It has been humiliating to America and irritating to other nations, with the result that after a period of unexampled sacrifice, our motives are suspected, our moral influence impaired, and our Government stands discredited and friendless among the nations of the world. The foreign policy of the Administration has been founded upon no principle and directed by no definite conception of our nation's rights and obligations. The policies herein declared will be carried out by the Federal and State governments, each acting within its constitutional powers. We undertake to end executive autocracy and restore to the people their constitutional government. To that end, the Republican party declares its policy and programme to be as follows: The people are entitled to know in definite terms how the parties purpose solving these problems. Never has our nation been confronted with graver problems. The demonstrated incapacity of the Democratic party has destroyed public confidence, weakened the authority of the government, and produced a feeling of distrust and hesitation so universal as to increase enormously the difficulty of readjustment and to delay the return to normal conditions. Eighteen months after the armistice, with its wartime powers unabridged, its wartime departments undischarged, its wartime army of place holders still mobilized, the administration still continues to flounder helplessly. Under the despot's plea of necessity or superior wisdom, executive usurpation of legislative and judicial function still undermines our institutions. It has used legislation passed to meet the emergency of war to continue its arbitrary and inquisitorial control over the life of the people in the time of peace, and to carry confusion into industrial life. It continued a method of financing which was indefensible during the period of reconstruction. The administration has not demobilized the army of place holders. While the country has been left to shift for itself, the government has continued on a wartime basis. This called for vision, leadership, and intelligent planning. The vital need of the country demanded the early and systematic return of a peace time basis. Peace found the administration as unprepared for peace as war found it unprepared for war. To-day it is reflected in our huge tax burdens and in the high cost of living. It directly resulted in unnecessary losses to our gallant troops, in the imperilment of victory itself, and in an enormous waste of public funds, literally poured into the breach created by gross neglect. Had not our associates protected us, both on land and sea, during the first twelve months of our participation and furnished us to the very day of the armistice with munitions, planes, and artillery, this failure would have been punished with disaster. Inexcusable failure to make timely preparations is the chief indictment against the Democratic administration in the conduct of the war. The outstanding features of the Democratic administration have been complete unpreparedness for war and complete unpreparedness for peace. During that period a war of unparalleled magnitude has shaken the foundations of civilization, decimated the population of Europe, and left in its train economic misery and suffering second only to the war itself. It will resist all attempts to overthrow the foundations of the government or to weaken the force of its controlling principles and ideals, whether these attempts be made in the form of international policy or domestic agitation.įor seven years the national government has been controlled by the Democratic party. The Republican party, assembled in representative national convention, reaffirms its unyielding devotion to the Constitution of the United States, and to the guaranties of civil, political and religious liberty therein contained.
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