Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-07

mission, to the end that the travelling
public and shippers of this country may
have prompt and adequate relief for the
abuses they are now subjected to in the
matter of transportation.
Monroe Doctrine.
I'VE favor the maintenance Of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity
We favor d liberal trade Treaty with
Canada.
Army and Navy.
We favor the reduction Of the army
and Of army expenditures to the point his
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient. We favor the maintenance and
liberal annual increase of the navy as our
best defense in our isolated continental
condition against a foreign foe, and q
source of no possible danger to our liber-
ties as a people.
Capital and Labor.
1--WE favor the enactment and admins.
tration of laws, giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights. Capital and
labor ought not to be enemies Each is
necessary to the other, Each has its
rights. but the rights of labor are GER
and no less 'inalienahle' than the rights
of capital.
American Citizenship.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon the
just and lawful protection of our citizens
at home and abroad. and to use all proper
measures to secure for them, whet her
natiVe-horn or naturalized. and without
distinction OF race or creed. the actual
lTOtsct10n OF laws ana the enjoyment OF
all rights and privileges opcn to them
under the covenants of our treaties Of
friendship and commerce, and If. under
sojoufn Is denied to American citizens, or
recognition is withheld frem American
passports by any countries on the ground
99f race creed, we favor the beginning
of negotiations with the governments Of
such countries to secure, by neW treaties,
the removal of these unjust diserimna-
tiORS.
Pensions.
The democracy would secure 10 the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensioHS, not by an
arbitrary cXecutiYe order, but hy legis-
lation which a grateful people stand
our soldiers and sailors Who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have a sacred interest in their just
share with us the humiliation With which
we have witnessed the eXatation of court
favoriteA without distinguished service,
over the Scared heroes of many battles .
or aggrandized by executive appropria
tions out Of the treasures of a PROSTATE
people, in violation of the act of con-
greSs which fixes the compensation and
allowances of the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
1--WE denounce the ship subsidy bin re-
Gently passed by the United States sen
ate as an iniquitous appropriation ef
public funds tor private purposes and a
wastetul, illogical and useless attempt to
overcome by subsidy the obstructions
raised by republican legislation to the
growth and development of American
commerce on the sea;
We favor the upbuilding of a nler-
burdens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury.
Civil Service.
'.The democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles OF civil service re-
form, and we demand their honest, just
and impartial enforcement.
I'VE denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister encroach-
ments upon the spirit and operation of
civil service rules, whereby it has arbi-
trarily dispensed with examinations for
office in the interest of favoriteS and
employed all manner of devices to over
reach and set aside the principles upon
which the civil service was established.
Conde of POlygamy.
1--WE demand the determination of po-
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete separa-
tion OF church and state i'll political af-
fairs.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage of the measure known
irrigation and reclamation of the arid
lands OF the west-a measure framed by
democrat, passed in the senate by a
against the the opposition Of almost nc W ali il the
republican leaders by vote the major
ity of which was democratic We call at
broad and comprehensive as it Is. work.
Ing automatically throughout all time
without further action Of congress, until
the reclamation Of all the lands in the
arid west capable of reclamation is ac-
complished, reserving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers In small tracts and rigid
evidence of the policy Of domestic devel-
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should it be placed IN power.
JmperlaAtsm.
1--WE favor the preservation, SO far as
We can, of an open door for the world 8
commerce in the orient without unneces-
sary ENHANCEMENT In the oriental and
European affairs and without arbitrary
ernment anywhere within our jurisdic,
tion. We oppose. as fervently as did
George Washington himself, an indefinite
irresponsible, discretionary, and vague
absolutism and policy of colonial ex-
ploitation, no matter where or by whom
invoked or exercised; we believe, with
no government has a right to make one
set of laws for those at home and an
other and a different set of laws abso-
lutte in their character, for those in the
colonies All men under the American
flag are entitled to the protection of tho
Inst wh9sa nb o the thasss ss s
tions, then they are inherently unfit to be
members of the American body polite.
capable Of being governed under Amer
ican laws, in consonance with the Amer
lean constitution. the territory Of that
people ought not to be part of the Amer.
ican domain.
I'VE insist that we ought to. do for the
Filiphos what we have already done for
the Cubans. And it is our intent. as soon
as 1t can be done wisely and safely for
the Filipinos themselves, and after arnica-
BILE arrangements with them concerning
naval stations. coaling stations and trade
relations, and upon suitable guarantees
of protection to all national and interna.
tional interests. to settle the people upon
their feet. free and independent. to work
out their own destiny.
1.-The endeavor Of the secretary Of war.
by pledging the governments indorse-
ment for promoters in the Philippine
islands. to make the United States a part
ner In speculative exploitation Of the
archipelago. which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition of democratic
senators in the last session, will. If sue
cessful. lead to a permanent entangle-
ment. from which It will be difficult to
escape.
I'VE favor statehood for Oklahoma and
the Indian territory. statehood for Ari-
zona statehood for NeV Mexico and 4