Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-09-12
press it, and insist upon the sewers
punishment Of the cuIprits.

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punishment Of the cuIprits.
HAVANA, Sept. Military Governor
/ CsndelarIa, of the provinces OF Piner del
| Rio, mss notified Captain General Wey-
! Ter that he has been assured by several
countrymen that Antonio Msceo. the
insurgent leader. died recently from a
! wound received in an attack pom a mil.
J itary tram IN the vicinity of Taco Taco.
| Efforts are being made to ascertain II
! the information Is correct.
MADRID, Sept. 5-An official dispatch
from Manila, the capital of the PhiIh-
phIne island, announces that the insur-
gents have entered at Novaletta, on Ca
vile isthmus. They will be attacked by
the Spanish gunboats and operations
against the insurgents in the provinces
will begin next week. A number OF in
huentlal men have been arrested at Ma
nlila on charge of being concerned IN
the instruction. According to private
advices thst the Germsps are implicated
Is confirmed. -Four Insurgents have been
condemned to be shot at Manila and
2OO are to be transported to the Maria
ma and Caroline islands.
DENVER. Sept. 5-Salt Lake City wgs
chosen IS the location of the next Ma.
tioDai Eisteddfod. The receipts of the
festival which ended last piobt were
about $4,000. The expenses were
about the same.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 5-Three five
minute speeches, thousands OF HARD
clasps and much enthusiasm oonst,tut-
ed the incidents of the trip of w. J.
Bryan from Chicago to this city. There
were short stops at Waukegan, Kenosha
and Racine, and the nominee spoke 10
crowds OF hundreds at each place.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Sept. AT 2
O'Clock Senator Villas. chairman OF the
committee OF resolutions read the plat
form to the convention as follows:
This convention has assem- led to up-
hold the principles upon which depend
the honor and welfare of the american
people in order that democrats through
out the Union may unite their patriotic
efforts to avert disaster from their coun-
try and ruin from their party. The demo-
cratic party is pleoged to equal and
exact justice to all men of every creed
and condition; to the largest freedom to
the individual consistent with good gov
eminent; to the preservation OF the
federal government in its constitutional
vIgor and the support of the states in slI
just rights; to economy in public exp en-
ditures; to the maintenance of the pub
lie faith and sound money, and it Is
opposed to paternelism and all class
legislation, the declarations of the Chi
cago convention attacking civil freedom,
the right OF private contract, indepecd-
enoe OF the Judiciary and the authority
OF the president to enforce federal laws.
They advc cate a reckless attempt to
increase the price of silver by leglsla-
ton, to the dsbasement OF our none
tsry standard, and threaten unlimited
issues OF paper money by the govern.
ment; they abandon for repub lican sllies
the democratic cause of tariff reform,
they court the favor of protectionists to
their fiscal heresy.
In view of these and other grave de-
partures from democratic principles We
cannot support the candidates OF that
convention nor be bound by Its acts.
The democratic party has survived mapy
defeats. but could not survive a victory
won in behalf of the doctrine and policy
proclaimed IN It's name at Chicago. The
conditions, however, which make pcss!-
Ole such utteraDces for national con-
veDtlon are the direct result a class
legislation by the repu blican party. IL
still procialms. as it has for years, the
power and duty OF the government TO
ralse ana MAINTAIN prices by law; and it
proposes no remedy for existing syi,s
except oppressive and unjust taxation.
The National Democracy has convens
ed therefore and renews its declaration o,
faith In democratic principles especial
ly as applicable 10 the coDditions of the
times.
Taxation, tariff, excise or direct. Is
rightfuliy imposed only FOR public pur-
posee and not for private gain. It's
amount ID justly measured by public
expenditures which should be limited
by scrupulous economy. The sum de-
rived by the treatury from tariff and
sxclse levies is affected by the state ell
trade and co0sum ption. The amour re-
CURED by the treasury Is determined by
toe appropriations made by congress- |
The densad OF the republican party for !
an increased tax has it's pretext in |
deficiency In revenue whicn has its |
cause In the stagnation of trade and re- |
duced consumption, due entirely to tne |
loss OF confidence that has followed the |
popullst threat OF free coinage and the |
depreciation Of our money and the re-
publican practice Of extrayagant |
appropriations beyond the needs
OF good government We 8rraign
and condemn the populistic conven-
tiops at Chicago and ST. Louis FOR
their cooperation with the repub-
lcan party ia increasing these condi-
lions. which are pleaded in justitica-
lion OF the heavy increase of the bur
lens OF tbs people and further resort
20 protection. We therefore denouncs
protection ard its ally, the free coinage
IF silver, as schemes for The personal
profit OF the few at the expense of the
many and oppose the two parties which
stand for these schemes and hostile to
he people of the republic, whose food
md shelter, comfort and property ore
attacked by higher taxes and depreciat
ID money.
10 ire we reaffirm the Democratic
doctrine of tariff FOR revenue only. We
demand That heucsforth moSern acd
LIBERAL politics toward American ship
ping shall take the place of our limIta
Ion OF restr ctive statutes in the 18th |
century which were abandoned by every
power but the United States
Ind which to the nations humiliation
have driven American capital and en-
erpriee 10 the use OF alien flags and
lien crews, have made the stars and ,
stripes almost an unknown emblem in |
oreign countries and have virtually ex- .
inguished the race of American sea
men.
We oppose the pretense that dis
duties will promote ship !