Planks Of The Platform

The platform is a standard Republican document as to the tariff. claiming that the national prosperity lies in protection and that the recent business depression is traceable entirely to Democratie success and free trade and the present recovery to Republican victories in recent elections. On the money question the national declaration of 1892 is reaffirmed with the following further deñning thc same: 'The Republican party believing it to be the settled doctrine of the party that the honor of the nation and the interests of its citizens require the maintenance of the national currecny.every dollar of which, whether in gold, silver or notes, shall be of stable value and of equal purchasing power, hereby declares its opposition to the debasement of the national currency by the admission of silver to free and unftmited coinage at the arbitrary ratio of 16 to 1." Senator Quay was thanked for his opposition to the Wilson tariff bill, and the governor of the state was commended as 'ollows: "We commend the splendid adninistration of Governor Daniel H. Hast ngs, which has fully justified the confldence in him of the voters of the commonwealth as expressed in the enormous maority given him last f all," which aught to satisfy the most exacting of his friends. In fact harmony was the motto of the convention. A spilt had been averted by a compromise reached by the Quay and anti-Quay men in the "wee sma' hours," ïy which, while it was agreed that Quay could have the chairmanship of the state committee if he had the delegates, it was also agreed that Governor Hastings men 'or judges should be ■ nominated. Then, although a Quay man was the temporary chairman, Governor Hastings was made jennanent chairman.