The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-07-16

| Against Executive UsurpatiOn of
Legislative or Judicial Functions.
| I'VE, the democratic party of the United
| States In national convention assembled,
| declare its devotion to the essential prin-
| ciples of the democratic faith which
brings US together in party communion.
Under them local seif-government and
| national unity and prosperity were alike
| established. They undcrlaid our ndepend-
| ence the structure OF our free republic
| and every democratic extension from
| Louisiana to California ana Texas to Ore
| gon, which preserved faithfully in all the
| states the tie between taxation and rep
resentation. They yet inspire the masses
of our people, guarding jealousy their
rights and liberties, and cherishing their
fraternity, peace and orderly develop
ment They remind US of our duties and
responsibility; as citizens and impress
upon us, particularly AT this time, the
necessity of reform ald the rescue of the
administration of government from the
headstronS, arbitrary and spasmodic
methods which distract business, by un;
certainty and perVade the public mind
with dread, distrust and perturbation.
The application of these fundamental
principles to the living issues of the day
constitutes the first step toward the as
sured peace, safety and progress of our
nation Freedom of the press, of con-
science and Of speech; equality before
the law Of all citizens; the right of trial
by jury; freedom of the person defended
by the writ of habeas corpus; liberty of
personal contract unlrammeled by sump-
tuary laws; the supremacy of the civil
over military authority; well-disciplined
militia; the separation of church and
state; economy in expenditures; low
taxes that labor may be lightly bur
of public and private obligations fidelity |
to treaties: peace and friendship with all |
nations; entangling alliances with none; |
absolute acquiescence in the will of the |
majority. the vital principle of republics !
these are doctrines which democracy has |
established as proverbs of the nation,
and they should be constantly invoked, |
preached. resorted to and enforced.
Controlling Expenses.
u. Large reductions can readily be
made in the annual expenditures of the |
government without imparing the eff
and We shall insist upon the strctest |
economy and frugaity compatible with
vigorous and efficient civil, military and
naval administration as a right of the
people, too clear to be denied or with
held.
"2. The enforcement of honesty in the
public service, and to that end a thorough
legislative investigation of those execu-
tive departments of the government al
ready known to TEEN with corruption, as
well as other departments suspected of
harboring corruption. and the punishment
of ascertained corruptionsts without fear
or favor or regard to persons. The per-
sistent and deliberate refusal of both the
senate and house of representatives to
permit such investigation to be made by
either branch OF congress demonstrates
that only by change in the executive
and in the house of representatives can
complete exposure, punishment and cor
rection be obtained
I'm broader furtherance of that end the
federal government should not permit it.
self TO be robbed by entering into con-
tracts with convicted trusts or unlawful
combinations In restraint of interstate
trade, existing in violation of law. We
believe that one of the best methods of
procuring economy and honesty in the
public service Is to have public officials,
from the occupant of the White House
down to the lowest of them return, as
nearly as may be. to Jeitersonian sim
plicity of living.
Presidential Recon me ndations.
49, We favor the nomination and cleo
ton of a president trained in the ways of
the constitution, who shall set his face
sternly against executive usurpation of
legislative and judicial functions whether
that usurpation be ruled under the guise
Of executive construction of existing
laws, or whether 1t take refuge in the
tyrant's pleas of necessity of superior
"A. The democratic party has been,
and Will continue to be, the consistent
by which certain interests have been per-
mitted, through congressional favor, to
draw heavy tribute from the American
those equal opportunities, which our DO
litical institutions were established to Sc
cure, has caused what may once have
Deen ln1ant industries TO become the
greatest combinations of capital that the
world has ever known. These publicly
favored enterprises have. through trust
methods, been converted into monopolies
thus bringing to an end domestic COM
petition, which was the only check upon
the extravagant profits made possible by
combinations, by the financial assistance
they can give, now control the policy of
the republican party.
I'VE favor a wise. conservative and
DlSineSSIike revision and gradual | ,
duction of the tariff by the friends of the
masses and for the common veal, and
tortions and its determinations, keeping
in view the ultimate end of equality OF
burdens and equality of opportunities
and the constitutional purpose of raising {
a revenue by taxation, to-wit, the sup.
port of the federal government in all its
integrity and virility, but in simplicity
mon sense should, existing conditions
however wrongfuly, mistakenly or I'M !
justly brought about and the danger to I
the cause of tariff reform itself of abrupt
and revolutionary reversal of policy. +
1--WE should bear in mind, in short, these !
two things: D The general principle that !
alton is the support of the federal gov
ernemnt, economically, effectively and /
administered; and (2),
the equal truth that in the assertion of
any ultimate end, however sacred and ,
logically unavoidable, due regard but /,
only due regard, must and should be paid /
to actual existing conditions. ,,
1--WE favor the reduction of tariff tax :
alton upon trust-produced articles to the
points where foreign competition may en- 5
ter the American market whenever trusts :
and combines. seeking monopoly, raise I
their prices to the American consumer !
above a reasonable and just profit by
such reduction depriving trusts and mo-
nOpolies of the power to extort from the
people, under shelter of Amer I
lean law prices higher than those charged 2
foreigners for Identical articles I
The Isthmiun Canal. i
"Our party having long and earnestly
advocated the construction of interoceanic S
canal for the purpose of national defense
and commerce between the states and
with foreign nations, we favor the early
completion of the isthmian canal
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