The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-07-16
Statehood for rerrito,i lea.

OF Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. we
IONA sGH 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 any ter
ritory, as well as with the district OF Alas
ka, should be bona flde residents at the
time of their appointment OF the territory
or district In which their duties are to be
performed.
Condemnation Of Polygamy.
We demand the determination OF poyg-
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 re-
Gently passed by the United States senate
as an iniquitous 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.
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
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
sufficient.
..l 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
Our soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution atd lthe
hsxs They mass
share with US the humiliation with which
We have witnessed the exaltation of court
favorites. without distinguished service.
or agsrandized by executive appropria-
lions out ~ 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 Oh 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
upon the spirit and operation of civil
service rules, whereby It has arbitrarily
dispensed with examinations for office in
the interests of favorites and employed
all 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 1t
that II brings no more. To revive the
mosities In any part OF cur common
country means confusion, distraction Of
business and the reopening OF wounds
nov 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
the common burdens. We, therefore, dep
recate and condemn the Bourbon like
selfish and narrow spirit OF thee recent
sought to kindle anew the embers of
racial and sectional strife, and we appeal
from it to the sober common sense and
PATRIOTS spirit of the American people,
Republican Administration.
The existing republican administration
has been spasmodic, erratic, sensational.
spectacular and arbitrary. 1t has made
itself satire upon the congress, the courts
ana upon the settled practices and usages
or national and international law
II summoned congress into hasty and fu-
tile extra session and virtually adjourned
1t, leaving behind its flight from Washing
ton uncalled calendars and unaccomplished
tasks.
1t made war. which is the sole power of
congress, without its-authority, thereby
usurping one OF it's fundamental preroga-
tivcs. 1t violated a plain statute OF the
United States as well as plain treaty obli-
cations. International usages and consti-
tutional law; and has done so under pre-
tense or executing great public policy
which could have been more easily effected
lawfully, constitutionally, and with honor.
1t forced strained and unnatural con-
structions upon statutes, usurping judicial
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
people and the states the terror OF evil
doors.
It conducted a secretive investigation of
its own and boosted Of few sample con-
victs, while 1t threw broad coverlet over
the bureaus which had been their chosen
field OF operative abuses and kept In pow
err the superior officers, under whose ad-
the crimes had been commit
ted.
1t ordered assault upon some monopiics,
out the flag of truce and cried out that II
would not run Misunderstanding its fu-
ture purposes beclouded by its vaccilla-
tons.
Appeal to the Country.
Conducting the campaign upon this decs~
laration OF our principles and purposes We
invoke for our candidates the support, not
only OF our great and time-honored or
but also the active assistance
past differences upon questions no longer
In issue, desire the perpetuation OF our con-
stitutional government as framed and es-
tablished by the fathers Of the republic.
MORE SURVIVORS LAND.