The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-07-20
Continued from last week.

guarding against laud monopoly, as
an evidence Of the policy Of domestic
development contemplated by the
Democratic party, should it be plac-
ed in power.
IsTEMIAN CANAL.
The Democracy when entrusted
with power will construct the Pans.
ma canal speedily, honestly and
economically. thereby giving to our
people what Democrats have always
eonsended for-a great inter-oceanlc
canal, furnishing shorter and cheaper
lines of transportation ard broader
and less trammelled trade relations
with the other peoples Of the world.
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
We pledge ourselves to Insist upon
the just and lawful protection OF our
citizens at home ard abroad and to
use all proper measures to secure to
them, whether native born or natural
lied, end without distinction of race
or creed, the equal protection of laws
and the enjoyment Of all rights and
privileges open to them under the
covenants of our treaties of friendship
and commerce; and if under existing
treaties the right of travel and go.
iourn is denied to American citizens
or recognition is withheld from Ameri-
can passports by any countries on
the ground of race or creed, we favor
the beginning of negotiations with
the government of such countries to
secure by treaties the removal of
these unjust determinations.
We demand that all over the world
q duly authenticated passport issued
by the government Of the United
States to an American citizen shall
be proof of the fact that he is an
American citizen and shall entitle
him to the treatment due him as
such.
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE
We favor the election Of Uoitsd
States senator's by the direct vote OF
the people.
STATEHOOD FOR TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission of the ter.
ritories of Oklshoms and the Indian
Territory. We also favor the imme'
date admission of Arizona and New
Mexico as separate States and ter.
ritorial government for Alaska and
I uerto Rico.
We hold that the officials appoint
ed to administer the government Of
any territory. as welt IS with the
District of Alaska, should be bona
fde residents at the time of their ap-
pointmept Of the territory or district
in which their duties are to be per-
formed.
CONDEMNATION OF POLYGAMY.
We demand the determination Of
polyeamy within the Jurisdiction Of
the United States and the complete
separation of church and state in
political affairs.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
recently passed by the United States
as an iniquitous appropriation of pub
lie funds for private purposes and 3
wasteful, Illogical and useless attempt
to overcome by subsidy the obstruc-
tion raised by Republican legislation
to the growth and development Of
American commerce on the sea.
We favor the upbuilding of mer-
chant msrine without new or addi-
tiopal burdens upon the people snd
without bounties from the public
treasury.
RECIPROCITY.
We favor liberal trade agreements
with Canada and with peoples OF
other countries where they can be
entered into With beneft to American
agriculture, manufacturers, mining
or commerce.
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 an arbitrary executive order
but by legislation, which grateful
people stand ready to enact.
Our soldiers and sailors who de-
Tended with their lives the copstitu-
tion and the laws have sacred inter
oel ~ their i,St administration