Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-06-27

interfere with them; the Nicaraguan
Canal should be built, owned, and
operated by the United States; and
in the purchase of the Danish Island
we should secure proper and much
needed naval station In the West In.
dies.
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 1t
can properly exert to bring these
atrocities to an end.
In Turkey, American residents
have been exposed to the gravest
dangers and American property de-
stroyed. There and everywhere
American citizens and American
property must be absolutely pro-
tected at all hazards and at any cost.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
it's full extent, and we affirm the
right of the United States to give
the doctrine effect by responding to
the appeals of any American State
for friendly intervention in case of
European encroachments. We have
not interfered, and shall not inter
ferc, with the existing possessions of
any European power in this hemis-
phere, but those possessions must not
on any preteXt be extended. We
hopefully look forward to the event
ual withdrawal of European powers
from this hemisphere, and to the Ill
innate union of all English-speaking
parts of the continent by the free
consent of its inhabitants.
From the hour of achieving their
own independence 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 pa
triots against cruelty and oppression,
and our best hopes go out for the full
for liberty. The Government of
Spain, having lost control of Cuba
and being unable to protect the
property or lives of resident Amer
lean citizens. or to comply with its
treaty obligations. we believe that
the Government of the United States
should actively use IT'S Influence and
good Offices 10 restore peace aud give
independence TO the island.
The peace and security of the
republic and the maintenance Of its
rightful influence among the nations
Of the earth demand a naval power
commensurate with its position and
responsibility. We, therefore, favor
the continued enlargement of the
navy and complete system of har-
Dor and seacoast defences.
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 demand that the immigra-'
ton laws be thoroughly enforced,
and so extended as to exclude from
entrance to the United States those
who can neither read nor write.
The civil service law was placed on
the statute book by the Republican
party, which has always sustained
it, and we renew our repeated dec
larations that it shall be thoroughly
and honestly enforced and extended
wherever practicable.
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
We proclaim our unqualified con-
demnation Of the uncivilized and
barbarous practice we'll known as
lvnching, or killing OF human beings
suspected or charged with crime,
without process of law.
We favor the creation Of a National
Board of Arbitration to settle and
adjust differences which may arise
between employers and employees
engaged in interstate commerce.
We believe in an immediate return
to the free homestead policy OF the
Republican party, and urge the
passage by Congress Of satisfactory
free homestead measures. such as has
already passed the House, and is now
peding in the Senate.
We favor the admission of the re
naming Territories at the earliest
practicable date, having due regard
to the interest Of the people of the
Territories and Of the United States.
All the Federal officers appointed for
the Territories should be elected from
bona tide residents thereof, and the
right of self-government should be
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 legislation may be
intelligently enacted.
We sympathize with all wise and
legitimate efforts to lessen and pre-
vent the evils of intemperance and
promote morality.
The Republican party is mindful
of the rights and interests of women.
Protection to 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 of useful
ness, and welcome their co operation
in rescuing the country from Demo
cratic and Populist mismanagement
and misrule.
Such are the principles and poll
cies of the Republican party.
By these principles we will
abide, and these policies we will
put into execution. We ask for
them the consideration and judg-
ment of the American people. Con-
fident alike in the history of our
great party and in the justice of our
cause, we present our platform and
our candidates, in the full assurance
that the election will bring victory
to the Republican party and pros
perity to the people of the United
States.