Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
spies and prosecutions under the false pre-
tense of exposing frauds and vindicating the

latiOn material resources, pubic intelligence
and morality are such as to insure a stable
local government therein, the people Of such
territories should be permitted, as right in
herent to them, the right to form for them
selves constitutions and state governments,
and be admitted into toe Union. Pending
the preparation for statehood, all officers
thereof should be selected from the bona fide
: residents end citizens Of the territory where
in they are to serve.
South Dakota should Of right be immedi-
ately admitted as state in the Union,
under the constitution framed and adopted
! by her people, and we heartily indorse the
action Of the Republican senate in twice
passing bills for her admission. The refusal
of the Democratic house Of representatives,
for partisan purposes, to favorably consider
these bills, is a willful violation of the sacred
American principle of local self government,
and merits the condemnation Of all just men.
The pending bills in the senate for acts to
enable the people Of Washington, North Da-
kota and Montana territories to form consti-
buttons and establish state governments
should be passed without unnecessary delay.
The Republican party pledges itself to do all
in it's power to facilitate the admission Of the
territories Of New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho
and Arizona to the enjoyment Of self gov
eminent as states, such OF them as are now
qualified as soon as possible, and the others
as soon as they may become SO.
The political power Of the Mormon church
in the territories as exercised in the past is a
menace to free institutions, a danger no
longer TO be suffered Therefore we pledge
the Republican party to appropriate legls-
lation asserting the sovereignty OF the nation
In all territories where the same is questioned,
and in furtherance of that end to place upon
the statute books legislation stringent enough
to divorce the political from the ecclesiastical
power, and thus stamp out the attendant
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 adj
ministration in its efforts to demonetize
silver
We demand the reduction of letter postage
to one cent per ounce.
|, In a republic like ours, where the citizen is
the sovereign and the official the servant,
where no power is exercised except by tie
will OF the people, it is important that the
sovereign-the people-should possess intelli
gence The free school is the promoter Of
that intelligence which is to preserve us a
free nation; therefore the state or nation, or
both combined, should support free institu-
tions of learning sufficient to afford to every
child growing up in the land the opportunity
of good common school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt
action be taken by congress in the enactment
Of such legislation as will best secure the re-
Mobilization of our American merchant ma
rine, and we protest against the passage by
congress Of free ship bill, as calculated to
work injustice to labor by lessening the
wages of those engaged in preparing ma
terials rs well as those directly employed in
our ship yards We demand appropriations
for the early rebuilding Of our navy; for
tine construction of coast Notifications
and modern ordnance, and other approved
modern means of defense for the protection
of our defenseless harbors and cities; for the
payment of just pensions to our soldiers; for
the necessary works of national Importance
In the improvement Of harbors and the chan
nels Of internal, coastwise and foreign COM
merce; for the encouragement of the ship
ping interests of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pa
cific states, as well as for the payment of the
maturing public debt. This policy will give
employment TO our labor, activity to our
our country, promote trade, open new and
direct markets for our produce and cheaper
the cost of transportation. We affirm this
to be far better for our country than the
Democratic policy OF leaning the govern
ment's money without interest to pet
banks"
The conduct of foreign affairs by the pres
ent administration has been distinguished by
ifs ficin and Nc rfy How ynr
withdrawn from the senate all pending trear
ties effected by Republican administrations
for the removal of foreign burdens and re-
strictions upon our commerce ana for Its ex-
tension into better markets. it has neither
effected nor proposed any others In their
stead. Processing adherence to the Monroe
doctrH,e, it has seen with idle compiacency
the extension of foreign influence IN Central
America and of foreign trade everywhere
among our neghbors. 1t has refused to
charter, sanction or encourage any American
organization for constructing the Nicaragua
canal a work of vital Importance to the
maintenance of tine Monroe doctrine, and Of
our national influence IL Central and South
America, and necessary for the development
of trade with our Pacific territory, with
South America ana with the islands and
further coasts Of the Pacific ocean.
We arraisn the present Democratic ad-
Ininistratiop for its weak and unpatriotic
treatment Of the fisheries question, and its
pusiIlaniuous surrender of the essential
privileges to which our fishing vessels are
entitled in Canadian ports under the treaty
of 1915 the reciprocal maritime legislation
of 1880 and the comfy Of nations, and which
Canadian fishing vessels receive in the ports
of the United States. We condemn the
policy of the present administration and the
Democratic majority III congress toward our
fisheries as untriendly and conspicuouslv I'M
patriotic, and az tending to destroy valu-
able national industry and an indispensable
resource Of defense against foreign enemy.
The name OF American applies alike to all
citizens of the republic. and imposes upon all
alike the same otngation OF obedience to the
laws Al the same time that citizenship is
and must be the panoply and safeguard Of
him who wears it, and protect him, whether
high or low, rich or poor, in all his civil
RIGHTS. IL should AID must afford him pro-
lection at home, and follow and protect him
abroad in whatever land be may be on law
ful errand.
The men who abandoned the Republican
party in 1884 and continue TO adhere to the
Democratic party have deserted not only
the cause Of honest government, Of sound
finances, Of freedom, Of purity OF the ballot,
but especially have deserted the cause of re-
form in the civil service. We viii not fail