Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-07-14
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dom Of the American people should SEE
TO II that II brings no more. To revive
the dead and hateful race and sectional
animosities 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 together
In line of battle from the walls of Pekin
to the hills of Santiago and as slaarers
OF a common glory and O common des-
tiny we should share fraternally the COM
mon burdens. We therefore deprecate
and condemn the Bourbon-llke selfish
and narrow spirit OF the recent repub-
lican convention ut Chicago which sought
to kindle anew the embers OF racial and
sectional strife. and we appeal from II to
the sober common sense and patriotic
spirit OF the American people,
The existing republican administration
has been spasmodic. erratic, sensational,
spectacular and arbitrary. 1t has made
| itself a satire upon the congress, the
courts and upon the settled practices and
| usages OF national and international law.
1t summoned the congress into hasty
and futile extra session and virtually ad-
journed II, leaving behind its flight from
Washington uncalled calendars and UNI
accomplished tasks. It made war. which
is the sole power of congress. without
its authority. thereby usurping one Of its
fundamental prerogatives. 1t violated
n plain statute OF the United States as
well as plain treaty obligations, interna-
tional usages and constitutional law; and
has done so under pretense OF executing
| great public policy which could have
been more easily effected lawfully. con-
| stituiionaly and with honor. 1t forced
strained and unnatural constructions
| upon statutes. usurping judicial inter-
probation and substituting congressional
enactment by decree. II withdrew from
congress fits customary duties of investi-
CATION which have heretofore made the
representatives OF the people and the
states the terror Of evildoers. 1t con-
Quoted secretive investigation Of its
own and boosted of a few sample con-
victs while II threw broad ccverlet 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. 1t ordered assault upon some
monopolies. but paraylzed by It's first VIC
tory. 1t flung out the flag of truce and
cried out that 1t would not run amuck."
leaving Its future purposes beclouded by
Its vacillations.
The democracy when entrusted with
power will construct the Panama canal
speedily. honestly and economically,
thereby giving to our people what demo-
Gratis have always contended for. a great
interoceanic canal, furnishing shorter and
cheaper lines Of transportation and
broader and less trammeled trade rela-
lions with the other peoples of the world.
We favor liberal trade arrangements
with Canada and with peoples of other
countries where they can be entered into
with benefit to the American agriculture,
manufactures. mining and commerce.
We favor the admission of the terrific
ries Of Oklahoma and the Indian terri
tory. We also favor the immediate ad-
mission of Arizona and New Mexico as
separate states and territorial govern
ment for Alaska and Porto Rico. We
hold that the officials appointed to adj
miniser the government of any territory,
as well as with the District of Alaska,
should be bona fide residents at the time
of their appointment OF the territory or
district In which their duties are to be
performed.
We favor the maintenance Of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity
We favor the reduction OF the army and !
of army expenditure TO the point his |
torically demonstrated to be safe and
sufficient.
The democracy would secure to the sur
viving soldiers and sailors and their de-
pendents generous pensions. not by an |
arbitrary executive order. but by legis- !
lation which a grateful people stand !
ready to enact. Our soldiers and sailors |
who defend with their lives the consti-
tuition and the laws have a sacred inter-
est In their just administration. They
must therefore share with us the humilia-
ton with which We have witnessed the
exaltation of court favorites. without dis
tingushed service. over the Scared he
roes of many battles; or aggrandized by
executive appropriations out of the treas
urles Of a PROSTATE people. In violation
of the act OF congress which fixes the
compensation and allowances Of the mil
itary officers.
We denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States sem
ate as an Ubiquitous appropriation of
public funds for private purposes and
a wasteful. Illogical and useless attempt
to overcome by subsidy the distractions
raised by republican legislation to the
growth and development Of American
commerce on the sea.
We favor the upbuildmg of a merchant
marine without new or additional bur-
dens upon the people and without boun-
ties from the public treasury.
The democratic party stands commit
ted to the principles Of civil service re-
form and we demand the honest, just
and impartial enforcement. We denounce
the republican party for Its continuous
and sinister Entertainments upon the
spirit and operation of civil service rules,
It has arbitrarily dispensed with
for office In the interests of
favorites. and employed all manner of
devices to over-reach and set aside the
principles upon which the civil service
was established.
We demand the determination of polyg-
amy within the Jurisdiction Of the United
States and the complete separation Of
church and state In political affairs.
We congratulate our western citizens
upon the passage of the measure known
as the Newlands irrigation act for the
irrigation and reclamation of the arid
lands of the west-a non-partisan vote
and passed in the house against the op-
position of almost all the republican
leaders by vote the majority Of which
was democratic. We call attention to this
great democratic measure, broad and
as II Is, working automat-
ically throughout all time without fur
Their action Of congress, until the re-
OF all the lands In the arid west
capable Of reclamation Is accomplished,
the lands reclaimed for home
seekers In small tracts. and rigidly guard
Ing against land monopoly. as an evidence
Of the policy OF domestic development
by the democratic party,
should It be placed in power.
We favor the preservation so far aa |