The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-29
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We especially denounce rebates
and discrimination by transportation
companies as the most potent agency
in promoting and strengthening these
unlawful conspiracies against trade.
We demand an enlargement of the
powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to the end that the trav.
cling public and shippers may have
| prompt and adequate relief.
We demand strict enforcement
of existing civil and criminal stat
utes against all such trusts.
The democracy will construct the
Pan-American canal speedily, hon
estly and economically.
We demand that all over the world
"A duly authenticated passport issued
| by the Government of the United
States shall be proof of the fact that
he is an American citizen.
We favor the election of United
States Senators by direct vote of the
people.
We hold that the officials appoint
ed to administer the government OF
any territory should be bona-tide res
1 idents.
We demand the determination of
polygamy.
We denouuce the ship subsidy bill
rs an Ubiquitous appropriation of pub.
lie funds for private purposes.
We favor liberal trade arrange
ments with Canada and with peoples
Of other countries.
We favor the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine in it's full integrity
We favor the reduction of the army
and Of navy expenditure.
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
We denounce the republican party
for its continuous and sinister en-
roachmeuts upon the spirit and oper-
alton of civil service rules.
We deprecate and condemn the
spirit which sought to kinClle anew
the embers of racial and sectional
strife.
The existing republican admins
tration summoned congress into has
ty and futile extra session and ad-
journed it; made war, which is the
sole power of congress, without its
authority; violated plain statute as
we'll as treaty obligations, interna-
tional usages and constitutional laws :;
usurping judicial Interpretation.
We invite for our candidates the
support not only of our great and
time-honOred organization, but also
the active assistance of all our fellow
citizens, who, disregarding past diff
ferences upon questions no longer in
issue, desire the perpetuation of our
constitutional government.
The democratic party declares its
devotion to the essential principles
of democracy under which local self
government and national unity and
prosperity have been established
Capital and labor ought not to be
enemies.
The rights of labor are certainly
no less vested no less sacred"
and no less "unalienable" than the
rights of capital.
Obedience to the laws and respect
for their requirements are alike the
supreme duty of the citizen and the
official.
The military should be used only
to support and maintain the law.
We favor liberal appropriations for
the care and improvement of the wa
ter-ways of the country.
We shall insist upon the strictest
economy and frugality compatible
with vigorous and efficient civil, mil
ttary and naval administration.
We favor the enforcement of hon
esty in the public service and the
punishment of ascertained corrup-
tiOnists without fear or favor in re-
gard to persons.
We condemn the action of the re-
publican party in congress in refus-
ing to prohibit an executive depart
ment from entering into contracts
with convicted trusts.
We favor the nomination and cleo
ton of II president who will set his
face sternly against executive usur-
patton of legislative and judicial
functions.
We belive with ThOs. jefferson
and John Adams that no government
has Il right to make one set of laws
for those lat home and another and
Il different set of laws absolute in
their character for those sin the col
ones.'
We insist that we ought to do for
the Filipinos what we have already
done for the Cubans.
These industrial combinations, by
the financial assistance they can
give, now control the policy of the
republican party.
We denOunce protection as the rob-
berry of the many to enrich the few
and we favor II tariff limited to the
needs of the government economic
ally administered, and so levied as
not to discriminate against any in
dustry, class or section.