Middletown transcript., 1896-06-27
Am ericans-may regain the carrying
of our foreign commerce.
MONEY,

= The Republican party is unreserved
Z ly for sound money. It caused the Ell
I actment of the law providing for th
resumption of specie payments in 1875
: since then every dollar has been a
good as gold.
We are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our cur
rency,0r impair the credit of oul
country. We are, therefore, opposed t.
the free coinage of silver, except by in
ternational agreement with the leading
commercial nations Of the world, which
we pledge our elves to promote, and
until such agreement can be obtained
the existing gold standard must be pre-
served. All our silver and paper cur
rency must be maintained at parity with
gold, and we favor all measures de-
signed to maintain inviolable the obli-
cations Of all our money, neither coin
or paper. at the present standard, the
standard of the most enlightened ma
tions of the earth.
PENSIONS.
The veterans of the Union Army
deserve and should receive fair treat
ment and generous recognit ion. When
ever practicable they should be given
the preference in the matter of en-
ployment, and they are entitled to the
enactment Of such laws as are best
calculated to secure the fuI6llment of
the pledges made to them in the dark
days of the country's peril. We de-
nounce the practice in the Pension
Bureau, SO recklessly and upjustly car
ried on by the present administration,
Of reducing pensions and arbitrarily
dropping names from the rolls as de-
serving the severest condemnation of
the American people.
| FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Our foreign policy should bs at all
times firm, vigorous and dignified, and
all our interests in the Western Hemis-
phere carefully watched and guarded.
The Hawaiian Islands should be con-
t-trolled by the United States, and no
foreign power should be permitted to
interfere with them; the Nicaraguan
Canal should be built, owned and oper-
ased by the United States; and by the
purchase of the Danish Islands we
should secure proper and much need
d d naval station in the West Indies.
ARMENIAN MAssACREs.
The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and just in
dignation Of the American people, and
we believe that the United States should
exercise all the influence It can prop
erly exert to bring these atrocities to
an end. In Turkey American resi-
dents have been exposed to the gravest
dangers, and American property de-
stroyed. There ard everywhere Amer
can citizens and American property |
must be absolutely protected at all
hazards and at any ost.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
We reassert the Monroe doctrine in
its full extent. and we reaffirm the
right of the United States to give the
doctrine effect by responding to the ap-
peals of any American state for inter-
vention in case of European encroach-
ment. We have not interfered and
shall not interfere with the existent
possessions of any European power in
his hemisphere, but those possessions
must not, on any pretext, be extended.
We hopefully look forward to the
eventual withdrawal of the European
powers from his hemisphere, and to
the ultimate union of all English
speaking parts of the continent by the
free consent of its inhabitants.
CUBA.
From the hour of achieving their
'wn independence the people of the
United States have regi rded with SYM
,athy the struggles of other American
'eople to free themselves from Euro '
'ean denomination. We watch with t
deep and abiding interest the heroic p
attle of The Cuban patriots against b
ruely and oppression, and our bes b
'epes 60 out for the full success of
heir determined contest for liberty.
The Government of Spain, having
ost control of Cuba, and being unable n
o protect the property or lives of resi- =
lent American citizens, or to comply g 9
1ith its treaty obligations, we believe :,
hat the government OF the United II
tates sh ould actively use its influence al
nd good offices to restore peace and
i've independence to the Island. .,
THE NAVY.
The peace and security of the Repub-
9 and the maintenance of its rightful II
fuence among the nations of the q.
nth demand naval power commen- A.
rate with its position and response n
lity. We, therefore, favor the con- =,
. ued enlargement of the navy and
mplete system Of harbor and sea coast
fenses.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION. m
For the protection of the quality of p;
r American citizenship and Of the to
! ges Of our workingmen against the sol
tai competition Of low priced labor an
demand that the immigration laws re,
thoroughly enforced, aud so ex- us' ~
nded as to exclude from entra nee to sp an
Unitei States those who can Il
'ither read nor write. ba
CIVIL SERVICE. cei
The Civil Service law was pla ced on Sc
3 statute book By the Republican Ba