ballot be counted and returned ax
cast.
"We proclaim our unqualified condemna
tion of the uncivilized and barbarous prac
tice, well known as lynching, or - killing
of human .beings suspected - or ■, charged
with crime, without process of law. .
"We favor the creation of a national
board of arbitration to settle and adjust
differences which may arise between em
ployers and employes engaged in interstate
commerce.
"We believe In an Immediate return •to
the. free homestead policy of the republi
can party, and. urge the passage by con
gress of the satisfactory free-homestead
measure, which has already - passed the
house and is now pending in the senate.
"We favor the admission of the remain-
Ing territories at the earliest, practicable
date,- having due regard to the interest of
the territories and the United States. All
the federal officers appointed for the terri
tories should be - selected from bona fide
residents thereof, and • the right of self
government should be accorded as -far as
practicable. < .
"We believe the citizens of Alaska
should have representation in - the con
gress of the United States, to the end that
needful legislation may be Intelligently :
sympathize with all wl.«e and legiti- ;
"We sympathize with all wl«e and legiti
mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils
of intemperance and promote morality. _-
"The republican party is mindful of the
rights of women. Protection of American
Industries . Includes - equal opportunities, ?
equal pay k for equal ; work and protection.
to the home." 5 ;, . v K'^':~m ;v-' Tr --*'■■■="- ■■'•'.'■"'■•.
"We favor tfce admission of > women tto
wider x spheres of * usefulness, and welcome •
their co-operation in rescuing»the country :
from dmocratio and *• populist mismanage- r:
ment and misrule. J -;■;" •
- "Such are .the i principles and policies jat
the republican rparfy. „ „ ::^ '- '.: -
■ "By these i principles; we will abide,» and j
these £' policies :we • will ; put into - execution.
We v ask v for '■ them k the .; considerate « judg
ment ': of '■* the V American i people. |« Confident ;,j
alike » in . the " history $ of i our .* great 5 party,
and in the justice of . our ; cause, swe present
our platform I and t our.| candidates -* In «th» 5
full assurance that the election will briny
victory to th» republican party and pros*
peritY to tbs ptopls ot tb« Uafod lUU%"
