The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-09


 Democrats have always contended for "a great inter-oceanic canal furufah~' ing shorter and cheaper 1fnes Of trano- portatfon and broader ana les trasn- meled trade relations with the other peoples of the world.
 Aneraean C1tinenshaD.
 We pledge ourselves to insist upon the just and lawful protection of cur citizens at home and abroad. and to use all proper measures to secure for them. whether native born or naxur-f alixed. and without distinction Of race or creed. the equal protection Of laWe and the enjoyment of all rfghts axd. . privileges open to them under the cov- chants of our treaties of friendsl1ip and commerce.; and If. under existine treaties. the right of travel and so1ouru Is denied to American citizens or re- cognition is withheld from American passports. by any countries on the ground of race or creed, we favor the beginning of negotiations with the governments of such countries to sa- cure by treaties the removal of thesa unjust discriimnations. We demand that all over the world duly authen- ticated passport issued by the Govern- ment Of the United States to an Amer. lean citizen shall be proof of the fact chat he is an American citizen ana shIafl entitle him to the treatment due him as such.
 Election of Senators hy the rssple.
 We favor the election of United states Senators by direct vote Of tho people.
 statehood for Terr1torses.
 We favor the admission of the ters ritories of Oklahoma and the Indian territory. We also favor the immedi- ate admission of Arizona and New Mex- leo as separate States and a territorial government for Alaska and Porto Rico.
 We hold that the officials appointed to administer the government of any territory. as we'll as with the District of Alaska. should be bona fide resi- dents at the time of their appoint- ment of their territory or district m which their duties are to be performs ed. Y2
 Condemnation of PoIygnmy.
 We demand the extermination of po- 1ygamy within the Jurisdiction of tho United States, and the complete sepa- ration of the church and State in pos litical affairs.
 srerchant Marine.
 We denounce the ship subsidy hilY recently passed by the United statea Senate as ah iniquitous appropriatiou of public funds for privsts purpose9 and a wasteful, >filoR1cai and use1esa |nttempt to overcome by subsidy the ob- struetfons raised by Republican iegis-. iation to the growth and development Eof American commerce on tho sea.
 We favor the upbuilding of a mer> al burdens upon the people. and with- out bounties from the public treasury.
 Resfpr0city.
 We favor liberal trade arrangements with Canada and with people of other countries where they can be entered into with benefit to American agricul- ture, manufactures. mining and com- merce.
 Monroe Doctrine.
 We favor the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine in its full integrity.
 Army.
 We favor the reduction of the army and of army expenditures to the point historically demonstrated to be safe and sufficient.
 Pensions and Our Soldiers and Sailors.
 The Democracy would secure to the surviving soldiers and sailors and their dependents generous pensions; not by m arbitrary executive order. but by legislation which a grateful people stand ready to enact.
 Our soldiers and sailors who defend with their lives the constitution and the laws have a sacred interest in their just administration. They must there fore share with us the humiliation with which we have witnessed the exaIta- ton of court favorites without distfn- guished service over the scared heroes of many. battles; or aggrandized by executive appropriations out of the treasury of prostrate people in viola ton of the act of Congress which fixed the compensation of allowances of the military officials.
 Civil Service.
 The Democratic party stands com- mitted to the principles of civil ser- est. just and impartial enforcement.
 We denounce the Republican party for It's continuous and sinister en~ croachments upon the spirit and opera tfon of civil service rules, whereby it has arbitrarily dispensed with exam nations for office in the interest of favorites and employed all manner of devices to overreach and set aside the principles upon which the civil ser- vice was established
 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 1t brings no moaa.
 To revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in our con- mon country means confusion. distrac- ton of business and the re-opening of wounds now happily healed. North. South. East and West have but recent ly stood together in line of battle from the walls of Pekin and the hills of Santiago. as sharers of a common glory and common destiny. and we share fraternally the common burdens We. therefore, deprecate and condemn the Bourbon-like. selfish and narrow spirib Of the recent Republican convention at Chicago which sought to kindle anew the embers of racial and sectional strife and we appeal from 1t to the sober common sense and patriotic spir- 1t of the American people.
 The Republican Administration.
 The existing Republican administra- ton has been spasmodie, cratic. sem sational spectacular and arbitrary. if has made itself satire upon the Con- gress, the courts and upon the settled pratices and usages of national and inc ternational law.
 It summoned the Congress into bastv and futile extra session, and virtually adjourned, leaving behind in its flight from Washington, uncailed calendars and unaceomplished tasks.
 It made war. which Is the sole poweR of Congress, without it's authority. thereby usurping one of It's fundamen. tai prerogatives. It violated a plain statute of the United States as well aa plain treaty obligations. international suages and constitutional laws; and has done so under pretense of execut- ing great public policy. which could