rations on national issues: "We, the Democrats of Nebraska, in convention assembled, reaffirm our faith in the principles of the party as enunciated in the Democratic. last national platform adopted at Kansas City.

"We denounce the National Republican Administration for its failure to carry out its promises heretofore made, and its subservience to special interests at the expense of and detriment of the interests of the public at large.

"We are unalterably opposed to any form of asset currency legislation and to any legislation of the character of the Aldrich bill.

"We demand that the Attorney General of our State shall make application to the Supreme Court of the United States for permission to put the Nebraska maximum freight rate law into immediate effect, in accord with the suggestion of that Court." The Populist State Convention at Grand Island, August 25, after agreeing on a joint ticket with the Democratic organization, adopted resolutions rePopulist. affirming allegiance to the principles of the People's Party as expressed in its national platforms, but declaring that the State election of 1903 involved no questions of national politics.

OHIO.

At Columbus, June 4, the Republican State Convention adopted a platform containing these declarations on national issues: "The protective tariff policy of the Republican party has made the United States the greatest industrial Republican. nation, has astonished the world with the tremendous development of our boundless resources, has added vastly to our foreign commerce, has greatly increased the prosperity of the farmer, and has advanced American labor to the best scale of living ever attained. We oppose all attacks upon this policy, whatever the pretext, as tending to bring back the disastrous days of Democratic tariff revision and free trade. Changing conditions and the possible benefits of reciprocity may call for timely readjustment of schedules, but protection as a principle and as a policy must be administered by the friends of American prosperity, and must not be sacrificed. "Combinations for the monopoly of trade and kindred unlawful purposes are directly amenable to penalties provided by Republican legislation and their vigorous enforcement in the courts. No worthy interest is imperilled, but whatever will work public harm is restrained, and that without resort to the Democratic plan of destroying all American industries through tariff revision or otherwise. If further legislation should be found necessary, the Republican party can be depended upon to enact and enforce it with equity and safety to every legitimate interest.

"The Republican party, having restored the national credit after it was nearly destroyed by the Democratic party, and having maintained and advanced it to the highest in the world, with, every dollar of full value, and having given to the people the only banking system that operates uniformly everywhere without loss and at lowest cost, should now endeavor within safe lines to stimulate local bank circulation, thus securing an elasticity of currency supply commensurate with business demands, and we favor well guarded legislation to this end.

"We hold fast to the doctrine of equity everywhere in the exercise of the elective franchise, maintaining that justice requires any State excluding any of its citizens from the ballot to be proportionately reduced in its representation in the Electoral Collage and the lower house of the National Congress.

The improvement in our relations with the Philippine Islands is attested by the reduction of our army to the lowest legal limit. Education and enlightenment under broadminded administrative policy are gradually obviating the necessity for control through military power, and we commend the rapid and steady progress made in the preparation of the Philippines for the fullest practicable degree of self-government. Under President McKinley and President Roosevelt our foreign policy of equity to all has made the United States the peacemaker of the world, guarding weaker nations from aggression and giving the Monroe Doctrine a vital force greater than ever before. "As America's part in preserving the peace of the world, we indorse the Republican policy of developing the United States Navy to the highest efficiency, and we favor every encouragement possible to our merchant marine in the extension of American commerce in American ships upon every sea.

"We commend President Roosevelt's fidelity to duty, his adherence to President McKinley's policies and his own practical ability in his office, showing him in every way worthy of election by the people to be their Chief Magistrate. We favor his nomination for President in 1904. The re-election of Senator Hanna is a distinct national demand upon our State, and we hereby cordially promise him the undivided support of the entire Republican party of Ohio."

The platform favored a better classification cf property for State taxation purposes, removing the double liability of stockholders in corporations, vesting the Governor with the veto power, giving each county at least one representative in the General Assembly, modernizing the State's waterways, improving the public high roads, extending the rural free delivery service, and extending and strengthening the laws protecting labor and promoting arbitration.

The Democratic State Convention at Columbus, August 26, adopted a platform dealing almost exclusively with State issues. It reaffirmed, however, "the declarations on national issues of our platform of 1902, adopted at SanDemocratic. dusky, renewing our allegiance to the Democratic party of the nation, and again avowing our devotion to the principles of its last national platform. We accordingly condemn colonialism and imperialism, denounce trusts and trust-fostering tariffs, repudiate government by injunction, and oppose financial monopoly, together with every other legalized monopoly and special privilege.

Adhering to these principles of the Kansas City platform, we repeat our condemna--. tion of all efforts to renounce or ignore them.**

The platform favored a better classification of property for State taxation purposes, the removal of the double liability of corporation stockholders, public reports from public service corporations, abolition of the railroad pass system and the establishment of a uniform two cents a mile rate of railroad fare, the maintenance of the ["right of peaceable persuasion in times of labor disturbances," home rule for counties, cities and villages, submission of franchise ordinances to a vote of the people. the voiding of all waiver insurance contracts between railroad and mining corporations and their employes, home rule in school administration, the abolition of the county fee system and the nomination of candidates for the United States Senate by State conventions.

PENNSYLVANIA.

At Harrisburg, May 27, the Republican State Convention made these declarations. of national interest: "We affirm our unswerving leyalty to the Republican principle of a protective tariff and deprecate any suggestion of a general revision at the present time of the tariff law enacted in 1897. Under its beneficent operation the terriRepublican. ble conditions of poverty and distress existing under the last Democratic National Administration have been changed as by the magiclan's wand, and we are now in the enjoyment of unparalleled prosperity. Capital and labor are both remuneratively employed, our home market has largely increased and we have secured our fair share of the markets of the world, with the promise of still further conquests therein. Since its enactment we have conducted an expensive. war with Spain and paid its cost. Within the last three years Congress has reduced taxation to the amount of $115,000,000 per annum, and yet the National Treasury today is richer by $97,000,000 than it was before the war began. We believe it to be the dictum of wisdom to let well enough alone and not to imperil business interests by any suggestions of present interference with revenue legislation, Permanence and stability of tariff rates are essential to continued business prosperity.

"We commend the upbuilding of the navy begun under President Arthur's administration twenty years ago and continuously added to and strengthened. We believe that the position of the United States among the nations demands that she shall have and maintain the best navy in the world for the preservation of peace and protection of her vast and constantly increasing foreign commerce.

"We favor home rule for and the early admission to Statehood of the Territories of New-Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.

"We commend and approve the administration of President Roosevelt, who with great ability, fidelity and vigor has enforced the policies of his lamented predecessor, William McKinley, and of the Republican party. We favor his nomination and election to the Presidency in 1904, and pledge thereunto the united support of the Republicans of Pennsylvania."

The platform favored a liberal pension policy, commended the State administration, congratulated the State on its financial condition and urged the permanent improvement of State roads and highways.

The Democratic State Convention at Harrisburg, September 2, made no declarations on national issues. The platform denounced the Salus-Grady Libel law and urged its repeal. It demanded a ballot law, with personal registraDemocratic. tion in cities, and better safeguards of a "free, equal, secret ballot." It commended labor unions and appealed for a reduction of the burdens of State taxation by the repeal of all mercantile license taxes, and a return to cities, counties and boroughs of all other license taxes collected therein.

RHODE ISLAND.

The Republican State Convention. at Providence, October 6, adopted a platform pledging to President Roosevelt "united and hearty support in the campaign of 1904." It also declared, in part: "The Republicans of Rhode Island believe Republican. in the efficacy and wisdom of the policy of protecting by intelligent legislation the industries and labor of the United States from the destructive competition of countries where labor conditions and earnings are entirely unlike our own. They believe it to be the highest duty of a Republican Congress to ever fully maintain the integrity and value of our national currency. The great work of firmly establishing a gold standard may wisely be supplemented by modifications relieving the rigidity of existing laws relating to the currency and the collection of the revenues. Governmental action producing at critical times disastrous congestion, affecting the business of the entire country, should be prevented. The party is opposed to the immense trusts of the country so far as they inflate values beyond their normal condition, destroy competition and build up barons of wealth on the earnings of the common people; and it commends the courage of President Roosevelt and his advisers in bringing the operations of great trusts into publicity and their illegal proceedings to the bar of justice."'

The platform adopted by the Democratic State Convention at Providence, October 1, deals solely with State issues. It arraigns Republican misgovernment and demands a revision of the State Constitution, extending the suffrage to all Democratic. citizens equally, making representation in the legislature proportionate to voting population, giving the Governor the veto, liberalizing the registration laws and allowing a referendum on legislation on the petition of 5,000

voters.