The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1904-06-24


an congress and a republican pres
ldent the great question can be safely in
trusted. When the only free trade coun-
try among the great nations agitates a
return to protection the chief protective
country should not faIter in maintaining
We have extended widely our foreign
markets. and we believe in the adOptiOn
of all practicable methods FOR their fur
Their extension, including commercial reci-
prOcity wherever reciprocal arrangements
can be effected consistent with the prin-
ciples of protection and without injury to
American agriculture, American labor or
any American industry.
We believe it to be the duty of the
republican party to uphold the gold
standard, and the integrity and value of
our national currency. The maintenance
of the gold standard, established by the
republican party, can not safely be COM
mitted to the democratic party, which re-
sisted its adoption, and has never given
any proof since that time of belief in it
or fidelity to it.
While every other industry has pros
pered under the fostering and of repub-
lican legislation, American shipping en-
gagged in foreign TRACE In competition
with the low cost OF construction, low
wages and heavy subsidies of foreign
governments. has not for many years re-
ceiVed from the government of the
United States adequate encoura cement
of any kind. We. therefore, favor legis-
latiOn which will encourage and build up
the American merchant marine, and we
cordially approve the legislation of the
last congress, which created the mer-
chant marine commission to investigate
and report upon this subject.
A navy powerful enough to defend the
United States against any attack, to up
hold the Monroe doctrine, and watch over
our commerce is essential to the safety
and the welfare of the American people.
To maintain such a navy is the fixed
policy of the republican party. We cor
daily approve the attitude of President
Roosevelt and congress in regard to the
exclusion of Chinese labor and promise
a continuance of the republican policy in
that direction.
The civil service law was placed on
the statute books by the republican party,
which has always sustained it, and we
renew our former declarations THAI it
shall be thoroughly ana honestly en-
forced
We are always 11indful of the coun-
try's debt to the soldiers and sailors or
the United States and we believe in MAJ
ing ample provision for them, and in the
liberal administration of the pension
laws.
We favor the peaceful settlement of in
ternational differences by arbitration.
We commend the vigorous efforts made
by the administration to protect Ameri-
can citizens in foreign lands, and pledge
ourselves to insist upon the just and
abroad. 1t is the unQuestiOned duty of
the government to procure for all our
citizens, without distinction, the rights
20 travel and SOJOurn in friendly cOun-
tries, and we declare ourselves in favor
of all proper efforts tending to that end.
Our great interests and our growing
commerce in the Orient render the con-
dition of China of high Importance to
the United States. We cordially com
mend the policy pursued in that dlrec-
ton by the administrations of President
Mckinley and President Roosevelt.
We favor such congressional action as
shall determine whether by special dis
ordinations the elective franchise in apy
state has been unconstitutiOnally limited,
and If such is the case we demand that
representation in congress and in the
electoral colleges shall be prOpOrtionally
reduced as directed by the Constitution
of the United States.
Combinations of capital and of labor
are the results of economic movement
of the age, but neither must be permit
ted to infringe upon the rights and in
terests of the people, Such combinations,
when lawfully formed for lawful pur-
poses, are alike entitled to the protection
of the laws, but both are subject to the
laws, and neither can be permitted TO
break them.
The great statesman and patriotic
American, William Mckinley, who was
reelected by the republican party to the
presidency four years ago. was asSasSina-
ted just at the threshold of his second
term. The entire nation mourned his un-
timely death, and did that justice to his
great qualities of mind and character
which history will confirm and repeat
The American people were fortunate in
his successor, to whom they turned with
d trust and confidence which have been
fully justified President Roosevelt
brought to the great responsibilities thus
sadly forced upon him a clear head, a
brave heart, and earnest patriotism and
high ideals of public duty and public
service. True to the principles of the re-
publican party and to the policies which
that party had declared, he has also
hf,ya
and has met new and vital questions
with ability and with success.
The confidence of the people in his JUS
tice, inspired by his public career. en-
abled him to render personally an ines
Unable service to the country by bring
ing about a settlement of the coal strike
which threatened such disastrous results
at the opening of winter in 1902,
Our foreign policy under his admins
tratiOn has not only been able, vigorous
and dignifed, but in the highest degree
successful.
The complicated questions which arose
in Venezuela were settled in such a way
by President Roosevelt that the Monroe
doctrine was signally Vindicated and the
cause of peace and arbitration greatly
advanced.
His prompt and vigorous action in
Panama. which we commend in the high
est terms, not only secured to US the
canal route, but avoided foreign comph-
cations which might have been OF very
serious character.
He has continued the policy of Presi-
dent Mckinley in the Orient and our po-
sition in China, signalized by our recent
commercial treaty with that empire, has
never been so high.
He secured the tribunal by which the
veXed and perilOus question of the Alas
kan boundary was finally settled.
Whenever crimes against humanity
have been perpetrated which shocked our
people, his protest has been made and Our
good offices have been rendered, but al
ways with due regard to international
obligations.
Under his guidance we found ourselves
at peace with all the world and never
were we more respected or our wishes
more regarded by foreign nations.
Pre-eminently sue 1eSSful in regard to
our foreign relations, he has been equal
" fortunate in dealing with domestic
questions. The country mas known that
the public credit and the national cur,
rency were absolutely safe in the hands
of his administration. In the enforce
ment of the laws, he has shown not only
but the wisdom which under
stands that to permit laws to be violated
or disregarded opens the door to anarchy,
while the just enforcement of the law is
the soundest conservatism. He has held
firmly to the fundamental American doc
trine that all men must obey the law;
that there must be no distinction between
rich and poor, betWe IN strong and weak,
but that Justice and equal protection UNI
der law must be secured to every citizen