Connecticut western news., 1896-06-25

SUGAR.-We condemn the present adminis- tration for not keeping faith with the sugar producers of this country. The Republican party favors such protection as } i'll lead to the production on American soil of all the sugar which the American people use and for which they pay other countries more than Sloo 0oo,Oc annually.
 wooL--To all our products-to those of the mine and the field well AS to those of ths shop and the factory, to hemp, to wool, the product of the great industry of sheep hus- bandry well to the finished woolens of the mill-we promise the most ample protec- tion.
 MERCHANT MARINE. We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, 20 that American ships-the product of American labor, em- ployed in American shipyards, sailing under the stars and stripes and manned, officered and owned by Americans-may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce.
 MoNEY.-The Republican party is unreserv- edly for sound money. It caused the enact. ment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1872, and since then every dollar has been good gold.
 We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to dehase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading com mercial nations of the world, which we pledRa ourselves to promote, and until such agree ment can be obtained the existing gold stand ard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of ths United States and all our money, whether coin paper. at the present standard. the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.
 PENsIoNs.-The veterans of the Union army deserve and should receive fair treatment and generous recognition. Whenever practicable they should be given preference in the matter of employ ment. and they are entitled to the enactment of such laws are best calculated to secure the fulfillment of the pledges made to them in the dark days of the country's peril Wo denounce the practice in the pension bu reau recklessly and unjustly carried on by the present administration of reducing pen sions and arbitrarily dropping names from ths rolls as deserving the seyerest condemnation of the Americanrpeople.
 FOREIGN RELATIoEs.-Our foreign policy should be st all times firm, vigorous and dig nified and all our interests in the western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them. Tha Nicaraguan canal should be built. owned and operated by the United States, and by tha purchase of the Danish islands we should se- cure a proper and much needed naval station in the West Indies.
 ARMENIAN MAssAoRrs--The msssacres of Armenians have aroused the deep sympathy and just indignation of the American people, and we believe thnt the United States should exercise all the influence it can properly exert to bring these atrocities to an end. In Tur- key. American residents have been exposed to the gravest dangers and American property has been destroyed. There and everywheri American citizens and American property must be absolutely protected at all hazards and at any cost.
 MONROE DocTRINE.-we reassert the Monroa doctrine in its full extent and we reaftrm tha right of the United States to give the doctrinl effect by responding to the appeals of any American state for friendly intervention in case of European encronchnent. We have not interfered and shall not interfere with the ex- isting possessions of any European power il this hemisphere. but those possessions mus; not on any pretext be extended. We hopefully look forward to the eventual withdrawal of the European powers from this hemisphere and to the ultimate union of all English speak. ing parts of the continent by the free consent of it's inhabitants.
 CURA.-From the hour of achieving theii own independence the people of the United States have regarded with sympathy the strug gles of other American peoples to free them selves from European domination. We watc with deep and abiding interest the heroic bat tie of the Cuban patriots against cruelty nnl oppression. and our best hopes go out for tnd full success of their determined contest for liberty. The government of Spsin having lost control of Cuba and being unable to protect the property or lives of resident American cit izens or to comply with its treaty obligations, we believe that the government of the United States should use it's influence and good officcl to restore peace and give independence to thu island.
 THE NAvY.-Fhe peace and security of tho lf. fha int of ri fr,l influence among the nations of the earth de- mand naval power commensurate with its position and responsibility. We therefore favor the continued enlargement of the navy and complete system of harbor and seacoasi dcfenses.
 FOREIGN IMMIaRArIoN.-For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of low priced labor we de mand that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced 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 books by the Republican party. which has always sustained it, and ", renew our repeated declarations that 1t shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and ex tended wherever practicable.
 FREE BALLoT.-we demand that every citi zen of the United States shall be allowed tc cast oue free and unrestricted ballot and that
 
 cast.
 LYNcHISGs.-we proclaim our unqualified condemnation ofthe uncivilized and barbarous practice known as lynching or killing of hu' man beings suspected or charged with crime without process Of law.
 NATIONAL ARBITRATIor.-we favor the ere ation of national board of arbitration to set tie and adjust differences which may arise be tween employers and employees engaged in interstate commerce.
 Uf lx,I1a f.. 4. return to the free homestead policy of tho Re publican party and urge the passage by con gress of the satisfactory free homestead meas ure which has already passed the house anj is now pending in the senate.
 TERRIToRIEs.-We favor the admission of the remaining territories at the earliest prac ticsble date, having due regard to the inter ssts of the people of the territories and of the United States. All the federal officers ap pointed for the territories should be elected from bona fide residents thereof and the right of self government should be accorded as faI practicable.
 ALAsKA.-we believe the citizens of Aiaska should have representation in the congress oi tho United States, to the end that needful leg islation may b- intelligently enacted. TEMPERANcE.-we sympathize with ni wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote moral I ity.
 RIGHTs OF woNES.-The Republican party | IS mlnuIul or the flkhts ana lnfrests or Wo | men. Protection of American industries in cludes equal opportunities, equal pay for equal | work and protection to the home. We favor | the admission of women to wider spheres oi usefulness, and we esteem their co operation in | rescuing the country from Democratic and | Populst mismanagement and misrule. Such the principles and policies of tho Republican party. By these principles WI will abide and these policies we will put into execution. We ask for them the considerate | judgment of the American people. Confident | alike in the history of our great party and in the justice of our cause. we present our plat | form and our candidates in the full assurance | that the election will bring victory to the Re- | publican party and prosperity to the people of | the Ukited States.
 SKETCH OF M'KlNLEY. | Review of the Career of the Republioan | Candidate For President.