The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-07-14

| QAiS 2ufneHtlCuNtu peoSSt4N
the government OF the United STATES
! to an american citizen shall he PROOF
OF the fact that he Is an American CIT
izen and :hall entitle him 10 the treat
ment due him as such.
Election Of Senators b. the People.
| We favor the election of United
States senators by the direct vote OF
the people.
| Statehood for Territories.
We favor the admission Of the Ter
/ ritcry of Oklahoma and Indian Ter. !
| tory We also favor the Immediate
| admission of Arizona and New Mexico
as separate states and territorial
| government for Alaska and Porto
| Rico.
We hold that the officials appointed
| TO administer the government OF an
| territory, as well as the District OF
| Alaska should be bona hde residents
| at the time of their appointment OF the
| territory or district in which their du-
ties are to be performed.
Condemnation Of PoIysamy.
We demand the determination OF
poygamy within the jurisdiction or the
United States and the complete sep.
aration OF church and state In political
affairs.
Merchant Marine.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
recently passed by the United States
senate as an Ubiquitous appropriation
of public funds for private purposes
and wasteful illogical and useless at
tempt to overcome by subsidy the oD-
structions raised by Republican legis-
lation to the growth and development
of American commerce on the sea-
We favor TIE upbuilding of mer-
chant marine without new or addi-
tional burdens upon the people, ana
without bounties from the treasury
Reciprocity.
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, Soldiers and Sailors.
The Democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensions. not by
an arbitrary executive order. but by
legislation which 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 |
lust administration. They must there |
fore share with US the humiliation with |
which we have witnessed the exalta- |
ton OF court favorites. without distin- |
guished service. over the SCARED he
roes OF many battles: or agsrandized
by executive appropriations out OF the
treasury Of a PROSTATE people In vio- |
lation of the act Of congress which |
fixed the compensation Of allowances
Of the military officers.
Civil Services.
Tn Democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles of civil service
reform. and we demand their honest.
1ust and impartial enforcement.
We denounce the Republican party
for its continuous and sinister en-
upon the spirit and oper-
alton Of civil service rules. whereby
1t has arbitrarily dispensed with ex-
aminations for offices in the interests
of favorites and employed all manner
of devices to oyerreach and set aside
the principles upon which the civil SER
vice was established.
School and Race Questions.
The race question has brought count
less woes to this country. The calm
wisdom OF the American people should
see to 1t that 1t brings no more.
To revive the dead and hateful race
and sectional animosities in any part
Of our common country means confu-
sion, distraction Of business and the re-
opening of wounds now happily healed
North. South, East and West have but
stood together in line of bat
tie from tho walls Of Pekin to the hills
Of Santiago and as sharers Of a COM
mon glory and q common destiny we
share equally the common burdens. K
We therefore deprecate and condemn
the Bourbon-like. selfish and narrow /,
spirit of the recent Republican conven-
hon at Chicago. which has sought to
kindle anew the embers Of racial and
Iectional strife and we appeal from II
10 the sober. common sense and patri-
'tic spirit OF the American people.
The Republican Administrator. /
The existing Republican administra-
ion has been spasmodic. erratic, SEN 4
'ational. spectacular and arbitrary. nit
I has made itself = satire upon the
congress. the courts and upon the set
led practices and usages Of natioNal | /
md international law. It summoned q
he congress into hasty and extra ses-
lion and early adjourned Il. leaving J
,ehind In its flight unfinished calendars
md unfinished tasks.
1t made war. which II the sole power e
4 congress. without its authority.
hereby usurping one OF your funda-
mental prerogratives. Il violated q
lain statute OF the United States a. To-
yell az plain treaty obligations In the 70
sage and constitutional law. and has
eferred under pretense of executing =
great public policy which could have %
cen more easily effected lawfully. al
onstitutionally and with honor. Iii
1t forced strained and unnatural ~
instructions upon statutes, usurpiny
JUDICIAL Interpretation and abolishinr
congressional action by decree. to'
1t withdrew from congress their ems. Etl
omary duties Of investigation which III
ave heretofore made the representa- II
yes Of the people and the states the [.
error Of evildoers.
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