The Republican Platform

The following is the platform adopted by the Republican state convèntion, minus the preamble: We believe in the use of gold and I ver as money metáis, to be maintained in circulation on a perfect equaliiy and Incontrovertability. We recognize the so called silver question as one of the paramount political issues of the day, and believe that the people of this state and country can and do look to the República.! party- the party of ability and progress - as the only party that can give a wise and adequate solution of this problem. We, therefore, pledge the Republican party of Michigan to use every effort in its power to restore silver to its proper position in the United States as a money metal. We pledge this in the belief that permanent prosperity will not be assured nor justice be done until silver takes its time honored place side by side with gold as one of the two great money metáis of the world. While we recognize the value and worth of 'the great body of naturalized citizens and people who have sougrht with a patriotic heart and adopted this as their home and country, we believe in protecting American wage earners and the peace and prosperity of this nation against the evil effect of indiscriminate immlgratlon from the pauper and criminal classes of Europe by wise laws that shall properly restrict and regúlate emigration. We believe in the protection and ,Mii of the standard of American i citlzenshlp, and that the safety of this republic depends upon the intelligence and loyalty of its supporters. That it should be sustained for the welfare snd happiness of its people, and that for the preservation thereof the right of suffrage should be limited to those who have fully aequired American ship. We believe that the security of Kfe, the free exercise of personal rights, and the enjoyment of equal opportunities before the law, are the essence of liberty and should be the first care of all governments. That there can be no liberty without free speech and the free exercise of the personal and political rights of the citizens. We denounce the action of the Democratie party in the repeal of the election laws, whereby the courts of the United States are rendered powerless for the protection of the honest vote, or the punishment of fraud. and such election is an invitation to falsify by fraud and violence the will of the people; and we demand the enactment and enforcement of laws that shall protect the citizen of the republic at home as well as abroad Whereas, Intelligence from authentic sources, and through authentic channels, having reached this country, that the people of the Hawaiian Islands after a peaceful revolution did on the fourth day of July last, the natal day of this great republic4 issue through their constituted authorities, their proclamation of independence and announced to the nations of the earth their establishment as a free and independent republic among the nations. Therefore. Resolved, That we, delegates of the Republican state convention of Michigan, representing a large majority cf the liberty-loving people of one of the brightest states in this sisterhood of states, send a hearty greeting and welcome to our young sister republic of the seas and assure her of our most earncst sympathy and best wishes for n glorious future. We reafflrm our adherence and increased devotion to the American doctrine of protection. We believe ihat the present unhappy industrial ccnáltion of our country is in great part due t& the threats and purpose of the riemocratic party to destroy the .American system of protection. We believe that all articles which cannot be produced in the United States except luxurles should be admitted free of duiy, and that on all imports coming into fompetition with the products of American labor there should be luties lev led equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home. We believe that the doctrine of reciprocity as advc catea by that matchless statesman, jïinies G. Blaine, should under our proteoiive hystem be the policy of our puvernment and applied in our trade relations vith other nations. "We recognize that the employment of both capital and labor is necessary for the peace and prosperity of our people and that the enactment of such laws as will properly and wisely avoid and settle labor ciifferences is one of the duties of the Republican party, which has always been and stiU is the friend of the humblest toilers. While we believe that government was instituted to protect the weak against the strong and substitute right for might and that it is therefore the duty of this state to regúlate all corporations and combinations so as to protect every right and liberty of the laborer, we insist that law and order must be maintained and that the ballot box and the ways of justice must settle economie differences; we believe in arbitration as one of the means to solve labor disputes and commend the enactment by the legislature of laws to carry out the provisions of section 23, article 6, of the constitution of the state of Michigan, which provides for establishing courts of conciliation, with such powers and duties as shall be prescribed by law. , Wp Wpck before last we published atable giving the populartion oL ti f tv Michigan cities for 1894 and 1890. Sinee 1884, just ten years ago, the ten largest citio o Michigan have madegainsin population as folio vs : Grand Rapids,90.9 per cení Detroit, 79.3 per cent ; Lansing, 78.7 peí cent; Port Hurón, 74.6 per-cent; Kala mazoo, 58.8 per ceat; Battle Creek, 59.5 percent; Jacfeson, 54.2 ppr cent : Muskegon, 13.4 per cent; Saginaw,. 4.3 per cent; and BayCity, 2.1 percent.