Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-07-15

pendants generous pensions, not by an ar
bItrary executive order, but by Legislation
which a grateful people STANDS ready ~
enact set
Our soldiers and sailors who defend with
their lives the constitution ana the laws
have a sacred interest In their just al
ministratfon They must therefore snare
with us the humiliation with which we
have witnessed the exaltation OF court IA
vorites without distinguished service over
the SCARED heroes of many battles or az
grandized by executive appropriations oat
of the treasures Of PROSTATE people III
violation Of the act Of Congress when NIX.
ed the compensation and allowances OF
the military officers
Civil Service.
The Democratic party stands committed
and we demand their honest, Just and I'M
partial enforcement
We denounce the Republican party for
its continuous and sinister encroachments
upon the spirit and operation Of civil ser
vice rules whereby 1t has arbitrarily DIS
pensed with examinations for office in the
interest of favorites and employed all man
ner of devices to overreach and set ASIDE
the principles upon which the civil SER
vice was established.
School and Race Questions.
The race question has brought countless
woes to this country. The calm wisdom OF
the American people should see to IL tnat
it brings no more.
To revive the dead and hateful race and
sectional animoslties In any part OF our
common country means confusion, distrac-
ton of business and the re0pening OK
wounds now happily healed. North, South.
East and West have but recently stood TO-.
gether in line of battle, fri m the walls OF
Pekin to the hills Of Santiago, end as
sharers Of common glory and common
destiny we should share fri ternally the
common burdens
We therefore deprecate and condemn the
bourbonlike selfish and narrow spirit Of the
RonuhIinan convention ffhjoQ
which sought to kindle anew the embers
of racial and sectional strife, and we ap-
peal from 1t to the sober common sense
and patriotic spirit Of the American peo
pie.
Republican Administration.
The existing Republican administration
has been spasmodic, erratic, sensational
spectacular and arbitrary. 1t has made 1t
self satire upon Congress, the courts and
upon the settled practices and usages Of
national and International law.
1t summoned Congress into hasty and
futile extra session and virtually adjourn
ed It, leaving behind It's flight from Wash
ington uncalled calendars and unaccom-
pllShed tasks.
1t made war, which is the sole power Of
Congress, without Its authority, thereby
usurping one of its fundamental preroga
tiyes. 1t violated a plain statute of the
United States as well as plain treaty obli-
cations, international usages and constitu-
tional law, and has done so under pre-.
which could have been more easily effect
ed lawfully, constitutionally and with
honor.
1t forced strained and unnatural con-
struct1ons upon statutes, usurping judicial
Interpretation and substituting Congress
sional enactment decree.
Congress in Background.
1t withdrew from Congress customary
duties of investigation which have hereto
fore made the representatives Of the peo
pie and the States the terror of evildoers.
1t conducted secretive investigation of
it's own and boosted of a 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 power
the superior officers under whose admins
tration the crimes had been committed.
1t ordered assault upon some monopolies,
but, paralyZed by Its first victory, it flung
out the flag Of truce and cried out that it
would not run amuck," leaving It's future
purposes beclouded by its vacillations
Conducting the campaign upon this dec
laration Of our principles and purposes, we
invoke for candidates the support, not
only Of our great and time-honered organl-
zation, but also the active assistance of all
Of our fellow citizens, who, disregarding
past differences upon questions no longer
in issue, desire the perpetuation Of our con-
stitutional government as framed and es-
tablished by the fathers Of the republic