The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-10

or recognition is withheld from Amer
lean passports by any countries on
the ground of race or creed, we Iavol
the beginning of negotiations WIN
the government of such countries 10
secure by treaties the removal OF these
unjust determinations.
We demand that all over the World
a duly authenticated passport lssueo
by the government of the Onit Gu
States to an American citizen siidil We
proof of the fact that he is an Amer -
can citizen and shall entltle Hlhi "
the Treatment due him as such.
Election of Senators by the feople.
We favor the election OF united
States Senators by the direct vote OF
the people.
Statehood For Territories.
We favor the admission of the ter
ritories of Oklahoma and the Indian
Te1ritory. We also favor the imme-
diata admission of Arizona and New
Mexico as separate States and terri
torial government for Alaska and Por-
to Rico
We hold that the officials appointed
to administer the government of any
territory, as we'll as with the district of
Alaska, should be bona fide residents
at the time of their appointment of
the territory of district in which their
duties are to be performed.
Condemnation of Polycamy.
We demand the determination of
poIygamy within the jurisdiction of
| the United States and the complete
separation of church and State in po-
| litical affairs.
Merchant Marine.
We denounce the ship-SubSidy bill
recently passed by the United States
Senate 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 develop
ment of American commerce on the
sea.
We favor the upbuilding Of a mer-
chant marine without new or addition
al burdens upon the people and with
out bounties from the public treasury.
Reciprocity.
We favor liberal trade arrange
ments with Canada and with people of
other countries where they can be en-
tered into with benefit to American
agriculture, manufacturers, mining
and commerce.
Monroe Dostrine.
We favor the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine I'm its full integrity.
Army.
We favor the reduction of the army
and of the army expenditures to the
point historically demonstrated to be
safe and sufficient.
Pensions and Soldiers and Sailors.
The Democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents, generous pensions, not by
an arbitrary executive order but by
| legislation, 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 and they
must therefore share with us the hu-
initiation with which we have wit
messed the eXaltation Of court favor
ties, without distinguished service,
over the SCARED heroes of many bat
| ties; or aggrandiZed by executive APP
preparations out Of the treasures of
a PROSTATE people in violation of the
| act of Congress which fixed the com
pensation or allowance of the military
officers.
Civil Service.
The Democratic party stands COM
mitted to the principle of civil service
| reform, and we demand their honest,
| just and impartial enforcement.
| We denounce the Republican party
| for its continuous and sinister en-
| croachments upon the spirit and OPP
GRAFTON of civil service rules, whereby
| it has arbitrarily dispensed with eX-
| aminations for office in the interests
of favorites and employed all manner
| of devices to over-reach and set aside
the principles upon which the service
was established.
Schools and Race Questions.
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 animosities in any part
of our common country means con-
fusion, distraction of business and the
| re-opening of wounds now happily
healed. North, South East and
| West have but recently stood togeth
er in line of battle from the walls of
Pekin to the hills of Santiago, and as
| sharers of a common glory and a
common destiny we should share fra
ternally the common burdens.
We therefore deprecate and con-
denim the BOurbon-like selfish and
narrow spirit of the recent Republi-
can convention at Chicago which
racial and sectional strife, and we ap-
peal from it to the sober common
sense and patriotic spirit of the Amer
lean people.
The Republican Administration.
The existing Republican admfnistra-
| ton has been Spasmodic, erratic, SEN
satonal, spectacular and arbitrary.
| 1t has made itself a satire upon the
| Congress, the courts and upon the
settled practices and uSages of ma
! tional and international law.
1t summoned the Congress into
| party and futile extra session and vir-
| tually adjourned it, leaving behind
it's flight from Washington uncalled
| calendars and unaccomplished tasks.
1t made war, which is the sole pow
| err of Congress, without it's authority,
! thereby usurping one of it's funda-
| mental prerogatives. 1t violated
| plain statute of the United States as
well as plain treaty obligations, inter-
national usages and constitutional
| laws; and has done so under pretense
| of executing a great public policy
| which could have been more easily
effected lawfully, constitutionally and
| with honor.
1t forced strained and unnatural