Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-06-24

maintained at the parity with gold and we
favor all measures designed To maintain
inviolably the obligations of the United
States and all our money, whether coin or
paper, at the present standard, the standard
of the most enlightened nations of the
AS TO PENSIONS.
The veterans of the Union army deserves
and should receive fair treatment and gen.
erous recognition. Whenever practicable
they should be given the preference in the
matter of employment, and they are enti-
tied to the enactment of such laws as are
best calculated to secure the fulhllment of
the pledges made to them in the dark days
OF the country's peril. We denounce the
practice of the Pension Bureau so recklessly
and unjust carried on by the present admin
istration OF reducing pensions and arbitra-
rily dropping names from the rolls as de-
serving the severest condemnation of the
American people.
Cot. FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should be at all times
firm, vigorous and dignifled, n all our in
terests in the Western Hemisphere carefully
watched and guarded. The Hawaiian
Islands should be controlled by the
United States, and no foreign powers should
be permitted to interfere with them. The
Nicaraguan Canal should be built, owned
and operated by the United states, and by
the purchase of the Danish Island we should
secure a proper and much needed naval sta
ton in the West Indies.
ANN IAN
The massacres in armenia have aroused
the deep sympathy and just indignation of
the American people, and we believe that
the United States should exercise all the in
fuence 1t can properly exert to bring these
atrocities to an end. In Turkey American
residents have been exposed to the gravest
dangers and American property destroyed.
There and everywhere American citizens
and American property must be absolutely
protected, at all hazards and at any cost.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
We ~reassert the Monroe doctrine in its
full extent, and we reaffirm the right of the
United States to give the doctrine effect by
responding to the appeals of any American
State for friendly Intervention in the case of
European encroachment. We have not
interfered and shall not interfere with ex-
listing possessions of any European power
in this hemisphere, but those possessions
must not, on any pretext, be extended. We
hopefully look forward TO the eventful with
drawal of the European powers from this
hemisphere, and to the ultimate union Of
the English speaking part of the continent
by the free consent of its Inhabitants.
THE CUBAN QUESTION.
From the hour of achieving their W in
dependence the people of the United States
have regarded with sympathy the struggles
Of other American people to free them
selves from European domination. We
watch with deep and abiding interest the
heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against
cruelty and oppression, and our best hopes
go out for the full success of their determin-
ed combat for liberty.
The government OF Spain having lost con-
troll of Cuba and being unable to protect the
property or lives of resident American citi-
zens, or to comply with its treaty obliga-
lions, we believe that the government Of the
United States should actively use It's intiu-
ence and good offices TO restore the peace
of and give confidence to the island.
THE NAVY.
The peace and security of the republic and
the maintenance of its rightful influence
among the nations of the earth, demand a
naval power commensurate with its position
and responsibility. We, therefore, favor the
continued enlargement of the navy and a
complete system of harbor and seacost de-
Tense.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.
For the protection of the quality of our
American citizenship and of the wages of
our workingmen against the fatal compli-
cation of low priced labor, we demand that
the immigration laws be thoroughly enacted
and so extended as to exclude from entrance
to the United States those who can neither
read nor write.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The civil service law was placed on the
statute book by the Republican party, which
has always sustained IT, and we renew our
repeated declaration that IL shall be thor
oughly and honestly enforced and extended
wherever practicable.
FREE BALLOT.
We demand that every citizen Of the Uni
ted States shall be allowed TO cast one vote
and unrestricted ballot, and such ballot
shall be counted and returned as cast.
CONCERNING LYNCHINGS.
We proclaim our unqualified condemna-
ton of the universal and barbarous practice
well known as lynching or killing of human
beings suspected or charged with crime
without the process of law.
NATIONAL ARBITRATION.
We favor the creation of a national board
of arbitration to settle and adjust differ
ences which may arise between employers
and employees in interstate
THE HOMESTEAD POLICY.
We believe in the immediate return to the
homestead policy of the Republican party
n urge the passage by Congress of the
satisfactory homestead measure which hal
already passed the House and is now pend
ing In the Senate.
THE TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the remaining
territories at the earliest practicable date
having due regard TO the Interests of the
people of the territories and of the United
States. All the Federal officers appointed
J for the territories should be elected from
/ bona fide residents thereof, and the right o.
| self government should be accorded as faI
as practicable.
ALASKA'S RIGHTS.
We believe the citizens of Alaska should
AVE representation in the Congress of the
United States, to the end that needful legis.
lation may be intelligently enacted.
3 TEMPERANCE PLANK,
+ We sympathize with all wise and legiti
) mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evil
} of intemperance and promote morality.
RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
> The Republican party is heedful Of thu
rights and interests of women. Protection
of American industries includes equal OPP
portunities, equal pay for equal work anC
l protection to the home. We call for theil
admission to wider spheres of usefulness
and welcome their cooperation in ~rescuinl
. the country from Democratic and PopulisI
T disagreement and misrule.
T Such are the principles and policies of thu
! Republican party. By these principles We
will abide, and these policies will put int
execution. We ask for them the considerat,
n judgment Of the American people. Confden'
= alike in the history of our great party anC
, in the justice of our cause, we present oul
platform and our candidates in the full as
surance that the election will bring victor.
. to the Republican party ami prosperity Il
the people of the United States.