The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-11

troll of railroads as will protect III,
people from robbery and oppression.
REPUBLICAN EXTRAvAGANCE DE-
NOUNCED.
We denounce the prOiligate waste o
the money wrung from the people 10y
oppressive taxation and the lavish
appropriations of recent republican
congresses which have kept taxes high
while the labOrer that pays them i:
unemployed and the products of the
peoples toll are depressed IN price til
they can NJ longer repay the cost OF
production. We demand Il etu tc
that simplicity and economy which best
BELTS a democratic government and Il
reduction in the number of useless
offices, the salaries of which drain the
substance of the people.
We denOunce arbitrary interference
by federal authorities IN local affairs as
Il violation of the constitution of the
United States and Il crime against free
institutions, and we especially object to
government by injunction as Il new and
highly dangerous form of oppression
by which federal judges, in contempt
of the laws of the state and rights of
citizens, become mt once legislator,
judges and e-xecutIoners, and we AZ =
prove the bill passed at the last session
of the United States senate and now
pending in the house, relative to con-
tempts in federal courts, and providing
for trials by jury in certain cases Of
contempt.
No discrimination should be INDUCED
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 rail-
road funding bill, and denounce the
effort of the present republican con-
gress to enact II similar measure.
Recognizing the just claims of de-
serving union soldiers, we heartily
indorse the rule of the present commits
siorer of pensions that no names shall
be arbitrarily dropped from the pen
sion roll, and the fact of enlistment and
service should be deemed conclusive
evidence against disease and disability
before enlistment.
We favor the admission of the terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona INTO
the union as states, and we favor the
early admission of all the territories
having the necessary population and
resources to entitle them to statehood,
and while they remain territories we
hold that the officials appointed to adj
minister the government of any terri
ritory, together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska, should be bona
fide residents of the territory or district
in which their duties are to be per-
formed.
FREE HOMES M HOME RULE
The democratic party believes III
home rule and that all public lands of
the United States should be appro-
priated to the establishment of free
home for American citizens.
We recommend that the territory of
be granted a delegate in con-
gress and that the general land and
laws of the United States be
extended to said territory.
We extend our sympathy to the pao-
pie of Cuba IN their heroic struggle for
liberty and independence.
We are opposed to life tenure in the
public service. We favor appointments
based upon merits, fixed-terms of office,
and such an administration of the civil
laws as will afford equal oppor-
to all citizens of ascertained
We declare it to be the unwritten law
Of this republic, established by custom
and usage of N hundred years and
sanctioned by the examples of the
greatest and wisest of those who
it and have maintained our
government hat no man shall be eligi-
Die for a third term of the presidential
office.
The federal government should care
and improve the Mississippi river
and other great waterways of the re-
public so as TO secure for the interior
easy and cheap transportation to
ide water. When any waterway of
he republic is of sufficient Importance
demand aid of the government, such
lid should be extended upon Il definite
olan OF continuous work until perma-
lent improvement is secured.
Confident IN the justice of our cause,
md the necessity of its success ut the
rolls, we submit the foregoing declara-
of principles and purposes to the
judgment of the American
We invite the support of all
itlzens who approve them and who
Iesire to have them made effective
Trough Legislation for the relief of the
'eople and the restoration of the
ountry's prosperity.