Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-06-29
sTAUNToN SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADvERTIs Err

defense and the promotion of commerce
between the States, we recognize the
early construction of the Nicaragua
Canal and it's protection against
foreign control as of great importance
to the United States.
WORLDS FAIR
Section 16. Recognizing the Worlds
Columbian Exposition as "A national
undertaking Of vast Importance, in
which the general government has in
vited the cooperation of all the powers
of the world, and approaching the ac-
ceptance by many of such powers of
the invitation for extended and the
broadest liberal efforts being made by
them to contribute to the grandeur of
the undertaking, we are of the opinion
that Congress should make such
requisite financial provision as shall be
necessary to the maintenance of the
national honor and public faith.
EDUCATION.
| Section H. Popular education being
the only safe basis of popular suffrage,
, we 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 democratic party.
which favOrs every means OF 1ncreas-
ing intelligence. Freedom OF education
being an essential of civil and religious
liberty, as we'll as necessity for the
development of intelligence, must not
be interfered with under any pretext
whatever We are opposed to State
interference with parental rights and
rights of conscience in the education of
children, as an infringement of the
fundamental democratic 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 TERRITORIES.
Section 1S. We approve the action
tives in passing bills for the admission
into the Union as States of the Terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona, and
we favor the early admission of all the
Territories having the necessary pOpu-
lation and resources to admit them to
statehood, and while they remain Ter
ritories we hold that the officials ap-
pointed to administer the government
of any Territory, together with the
District of Columbia and Alaska,
should be bona fide residents of the
,, Territory or district in which theil
duties are to be performed. The demo
cratic party believes in home rule and
the control of their own affairs by the
people of the vicinage.
INDUSTRIAL MEASURES.
Section 10. We favor legislation by
, Congress and State Legislatures tt
} protect the lives and limbs of railway
employees and those of other hazardous
transportation companies, and de
nounce the inactivity of the republi
: can party and particularly the republi
l can Senate for causing the defeat o
t measures beneficial and protective t.
1 this class of wage-workers.
Section 20. We are in favor of tn,
, enactment by the States of laws TO
l abolishing the notorious sweatin.
g system, for abolishing contract convic
0 labor, and for prohibiting the employ
r ment in factories of children under fiji
r teen years of age.
SUMPTUARY LAWS.
Section 81. We are opposed to al
:, sumptuary laws as an interference witt
:, the individual rights of the citizen.
4 Section %. Upon this statement O
y principles and policies the democrati
y party asks the Intelligent Judgment @
the Ameri san people. 1t asks a chang
! of administration and a change O
:, party in order that there may be
: change of system and change O
!, methods, thus assuring the mainten
. ance unimpaired of institutions undo
g which the republic has grown grea
3 and powerful.