Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-07-15
IRVINGToN, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY JULY Is 1904

such countries to secure by treaties ,h,
rcneWal OF these unjust DETERMINATIONS
we demand that all over the worId :,
duly authenticated passport issued h,, 81
government OF the United STAT, =. 'ne ~
American citizen shall be proof or tha
iact that he Is an American citizen and
shall entitle him to the treatment d,Is
! him such. "ue
We favor the election OF ITnttad c,o.o
senators by the direct vote of tbs neonI.,
We favor the admission of the ,erri
tories of Oklahoma and the Indian Terri
s' .1rs' We also favor the immediate admis-
SION OF Arizona and New Mexico as sen
arate states and territorial govern,,o,, ,
Tor Alaska and Porto Rico
We holu that the officials appointa5 70
auInlnister ',lter The government OF any ter
.i,oFy, as wen as with the District Of
Alaska, should he bonafide residents "a
the time OF their appointment OF tba TO-
rltory or district in which their duties
are TO be performed
We demand the determination ~ Nil.
gamy within the Jurisdiction OF tho HI,
eu states, and the complete sepa rst tion of
church and state I'm political affairs.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States SEN
ate as an iniQuitcrs approximation of nub
lilo :nnds for private purpose. and n
wasteful. Illogical aud useless attempt TO
overcome by subsidT the ohstruotions
raised by Republican legislation to the
sroWth ana development OF American
commerce on the sea.
We favor the upbuiidIng of n merchant
marine without new additlop9l bur-
dens upon the people and without boun-
Ties from the public treasury.
we favor liberal trade arrangements
win canada and with peoples of other
countries where they can be entered into
with benefit to American agriculture
manufacturers. mining OF commerce.
we faVor the maintenance of the Nom
roe doctrine In its full integrity
We favor the reduction of the army and
OF army expenditure to the point histori-
caily demonstrated to be safe and suffi-
cient.
The Democracy would secure TO the sur
NNlnS soldiers and sailors and their de-
pendents generous pensions not bv an
arbitrary executive order but by legisla-
tloh which a grateful people stand readv
to enact. A~NV
our soldiers and sailors who defend with
their lives the constitution and the laws
nave sacred interest I'm their lust admin
istration. They must therefore share ,vIth
US the humiliation with which we have
Witnessed the eNaltation or court favor
ltes, without distinguished service oyor
the Scared heroes of many battles. -
aggrandized by executive approprfations
out OF the treasures of a prostrate neon1,
In violation of the act OF congress which
the military officers
The Democratic party stands committed
10 the principle of civil service reform
and we demand their honest. lust and i'm
partial enforcement
We denounce the Renuhltcor ,o-.. g..
Its continuous and sinister encroacbments
upon the spirit and operation OF civil SER
vice rules whereby II has arbitrarily dis
pensed with examinations for offices in
tne interests of favorites and employed
All manner OF devices to overreach and
set aside the principles upon which fhe
civil service is established
Inc race question has brought countless
woes TO this country. The calm wisdom
or the American people should see 20 n
that IL brings no more
10 revive the dead and hateful race
anu sectional animositics IN any mart OF
Sur common country means confusion
oIs.raction OF business and tho reopening
OF wounds now happily healed North
south. east and west have but re,entiv
stood together I'm line OF battle from the
walls OF Pokin TO the hills OF Santiago
ana as sharcrs of "A common glory and a.
common destiny we should share fr,,or
nally the common burdens.
we therefore deprecate and condemn
tne Bourbon-like selfish and narrow spirit
or the recent Republican convention at
Chlcago, which sought to kindIe anew
the embers OF racial and sectional strito
and We appeal from II to tho sohe. com
mon sense and patriotic spirit of the
American people,
The existing Republican administration
mas neen spasmodic. erratic. sensational,
spectacular and arbitrary. II has made
itself satire upon the congress the
courts. and upon the settled practices and
usages OF national and international law,
IL summoned the congress into hasty
ana futilo extra session and virtualIv
ADJOURNED IL, leaving behind its flight
from Washington uncalIed calendars
and unaccomplishcd tasks. Ii made war
which Is the sole power OF congress
without Its authority. thereby usurping
one OF Its Fundamental prerogatives II
violated a plain statute OF the limited
states, as well as plain treaty obliga-
lions, international usages and constItu-
tional law. and has done so under pre-
tShsS or executing great public policy
WhiSh could nave been moro easily effect
honor.
1t forced strained and unnatural con-
structions upon statutes. usurpmg Judi
clai interpretation, and substituting con-
gressional enactment decree.
1t withdrew from congress their cus
tomary duties OF investigation which
have heretofore made the representa-
uves OF the people and the states the
terror OF evil doors.
IL conducted sccretive Investigation
or Its own and boasted OF a few samnle
convicts. while Il thew u bread coyerlet
oyer the bureaus which had been their
chosen Held OF operative abuses and
Nv fpWCA tho OHlcerS under
whose administration the chimes had
been committed.
1t ordered assault upon some monopo- |
lies. but, paralyzed by its first victory. |
IL hung out the flag OF truce and cried |
out that IL would not run amuck"-l
leaving its future purposes beciouded by
its vacillations.
Conducting the campaign upon this dec
iaration or our principles and purposes.
we invoke for our candidates the sup
port, not only OF our greet and time I
honored orgapizatI0p, Nut also the active |
assistance OK all " our fellow citizens |
who. disreaarding past differences upon /
questions no longer In issue, desire the |
perpetuation or our constitutional e."
eminent as framed and established !
the fathers OF the republic.