The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-07-16

by treaty the removal of these ,,.
Determinations. unjust
| We demand that all over tho 49,
fbe aasneneat ef issued bs
| an American citizen shall be mes to
the fact that he is an American o;ti OF
and shall entitle him to the treatnnaehs
due him such. "'ihent
Election Of Senator'S by the peon,.
We favor the election of rJnitaa 60
senators by the direct vote of the eo saa
pie. the peo-
We favor the admission of tho to.
tories OF oklahoma and the Indian TIL
tory. we also favor the immediate III
as separate states and territoriamI exlco
eminent for Alaska and Puerto Picsoo V-
we hold that the officials appointed -
administer the government of apv 10
ritory. as well as with the distrio. Ter
Alaska, should be bona fide resident OF
| the time of their appointment of the fa az
ties are to be performed e ou-
We demand the DETERMINATION ~
Iyg;a t s WItnin the jurisdiction Of the the
ton of church and state in political as
| fairs. oai al
We favor liberal trade arraneemen..
countries where they can be entered pi ;r
with benefit to American agricnlt,m,r.oo
manufactures, mining. or commerce.
roe doctrine in it's full entirety. oh>
| We favor the reduction of the arv,,,
and navy expenditures to the point b;ts
toricaliV demonstrated to be safe and
The Democracy would secure 70 ,,o
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensions. NOT hv e eli
| arbitrary executive order, but by Isei SiR
lation which grateful people stsnS
ready to enact. o
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have a sacred interest in their ms.
administration. They must. therefore'
share with us the humiliation w;th
which we have witnessed the exaItatio,nn
of court favorites, without distinguishoS
service. or aggrandized by executive an
PROSTATE people, in violation of the act
of congress- which fixes the comnenso
! ton and allowances of the military Of
ficerS.
Civil Service.
The Democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles of civil service re-
| form, and we demand their honest inst
and impartial enforcement We de-
nounce the Republican party for its con
tinuous encroachment upon the spirit
whereby it has arbitrarily dispensed
with examinations for office in the inter
ests of -avorites to overreach and SET
aside the principles upon which the civil
service was established.
School and Race Questions.
The race question has brought count.
| less woes to this country. The calm
wisdom of the American people Should
see to it that it brings no more. To re-
vive the dead and hateful race and sec
tional animosities in any part of our
common country means confusion dis
! traction of business and reopening OF
wounds now happily healed North
stood in line of battle from the walls Of
Picking to the hills of Santiago and as
sharers of common glory and a conf
mon destiny we would share fraternally
| the common burdens
We therefore deprecate and condemn
the bourbon-like selfish and narrow spir-
! it of the recent Republican convention at
Chicago, which sought to kindle anew
| radical and factional strife, and we APP
! peal to the sober common sense and pa
| triotic spirit of the American people.
Republican Mistakes.
The existing Republican admnistra-
| ton has been spaSmodic. spectacular and
arbitrary 1t has made itself satire
upon the congress, the courts and upon
the settled practices and .usages of ma
tional and international law 1t sum-
honed the congress into hasty and futile
/ extra session and virtually adjourned 1t.
leaving it's flight from Washington UNI
called calendars and unaccomplished
| tasks.
1t made war which is the sole power
of congress. without it's authority there
by usurping it's fundamental preroga-
tives. 1t violated a statute of the United
| states as well as pam treaty OOilBd~
! lions, international usages and consti-
tutional law; and has done so under pre-
tense of executing great public policy
| which could have been more easily ef-
fected lawfully, constitutionally and
! with honor
! 1t forced strained and unnatural con-
| StructionS upon statutes, usurping judi
| cial Interpretation and substituting con-
! gressional enactments. 1t withdrew
from congress their customary duties OF
! investigation which have heretofore
made the representatives OF the people
and states the terror of evildoers
1t conducted Secretive investiga-
/ ton of it's own and boasted OF Few
sample convicts while 1t threw broao
coverlet over the bureaus which mao
been their chosen field of operative
abuses. and kept in power the superior
officers under whose administration the
crimes had been committed.
1t ordered assault upon some monopo-
! lies but, paralyzed by it's first victory
! it flung out the flag of truce and de--
clared that it would not run amucks
| leaving it's future purposes becioude"
by it's vacillations.
Appeal to the Country.
Conducting the campaign upon TINS
declaration of our principles ana puMi
poses we invoke for our candidate inc
support not only of our great ana tlme
honored organization but also the acuNo
assistance of all our fellow clt izens.
who disre garding past differences upon ppm
questions no longer in issue, desire one
perpetuation of our constitutional ~
eminent as framed and established Ds
the fathers of the republic
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