The Olympia Tribune

REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM.

The republican party of the state of Washington, in state convention assembled, does hereby publish and declare the following platform of principles:

First—We express an unhesitating acceptance of an adherence to the principles of the platform adopted at Minneapolis by the republican national convention of 1892, and commend a careful study of the same to every voter and tax-payer in the land.

Second—We pledge our hearty support of the nominees of the republican national convention, Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid.

Third—We heartily endorse the wise and statesmanlike administration of Governor E. P. Ferry.

Fourth—We favor the remonetization of silver upon a recognized parity with gold. and its restoration to the dignified place it has occupied for forty centuries as money.

Fifth—We recognize the importance to our people of the improvement of our rivers and harbors, and we especially commend as worthy of the attention of congress the Columbia river, the harbors of our Pacific coast and of Puget Sound and of the ship canal connecting Puget Sound with Lake Washington; we condemn the action of the democratic house of representatives in refusing an appropriation for the opening of the Columbia river and the Lake Washington ship canal, and we most heartily approve the course of Senators Allen and Squire, and of Representative Wilson in their advocacy of those measures; we are heartily in favor of the speedy opening to settlement of the Puyallup and other Indian reservations within this state.

Sixth—We call for the allotment of lands in severalty to the wards of the government, and the throwing open thereafter of the Indian reservations in this state to the American farmer and producer. We demand general and special appropriations by the general government for the speedy survey of all unsurveyed public lands in this state, in order that the thousands of settlers upon them be afforded an opportunity to perfect their titles and be protected in their efforts to develop our great agricultural resources, and that the state authorities may be able to select and secure the hundreds of thousands of acres granted to the state by the general government.

Seventh—We demand such legislation in congress as will enable the state to select from the unsurveyed public lands of the United States, without delay, the lands granted it on its admission into the union.

Eighth—We favor the immediate settlement of the title to the so called lieu lands in Washington, that the many settlers thereon shall be enabled to promptly secure titles to their homes. We demand that our delegation in congress shall use their best endeavors to secure this end.

Ninth—We demand a prompt settlement of all harbor lines, tidelands, and other questions in which a large portion of our state is so vitally interested, and promise all needed legislation to promote the irrigation of our arid lands and regulate the use of water for irrigation so that the greatest good may be done to the greatest number.

Tenth—Believing that the present road laws have been found unsuited to the needs of the people of this state, we are in favor of the enactment of such laws as will enable the people to construct and maintain a system of roads adequate to the needs of our growing communities.

Eleventh—We believe that the betterment of the condition of our industrial and producing classes should be the first care of this state, and promise such legislation as will insure a reasonable reduction in charges made by those engaged in transporting passengers or freight, whenever such rates are proven to be excessive or exorbitant.

Twelfth—We believe in restraining all encroachments of any person or class of citizens upon the rights of others, and denounce the introduction of imported mercenaries as seditious. We assert the ability of the state to deal with all local disturbances, and promise a prompt exercise of the executive power whenever necessary for the enforcement of the law, or the protection of life and property.

Thirteenth—We are in favor of a law making eight hours a day's labor on all public works.

Fourteenth—We believe that public officers should be held to a strict accountability for all official acts, that there should be the utmost energy and wise economy in the conduct of all governmental affairs. and that the burden of taxation on our people should be alleviated as far as compatible with the necessities of economical government and the proper enforcement of the law.

Fifteenth—We maintain that a perpetuity of a representative form of government depends upon the intelligence of the people, and for this reason no efforts should be relaxed and no expense spared to increase the efficiency of our common school system by which our children are prepared for their duties as citizens.

Sixteenth—We favor the passage of the bill known as the anti-option bill, or any other measure having for its object the prevention of gambling in farm products.

Seventeenth—Believing that the Nicaragua canal would be of inestimable value to the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of Washington, we demand that our delegation in congress shall use all honorable means to secure its speedy completion."

Believing in the principles above enunciated, and pledging itself to the accomplishment of those purposes, the republican party confidently appeals to the voters of the state of Washington for their ratification and endorsement of all its nominees for office, national, state and county.