The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-07-14
senators BY the direct vote Of the peo-
Statehood for Territories.

we favor the admission Of the territories
Of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. We
also favor the immediate admission Of Ari-
IONA and New Mexico as separate states
and territorial government for Alaska
and Porto Rico.
we hold that the officials appointed to
administer the government of any ter
ritory, as well as with the district Of Alas
ka should be bona flde residents 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 polyg-
amy 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 re-
Gently passed by the United States senate
as an Ubiquitous appropriation OF pubic
funds for private purposes and a wasteful,
illogical and useless attempt to overcome
by subsidy the distractions raised by re-
publican legislation to the growth and de-
velopment of American commerce on the
sea
we favor the upbuilding of a merchant
marine without new or 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 where they can be entered into
with benefit to American agriculture,
manufactures. mining or commerce.
Monroe Doctrine.
We favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
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 a 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
we have witnessed the exaltation of court
favorites, without distinguished service,
over the SCARED heroes of many battles
or aggrandtzed by executive appropria-
tons out of the treasures of a PROSTATE
people in violation of the act of congress
which fixed the compensation of allow
ances of the military officers "
Civil Service. D.
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 it has arbitrarily
dispensed with examinations for office in
the interests of favcrites and employed
all manner of device to overreach and set
aside the principles upon which the civil
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
mosltles in any part of cur 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 a 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 IL 10 the sober common sense and
PATRIOTS spirit of the American people
republican Administration.
The existing republican administration
mas peen spasmodic, erratic, sensational,
spectacular and arbitrary. It has made,
Itself satire upon the congress. the courts
and upon the settled practices and usages
or national and international law
1t summoned congress into hasty and fu-
tile extra session and virtually adjourned
it, leaving behind its fight from Washing
ton uncaued calendars and unaccomplished
tasks.
1t made war, which is the sole power of
congress, without its authority, thereby
usurping one of its fundamental preroga-
tives. 1t violated a plain statute of the
United States as well as plain treaty obli-
cations, International usages and constf-
tutional law; and has done so under pre-
tense of executing a 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
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
doors. g..
1t conducted a secretive investigation of
its own and boosted of few sample con-
victs, while it threw a. 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-
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 II
would not run Misunderstanding it's fu-
ture purposes beclouded by it's vaccilla-
tons.
Appeal to the Country.
Conducting the campaign upon this dec
Iaration of our principles and purposes, we
invoke for our candidates the support, not
Dnly of our great and time-honored or
ganization, but also the active assistance
of all our fellow citizens who dlsregarding
past differences upon questions no longer
in issue desire the perpetuation of our con-
stitutional government as framed and es-
tahlished by the fathers of the republic.
Because the owners of suitable
park sites ask exorbitant prices for
their land, the Marshalltown park
commission has decided to purchase