The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-07-14
statehood for Territol les.

Statehood for Territol les.
We favor the admission of the territories
Of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory: We
also favor the immediate admission Of Art-
zona and New Mexico as separate states
and e territorial government for Alaska
We hold that the onicials appointed to
administer the government Of any ter
ritory, as well as with the district of Alas
ka, should be bona fide residents at the
or district in which their duties are to be
performed.
Condemnation Of Polygan1y.
We demand the determination Of polyg-
amy within the jurisdiction of the United
States. and the complete separation OF
church and state In political affairs.
Merchant Marine.
We deneunce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States senate
as an Ubiquitous appropriation Of public
funds for private purposes and wastefui,
by o subsidy the obstractions raised By re.
publican legislation to the growth and de-
velopment of American commerce on the
We favor the upbuilding of a 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 IN
with benefit to American agriculture,
manufactures. mining or commerce
We favor the maintenance OF the Mon
roe doctrine in ITS full integrity.
We favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditure to the point his
torically. demonstrated to be safe and
Pensions.
The democracy would secure to the sur
vfving soldiers and sailors and their de-
pendence, generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary executive order, but by iegis,
lation. which grateful people stand
ready to enact.
Our soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
LAWS hays sacred n he
share with US the humilia ton with which
we have witnessed the exaltation OF court
favorites. without distinguished service.
over the SCARED heroes of many battles;
or aggrandiZed by executive appropria-
tons out Of the treasures of a PROSTATE
people in violation of the act OF congress
ances of the military officers.
Civil Service.
The democratic party stands commit
ted to the principle OF civil service re-
form, and we demand their honest. just
and impartial enforcement:
We denounce the republican party for
Its continuous and sinister encroachments
upon the spirit and operation of civil
service rules whereby It has arbitrarily
the interests of favorites and employed
all manner Of device to oyerreach 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. 1t
that it brings no more. To revive the
dead and hateful race and sectional ami
country means confusion. distraction Of
business and the reopening of wounds
now happily healed. North, south, east
gether in line Of battle from the walls Of
Pekin to the hills of Santiago, and as
sharers OF common glory and COM
mon destiny, We should share fraternally
recate and condemn the Bourbon-like
selfish and narrow spirit of the recent
republican convention at Chicago, which
racial and sectional strife, and we appeal
from It to the sober common sense and
PATRIOTS spirit of the American people.
Republican Administrations.
The existing republican administration
has been spasmodic,l erratic, sensational.
itself satire upon the congress- the courts
and upon the settled practices and usages
OF national and International law
It summoned congress into hasty and fu-
tile extra session and virtually adjourned
1t, leaving behind its fight from Washing
ton uncailed calendars and unaccomplished
tasks.
1t made war, which is the sole power Of
congress, without its authority, thereby
usurp1ng one of its fundamental preroga-
tives. 1t violated a plain statute of the
United States as well as plain treaty obli-
tutional law; and has done SO under pre-
tense of executing great public policy
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