New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-09
of the Territory or district in which their duties
are to be performed
CONDEMNATION OF PoLYGAMY.

CONDEMNATION OF POLYGAMY.
We demand the determination Of polygamy
within the jurisdiction of the United States. and
the complete separation OF Church and State in
political affairs.
MERCHANT MARINE.
We denounce the Ship Subsidy bill recently
passed by the United States Senate as an IN
iquitous appropriation of public funds for prl-
yate purposes. and "a Wasteful, illogical and use
less attempt to overcome by subsidy the OBJ
strucuons raised by Republican legislation 10
the growth and development of American COM
nerce on the sea.
We favor the upbuildng of a merchant ma
rine without new additional burdens upon
the people and without bounties from the public
treasury.
RECIPROCITY.
We favor liberal trade arrangements with
Canada, and with peoples of other countries
American agriculture. manufactures, mining or
commerce.
MONROE DOCTRINE
We favor the maintenance of the Monroe
Doctrine in its full integrity.
ARMY
We favor the reduction of the army and of
army expenditure the point historically
demonstrated TO be safe and sufficient
PENSIONS
The Democracy would secure to the surviving
soldiers and sailors and their dependents gener-
order, but by legislation. which a grateful peo-
pie stand ready TO enact.
Our soldiers and sailors who defended with
their lives the Constitution and the laws have q
sacred interest in their just administration.
They must therefore share with us the humtlia-
ton with which We have witnessed the exalta-
ton of court faYorites, without distinguished
service, over the SCARED heroes of many battles;
or agGrandiZed by executive appropriations out
OF the treasures Of a PROSTATE people in viola
ton of the act Of Congress which fixed the COM
pensatiOn of allowances of the military ofhcers.
CIVIL SERVICE
The Democratic party stands committed to the
principle of Civil Service reform, and we demand
their honest, just and impartial enforcement
We denounce the Republican party for its con-
tinuouS and sinister enCroechments upon the
spirit and operation of Civil Service rules
whereby 1t has arbitrarily dispensed with exam
nations for office in the interests OF faVorltes
and employed all manner of devices to over
reach and set aside the principles upon which
the Civil Service was established.
SCHOOL AND RACE QUESTIONS.
The race question has brought countless woes
TO this country The calm wisdom of the Amer
lean people should see to it that it brings no
more. To revive the dead and hateful race and
sectional animosities in any part of our COM
mon country means confusion, distraction OF
business and the reopening of wounds now hap
PLY healed. North, South, East and West have
but recently stood together in line Of battle from
the walls OF Picking to the hills Of Santiago. and
as sharers of a common glory and common
destiny We should share fraternally the common
burdens.
We therefore deprecate and condemn the
Bourbonlike selfish and narrow spirit of the
recent Republican convention at Chicago, which
sought to kindIe anew the embers Of racial and
sectional strife, and we appeal from 1t to the
sober common sense and patriotic spirit Of the
American people.
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION.
The existing Republican administration has
been spasmodic, erratic. sensational, spectacu-
lar and arbitrary. 1t has made itself satire
set
tied practices and usages OF national and inter
national law.
It summoned the Congress into hasty and
futile extra session and virtually adjourned 1t,
leaving behind its flight from Washington I'M
called calendars and unaccomplished tasks
1t made war; which is the sole power of Con-
gress without it's authority. thereby usurping
one of its fundamental prerogatves 1t violated
a plain statute of the United States, as well as
and constitutional law; and has done so under
pretence of executing great public policy
which could have been more easily effected law
fully, constitutionally and with honor.
It forced strained and unnatural constructions
upon statutes usurping judicial Interpretation
and substituting Congressional enactment de-
cree.
It withdrew from Congress their customary
duties Of investigation which have heretofore
made the representatives Of the people and the
States the terror Of evildoers.
It conducted a secretive investigation OF its
own, and boosted OF a Few sample conVlcts' whlie
II threw a broad coverlet over the bureaus which
had been their chosen field OF operative abuses
and kept in power the superior officers under
whose administration the crimes had been COM
mitted.
It ordered assault upon monopolies, but
paralyzed by its first victory, it flung out the
flag of truce and cried out that it would not
run amuck'-leaving its future purposes be-
clouded by its vaccations.
APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY
Conducting the campaign upon this declara-
ton of our principles and purposes invoke
for our candidates the support. not only of our
great and time-honored organization. but also
the active assistance Of all of fellow citi-
Zens who. disregarding past differences upon
questions longer in issue desire the perpetu-
alton of our constitutional government
framed and established by the fathers of the
Republic.
POLICE FIGHT BACK MOB.