The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-07-10

Of the banks. We are opposed to this
private corporation paper circulated as
money; but without legal tender quail
ties, and demand the retirement of the
bank notes as fast as this gov-
ernment paper or silver certificates can
be substituted for them.
We favor an amendment to the fed
eral constitution providing for the elec-
ton of United States senators by the
direct vote of the people, and we favor
direct legislation wherever practicable.
We are opposed to government by in
junction.; we denounce the blacklist,
and favor arbitration as a means of
settling disputes between corporations
and their employees. In the interest of
workingman as the cornerstone Of the
Of our country, we recon-
mend that congress create a department
OF labor, In charge Of q secretary with a
seat In the cabinet, believing that the
elevation Of American laborers will
bring with 1t increased production and
increased prosperity to our country at
home and to commerce abroad.
We are proud Of the courage and fidel-
ity of the American soldiers and sailors
In all our wars; we favor liberal PEN
sions to them and their dependents,
and we reiterate the position taken in
the Chicago platform in 1896 that the
fact Of enlistment and service shall be
deemed conclusive evidence against dis
ease and disability before enlistment.
We favor the immediate construction,
ownership and control of the Nicaragua
canal by the United States, and we de-
nounce the insincerity Of the plank in
the Republican platform for an isthmian
canal in face of the failure of the Re-
publican majority to pass the bill pend
ing in congress. We condemn the Hay
Pauncefote treaty as q surrender of
American rights and interests not to be
tolerated by the American people.
PLEDGES NOT KEPT.
We denounce the failure of the Re-
publican party to carry out it's pledges,
to grant statehood to the territories of
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma,
territories immediate statehood and
home rule during their condition as
and we favor home rule and
a territorial form Of government for
Alaska and Porto Rico.
We favor an intelligent system Of i'm
proving the arabic lands of the west,
storing the waters for purposes of irri-
cation and the holding of such lands
for settlers.
We favor the continuance and strict
Of the Chinese exclusion
law and it's application to the same
classes of all Asiatic races.
Jefferson said: Peace, commerce
and honest friendship with all nations;
alliances with none"
We approve this wholesome doctrine
and earnestly protest against the Re-
publican departure, which has involved
us in so-called politics, including the
diplomacy of Europe and the intrigue
and land grabbing of Asia, and we es-
pec!ally condemn the Ill concealed Re-
publican alliance with England, which
must mean discrimination against other
friendly nations and which has already
stified the nations, while liberty Is be-
ing strangled in Africa.
Believing in the principles Of self
and rejecting as did our
the claim Of monarchy, we
view with Indignation the purpose of
England to overwhelm with force the
South African republics. Speaking as
we do for the entire American nation,
except its Republican office holders and
for all free men everywhere, we extend
our sympathies to the heroic burghers
in their unequal struggle to main
tain their liberty and independence.
We denounce the lavish approprfa-
tions of recent Republican congresses
which have kept taxes high and which
threaten the perpetuation of the oppres-
sive war levies. We oppose the accu-
mutation of a surplus to be squandered
In such barefaced frauds upon the tax
payers as the shipping subsidy bill,
which, under the false pretense Of pros
Dering American shipbuilding, would
put unearned millions into the pockets
Of favorite contributors to the Repub-
lican campaign fund. We favor the re-
duction and speedy repeal Of the war
taxes and a return to the time-honored
Democratic policy Of strict economy in
expenditures.
Believing that our most cherished in
stitutions are in great peril, that the
very existence of our constitutional rep
utation Is at stake. and that the decision
now to be rendered, will determine
or not our children are to enjoy
those blessed privileges of free govern
ment which have made the United
States great, prosperous and honored,
we earnestly ask for the foregoing dec
laration Of principles the hearty support
Of the liberty loving American people,
regardless of previous party Affiliations.