Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-03

foreign power should be permitted to inter-
fere with them; the Nicaragua Canal should
be built, owned. and operated by the United
States and in The purchase of the Danish
island we should secure a proper and much
needed naval station in the West Indies.
ARMENIAN NAssACREs.
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 influence
it 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 affirm the right of the United
States to give the doctrine effect by respond
ing to the appeals of any American State for
friendly Intervention in case of European en-
croachments. We have not interfered, and
shall not interfere, with the existing possess
ions of any European power in this hemls-
phere, but those possessions must not on any
pretext be extended. We hopefully look for
ward to the eventual withdrawal OF European
powers from this hemisphere, and to the ulti-
mate union of all English-speaking parts of
the continent by the free consent of its inhabi-
tantS.
CUBA.
From the hour Of achieving their own indie
pendence the people of the United States have
regarded with sympathy the struggles OF
other American peoples to free themselves
from European domination. We watch with
deep and abiding interest the heroic battle of
the Cuban patriots against cruelty and OPP
preston, and our best hopes go out for the
full success of their determined contest for
liberty. The Government of Spain, haviDg
lost control of Cuba and being unable to pro-
tect the property or lives of resident Ameri-
can citizens, or to comply with its treaty OBJ
legations, we believe that the Government of
the United States should actively use its in
fluence and good offices to restore peace and
give independence 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 ma
val power commensurate with its positions
and responsibility We. therefore, favor the
continued enlargement of the navy and a
complete system of harbor. and seacoast de-
fences.
IMMIGRATION LAWS.
For the protection Of the quality of our
American citizenship and of the wages of our
| workingmen against the fatal competition of
| low-prices labor we demand that the immi-
grafton 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 book by the Republican party, which
has always sustained it, and we renew Jour
repeated declarations that it shall be
thoroughly and honestly enforced and extend
ed wherever practicable.
ELECTION LAW.
We demand that every citizen of the United
States shall be allowed to cast one free and
unrestricted ballot, and that such ballot shall
be counted and returned as cast.
LYNCEING.
We proclaim our unqualified condemnation
of the uncivilized and barbarous practice we'll
known as lynching, or killing of human
beings suspected OF charged with crime, with
out process of law.
ARBITRATION.
We favor the creation of National Board
of Arbitration to settle and adjust differences
which may arise between employers and en-
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FREE HOMESTEAD.
We believe in an immedia tie return to the
free-homestead policy Of the Republican
party, and urge. the passage by Congress of
satisfactory free-h0mestead measure. such as
has already passed the House, and is now
pending in the Senate
TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the remaining
Territories at the earliest practicable date,
gGaving due regard to the interests of the peo
pie of the Territories and of the United
States. All the Federal officers appointed for
the Territories should be elected from bona
fide residents thereof, and the right of self
government should he accorded as far as
practicable.
We believe the citizens of Alaska should
have representation in the Congress of the
United States, to the end that needful legis-
lation may be intelligently enacted.
INTEMPERANcE.
We sympathize with all wise and legiti
mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of
amtemperance and promote morality.
WOMAN.
The Republican party is mindful of the
rights and interests of women. Protection to
American industries includes equal opportu-
mities, equal pay for equal work, and protec-
ti0n to the home. We favor the admission of
women to wider spheres of usefulness, and
welcome their cooperation in rescuing the
country from Democratic and Populist mis-
management and misrule.
Such are the principles and policies of the
Republican party by these principles we
will abide, and hiicse policies we will put into
execution. We ask for them the consideration
and Judgment Of the American people. Con-
tfident alike in the history of our great party
and in the justice of our cause, wepresent our
platform and our candidates, in the full as
surance that the election will bring victory to
THE Republican party and prosperity to the
people of the United States.
Baptizing the Confederacy.
EKsy. j. A. McKamy in the Cumberland