The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-09
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STATE RIGHTS.

people.
STATE RIGHTS.
We denounce arbitrary interference
by federal authorities in local affairs as
violation of the constitution OF the
United States and crime against free
institutions and we especially object to
government, by injunction. as a new
and highly dangerous form Of oppres-
sion, by which federal judges in con-
tempt Of laws OF the state and rights or
rights of the citizens 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 pro-
viding for trials by jury in certain
cases OF contempt.
PACIFIC ROADS.
No discrimination should be INDUCED
in by the government Of the Unitede
States in favor of any of its debtors Of
the United States. We approve Of the
refusal Of the Fifty-third congress to
pass the Pacif1crailroad funding bill,
and denounce the efforts of the present
congress to enact a similar measure.
PENSIONS.
Recognizing the just claims of de-
serving Union soldiers we heartily en-
dorse the rule of the present commits
sioner Of pensions, that 10 names SHALL
be arbitrarily dropped from the pension
roll, and the fact of enlistment and
service should be deemed conclusive
evidence against disease and disability
before enlistment.
TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona into
the Union as states, and we favor the
early admission of all the territories
having the necessary population and re-
sources to entitle them to statehood,
and while they remain territories we
hold that the officials appointed to adj
minister the government of any terri
tory, together with the District of Co.
lumbia and Alaska, should be bonafide
residents OF the territory or district in
which their duties are to be performed.
The Democratic party believes in home
rule and that all public lands OF the
United States should be appropriated
to the establishment of free homes for
American citizens.
We recommend that the territory of
Alaska be granted a delegate in con-
gress and that the general land and
extended to said territory.
CUBA.
We extend our sympathy to the peo-
pie of Cuba in their heroic struggle for
liberty and independence.
CIVIL SERVICE.
We are opposed to life tenure in the
public service. We favor appoint
ments based upon merits, fixed terms
of office and such an administration OF
the civil service laws as will afford
equal opportunities to all citizens of as
certained fitness.
THIRD TERM.
We declare 1t to be the unwritten law
of this republic established by custom
and usage of 100 years, and sanctioned
by the examples of the greatest and
wisest of those who founded and have
maintained our government, that no
man shall be eligible for third term
of the presidential Office.
DEEPWATER.
The federal government should care
for and improve the Mississippi river
and other great waterways OF the re-
public so as TO secure for the interior
states easy and cheap transportation
10 deepwater. When any waterway of
the republic is of sufficient importance
to demand aid of the government such
aid should be extended upon a definite
plan of continuous work until a perma-
nent end is secured.
FINAL APPEAL.
Confident in the justice of our cause
and the necessity Of it's success at the
polls, we submit the foregoing declara-
ton OF principles and purposes to the
judgment of the American
people. We invite the support of all
citizens who approve them and who de-
sire 10 have them made effective
through legislation for the relief of the
people and the restoration of the coup-
try's prosperity.