UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9144, 21 July 1908, Page 5

UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN FUND

CONTRIBUTIONS OF CORPORATIONS DECLINED.

Received July 20, 10.12 p.m. NEW YORK, July 19. Mr W. H. Taft, Republican candidate for the United States Presidency, declines the contributions of Corporations to the Campaiga Fund.

At a sitting of the Republican State Convention at Columbus, Ohio. Representative Theodore E. Burton, of Cleveland, chairman of the committee on resolutions, presented the report of the Resolutions Committee. The first plank tu be greeted with applause was that relating to labour and capital. The recommendation in favour of the merchant marine and an adequate navy called out an outburst of cheers and from that time until the reading was completed the enthusiasm evoked by the platform steadily increased. Thereport concluded with the plank ei dorsing the candidacy of W. H. Taft, and, as soon as the delegates c&ught the cirift of the endorsement, tney broke in on the reader with a yell that caused him to pause for several minutes. The report was unanimously adopted amid wild applause, arid Chairman Burton was given an ovatior. as he returned to his seat. Following is the platform adopted: — "The Republicans of Ohio proclaim this platform tit' principles of the camoaign of 1908 : "I i the nation we stand for these ideals of government which mean justice, eiuality, and fair dealing among men. "A brave and impartial enforcement of the law; commercial and industrial liberty; individualism against socialism; competition as against monopoly; Government regulation as against Government ownership; the promotion of the best interests of labour and capital, and the unflinching protection of both; compensation for injure! employees of the Government; the re-enactment ■in constitutional form of the Employers' Liability Act; a limitation in the exercise of the power of injunction in order to prevent its abuse; a greater merchant marine and an adequate navy; generous provision for the old scidiers, the vanishing forces of the Republic; liberal appropriations for the improvement of waterways and harbours, including the Ohio River and the great lakes, in accordance with a general plan which shall be comprehensive and just to all portions of the country; the organisation of all existing national public health agencies into a single national health department. "A revision of the tariff by a special session of the next Cong'ress, insuring the maintenance of the true principle"! of Protection by imposing such customs duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to the end that, without excessive duties, American manufactirers, farmers, producers and wage earners may have adequate protection. "A sound financial system in harmony with the achievements of the Republican party, and such modifications of the currency laws as will provide for the demands of commerce, satisfy the needs of all portions of the country and hive at all times the quality of undoubted security.

"The civil and political rights of the American negro in every State, believing as we do that his marvellous progress in intelligence, industry, and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation, and that those legislative enactments that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of colour alone are unfair, unAmerican, and repugnant to the supreme law of the land; we favour the reduction of representation in Congress and the electoral college in all States of this nation where white and coloured citizens are disfranchised, to the end that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States may be enforced according to its letter and spirit. "The speedy completion of the Panama Canal, the development, step by step, of popular government in the Philippines, and the continued expansion of American influence and trade in the interest of peace and progress among the nations of the earth. "These are the politics of the Republican party, as exemplified in the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt. We endorse his splendid administration, and declare that neither halt nor retreat shall be sounded in the march towards better , government."