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Show REPUBLICANS BUILD PLATFORM There May Be Planks Left' Out. They Will Be Few, However, and Perhaps None Will Be Displaced. Structure an Unusually . Strong One and "Will Meet "With Approval Ap-proval of All. WASHINGTON, Mai" 17 Tho dralt of the Republican platform of 1901. which will bo submitted to the Committee on Resolutions of the National convention by Senator Lodge, the prospective chairman; as the busls of its deliberations, is completed. Although subject, of course, to minor modifications and rearrangement in committee-, it may bo accepted' as the declaration of policies on which the- Republican Re-publican party is ready to fight this year's national campaign. It is a notably terse platform, nowhere open' to equivocal interpretation, sharply contrasting con-trasting with anything a disorganized, fusion-compromise opposition can present pre-sent for popular approval. ( Praise for President. After the usual expression of confidence confi-dence in tho eternal principles of the Republican) party, tho platform will specifically commend Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, the man, for hiB faithful adherence adher-ence to the policies of McKinley, for his fearlesa discharge of the dutley -of hia high office with the single purpose of promoting the public welfare, for the important part he played in the crisis of the anthracite coal strike, and for representing the highest ideala of American manhood. . The platform will therv review- the foreign relations of the United States under President Roosevelt's administration, administra-tion, assorting that no function of his ofilce renders an untried and unsafe un-safe President more liable to Involve the Nation In grave and Inextrlcablo complications than the administration of its foreign affairs. 1 Among tho achievements of Theodoro Roosevelt's administration will be enumerated enu-merated the accomplishment of Cuban Cu-ban reciprocity and the ratification of the treaty with Cuba which Incorporates Incorpo-rates the Piatt amendment- The administration and Congress will bo warmly commended for the ac-quiBltlon ac-quiBltlon of the Panama canal, the completion com-pletion of which must accrue so largely to the advantage of tho United States and to the world at large. . 11 Anti-Trust Laws Enforced. Tho President will be praised for his successful enforcement of the Sherman anti-trust law, which was enacted by a Republican Congress and first applied by a Republican President. Grateful comment on the extraordinary extraordi-nary prosperity of the Nation will be followed by a brief contrast of existing conditions with those of 1S93 and by tho assertion that the monetary system of the Nation is now on such a stable and satisfactory basis that men look back with wonder and amazement when they recall the wild vagaries and still wilder Democratic theories of 1S9G. , Tariff Plank- The section. whlclK deals with protection protec-tion will reud substantially as follows: "Protection, which guards and develops de-velops our Industries, is a cardinal principle of the Republican party. Wo insist upon the maintenance of this principle, but wo recognize that particular particu-lar tariff schedules are neither sacred nor immutable. Rates of duty may be altered when changed conditions demand de-mand their alteration, but no revision should be undertaken unless it Is clear that the- benefit, will more than compensate com-pensate for the disturbance of business which Inevitably attends a revision of the tarltt schedules. Nor can such revision re-vision be Intrusted with safety to any other than the party of protection. To Intrust it to the Democratic party is again to Invito the Democratic disaster and panic of 1893" Other planks deal with the- Nation's debt to those who imperilled their lives for the preservation of the Republic, which will be declared to have been faithfully pa'id; with the responsibilities Incurred by tlie treaty of Paris, which will bo declared to have been sacredly kept, as witness the prosperity of Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands; wltb the sacredneiw of the ballot, the equality of all citizens, etc. |
