Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-05
respect to employment In the public service
to soldiers and sailors and to their widows
and orDhans

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to soldiers and sailors and to their widows
and orphans. #a
AN EFFICIENT CIVIL SERVICE.
We commend the policy of the republican
party in maintaining the efficiency Of the
civil service. The administration has act
Led wisely In its effort to secure for public
service in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippine Islands only those whose fits
ness has been determined by training and
experience: We believe that employment
in the public service in these territories
should be confined as far as practicable to
Etheir Inhabitants.
amendment to the constitution to prevent
discrimination on account of race or color
in regulating the elective franchise. De-
vices of state governments whether stat
utory or constitutional enactment, to avoid
the purpose of this amendment, are revo-s
lntionary and should be condemned.
GOOD ROADS.
Public movements looking to a. perma-5
nent improvement of the roads and high
ways of the country meet with our cordial
the earnest consideration of the people and
the legislatures of the several states.
We favor the extension of the rural free.
delivery service wherever Its extension may
be justified.
In further pursuance Of the constant pol-
icy Of the republican party to provide free
homes on the public domain, we recon-
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claim the arid lands of the United States,
reserying control of The distribution of wa
Tier for irrigation to the respective states
and territories.
We favor home rule for and the early
admission to statehood of the territories Of
New Mexico. Arizona and Oklahoma.
A REDUCTION OF WAR TAXES.
The Dingley act amended to provide suf-
ficient revenue for the conduct of the war
has so well performed it's work that it has
been possible to reduce the war debt in
the sum of S40,000,000. So ample are the
governments revenues, and so great is the.
1publc confidence in the integrity Of its OBJ
legations that Its newly funded 2 per cent
bonds sell at a premium. The country is
now justified in expecting and it will be
the policy OF the republican party to bring
about a reduction OF the war taxes.
TRADE EXPANSION.
We favor the construction, ownership,
control and protection of an isthmian canal
by the government of the United States.
New markets are necessary for the in
Every effort should be made to open and
obtain new markets, especially In the ori-
lent, and the administration is warmly to
be commended for it's successful effort to
commit all trading and %colonizing nations
through the policy of the open door in
China. InGintereSt of our expanding COM
merce. we that congress create
a department of commerce and Industries
in the charge of a secretry with a seat in
the cabinet. The consular system should
be recognized under the supervision of
this new department upon such a basis Of
appointment. and tenure as will render it
still more seryiceable to the nations In.
creasing trade.
The American government mnst 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 service
in the volunteer aid association and the
nurses in camp and hospital during the re-
cent campaigns of our armies In the east
ern and western indies, and we appreciate
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 the United States from
the grievdus conditions of a European al
lance for the government of Samoa his
course is especially to be commended. BY
his securing to our undivided control the
most important island of the Samoan group
and the best harbor in the southern Pacific.
every American interest has been safe
guarded.
We approve the annexation of the Ha-
waiian islands to the United States.
We commend the part taken by our gov
ernnent in the peace conference at the
Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence
to the policy announced in the Monroe doc
trine.
The provisions Of the Hague convention
were wisely regarded when President Nc
Kinley rendered his friendly offices in the
interest of peace between Great Britain
and the South African republic. While the
american government must continue the
policy prescribed by Washington. affirmed
by every succeeding president and imposed
upon. us by the Hague treaty of non-inter-
vention IN European controversies, the
american people earnestly hope that a way
may soon be found, honorabiy alike to both
~contending parties, to terminate the strife
between them.
In accepting by the treaty Of Paris the
JUST responsibility of our victories in the
Spanish war, the president and the senate
won the nndoubted approval. of the Ameri-
can people. Ne other course was possible
than to destroy Spafn's sovereignty
throughout the western Indies and in the
Philippine Islands.
That course created our responsibility
before the world. and with the nn~organized
p0pulation whom our Intervention had
freed from SPAIN to provide for the main
tenance ct law and order, and for the es-
ADJUSTMENT Of good government n for
lions. Our authority could not be less than
our responsibility and wherever sovereign
rights We're extended 1t became the high,
adhhty OF TIE government to maintain Its au-
tnor1ty, to put down armed insurrection
and TO confer the blessings Of liberty and
ciyIlizat1on upon all the rescued peoples.
me largest measure OF enlightenment
consistent witt: their welfare and our du-
ties shall be secured to- them by law. To
Cuba independence and self-goyernment
were assured, In the same voice by which
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pledge shall be performed.
Ihe republican party, upon its history
ana = n appa, this declaration Of its principles
ana pollcIels confidently inyokes the con-
American people.
STATE REPUBLICAN, PLATFoRM.
The republicans of North Dakota in
convention assembled reafirm the prin-
national convention held at Philadelphia
Ihe present happy and prosperous con-
dition OF Ihe American people Is fha result
Of the wise administration of the repubs
iican party and the enactment into law Of
she1 more Important principles or the plat
Four years Of democratic rule had para
lyzed the industries OF the country, rem
dered farming nnrennmeratiye, impoyer-
Il and 1practicallY bankrunfed fha IInitad