The Republican national convention, which is to remominate McKinley for President, will meet in Philadelphia next week. While it cannot be positively told what the party platform will contain, yet an apparently pretty accurate forecast is given in the following statement by a prominent Republican official xt Washington. He says of the platform:
"It will dwell upon the achievements of the Republican President and the Repub-Tican Congress, not only in carrying on a victorious war and extending the boundaries of the United States, but in establish-{ing the tariff upon a firm foundation, which promises permanency of industrial conditions and in establishing a safe and sound currency system with the gold standard as its basis.
"Attention will be directed to the pledges of the party in the past, and to the way in which these pledges have either been carried into effect or put in the line of accomplishing.
"The Nicaraguan Canal, the shipping subsidy and other measures will again find a' place in the platform among those which the Republican Party is bound to enact.
"The platform will take advanced ground on the question of expansion. It will declare that the extension of the boundaries of the United States in the past two years has not only been inevitable, but directly in lino with the precedents and policy of a century.
"Expansion will be defined as distinct from " Imperialism," and the purpose of the Tnited States to give to all people under its control the blessings of civilisation and freedom will be affirmed.
"The declaration that Cuba shall have a government of its own just as soon.as its people are fitted to govern themselves will be reiterated.
"The determination to give the Phill pines a civil government as nearly as possible in harmony with the Republican form of government in American States and Territories will find emphatic express sion.
"The financial plank will be forceful and will be so framed as to meet the requirements of the great business interests of the country which look to the success of the Republican Party for a continuance of prosperity.
"A reduction of the war revenue taxes will be promised with a pledge that this reduction shall go' into immediate effect in the more burdensome and annoying of the war levies.
"The foreign policy of the Administration will be endorsed. The Monroe Doctrine will be reaffirmed, and_President McKinley will be praised for his ill and wisdom in keeping the United open politics.
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here will be a declaration in favour of the regulation of trusts and injurious combinations to control trade."
Boston, Mass., 12th June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.