The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-26


can party in maintaining the efficiency of
the civil service. The administration has
nSc sassse IN IN rs oT to Rsa for
wall and the Philippine islands only those
whose fitness has been determined by
employment in the public service in these
territories should be confined as far as
practicable to their inhabitants.
1t was the plain purpose of the Fifteenth
amendment to the constitution to prevent
DETERMINATIONS on account Of race or
color in regulating the elective franchise.
Devices of state governments, whether by
statutory or constitutional enactment to
revolutionary and should be condemned.
Public movements looking to per-
highways of the country meet with our
cordial approval, and we recommend this
the people and of the Legislatures of the
several states.
We favor the extension of the rural
free delivery service wherever its ex-
tension may be justified.
It's further pursuance of the constant
vide free homes on the public domain we
recommend adequate national legislation
to reclaim the arid lands of the United
States. reserving control of the distrib-
ution of water for irrigation to the respec-
tive states and territories.
We favor home rule for and the early
admission to statehood, of the territories
of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.
sufficient revenue for the conduct of the
war has so well performed its work that
debt in the sum of $4,000 900. So ample
are the government's revenues ana so
tegrity of its obligations that its newly
funded two per cent bonds sell at a pre-
MUM; The nd country ?, i is now jnstied in in
Republican party to bring about a re-
duetion Of the war taxes. We favor the
lection of an isthmian canal by the gov
ernment of the United States. New mar
kets are necessary for. the increasing sur
plus of our farm products Every effort
should be made to open and obtain new
the administration is warmly to be com
mended for its successful effort to commit
all trading and colonizing nations to the
In the interest of our expanding COM
merce. we recommend that Congress Gre
tries in the charge of a secretary with a
seat in the Cabinet The United States
under the supervision of this new depart
ment upon such II basis of appointment
adih ana tenure as VIII render 1t l;1 stlil more
trade.
The American government must protect
the person and property of every citizen
wherever they are wrongfully violated or
placed in peril.
We congratulate the women of America
upon their splendid record of public SER
vice in the volunteer Aid Association, and
as nurses in camp and hospital during
the recent campaigns of our armies in the
Eastern and Western Indies, and we ap-
preciate their faithful cooperation in all
works OF education and industry,
President Mckinley has conducted the
foreign affairs of the United States with
distinguished credit to the American peo-
pie. In releasing us from the vexatious
European alliance for the government of
sommendeS Bv Securing ~ or yndvS IL De
ed control the most important island of
the SAMOAN So,i group, and and the best harbor
interest has been safeguarded.
We approve the annexation of the Ha-
waiian islands to the United States.
Hague. We assert our steadfast adher-
ence to the policy announced in the Mon
roe doctrine. The provisions of The
Hague convention We're wisely, regarded
when President Mckinley rendered his
friendly offices in the interest of peace be-
tween Great Britain and the South Afri-
ernment must continue the policy bre-
scribed by Washington, affirmed by every
succeeding president and imposed upon
tion in European CONTROVERSIES, the Amer
lean people earnestly hope that a way
both contending parties, to terminate the
strife between them.
In accepting by the treaty OF Paris the
Spanish War. the President and the SEN
ate won the undoubted approval of the
possible than to destroy spain's sover-,
eighty throughout the West indies and
created our responsibility before the world
and with the unorganized population
WHOm our intervention nan freed from
Spain. to provide for the maintenance of
law and order and for the establishment
of good government and for the perform
ance of international obligations. Our
authority could not be less than our re-
sponsibility. and wherever sovereign
rights were extended 1t became the high
duty of the government to maintain its
authority, 10 put down armed insurrec-
tion and to confer the blessings of liber-
ty and civilization upon all the rescued
peoples. The largest measure of self
government consistent with their well
fare and our duties shall be secured to
them by law. To Cuba, independence and
self-government We're assured in the same
voice by which war declared. and to
the letter this pledge shall be performed
The Republican party, upon Its history
and upon this declaration of its principles
and policies, confidently invokes the con-
sderate and approving judgment of the
American people.