The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-09

to -t1e pF-nc:p.e or c-v-r service REFORM ana
we demand their honest just and impartial
enforcement.
We denounce the Republican party for its
continuous and sinister encroachments upon
the spirit and operation of civil service
rules, Whereby 1t has arbitrarily dispensed
OF favorites and employed all manner Of
devices to overreach and set aside the prin-
ciples upon which the civil service was
SCHOOL AND RACE QUESTIONS.
The race question has brought countless
woes to this country. The calm wisdom
of the American people should see to it
that it brings no more.
To revive the dead and hateful race and
sectional animosties in any part of our
common country means confusion, distrac c.
ton of business, and the reopening of
wounds now happily healed. North, South.
East and West have but recently stood to-
gether in line of battle from the walls OF
Pekin to the hills of Santiago, and as shar-
ers OF common Slory and common des-
tiny, We should share fraternarly the com
We therefore deprecate and condemn the
Bourbon-like selfish and narrow spirit of
the recent Republican convention ut Chi
cago, which sought to kindle anew the en-
bers Of racial and sectional strife, and we
appeal from it to the sober common sense
and patriotic spirit Of the American people.
THE REPUBLICAN, ADMINISTRATIONS.
The existing Republican administration
has been spasmodic, erratic, sensational,
spectacular and arbitrary. 1t has made
itself satire upon the congress, the courts,
and upon the settled pri", and usages
of national and international law.
1t summoned the congress into hasty and
futile extra session and virtually adj urnel
it, leaving behind it's flight from Washing
ton unoaNed calendars and uHaccomplished
tasks.
1t made war, which is the sole power of
congress, without its authority, thereby
usurping one of it's fundamental preroga-
tives. 1t violated a plain statute of the
United States as we'll as plain treaty obliga-
tions, international usagcs and consttu-
tional law; and has done so under pr etense
Of executing a great public policy which
could have been more easily effected law
fully, constitNtionaly and with honor.
1t forced strained and unnatural con
StructiOns upon StntuteS uSu.ping judicial
Interpretation and substituting congress
sional enactment decree.
1t withdrew from congress their custom
airy duties of Investigation which have
heretofore made the representatives of the
people and the states the terror OF evil
doors.
1t conducted Il secretive investigation Of
it's own ard boosted Of few sample con
victions, while it threw Il broad covrrlet
over the bureaus which had been their
chosen field Of operative abuses, and kept
in power the superior officers under whose
administration the crimes had been com
mitted.
1t ordered assault upon some monopolfes
but, paraiyZed by its first victory it dung
out the flag Of truce and cried out that it
would not run amuck''-leaving it's future
purposes beclouded by its vaccillations.
APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY.
Conducting the campaign upon this dec
laration OF our principles and purposes, we
invoke FOR our candidates the support, not
only of our great and time honored organi
Of our fellow citizens who. disregarding
past differences upon questions no longer III
Issue, desire the petpetuatiOn Of our con
stitutional government as framed and es
tabished by the fathers Of the republic.