Connecticut western news., 1884-07-16


 upon any pretext would convert the general Government into A machine for collecting taxes to be distributed among the States or the citizens thereof.
 In reafirming the declaration of the Demo cratic platform of 1856, that the liberal prin- ciples embodied by Jeffersonin the Declaration of Independence and sanctioned in the Con stitution, which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the Democratic faith, We nevertheless do not sanction the importation of foreign labor, or the admission of servile races unfitted by habits, training, religion, or kindred for ab- sorption into the great body of our people, or for the citizenship which our laws confer. American civilization demands that against the immigration or importation of Mongolians to these shores our gates be closed. The Demo- cratic party insists that it is the duty of this Government to protect, with equal fidelity and vigilance, the rights of citizens, native and naturalized, at home and abroad, and to the end that this protection may be assured, United States papers of naturalization issued by courts of competent jurisdiction must be respected by the executive and legislative de- partments or our own Government, and by all foreign powers. It is an imp perative duty of this Government to effectually protect all the rights of persons and property of every Ameri- can citizen in foreign lands, and demand and enforce full reparation for any invasion thereof.
 An American citizen is only responsible to his own Government for any act done in his own country or under her flag, and can only be tried therefor on her own soil and according to her laws; and no power exists in this Gov ernment to expatriate an American citizen to be tried in any foreign land for any such act
 This country has never had well-defined and executed foreign policy save under Demo- cratic administration. That policy has ever been, in regard to foreign nations, so long as they do no act detrime ntal to the interests Of the country or hurtful to our citizens, to let them alone. As result of this policy We re- call the acquisitions of Louisiana, Florida, California, and of the adjacent Mexican terri tory by purchase alone, and contrast these ship with the purchase of Alaska, the sole fruit of Republican administration of nearly a quarter of a century.
 The Federal Government should care for and improve the Mississippi River and other great waterways of the Republic, so as to secure for the interior States easy and cheap transportation to tide water.
 Under long period of Democratic rule and policy, our merchant marine was fast over taking and on the point of outstripping that of Great Britain; under twenty years of Re- publican rule and policy our commerce has been left to British bottoms, and almost has | the American flag been swept of the high seas. Instead of the Republican party's British policy we demand for the people of the Uni ted States an American policy. Under Dem  | sailors, flying the Stars and Stripes in every | port, successfully searched out market for | the varied products of American industry. Under a quarter century of Republican rule and policy, despite our manifest sdyan- tags over all other nations in high paid labor, favorable climates, and teeming soils; despite freedom of trade among all these United States despite their | population by the foremost races of men, and an annual immigration of the young, thrifty, and adventurous of all nations despite our | freedom here from the inherited burdens of | life and industry in Old World monarchies, 1 their costly war navies, their vast tax consum- | ing, non-producing standing armies despite | twenty years of peace, that Republican rule and policy have managed to surrender to Great Britain along with our commerce the control | of the markets of the world.
 Instead of the Republican party's British | policy we demand in behalf of the American | Democracy an American policy.
 Instead of the Republican party 8 discredited scheme and false pretence of friendship Tor | American labor Depressed by imposing taxes) we demand in behalf of the Democracy free ! dom for American labor by reducing taxes, to | the end than these United States may com Il pete with unhindered powers for the primacy among nations in all the arts of peace and | fruits of liberty.
 | With profound regret we have been apprised | by the venerable statesman through whose person was struck that blow at the vital principle of republics-acquiesence in the will of the majority-that he cannot permit ui | again to place in his hands the leadership of the Democratic hosts, foi the reason that the achievement of re | form in the administration of the Fedora | Government is an undertaking now too heavy | for his age and failing strength. Rejoicing that his life has been prolonged until the gen | eral judgment of our fellow countrymen Il united in the wish that that wrong was rlghteo in his person for the Democracy of the United
 States we offer to him in his withdrawal from public cares not only our respectful sympathy | and esteem, but also that best homage of free men, the pledge of our devotion to the prin
 ciples and the cause now inseparable in thu ! history of this republic from the labors ans | the name or oamuel ]. 1uucn-
 With this statement of the hopes, principle
 and purposes of the Democratic party tn | great issue of reform and change in admins
 tration is submitted to the people in calm con
 fidence that the popular voice will pronounce in favor of new men, and new and more ia vorable conditions for the growth of industry the extension of trade, the employment anC due reward of labor and of capital, and the gen
 eral welfare of the whole country.