The Irish standard., 1904-07-16
Statehood for Territories.


We favor the admission of the territoritI
of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. We
also favor the immediate admission Of All.
IONA and New Mexico as separate sta}es
and a territorial government for Alaska
We hold that the officials appointed t.
administer the government of any tex
ritory. as well as with the district Of Alan
ka, should be bona tlde residents at tho
or district in which their duties are to b
Condemnation Of Polygamy.
We demand the determination Of polys.
amy 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 reS
Gently passed by the United States senate
as an iniqutous appropriation OF PUBLIC
funds for private purposes and wasteful.
illogical and useless attempt to overcome
by subsidy the distractions raised by re-
publican legislation to the growth and de-
velopment of American commerce on the
sea.
A We favor the upbuilding Of merchant
marine without new or additional burdens
upon the people and without bounties from
the public treasury.
Reciprocity.
| We favor liberal trade arrangements
with Canada, and with peoples of other
countries where they can be entered into
with benefit to American agriculture.
/ We favor the maintenance of the Mon-
roe doctrine in it's full integrity.
and Of the 10 the pon
1orically, demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient.
Pensions.
/ The democracy would secure to the sur.
viving soldiers and sailors and their de-
pendence, generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary executive order, but by legis.
lation. which a grateful people stand
Our soldiers and sailors who defend
M Wa Their ,neir lives the consstuton h and ,hs
ADM s saeff they @ust Their
share with us the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the exaltation OF court
over the SCARED heroes u many battles:
or agsrandized by executive appropria-
lions out 81 the treasures of a prostrate
people in violation OF the act of congress
which liked the compensation OF allows
ances OIL the military officers.
Civil Service.
The democratic party stands commit
tea 10 the principle Of civil service re-.
form, and we demand their honest, just
and impartial enforcement.
We denounce the republican party for
IT'S continuous and sinister encroachments
service rules, whereby it has arbitrarily
dispensed with examinations for office in
the interests of tavorites and employed
ill manner of device to overreach and set
aside the principles upon which the civil
service was established.
Race Question.
The race question has brought countless
woes to this country. The calm wisdom
OF the American people should see to Il
that, it bring; no more. To revive the
, dead and hateful race and sectional ani-
country means conf usion. distraction Of
business and the reopening Of wounds
NOV nov happily , healed North south, east
gether in line OF battle from the walls Of
Pekn to the hills of Santiago and as
s s, Of common glory and a com-
! the common burdens. We. therefore, dep-
recate and condemn the Bourbon-like
seihsh and narrow spirit Of the recent
sought TO kindle anew the embers Of
fuo !, and sectional strife. and we appeal
PATRIOTS spirit of the American people.
Republican Administration.
The existing republican administration
, mas been spaSmodic, erratic, sensational.
spectacular and arbitrary. 1t has made
and upon the settled practices and usageS
Of national and International law.
A.. It summoned congress into hasty and fu.
It, leaving behind its flight from Washing
ton uncalled calendars and unaccomplished
! tasks.
congress. without its authority, thereby
usurping one Of its fundamental prerosa-
lives. ~ VlOldteu pain statute OF the
United States as well as plain treaty obll-
cations. International usages and consti.
tutional law; and has done so under pre-.
tense OF executing u great public policy
| which could have been more easily effected
lawfully. constilutonally, and with honor.
1t forced strained and unnatural con-
4 structions upon statutes usurping judicial
I, Interpretation, and substituting congress.
sional enactment in the decree.
| 1t withdrew from congress their Gus.
tomary duties Of investigation which have
, heretofore made the representatives Of the
I people and tie states the terror of evil
!, doors.
1t conducted secretive investigation Of
its own and boosted of Il few sample con-
victs, while it threw broad coverlet over
the bureaus which had been their chosen
field OF operative abuses, and kept in pow
i er the superior officers, under whose ad.
ministration the crimes had been commit
ted
1t ordered assault upon some monopiies.
but paralyZcd by its first victory, 1t flung
out the flag of truce and cried out that 1t
! would not run Misunderstanding its fu-
ture purposes beclouded by its vaccilla-
tons.
Appeal to the Country.
Conducting the campaign upon this dec.
larntion Of our principles and purposes, we
invoke for our candidates the support. not
only Of our great and time-honored orr
ganiZation, but also the active assistance
OF all our fellow citizens who, disregarding
past differences upon questions no longer
In ISSUE desire the perpetllation of our con.
stitutional government as framed and eS-
tablshed by the fathers Of the republic.