Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-07-27
app,auded. The report is as fol-

lows.
The Democracy of the First Con
eressional District of West Virginia
in convention assembled, at Wes-
ton, re.afirms its devotion to the
teachings of Thomas Jefferson, the
founder of the party, so clearly
expressed in this third annual mes
sage, in these words: Equal and
exact justice to all men, of whatev-
er state or persuasion, religious or
POLITICAL; peace, commerce and hon
est friendship with all nations, en-
tangling alliances with none; the
support of the state governments
in all their rights as the most COM
petent administration for our do
nestle concerns and the surest bull
wark against anti-republican ten
denotes; the preservation of the
general government in its whole
constitutional vigor as the sheet
anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad; a jealous care of the
right Of election by the people as a
mild and safe corrective of abuses
which are looped by the sword Of
revolution where peaceable rene
dies are unprovided; absolute ac-
quiescence in the decisions of the
majority, the vital principle of re.
publics, from which there is no ap-
peal but to force, the vital princis,
pie and immediate parent of des-
potism; a we'll disciplined militia,
our best reliance in peace and for
the first moments of war time, when
regulars may relieve them; the
supremacy of the civil over the mil
itary authority; a wise and frugal
government which shall restrain
men from injuring one another, and
shall leave them free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and
Improvement and which shall not
take from the mouth of labor the
bread it has earned; economy in
the public expenses, that labor
may be lightly burdened; the hon
est payment of our debts and sa-
cred preservation of the public
faith; encouragement of agriculture
and Of commerce as its handmade;
the diffusion of information and
arraignment of all abuses at the bar
of public reason; freedom of relig-
ion, freedom of the press and free
dom of persons unuer the protec-
Ation of the habeas corpus and trial
by juries impartially settled" and
we do also re-afirm the exposition
of the principles contained in the
platform adopted by the National
Democrat convention at Chicago,
which nominated the Hon. w. ]
Bryan as its candidate for the Pres.
idercy.
Whereas, Our country is now en-
gagged in war with a foreign foe,
waged, as was solemnly declared by
the President of these United
States, not for the purpose OF con-
quest or territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
but solely for the purpose of re-
lievipg the struggling people of
Cuba from the tyranny Of Spain,
and from the distress and starva-
ton occassioned by war waged by
that government upon people
fighting to secure the blessings OF
free government, we pledge Our
earnest support to the existing adj
ministration in the vigorous prose
cution of the war 10 speedy and
victorious conclusion and when the
avowed purpose for which the war is
waged shall have been gained we
are unalterably opposed to any de,
parture from the traditional policy
of the government and to the in
auguration of imperialism by sieze-
ing and holding by conquest as de-
pendent colonies,t the territory over
come by our armies.
We view with mixed dread and
alarm the growth of opinions and
sentiments hostile to the form of
government handed down to US by
our fathers and which threaten to
substitute in its stead an empire,
founded upon imperial ideas of con-
quest and territorial aggrapdize-
ment. In view of these perils and
dangers which threaten the per-
petuity of our institutions by the
substitution of imperialism and mil
itarism for free, orderly, simple re.