The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-07-13

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CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES.
Constitutional guarantees are vio-
lated whenever any citizen ia denied
the right to labor, acquire and enjoy
property or reside where interests or
inclination may determine. Any
denial thereof by Individuals, organ
izations of governments should be
summarily rebuked and punished.
We deny the right of any executive
to disregard or suspend any constitu-
tional privilege or Limitation. Obe-
dience 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 upqualiiedly condemn it's en-
ployment for the summary Danish
ment of citizens without trial at or
for the control of elections.
We approve the measure which
passed the United States senate in
1896, but which Republican con-
gress has ever since refused to enact,
relating to coutempts in federal
courts, and providing for trial by
jury in cases of indirect contempt.
WATERWAYS.
We favor liberal appropriations for
the care and improvements Of the
waterways of the country. When
WATERWAYS like the Mississippi river
is of sufficient Importance to demand
special aid of the government, such
aid should be extended with def.
mite plan of continuous work until
permanent improvement is secured.
We oppose the Republican policy
OF starving home development in
order to feed the greed for conquest
and the appetite for national ''pres.
tige," and display of strength.
ECONOMY OF ADMINISTRATIONS.
Large reductions can easily be
made in the annual expenditures of
the government without impairing
the efficiency of any branch of the
public service, and we shall insist
upon the strictest economy and fru-
gality compatible with vigorous and
efficient civil, military and naval ad-
ministration as right of the people,
too clear to be denied or withheld.
We favor honesty in the public
service-the enforcement OF honesty
in the public service and to that end
thorough Legislative Investigation
cf those executive departments OF
the government already known to
them with corruption, aid the pun
ishment cf ascertained corruptionists
without fear or favor or regard to
persons. The persistent and delib-
crate refusal of both the senate and
house of representatives to permit
such investigation to be made, de-
monstrates that only by change in
the executive and in the Legislative
departments can complete exposure,
punishment and correction be OBJ
tanned.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.
We condemn the action of the
Republican party in congress in re-
fusing to prohibit an executive
department from entering into con-
tracts with convicted trusts on un-
lawful combinations in restraint OF
interstate trade. We believe that
one of the best methods of procuring
economy and honesty in the public
service is to have public officials,
from the occupant of the White
House down to the lowest of them,
returned as nearly as may be to
Jeffersonian simplicity Of living.
EXECUTIVE UsURPAT1oN.
We favor the nomination and elec-
tion of president imbued with the
principles of the constitution who
will set his face sternly against exc.
cutive usurpstion of legislative and
judicial functions, whether that
usurpation be yelled under the guise
of executive construction of existing
lave, or whether it take refuge in
the tyrant's pleas of necessity or
superior wisdom.
We favor the preservation, 30 far
as We can, of an open door for the
worlds commerce in the Orient, with
out an unnecessary ENHANCEMENT in
Oriental and European affairs, and
without arbitrary, unlimited, ire.
sponsibe and absolute government
anywhere within our jurisdiction.
We oppose, as fervently as did
George Washington himself, an in