![]() It will strive, not only in the nation but in the several States, to enact the necessary legislation to safeguard the public health to limit effectively the labor of women and children, and to protect wage earners engaged in dangerous occupations to enact comprehensive and generous workman's compensation laws in place of the present wasteful and unjust system of employers' liability and in all possible ways to satisfy the just demand of the people for the study and solution of the complex and constantly changing problems of social welfare. It is prepared to go forward with the solution of those new questions, which social, economic and political development have brought into the forefront of the nation's interest. The Republican party is now, as always, a party of advanced and constructive statemanship. Resting upon the broad basis of a people's confidence and a people's support, and managed by the people themselves, the government of the United States will meet the problems of the future as satisfactorily as it has solved those of the past. It offers a home and an opportunity to the ambitious and the industrious from other lands. Under the Constitution and the principles asserted and vitalized by it, the United States has grown to be one of the great civilized and civilizing powers of the earth. The principles of constitutional government, which make provisions for orderly and effective expression of the popular will, for the protection of civil liberty and the rights of man, and for the interpretation of the law by an untrammelled and independent judiciary, have proved themselves capable of sustaining the structure of a government which, after more than a century of development, embraces one hundred millions of people, scattered over a wide and diverse territory, but bound by common purpose, common ideals and common affection to the Constitution of the United States. We believe in our self-controlled representative democracy which is a government of laws, not of men, and in which order is the prerequisite of progress. It has gone from the fulfilment of one great pledge to the fulfilment of another in response to the public need and to the popular will. It has been genuinely and always a party of progress it has never been either stationary or reactionary. Our greatest national advance has been made during the years of its ascendancy in public affairs. Its achievements in government constitute the most luminous pages in our history. The Republican party looks back upon its record with pride and satisfaction, and forward to its new responsibilities with hope and confidence. In the present state of public affairs we should be inspired by his broad statesmanship and by his tolerant spirit toward men. ![]() It is appropriate that we should now recall with a sense of veneration and gratitude the name of our first great leader, who was nominated in this city, and whose lofty principles and superb devotion to his country are an inspiration to the party he honored-Abraham Lincoln. We renew our allegiance to the principles of the Republican party and our devotion to the cause of Republican institutions established by the fathers. The Republican party, assembled by its representatives in National Convention, declares its unchanging faith in government of the people, by the people, for the people.
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