The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-13
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portation and broader and less tram
meled trade relations with the other
peoples Of the world
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon
the just and lawful protection of our
citizens at home and abroad and to use
all proper measures to secure for them,
whether native born or naturaliZed,
and without distinction of race or
creed, the equal protection Of laws and
privileges open to them under the
covenants OF our treatise Of friendship
and commerce; and if under existing
treaties the right of travel and sojourn
is denied to American citizens or re-
cognition is withheld from American
passports by any countries on the
ground of race or creed, we favor the
beginning of negotiations with the
government of such countries to secure
by treaties the removal Of these unjust
determinations.
We demand that all over the world
a duly authenticated passport issued
by the government Of the United
States to an American citizen shall be
proof of the fact that he is an Amer
lean citizen and shall entitle him to
the treatment due him as such.
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY PEOPLE.
We favor the election Of United
States senators by the direct vote OF
the people.
STATEHOOD FOR TERRITORIES.
We favor the admission Of the terri
tories of Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory. We also favor the immedi-
ate admission Of Arizona and New
Mexico as separate States and terri
torial government for Alaska and
Puerto Rico.
We hold that the officials appointed
to administer the government OF any
territory, as well as with the District
of Alaska, should be bona tide resi-
dents at the time of their appointment
of the territory or district in which
their duties are to be performed.
CONDEMNATION OF PoLYGAMY.
We demand the determination Of
polygany within the jurisdiction Of
the United States and the complete
separation OF church and state in polit-
ical affairs.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill
recently passed by the United States
as an iniQuitous appropriation OF pub
lie funds for private purposes and d
wasteful, illogical and useless attempt
to overcome by subsidy the obstruc-
tion raised by Republican legislation
to the growth and development OF
American commerce on the sea.
We favor the upbuilding Of mer-
chant marine without new or addl-
tional burdens upon the people and
without bounties from the public
treasury.
RECIPROCITY.
We faver liberal trade agreements
with Canada and with peoples OF other
countries where they can be entered
into with benefit to American Agrlcul-
ture, manufacturers, mining or COM
merce.
MONROE DOCTRINE.
We favor the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine in it's full integrity.
ARMY.
We favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditures to the point
historically demonstrated to be safe
and sufficient.
PENSIONS AND OUR SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS.
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 a grateful people
stand ready to enact.
Our soldiers and sailors who defend
ed with their lives the constitution
and the laws have sacred interest in
their just administration. They must
therefore share with US the humiliation
with which we have witnessed the ieX-
altation of court favoriteS, without
distinguishing service over the Scared
heroes of many battles: and aggran-
died by executive appropriations out
Of the treasury Of prOstrate people in
violation Of the act Of congress which
fixed the compensation or allowance
of the military officers.
CIVIL SERVICE.
The Democratic party stands COM
mitted 70 the principle Of civil service
reform, and we demand their honest,
just and impartial enforcement.
We denounce the Republican party
for it's continuous and sinister en-
croachments upon the spirit and ope-
ration o. civil service rules, whereby it
has arbitrarily dispensed with exami-
nations for Office in the interest Of ia
Yorites and employed all manner Of
devices 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 revive the dead and hateful racial
and sectional animositieS in any part
Of our common country means confu-
sion, distraction OF business and the
reopening Of wounds new happily
healed. North, south, east and west
have but recently stood together in
line of battle from the walls of Pekin
to the hills Of Santiago and as sharers
of q common glory and a common des-
tiny we should share fraternally the
common burdens.
We therefore deprecate and condemn
the bourbon-like. selfish and narrow
spirit of the recent Republican con-
vention 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 partl-
otic spirit of the American people.