Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-04
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Pensions.

Pensions.
'"Fhe democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
arbitrary executive order. but by legis-
lation which grateful people stand
ready TO enact
with their lives the constitution and the
laws have sacred interest in their just
administration. They must therefore
share will. us the humiliation with which
We have witnessed the eXaltation of court
favorites, without distinguished service.
over the SCARED heroes of many battles.
or aggrandized by executive appropria-
tions out of the treasures of PROSTATE
people in -, vielation ea n, Of the act Of con.
allowances of the military officers.
Merchant Marine.
1--WE denounce the ship subsidy bill re-
Gently passed by the United States sem
ate as an iniquitous appropriation Of
public funds g; for private purposes and =
overcome by subsidy the obstructions
raised by republican legislation to tho
growth and development Of American
commerce on the sea.
We favor the upbuilding of a mer-
chant marine without new or additional
bounties from the public treasury.
Civil Service.
ted to the principles of civil service re.
form, and we demand their honest, just
and impartial enforcement.
I'VE denounce the republican party for
its continuous and sinister encroach-
ments upon the spirit and operation OF
civil service rules, whereby 1t has arbi-
office in the interest of favorites and
employed all manner OF devices to over
reach and set aside the principles upon
which the civil service was established.
Condo emnntion of p"lysauy.
1--WE demand the determination Of po-
lygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete separa-
ton Of church and state in political at
fairs.
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 measure framed by
a democrat, passed in the senate by
non-partizan vote and passed in the house
republican leaders by a vote the major
ity of which was democratic. We call at
ing automatically throughout all time
without further action Of congress, until
the reclamation of all the lands in the
arid west capable of reclamation Is ac-
complished, reserving the lands reclaimed
for homeseekers in small tracts and rigid
lv guarding against land monopoly as an
evidence of the policy of domestic deve-
opment contemplated by the democratic
party should 1t be placed IN power.
Imperlnlism.
we laNOF lne preservation, so lar as
we can, of an open door for the worlds
commerce in the orient without unneces-
sary ENHANCEMENT in the oriental and
European affairs and without arbitrary.
ernment anywhere within our jurisdic-
ton. We oppose. as ferVently as did
irresponsible, discretionary, and vague
absolutism and policy of colonial eX
ploitation, no matter Wnere or by whom
invoked or eXt rcised we believe, with
Thomas jefferson and John Adams, that
no government has right TO make one
set of laws for those at home and an
other and different set of laws, abSo-
lutte in their character, for those 'in the
colonies All men under the American
flag are entitled to the protection of the
institutions whose emblem the flag is: il
they are inherently unfit for those insti-
tions, then they are inherently unfit to be
members of the American body polite
Wherever there may exist a people In
capable of being governed under Amer
ican laws, In consonance with the Amer.
people ought not to be part of the Amer.
lean domain
We insist that we ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have already done for
as it can be done wisely and safely for
the Filipinos themselves. and after AMIGA
naval stations, coaling stations and trade
relations, and upon suitable guarantees
Of protection to all national and interna-
tional interests to settle the people upon
their feet. free and independent. to work
out their own destiny.
THE endeavor OF the secretary Of war,
by pledging the government's indorse-
islands, to make the United States a part
ner. in speculative exploitation Of the
archipelago. which was only temporarily
held up by the opposition Of democratic
senator's in the last session, will. If sue
cessful. lead to a permanent entangle-
ment, from which It will be difficult 20
escape.
Statehood for Territories.
I'VE favor statehood for Oklahoma and
the Indian territory, statehood for Ari.
zona, statehood for New Mexico and .
territorial government for Porto Rico.
Election of Senators by tho People.
I'VE favor the election Of United States
senators by direct vote Of the peoplA"