The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-21

auuIlioAdl uuTuenS upon the people
and without bounties from the public
treasury.
We favor liberal trade arrangements
with Canada and with people Of other
countries where they can be entered
into with benefit to American agricul-
ture, manufactures, mining and con-
MERGE.
We favor the maintenance. Of the
Monroe doctrine In its full integrity.
We favor the reduction Of the army
and army expenditures to the point
historically demonstrated to be safe
and sufficient.
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 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. They must
therefore. share with us the humilia.
ton with which we have witnessed the
exaltation Of court favorites without
distinguished service over the SCARED
heroes OF many battles, or aggran-
died by executive appropriations out
OF the treasures of PROSTATE people
in violation Of the act Of congress
which fixes the compensation and al
loWances Of the military officers.
The democratic party stands com
mitted to the principles of civil serv-
ice reform ard we demand their hon
est, just and impartial enforcement.
We denou:ce the republican party
for its continuous and sinister en-
croachment upon the spirit and opera
ton of civil service rules whereby it
has arbitrarily dispensed with exami-
nations for Office in the interests Of
favorites and employed all manner Of
devices to cverreach and set aside the
principles upon which the civil service
was established.
The race question has brought count.
less 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 our com.
mon country means confusion, distrac-
ton of business and the reopening of
wounds now happily healed. North,
south. east and west have but recently
stood together in line Of battle from
the walls Of Pekin and the hills OF
Santiago as sharers of a common glory
and common destiny; we share fra
ternally the common burdens. We.
therefore, deprecate and condemn the
Bourbon-like selfish and narrow spirit
Of the receat republican convention at
Chicago which sought to kindle anew
the embers Of racial and sectional
strife and we appeal from it to the So
Der common sense and patriotic spirit
Of the American people.
The existing republican administra-
ton has been spasmodic, cratic, SEN
sational, spectacular and arbitrary. It
has made itself satire upon the con-
gress, the courts and upon the settled
practices and usages Of national and
international law.
1t summoned the congress into hasty
and futile extra session and virtually
adjourned it, leaving behind IN its
fight from Washington full calendars
an unaccomplished tasks.
It made war which is the sole power
Of congress without its authority there
by usurping one of its fundamental
prerogatives. It violated a plain stat
ute CT the United States as well as
plain treaty obligations, international
usages and constitutional laws; and
has done SO under pretense Of execut.
ing great public policy which could
have been more easily affected lawful
ly, constitutionally and with honor. 1t
forced strained and unnatural con-
structions upon statutes, usurping ju-
dicial Interpretation and substituting
congressional enactment decree.
1t withdrew from congress their
customary duties Of investigation
which have heretofore made the rep
resentatives Of the people of the states
the terror Of evil doors.
It conducted secretive investiga-
ton Of its own and boosted of a few
sample convicts while it threw a broad
coverlet over the burdens which had
been their chosen field Of operative
abuses, and kept in power the superior
officers under whose administration
the crimes had been committed.
It ordered assault upon some monop-
olies, but paralyzed by it's first vic
tory, it flung out the flag of truce and
cried out that it would not run
amuck "-leaving its future purposes
beclouded by it's vacciliations.
Conducting the campaign upon this
declaration Of our principles and pur-
poses, we invoke for our candidates
the support not only Of our great and
time-honored organization, but also
the active assistance of all our fellow
citizens who disregarding past differ.
ences upon questions, no longer in is