The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22
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: Paragraphs From the
: Democratic Platform.

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We especially denounce rebates
and discrimination by transportation
companies as the most potent agency
in promoting and strengthening thest
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 Il 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
| idents.
We demand the determination of
polygamy.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
us an ubiquitous appropriation of pub
lie funds for private purposes.
We favor liberal trade arrange
Iments with Canada and with peoples
of other countries.
We favor the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine in its 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-
roachments upon the spirit and Oper-
alton of civil service rules.
We deprecate and condemn the
spirit which sought to kindle anew
the embers of racial and sectional
strife.
The existing republican admins
tration summoned congress into has
ty and futile extra session and ad-
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sole power of congress, without its
authority; violated plain statute as
well us 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 it's
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
itary 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 Qf the re-
publican party in congress in refus-
ing to prohibit an executive depart
ment from entering into contracts
with convicted trusts.