The Tomahawk., 1904-07-21


Democratic Nominee for Vice President.
maintenance Of the Monroe doctrine in it's
full integrity, liberal trade treaty with
Canada. reduction of the army and army
expenditures, statehood for Oklahoma,
Indian Territory, Arizona and New Mexico,
and a territorial form of government for
Alaska and Porto Rico.
Capital and Labor.
It favors enactment and administration
of laws giving labor and capital imp artial-
ly their just right; denies right of any ex-
ecutive to disregard or suspend any consti-
tutional privilege or limitation; condemns
employment of the military for the sum-
mary banishment of citizens without trial
or for the control of elections.
The platform pledges the party to In
sist upon the just and lawful protection
of our citizens abroad; favors generous
pension policy, not by an arbitrary execu-
tive order, but by legislation which
grateful people stand ready to enact; de-
nounces the ship subsidy bill passed by the
senate, and favors the upbuilding of a mer-
chant marine without new or additional
burdens upon the people, and without
bounties from the public treasury; de-
mands honest, just and imp artial enforce
ment of the principles Of civil service re-
form; demands determination Of polygamy
within the Jurisdiction Of the United States,
and complete separation of church and
state in political affairs; for liberal appro-
priations for the care and Improvement OF
waterways.
The resolutions favor the preservation of
the open door for the worlds commerce.
without unnecessary ENHANCEMENT In ORR
entail and European affairs; denounces an
indefinite, irresponsible. discretionary and
vague absolutism and policy of colonial
exploitation; insists that we ought to do
for the Filipinos what we have done for the
Cubans and announces the intention Of
the party, as soon as it can be done wisely
and safely for the Filipinos themselves. to
set the Filipino eople upon their feet, free
and independent. to work out their own
destiny.
The Tariff
On the tariff question, the resolutions
favor a revision and gradual reduction Of
the tariff by the friends of the masses, and
for the common veal, and not by the friends
of it's abuses, its extortions and its dis
elimination, keeping in view the ultimate
end of "equality of burdens and equality
of opportunities, and the constitutional
purpose Of raising revenue by taxation,
to support the federal government in all it's
integrity and virility, but in simplicity.
They favor tariff limited to the needs Of
the government, economically administered
against any industry, class or section, to
the end that the burdens of taxation
shall be distributed as equally as possi-
ble
The Trust.
The platform recognizes that the gigantic
trusts and combinations designed to enable
capital to secure more than its just share
of the joint products Of capital and labor,
and which have been fostered and pro-
NOTED under republican rule. are men
ace to beneficial competition and an OBJ
stacle to permanent business prosp Gritty
A private monopoly is indefensible and
intolerable. Individual equality Of oppor'
tunity and free competition are essential
to healthy and permanent commercial
prosperity, and any trust combination or
monopoly tending to destroy these by
controlling production restricting COM
petition or fixing prices should be pro-
hibited and punished by law. 1t especially
denounces rebates and discrimination
by transportation companies, as the most
potent agency in ting and strength
ening these unlawful conspirac1es against
trade It demands strict enforcement OF
existing civil and criminal statutes against
all such trusts, combinations and monopo-
lies; and we demand the enactment of such
further legislation as may be necessary to
effectually suppress them.
On the race question the platform de-
clares that to revive the dead and hateful
race and sectional amin ositieS In any part
of our common country means CONFUSION,
distraction of business and the reoponing
of wounds now happily healed. 1t depre-
Gates and condemns the Bourbon-like sell
fish and narrow spirit of the recent repnb-
lican convention at Chicago, which sought
to kindle anew the embers Of racial and sec
tional strife and we appeal from it to the
sober common sense and patriotic spirit OF
the American people.
Appeal to the Country.
The existing republican administration.
is strongly denounced for its policies. In
conclusion the platform says: Conduct
ing the campaign upon this declaration Of
our principles and purposes, we invoke 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, disregrading past differences
upon questions no longer in issue, desire
the perpetuation of our constitutional go:'
eminent as framed and established by the
fathers Of the republic
Chicago's Population.
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