Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-07-19

wtrn penent TO American agriculture,
manufactures, mining or commerce.
Monroe Doctrine.
We favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine In Its full integrity. l
The Army.
We favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditure to the point his
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient.
Pensions.
The democracy would secure to the sur
viving soldiers and sailors and their de-
pendence, generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary executive order, but by legis-
lation, which grateful people stand
ready to enact.
Our soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have a sacred interest in their just
administration. They must therefore
share with us the humiliation with which
we have witnessed the exaltation of court
favorites, without distinguished service,
over the SCARED heroes of many battles;
or agsrandiZed by executive appropria-
lions out OF the treasures of PROSTATE
people in violation of the act of congress
which fixed the compensation of allow
ances of the military officers
Civil Service.
The democratic party stands commit
ted to the principle of civil service re-
form, and we demand their honest, Just
and impartial enforcement.
We denounce the republican party for
Its continuous and sinister encroachments
upon the spirit and operation of civil
service rules, whereby 1t has arbitrarily
dispensed with examinations for office in
the interests of favorites and employed
all manner of device to overreach and set
lfol, A. at,.
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 it
that IT brings no more. To revive the
dead and hateful race and sectional ami.
mostties in any part of our common
country means confusion, distraction Of
business and the reopening of wounds
now happily healed. North, south, east
and west have but recently stood to-
gether In line of battle from the walls of
Pekin to the hills of Santiago, and as
sharers of common glory and a COM
mon destiny, we should share fraternally
the common burdens. We therefore dep
recate and condemn the Bourbon-like
selfish and narrow spirit of the recent
republican convention at Chicago, which
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
| mas been spasmodic, erratic, sensational.
| spectacular and arbitrary. Ii has made
itself satire upon the congress- the courts
ana upon the settled practices and usaees
OF national and international law.
1t summoned congress into hasty and fu-
tile extra session and virtually adjourned
l n intr hob ty,l q tr~l,k
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 preroea-
tives. 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 of 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
| Interpretation 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
| doers
| 1t conducted a secretive investigation Of
victs, while 1t threw broad coverlet over
| the bureaus which had been their chosen
| field of operative abuses. and kept in pow
| er the superior officers, under whose ad-
ministration the crimes had been commit.
| ted.
1t ordered assault upon some monoplies,
but paralyzed by its first victory, it flung
out the flag of truce and cried out that 1t
| would not run Misunderstanding its fu-
ture purposes beclouded by its vaccilla-
| lions.
Appeal to the Country.
Conducting the campaign upon this dec
laration Of our principles and purposes, we
invoke for our candidates the support. not
only of our great and time-honored or
ganization, but also the active assistance
of all our fellow citizens who, disregarding
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.