Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-07-11

is unemployed, and the products OF
the peoples toll are depressed in
price till they no longer repay the
cost of production.
We demand return to that sim
plicity and economy which BELTS
democratic government and a re-
duction in the number of useless
offices, the salaries of which drain the
substance of the people.
yEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
We denounce arbitrary interference
by Federal authorities in local affairs
as violation of the Constitution Of
the United States and crime against
free institutions, and we especially
object to government by injunction
as new and highly dangerous form
of oppression by which Fedora
Judges in contempt of the laws OF the
States and rights of citizens become
at once legislators, judges and ex.
ecutioners, and we approve the bill
passed at the last session of the
United States Senate and nowpending
in the House Of Representative rela
tive to contempts in Federal courts
and providing trials by jury in GER
tain cases of contempt.
UNJUST DISCRIMINATION.
No discrimination should be in.
dulged in by the government of the
United States in favor of any of its
debtors. We approve of the refusal
of the Fifty third Congress to pass
the Pacific r. r. Funding bill and de.
nounce the efforts Of the present
republican Congress to enact SINH
lar measure.
PENSIONS.
Recognizing the just claims Of de-
serving Union soldiers, we heartily
endorse the rule of the present Com
missioner of Pensions, that no names
shall be arbitrarily dropped from the
pension roll and the fact of enlist
ment and service should be deemed
conclusive evidence against disease
and disability before enlistment.
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
The democratic party believes in
home ruled, and that all public lands
of the United States should be APP
propriated to the establishment Of
free homes for American citizens.
ROTATION IN OFFICE.
We are opposed to life tenure il
the public service. We favor APP
poinments based upon merit, fixed
terms of Office and such an admins
tration of the civil service laws al
will afford equal opportunities to al
citizens of ascertained fitness.
THIRD TERM.
We declare it to be the unwritter
law of this Republic, established by
custom and usage of one hundred
years. and sanctioned by the exam
pies of the greatest and wisest Of
those who founded and have main
tanned our government, that no mar
should be eligible for q third term Of
the Presidential Office.
WATERWAYS.
The Federal government should
care for and improve the Mississippi
river and other great waterways Of
IUe RepuUllC nO do W seCuIc lOI tlle
interior States easy and cheap trans
portation to tidewater. When any
water way of the Republic is of sutfi
cient Importance to demand aid OIL
the government, such aid should be
extended upon a definite plan of con
tinuous work until permanent I'M
provement is secured.
Conflding in the justice of our
cause and the necessity Of its success
at the polls, we submit the foregoing
declaration Of principles and pur
poses to the considerable judgment Of
the American people. We invite the
support of all citizens who approve
them and who desire to have them
made effective through legislation fol-
the relief of the people and the resto
ration IF the cOuntry'S DrOsOeritV