The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-07-28

drain the substance of the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
We denounce arbitrary inter
ference by federal authorities in
local affairs as a violation of the
Constitution of the United States
and a crime against free institu-
tions, and we especially object
to government by injunction as a
new and highly dangerous form
of oppression, by which federal
judges, in contempt of the laws
of the States and rights of citi-
zens, become at once Legislators,
judges, and executioners, and we
approve the bill passed at the
last session of the United States
Senate, and now pending in the
House, relative to contempts in
federal courts, and providing for
trials by jury in certain cases of
contempt.
PACIFIC FUNDING BILL.
No discrimination should be
indulged 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 Repub-
lican congress TO enact a similar
measure.
PENSIONS.
Recognizing the just claims of
deserving Union soldiers, we
heartily indorse the rule of the
present Commissioner of Pen
sions that NO names shall be arb
itrarily dropped from the pension
roll, ;and the fact of enlistment
and service should be deemed
conclusive evidence against dis
ease and disability before enlist
ment.
We>extend our sympathy to
e people of Cubain their heroic
.ruggle fop liberty and indepen-
h leace.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
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 service
laws as will afford equal oppor-
tunities to all citizens of ascer-
tanned fitness.
NO THIRD TERM.
We declare it to be the unwrit-
ten law of this republic, estab-
lished by custom and usage OF
one hundred years. and sanction
ed by the examples of the great
est and wisest of those who
founded and have maintained ou1
government, that no man should
be eligible for a third term of the
Presidential Office.
CORPORATE WEALTH.
The absorption of wealth by
the few, the consolidation of oul
leading railroad systeness and and
formation of trusts and pools re
quiFe stricter control by th'
federal government of those ar
teries of commerce. We demand
the enlargement of the power.
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and such restriction
and guarantees in the control o.
railroads as will protect tn,
people from robbery and oppres
sion.
ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of tn
territories of New Mexico an,
Arizona into the Union as states
and we favor the early admission
of all the territories having tn
necessary population and resour
ces to entitle them to statehood
and while they remain territorie
we hold that the officials appoint
ed to administer the governmen
of any territory, together wit
the District of Columbia an
Alaska, should be bona fide res
dents of the territory or distric
in which their duties are to b
performed. The Democrat
party believes in home rule an
that all public lands of the Unit
ed States should be appropriate
to the establishment of fre
homes for American citizens.
We recommend that the terr
tory of Alaska be granted dele
gate in congress, and that tn
general land and timber laws {
the United States be extended t
said territory
MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVE
MENTS.
The federal government shoul
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