Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-30

We hold to the use of both gold and silver
ms the standard money of the country, and
to the coinage of both gold and silver with
out discriminating against either metal or
charge for mintage but the dollar unit of
| coinage of both metals must be of equal
| intrinsic and exchangeable value. or be adj
| iusted through international agreement or
| by such safeguards of legislation as shall
| insure the maintenance of the parity of the
| two metals and the equal power of every
| dollar at all times in the markets and in
| the payment Of debts; and we demand
| that all paper currency shall be kept at par
| with and redeemable in such coin. We
| insist upon this policy as especially neces-
sary for the protection of the farmers and
| laboring classes, the first and most de-
| fenceless victims of unstable money and
huctuating currency.
TAX ON STATE BANKS.
| Section s. We recommend that the pro-
| hibitory 10 per cent tax on State bank
issues be repeated.
CIVIL SERVICE.
Section 8. Public office is public trust.
| We reaffirm the declaration Of the Demo-
| cratic national convention of 1875 fNr the
| reform of the civil service, and we call for
| the honest enforcement Of all laws regAlat-
ing the same, The nomination of Presi-
| dent, as in the recent Republican convcn-
| ton, by delegations composed largely of
| his appointees holding office at his pleas
| use, is scandalous satire upon free popular
institutions. and startling illustration of
| the methods by which President may
| crafty his ambition. We denounce a
| policy under which Federal otficehoiders
usurp control Of party conventions in the
| states, and we pledge the Democratic party
| TO the reform of these and all other abuses
which threaten individual and local self.
| government.
FOREIGN POLICY.
Section TO- The Democratic party is the
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a foreign policy consistent and vigorous,
| compelling respect abroad and inspiring
| confidence at home. While avoiding en-
| tangling alliances, it has aimed to cultivate
friendly relations with other nations. and
especially with our neighbors on the
American continent. whose destiny is
| closely linked with our own, and we view
| with alarm the tendency to policy of
irritation and buster, which is liable at
any time to confront us with the atetna-
tive of humiliation or war. We favor the
maintenance of navy strong enough for
all purposes of national defence and to
properly maintain the honor and dignity
of the country abroad.
SYMPATHY FOR THE OPPRESSED.
Section II. This country has always been
the refuge Of the oppressed from every
land-exiles for conscience sake-and. in
the spirit of the founders of our governs
ment. we condemn the oppression prac-
| ticed by the Russian government upon its
Luthern and Jewish subjects. and We call
upon our national government, in the in
terest of justice and humanity. by all just
and proper means, to use its prompt and
best efforts to bring about cessation Of
these cruel prosecutions in the dominions
of the czar, and to secure to the oppressed
equal rights.
We tender our profound and earnest
sympathy to those lovers of freedom who .
are struggling for home rule and the great
cause OF local self-government in Ireland.
IMMIGRATION.
Section u. We heartily approve all z
legitimate efforts to prevent the United
States from being used as the dumping
ground for the known criminals and pro-
tessional paupers of Europe, and we de-
mand the rigid enforcement of the laws
against Chinese Immigration, or the i'm
portation of foreign workmen under coI-
tract to degrade American labor and lessen
its wages, but we condemn and denounce
any and all attempts to restrict the immi-
grafton of the industrious and worthy of
foreign lands.
PENSIONS. M
Section 13. This convention hereby re-
news the expression of appreciation OF the
patriotism OF the soldiers and sailors of
the Union in the war for its preservation,
and we favor Just and liberal pensions for
all disabled Union soldiers, their widows
and dependents, but we demand that tho
work of the pension office shall be done
industriously, impartially and honestly.
We denounce the present administration
of that office as incompetent, corrupt, dis
graceful and dishonest.
WATERWAYS.
Section IA. The Federal government
should care for and improve the Missis-
sppi river and other great Waterways of
the republic, so as to secure for the in
terror states easy and cheap transportation
to the tidewater; when amy waterway of
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demand the aid of the government, that
such aid should be extended definite
plan of continuous work until permanent
Improvement is secured.
NICARAGUA CANAL.
Section 15. For purposes of national
defence and the promotion of commerce
between the states, we recognize the early
construction of the Nicaragua Canal and
its protection against foreign control as of
great Importance to the United States.
WORLDS FAIR.
Section 16. Recognizing the Worlds
Columbian Exposition as a national un-
derIaking of vast importance, in which
the general government has invited the
cooperation of all the powers of the
world, and appreciating the acceptance by
many of such powers of the invitation
thus extended, and the broad and liberal I
efforts being made by them TO contribute
to the grandeur of the undertaking, we
| are III Lllt OplulOll lllt.l AOIRIcsS SnOulu
make such necessary financial provision as
shall be requisite to the maintenance of
the national honor and public faith.
FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Section IL Popular education being,the
only safe basis of popular suffrage, VIC
recommend to the several states most liberal
appropriations for the public schools.
Free common schools are the nursery of
good government, and they have always
received the fostering care of the Demo-
cratic party, which favors every means of
increasing intelligence. Freedom of edu-
cation, being an essential of civil and
religious liberty as well as q necessity for
the development of intelligence must not
be interfered with under any pretext what
ever. We are opposed to state interference
with parental rights and rights of con-
science in the education of children, as an
infringement OF the fundamental Demo-
cratic doctrine that the largest individual
liberty consistent with the rights of others
insures the highest type of American
citizenship and the best government.
ADMISSION OF NEW STATES.
Section IS. We approve the action of the
present House of RepreSeltativesin passing
bills for the admission into the union as
states of the territories of New Mexico and
Arizona and we favor the admission of all
the territories having necessary population
and resources TO admit them to statehood,
and while they remain territories we hold
that the officials appointed to administer
the government of any territory, together
with tho District of Columbia and Alaska