The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1900, Page 3

R it Y TR ——— HEADQUARTERS, LPHIA, June pl Tm as e committee reso- Re United States s, met I Ruinous Conditions Repai HOTEL | orse the administrat Its acts have been e ab has distinctly elevated th Influsnce and extended in- of Amcrica n actio snfiden Am always inspiring and ~'of his count an people to indo; 1 to renew their cor nace 8 the Dernocratic , and declgre” our legistation of v secured. es are a potent fa le the varying season and of all sections to be the peril of the electign of a Dem: d not fall to imp: d standard the . The Democrati d that the Ameri = Chicaggplatform. We recognige th necessity and propri- ety of the honest co- To. Extend | soestion or Sepiea | to meet new bus Increasing conditions and clally to extend Forcign Trade| ripiaiy increasing for ) elgn cles and combinations trac we ended to restrict business, to create monopo- Extended. H eseen respan- Qe President has been in the true American patriot and clear in vision, strong in | American people a new and noble responsibil- | @ ad it | PR S | for child labor, the pro o r such legisiation as will effectually re- all such abuses, protect and competition and secure the rights of laborers and all who are engaged v and commerce. We resew our falth in the policy of protec- tion to American labor. In that policy our industries. have been established, diversified and maintained ket, the competition has been stimulated and production cheapened. Opportunity to the In- ventive genius of our people has been secured nd wages In every department of labor main- tatned at hig alwa: 1 disting: ng our working people thelr better conditions of life from those f any competing country. Enjoying the bless- American common schools, secure in self-government and protected in cy of their own markets, their con- knowlkdge and skill to enter the markets of the mssociated policy of reciproct d as to open our markets favorable terms for what we do not our- elves produce in return for free forelgn mar- ne increasing In the further interest of Americafi workmen we favor a more ive restriction of the fm- migration of cheap labor from foreign lands, the extension of opportunities of education for working children, the raising of the age limit tection of free labor as ce Our present dependence on foreign shipping for nine-tenths of cur forelgn carrying trede is a great loss to the industry of this country. It a serious danger to our trade, for lts 1\ withdrawal in the event of European war would serlously cripple our expanding for- clgn commerce. The national defense and naval efficiency of this country, moreover, supply ‘a compelling reason for legislation which will enable us to recover our former place among the trade carrying fleets of the world The nation owes a debt of profound gratitude labor and an effective | By protecting the home mar- | 4~ laws foynd | be liberally administered and preference should | | [ have | HE platform of the Republican party as adopted by the Philadelphia convention yesterday indorses McKinley’s ad- ministration; declares for the gold standard and against the free coinage of silver; calls attention to the prosperity of the country under a Republican adminisiration; advocates laws for the betterment of the working people and the restriction ) of cheap foreign 'labor; lies, to limit production or to control prices and , to the goldiers and sailors who have fought its battles and it s the Government's duty to provide for . the sur- vivors and for the Pencions for . widows and orphans tho Country’s | of those who have falien in the try’s Defenders. * | wam. The pension led on' this {ust, sedttment snowld Iberal and skould be given wherever practicable with respect to employment in the public service to soldiers [and satlors and to their widows and orphans. We commend the policy of the Republican party In maintaining the efficlency of the civil servi The administration. has acted wisely In its efforts to secure for public service in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawail and the Philippines only those whose fitness has been determined by training and, experience. We believe that employment in the public service in those ter- | ritorles should be confined as far ds practicable | » \ to thelr tnhabitants. It was the plain purpose of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution to prevent dis crimination on account of race or color in reg. ulating the elective franchise. Devices of State government, whether by statutory or constitu- tional enactment, to avoid the purpose of this amendment are revolutionary and should be condemned. Public movements looking to a permanent im- provement of the roads and highways of the country meet with our cordial approval and we recommend this subject to the earnest consid- eration of the people and of the legislatures of the sevéral States. We favor the extension of the rural free de- livery service wherever its extension may be Justified. In further pursuance of the constant policy of the Republican party to provide free homes on the putlic domatn we recommend adequate na- tional legislation to reclaim the arid lands of the I'nited States, reserving control of the dis- demands national legislation to re- claim the.arid lands of the West; urges the construction and control of the isthmian canal by the United States. TR TR TAA T A TR fi@*@*@*@*@*@*mfim*@m*@m*@*@*@ [ ] TR TR AR TR x ¢ ¢ B AT AT AT AT A AT A T A R T AT AT A AT A A A Ak I A Ak Sk <ok S ® tribution of water for irrigation to tve States and Territories. We favor home rule for and the early admis- sion to statehood of the Territorles of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. The Dingley act amended to provide suffi- clent revenue for the conduct/ of the war has %0 well performed its work that it has been poselble to reduce the war debt in the sum of $40,000,000. So ample are the Government's rev, mues and so great is the public confldence in the integrity of its obligations that its newly funded two per cent bonds sell at a premium, The country Is now justified in expecting and it | Will be the policy of the Republican party to | bring about & reduction of the war| taxes. We favor the construction, ownership, con- trol And protection of an lsthmian canal by the Government of the United States. New markets are necessary for the increasing sur- plus of our farm pro- the respect- | ducts. Every effort * + shouls B made to Control of open end obtain new | markets, especially in | the Canal the nt, and the administration is | Pavorcal '| SRiEpion | mended for its suc- — 1 cessful effort to com- mit all colontztng nations to the poliey door in China. In the interest of our expanding commerce, we recommend that Congress create 1 Depart- ment of Commerce and Industries, in the charge of a Secretary with a seat In the Cabinet. The United States Consular system shouid be re- organized under the supervision of this new department upon such a basis of appointment and tenure as will render it still more ser- viceable to the nation's increasing trade. The American Government must protect the person and property of every citizen wherever they are wrongfully violated or placed in peril. ‘We congratulate the women of America upon their splendid record of public service in the volunteer ald association, and as nurses in trading and of the open SOME REMARKABLE MEN ATTEND THE CONVENTION Pen Pictures of Those Whose Dignity Increases the Businesslike Air of the Proceedings. BY MURAT HALSTEAD, Special Correspondent of The Call. HEADQUARTERS, HOTEL TON, PHILADELPHIA, June | 20.—Rarely, if ever, has there been ne roof so many of the men rk in the United BStates thered in the convention That hall seems to to day. It has become nd the presence of 20,000 per- tiful, light and delicious air, €ll disposed, seems to in- ity of carrying on busi- fce. An audience of arge as can be addressed on the platform and the ences of 5000 are mul- ness wit 5300 pec with atisfac atfon who canbe the passages that tated. Perhaps A some of conventions in churches where the spectators are 1 by hundreds or thousands and not ¥ tens of tho r the first day, Senator was heard as very few men in intry could have been, but during the preliminaries to-day it was evident that his voice has lost its musie. ‘The gement of the convention has been ed with propriety and not in a using sensational spirit. Senator oleott had the opportunity in his great speech to refer to the heroes of the Span- ish War, but named no one of them be- use if one had been celebrated the friends of others could have complained. are hardly a dozen 1 It was not according, to many precedents, but it good tasté, In the New York delegation to-day a | profile was noticed as an exact reproduc- tion of that of Mr, Gladstone. Inspection | of it proved it to belong to Senator Chauncey Depew, and that likeness to Mr. Gladstone has been much remarked in | England. Senator Foraker appeared on | the platform to make an inquiry, and it » remarked that since he was Gov | ernor he has gained a few points in fig- | ure, but it is certainly not for lack of hard work that he is on the Increase, for | he is Intensely laborious as Senatdr and lawyer, and his correspondence is enor- mous. His activitied know no intermis- sion. He still bears himself as a sol- dier and is as good a horseman as when as the young Governor of Ohio he rode with his staft through the streets of | Philadelphia, and had a triumphant ride | of it. His Roman nose is still in evidence, and especiflly when he rises to an oc- | caston that is exciting and his nostrils quiver lke those of a blooded horse, As a boy captain be climbed the breastworks | of the Confederates at Missionary Ridge, and personally disarmed and made pris- oner a man with a gun before his com- | pany got over the barricade of logs. Once one of the Senators of Indiana, the Hon, D. W. Voorhees, was called be- | cause of his stature “the tall sycamore of the Wabash.” It may be assumed that Senator Fairbanks might as well be styled the “tall poplar of the Whitewater river” or some other title that would in- \ clude tall timber and the musical named rivers of his State, He is following the example of Senator Foraker in the im- provement of Lis proportions. Fairbanks has incidentally recelved a compliment in an extraordinary way. A Vice Presidential boom has been provided for him and It did not start on the banks of the Wabash, though it might with pro- priety have done so. He has been opposed to this boom all the time. He is well satisfled with his place in the Senate. The compliment has Senator | | | convention hall. | | been that of the understanding that if the | | slavery and to save the Americ#n Union.” administration_ became apprehensive of results in regard to the Vice Presidency the tall Senator from Indlana was held in reserve and could be called upon to | overcome the boom of any disagreeable person. The Senator might have been, as it were, a refuge for the convention from those who were not regarded as adequate, but as Governor Roosevelt is expected to be nominated before the State of New | York is named In the call of the roll (and that would remove Mr. Ropsevelt's ob- Jections) it is not probable that there will be any occasion for drafting a man outgide of New York. Colonel Aiex McClure, whose golden Jubllee as an editor was celebrated some ! years ago, appeared In the convention hall to-day and was in his best form. He goes on writing books and editorials and holds that his movements as respect par- ty organizations are like the straight lines drawn to pass through the two crooked lines to form the dollar-mark. It is as- N | sumed that the two great parties move crookedly while the great editor proceeds in the right line and finds himseif some- times with one crowd and sometimes with the other. There is no doubt that he is all right this time, and has been often, and in all human probability will be again. He sup- ports Willlam McKinley as he did Abra- ham Lincoln. Colonel McClure and Mr. Rosewater of the Omaha Bee, who is also | in attendance -at the convention and is advancing in years, are two living editors | of great distinction, who knew President Lincoln long and well. Mr. Rosewater's long and close association with Mr. Lin- | coln has never been written out, as Colonel McClure’s recollections fortunately have. Mr. Rosewater should be called upon for a book of his personal memories of the first martyr President. It was a dignified but pathetic picture when the veterans of 1856 were presented on the platform, bearing the little old battle flags that adorned the Fremon They are not great flags in their measurements, but they are rep- resengative of a great history. George H. Earle, a citizen of Philadeiphia, of a fam- ily that for two generations were famous as anti-slavery agitators with a practical turn of mind, was a delegate to the con- vention of 1856, and is in good health and of remarkable certainty of memory. He says of the first of the liberty men, as they were called in 1840: “How little they thought that they were officiating at the birth of a party that was to abolish Colonel Leopold Mark Brite, brother of the famous orator and poet, Frederick Hassaurek, appears in the convention, still vigorous and clear and alert in his activities as an editor, but sadly crippled by months of suffering in Libby Prison— so crippled, indeed, that he walks with difficulty. One of the great journalists of the West, Mr. Houser of the St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat, and very largely responsible for the lendid prosperity of that journal, is in the convention assa delegate—an unusual adventure for him, for while he has guld- ed many delegates this (s his first per- sonal participation In official duty at a national convention. There is nothing new in politics for him or in the duties of good citizenship that is not familiar to him, and he sets a good example in coming here. Another 8t. Louls newspaper man pres- ent is Nathan Frank, proprietor of the Mr. Frank was for some terms of Congress one of the most active and use- ful of the members, an effective laborer in the party orgdnization and a master of the art of drawing laws for Congres- sional legislation. Mr. Frank now makes the singular choice of doing the hard work of the Republican party instead of acting its honors as an official. It was a spectacle of true harmony to see that energetic Mayor of Philadelphia sitting with ex-Governor Black of New York on one side and Lou Payne on the other; exchanging observations that must from the airs of good fellowship, have been of a pleasing nature. Notable among the editors looking after the convention in person is-Richard W. Knott of the Louisvilie Post, a gentleman whose hair is turning gray, probably be- cause he had had as hard a time as a gold-Democrat in Kentucky, and has done something mere than stand his ground. Mr. Knott may be classed as among the makers of history of whom we hear. He has been right there in Kentucky and knows how it is done. The opponents of the Republican party complain that the convention licks en- thusiasm. They mean that it is not hide- ously noisy and isn't rampant to demon- strate physical force at every suggestion of the commonplace and not determine to spoil the superb sentences of a speaker by Injecting untimely and unnecessary applause. The Republican delegates and the spectators, too, do not continually shriek and pound and clamor with sticks and heels, but they seem to feel that they are well and doing well, and that it is good for them to be here, and there is not the sign of a scare about anything in par- ticular in the convention. The long ad- vertised and vehemently and viciously proclaimed raid upon the convention to stampede agalnst the President, is un- known, except by the gifted reporters, who are called upon in the loud sheets to pour forth torrents of precipitation from their discolored imaginations. As for the celebrated long tried “‘beat- ing of Hanna,” his personal appearance is that he.might enjoy it, as he does other things equally irrelevant and {mprobable, as much as anybody. He has reached that state of celebrity in which a few moments of repose by him iIs regarded as a phenomenon and indicating that some- thing memorable is about to take place. Steel Plant Shuts Down. COLUMBUS, O., June 20.—The plant of the National Steel Company in this eity, employing nearly 50 men, was closea Gown " to-day- PLATFORM OF REPUBLICAN PARTY camp and hospital during the recent campaigns | contending parties, to terminate the strife- bee of our armies in the Eastern and Western | tween them. Indies, and we aporeciate their faithful co-| In accepting, by the treaty of Paris, the just operation in all works of education and in- | responsibilities of our victories in the Spanish dustry. war, the President and the Senate won the President McKinley | undoubted approval of the American T elgn affairs of the United States with other cou Dossible than to tinguisked credit to American people. I y throughout the West I releasing us from the vexatious European al- Dines. Mance for the government of Samoa, his course is espectally to be commended. By securt kas conducted the for- tes That course created with the world and population whom our f to our undivided control the most important | vention had freed from Spain, to Drovid islard of the Samoan group, and the best har- | the maintenance of law and order, and for the bor in the Southern Pa every American | establishment of good government and for interest has been safeguarded. | performas We approve the annexation of the Hawalian | a Islands to the United States. | We commend the part taken by our Govern- ment In the peace conference at The Ha We assert our steadfast adherence to the policy announced in the Monroe doctrine. The pro- visions of The Hague convention were wis regarded when Preside: McKinley h friendly the interest of peace + between Great Britain Adherence to A l Monroe | | 1 e of international obligats, - Taag s responst- ffices in Doctr ne. atfirmed every President, MacInnes Dismissed. posed upon us by The Hague treaty. of non- | VICTORIA. B. 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