Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-28

Senate for acts TO enable the people OF
Washington, North Dakota, and Monta,
ma Territories to form Constitutions and
establish State governments should be
passed without unnecessary delay. The
Republican party pledges itself to do al
in Its power to facilitate the admission OF
the Territories of New Mexico, Wyoming
Idaho, and Arizona to the enjoyment OF
Self-government as States; such OF them
as are now qualified as soon as possible
and the others as soon as they may be
come so.
The political power of the Mormon
church in the Territories as exercised i'll
the past is menace to free institutions
too dangerous longer TO be suffered
Therefore we pledge the Republican par.
ty to appropriate legislation asserting the
sovereignty of the Nation in all Terrific,
ries where the same is questioned, and il
furtherance of that end to place upon the
statute books legislation stringent enough
to divorce the political from the eccleSi
aStic power, and thus stamp out the at
tendant wickednesS of pOlygamy.
The Republican party is in favor of the
use of both gold and silver as money, and
condemns the policy of the Democratic
administration in its efforts to demone.
tie silver.
We demand the reduction of letter pos
tage to one cent per ounce.
In Republic like ours, where the citi-
zen is the sovereign and the official the
servant, where no power is exercised eX
cept by the viii of the people, it is impOr
tant that the sovereign - the people -
should possess intelligence. The free
school is the promoter of that intelligence
which is to preserve us free Nation
therefore, the State or Nation, or both
combined, should support free institu
tiOns of learning, sufficient to afford tC
every child growing up in the land the
opportunity of good common school ed
ucatiOn.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by Congress in the enact
ment of such legislation as will best Sc
cure the rehabilitation of our American
merchant marine, and we protest against
the passage by Congress of a free ship
bill. as calculated TO work injustice to
labor by leSsening the wages of those en-,
gagged in preparing materials, as we'll as
those directly employed in our shipyardS
We demand appropriations for the early
rebuilding of our navy: for the cOnStruuc-
ton of coast Notifications and modern
ordnance, and other approved modern
means of defense for the protection OF
our defenseless harbors and cities; fol
the payment of just pensions to our sol
dierS; for necessary works of national i'm
pOrtance in the improvement of harbOrs
and the channels of internal, coastwiSe
and foreign commerce; for the encour-
agement of the shipping interests Of the
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific States, as well
as for the payment Of the maturing pub
lie debt. This policy will give employ
ment to our labor, activity to our various
industries. increase the security of our
country, promote trade, open new and
direct markets for our produce and cheap
en- the cost of transportation. We affirm
this to be far better for our country than
the Democratic policy of loaning the
governments money without interest tO
pet banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by the
present administration has been distin-
guished by its inefficiency and its cow
ardice. Having withdrawn from the Sen
ate all pending treaties effected by Re
publican administration for the remOv-
al of foreign burdens 4. and reStric-
tions upon our commerce and for its ex-
tension intO,better markets, it has neither
effected nor proposed any others in their
stead. Processing adherence to the Mon
roe doctrine, it has seen, with idle com
placency the extension of foreign intlu-
ence in Central America, and of foreign
trade everywhere among among our
neighbors. 1t has refused to charter,
sanction or encourage any American or
ganiZation fer constructing the Nicara-
qua 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
development of trade with our Pacific
territory, with South America and with
the Islands and further coasts of the Pa
cific Ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic ad-
miniStratiOn for the weak and unpatriOt-
ic treatment of the fisheries question, and
its puSillanimOuS surrender of the essen
tial privileges to which our fishing yes
sells are entitled in Canadian ports under
the treaty of 1918, the reciprocal maritime
legislation of 1880, and the comfy of ma
tiOns, and which Canadian fishing vessels
receive in the ports of the United States.
We condemn the policy of the present
administration and the Democratic ma
jOrity III Congress, towards our fisheries,
as qnfriendly and cOnSpicuOuSly unpatri-
otic, aud as tending to destroy valuable
national industry and an indispensable
resourse OF defense against q foreign
enemy.
"The name of American applies alike
to all citizens of the Republic, and i'm
poses upon.all alike the same obligation
of obedience to the laws. At the same
time that citizenship is and must be the
panOply and safeguard of him yl6 wears
it, and protect him, whether high or low,
rich OF poor, IN ali his civil rights. 1t
should and must afford him protection
at home, and follow and protect him
abroad in whatever land he may be on a
lawful errand."
The men who abandoned the Republi-
can party i'll 1884, and continue to adhere
to the Democratic party, have deserted
not only the cause of honest government,
of sound finance, of freedom and purity
Of the ballot, but especially have deserted
the cause Of reform in the civil service
We will not fail to keep our pledges be-
cause they have broken theirs, or because
their candidate has broken his. We threre-
fore repeat our declaration OF 1854, tn-wit:
"The reform of the civil service auspi-
ciously began under the Republican ad
should be completed BY the
further extension of the reform system
already established by law, to all the
grades of the service to which it is appli-
cable. The spirit and purpose of the re-
form should be observed in all Executive
and all laws at variance
with the object of existing reform legis-
lation should be repealed, to the end that
the dangers to. free institutions which
which lurk in the power of official pat
ronage may be wisely and effectively
avoided"
The gratitude of the Nation to the de-
tenders of the Union can not be meas
lred by laws. The legislation of Congress
should conform to the pledges made by a
oyal people, and be so enlarged and ex-
tended as to provide against The possibil-
ty that any man who hOnOrably wore the
Federal uniform shall become an inmate
IF an alms-house, or dependent upon pri-
gate charity. In the presence of an over
lowing Treasury it would be a public
scandal to do less for those whose yalor-
lus service preserved the governmer t.
We denOunee the hostile spirit shown by