Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-14

w q an attamDt
overcome by subsidy the distractions
raised by Republican legislation TO the
growth and 3aveionnent of American
commerce on the seq
we favor the upbuiIding of a merchant
marine without new or additional bur
dens Ipon the people and without boun-
ties from the public treasury.
We favor liberal trade arrangements
with Canada and with peoples of other
countries where they can be entered into
with benefit to American agriculture,
manufacturers mining or commerce.
We favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
We favor the reduction of the army and
of army expenditure to the point historic
Cally demonstrated to be safe and suffi-
cient.
The Democracy would secure to the sur
viving soldiers and sailors and their de-
pendents generous pensions not by an
arbitrary executive order but by legisla-
ton which a grateful people stand ready
to enact
/ Our soldiers and sailors who defend with
their lives the constitution and the laws
have sacred interest in their just admin
istration. They must therefore share with
us the humiliation with which we have
witnessed the exaltation of court favor
ties, without distinguished service, over
the SCARED heroes of many battles; or
/ aggrandized by executive appropriations
out OIL the treasures OIL a pFOSIFdl6 people
in violation of the act of congress which
fixed the compensation of allowances of
the military officers
The Democratic party stands committed
to the principle of civil service reform.
4 and we demand their honest inst and inn
/ partial erlfnrc ernent
4 We denounce the Republican party for
/ its continuous and sinister encroachments
4 anon the shirt and oneration of civil SER
4 vice rules, whereby it has arbitrarily dis
/ pensed with examinations for offices in
4 the interests Of fayorites and EMPLOYED
/ all manner of devices to oyerreach and
set aside The princinles lnon which the
civil service is established
The race question has brought countless
woes to this country. The calm wisdom
of the American peoDle should see to II
that 1T brines no more
TO revive the dead and hateful race
and sectional anirnosities in any part of
our common country means confusion
distraction of business and the reopening
of wounds now happily healed North,
south. east and west have but recently
stood together in line of battle from the
walls of Pekin to the hills of Santiago
and as sharers of a common glory aad q
common destiny we should share frater-
nally the common burdens.
We therefore deprecate and condemn
the Bourbon-lilSe selfish and narrow spirit
of the recent Republican convention 1T
the embers of racial and sectional strife,
and we appeal from it to the sober com
mon sense and patriotic spirit of the
American people.
The existing Republican administration
has been spasmodic, erratic, sensational,
spectacular ana arbitrary. 1t has made
itself a satire upon the congress- the
courts and upon the settled practices and
usages of national and international law.
1t summoned the congress into hasty
and futile extra session, and virtually
adjourned it, leaving behind It's flight
from Washington uncalled calendars
and unaccompiished tasks. 1t made war,
which is the sole power of congress,
without its authority, thereby usurping
one of its fundamental prerogatives. 1t
violated plain statute of the United
States, as well as plain treaty Sobliga-
tons, international usages and constitu-
tional law and has done SO under pre-
tense of executing great public policy
which could have been more easily effect
ed lawfully, constitutionally ana with
honor.
1t forced strained and unnatural con-
structlonS upon statutes, usurplng judi
clal interpretation, and substituting con-
! gressional enactment decree.
1t withdrew from congress their Gus
tomary duties of investigation, which
have heretofore made the representa-
tives of the people and the states the
terror of evil doors.
1t conducted secret1ve investigation
of its own and boosted of few sample
eonvicts, while it thew a broad eoveriet
over the bureaus which had been their
chosen field of operative abuses, and
kept In power the superior officers under
whose administration the chimes had
been committed.
1t ordered assault upon some monopo-
lies, but paralyzed by its first victory,
1t hung out the nag OF truce and cried
out lhat Il would not run amuck
leaving us future purposes peclouded by
It's vaccinations.
conducting the campaign upon TINS Dec
Iaratloh OF our principles ana purposes,
we invoke TOT our canoloates the sup
port, NOT oniy OF our great ana Tune
honofed organization, put also the active
assistance OF an OF our ieiloW cltlzens,
VINO dlsregaralhg past dlllefenees upon
questlohs no longer IN issue, desire the
perpeluatlon OF our conStltutlonal gov