Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-22

restored to the public domain. in pursuance
of the conditions inserted BY the republican
party in the original grants.
We charge the democratic administration
with failure to execute the laws securing to
settlers the title to their homesteals and with
using the appropriations made for that pur-
pose to harrass innocent settlers with spies
aud prosecutions under the false pretence of
exposing frauds and vindicating the Law.
The government by Congress of terri
tories is based upon necessity only to the end
that they may become states in the Union,
therefore, whenever the conditions of popu-
lation, material resources, public intelligence
and morality are such as to insure a stable
local government therein, the people of such
territories should be permitted the right to
form fol themselves constitutions and State
governments and be admitted into the Union.
Pending the preparations for state, all the
officers thereof should be selected from
bona fide residents and citizens of the terri
tories where they are to serve.
South Dakota should of right be imme-
diately admitted as State under the con-
sti,ution framed and adopted BY the people,
and We heartily endorse the action of the re-
publican Senate in twice passing bills for her
admission. The refusal of the democratic
house, for partisan purposes, TO fayorahly
consider those, is a willful violence of the
sacred American principal of local self-gov-
erament and merits the condemnation of all
just men. The pending bills in the Senate
for acts to enable the people of Washington,
North Dakota and Montana territories to
form constitutions and establish State gov
erhments. should be passed without unuec-
essary delay. The republican party pledges
itself To do all in its power to facilitate the
admission of the territories of New Mexico,
Wyoming, Idaho acd Arizona as States such
of them as are now qualified as soon as pos
eible and the others as soon as they become
so.
The political powers of tire Mormon
church in the territories, as expressed in the
past, is a menace to our institutions, a dan
ger no longer to be suffered. Therefore we
pledge the republican party to appropriate
legislation, asserting the sovereignty of the
nato in all territories where the same is
questioned and in furherauce of tina end to
place upon the statute books, legislation
stringent enough to divorce political from
ecclesiastical power, AMI thus stamp out the
attendant wickedness of polygamy.
The republican party is i'll favor of both
gold and silver as money, and condemns th''
policy of the democratic administration in Its
efforts to demoneiize silver We demand a
reduction OF letter postage to one cent per
ounce.
In republic like ours, where the citizer
is the sovereign and the official the servant
where 10 power Is exercised except by the
will of the people, it is important that tn.
sovereign people should possess Intelligence
lhe free school is the promoter of that in-
tclligence which is to preserve us free Ma
ton. Therefore, the state OF nation, oi
both combined, should support free institu-
lions of learning sufficient to afford to every
child growing up III the land the opportunii.
vf good common school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt ac-
ton be taken by Congress n the enao tment
of such lie sislatou as will best secure the re-
babitatiun OF our American mercant marine,
and we protest against the passage BY Con
sress, of the free ship bill, as calculated to
work Justice to labor by lessening the way
es OF those engaged in preparing materials
as veil as Of those directly employed in our
shpyards.
We demand appropriations for the early
rebuilding of a navy for the construction OF
coast fortitlcat'ous and modern ordnance,
and other approved modern means OF defence
for positions of our defenceless harbors ana
cites for the payment of just pensions to
cur soldiers; for necessary works of national
importance in the improvement of harbors
and channels of internal, cOastwise and for
eiyn commerce; for the encouragement OF
the shipping interests of the Atlantic, the
Il ult and the Pacific States, as well as tor
the pay ment of the maturing public debt.
rhls policy will give employ ment to our la
pol, activity to our various Industries, ILL.,
crease the security of our country, promote
trade, open new and direct markets tor our
produce, aud cheaper the cost OF transpor-
taton. We affirm this to be tar better Tor
the country than the democratic policy OF
loaning the governments money without in-
terest, to pet banks.
The conduct of foreign affairs by the pres
ent administration has been distinguished by
lis iuetficiency and its cowardice. Having
Withdrawn from the Senate all pending trea-
ties effected by republican administration
for the removal of foreign burdens and re-
strictions upon our commerce, and for its
extension into better markets, 1t has neither
effected nor proposed any others in their
stead.
Processing adherence to the Monroe doc
trine it has seen with idle complacency the
extension of foreign influence in Central
America, and of foreign trade everywhere
among our ueighbors. 1t has refused to
charter, sanction OF encourage any American
organization for the construction OF the NC
oragua canal, a work of vital Importance to
the maintenance OF the Monroe doctrine and
of our national influence in Central and South
America and necessary for the dev,lDp-
meut OF trade with our Pacific territory, with
South America and with the islands aud fur-
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We arraign the present democratic admin
istration tor It's weak aud uupatrlotic treat
ment of the fisheries question and its pusil-
laninons surrender OF the essential prlvl-
leyes to which our fishing vessels are entitled
III Canadian ports under the treaty of lolo,
the reciprocal maritime legislation of 1880,
and the committee of nations. and which the
Canadian fishing vessels receive in ports Oh
the United tates.
We condemn the policy of the present ad-
ministratiou and of the democratic majority
III Congress TOW ards our fisheries as uuiI end
ly and conspicuuusly unpatriouc, and a'
I. ndug to destroy a valuable national indus
try and an inds speusibe resource of defence
aga u>t a foreigu enemy
he name of Amer can applies alike TO all
citizens OF the republic and imposes upon ali
alike the same obligation of Obedience 10 Iii,
I
laws. At the same tine that citizenship /.
an must be the panoply and safeguard o.
hun VINO wears ii aud protect him wheihe'
high or low, rich OF poor, IN all his civii
rights. il should aud must afford him protcc
tiun at hume and follow and protect hun
abroad in ha,ever land he may be Oh a law
/ fui errand.
| The men who abandoned the republican
/ party in 1884. ami couunued TO adhere Il
The de mocratle party. have deserted hot oni,
! the cause of honest government, OF souit
nuauce, of freedom. OF purity of the ballot
| but especially have deserted the cause o
/ ,etuIn, III tie evil service.
We will not tail to keep our pledges be
cause they have br,ken theirs OF because
their candl cate has broken his. We there
fore rept at our declaration of 1884, 10 Wit
I The reform of the cIyil service.
3uspiciously begun under republican al
mihstration 1t should be completed BY fur
ther extension of the reform system aireai.
established by Law, to all grades of service
TO which It is applicable.
The spirit aud purpose of reform shouI
be observed in all executive appointment