The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-07-13

upon by the committee on resolutions
aud adopted at the Kansas City con
vention:
"We, the representatives Of the
Democratic party Of the United States,
assembled in national convention on
the annivei sary Of the declaration Of
independence, do reafIirm our faith in
that immortal proclamation Of the in
alienable rights Of man and our allie
glance to the constitution framed In
harmony Herewith by the fathers Of
the republic. We declare again that
all governments instituted among men
derive their just powers from the con-
sent Of the governed; that auy govern
ment not based upon the consent of
the governed is a tyranny; and that to
impose upon any people q government
Of force is TO substitute the methods
Of Imperialism for those of a republic.
We hold that the constitution follows
the flag and denounce the doctrine
that an executive or congress deriving
their existence and their powers from
the constitution can exercise lawful
authority beyond it, or in violation Of
it. We assert that no nation can long
endure half republic and half empire,
and we warn the American people that
Imperialism abroad will lead quickly
and inevitably to despotism at home.
Believing in these principles, we de-
nounce the Porto Rico law, enacted by
a Republican congress against the pro-
test and opposition of the Democratic
minority, as a bold and open violation
of the nations organic law and fla
grant breach of good faith.
''We demand the prompt and honest
fulfllment of our pledges to the Cuban
people and the world that the United
States has no disposition nor intention
to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or
control over the island of Cuba, except
for its pacifcation.
eve condemn and denounce the
Philippines policy of the present adj
ministration. 1t has involved the re-
public unnecessarily in war, sacrificed
the lives of many of our noblest sons
and placed the United States, previ-
ously known and applauded through
out the world as the champion of free
dom, in the false and un-American
position of crushing, with military
force, the efforts of our former allies
to achieve liberty and self government.
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
eve are not opposed to territorial
expansion when it takes in desirable
territory which can be erected into
states in the unior and whose people
are willing and fit to become American
citizens. We favor trade expansion
by every peaceful and Legitimate
means, but we are unalterably oppos
ed to the Selling or purchasing of dis
tant islands to be governed outside thu
constitution and whose people car
never become citizens. The impor
lance Of other questions now pending
before the American people is in NJ
wise diminished aud the Democrat,
party takes no backward step from it
position on them, but the burning is
= sue Of Imperialism, growing out of tn
Spanish war, involves the very exist
ence of the republic aud the destruc
ton of our free institutions. We re
! gard it as the paramount issue of til
J campaign,
q rive insist on the strict maintenance
of the Monroe doctrine and in all ii
integrity, both in letter and in spiri
Y OPPOSE LARGE STANDING ARMY.
}. "We oppose militarism. It mean
t conquest abroad and intimidation {
= home.
WARFARE ON TRUSTS.
r Private monopolies are indefens
+ BILE and intolerable, They destrc
d competition, control the price of a
materials and of the finished produc
II thus robbing both producer and col
II sumner. They lessen the employmel
n of labor and arbitrarily fix the tern
!, and conditions thereof and depri1
individual energy and small capital
. their opportunity for betterment.
. I'VE pledge the Democratic par
L to an unceasing warfare, in natioi
70 state and city, against private mono,
l. olies n any form. Existing lay
against trusts must be enforced OIL
ID more stringent ones must be enacte
9. "The failure of the present Repu
r. lican administration, with an absolu
h control of all the branches of the n
s. tional government, to enact any legi
is lation designed to prevent or even Gu
40 tail the absorbing power of trusts al
illegal combines, or to enforce t
az antitrust laws already on the statu
p. books, prove the insincerity of t
high-sounding phrases of the Repub
- = L.. r.-...,r-n h;.,nn 81, Ii