Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
Of army expenditures to the point historic
caly demonstrated to be safe ana suffi-
cient.

Of army expenditures to the point historic
caly demonstrated to be safe and suffi-
cient.
Pensions and Our Soldiers and Sailors.
THE democracy would secure to the sur.
viving soldiers and sailors and their de-
pendents generous pensions. not by an arr
iitrary executive order. but by legislations
which a grateful people stand ready TO en-
act.
Our soldiers and sailors who defend with
their lives the Constitution and the laws
have sacred interest In their just admins
istration. They must therefore share with
US the humiliation with which we have witt
messed the exaltation of court favoritcs.
without distinguished service. over the
Scared heroes OF many battles. or aggran-
died by executive appropriations out OF
the treasures OF a PROSTATE people IN vio-
lation of the act of Congress which fixed
the compensation of allowances of the mill.
tary offices.
Civil Service.
The democratic party stands committed
to the principles OF civil service reform. and
we demand their honest, just and Impartial
enforcement
we denounce the republican party for
It's continuous and sinister encroachments
upon the spirit and operation of civil serv-
Ice rules. whereby II has arbitrarily dis
penSed with examinations for office in the
interests of favorites and employed all
manner OF devices to overreach and set
aside the principles upon which the civil
service 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 it THAI
1t brings no more.
ITO revive the dead and hateful race and
sectional animoslties in any part of our
Nfsy
ton of business and the reopening OF
wounds now happily healed North. south.
east and west have but recently stood to-
gether in line of battle from the walls Of
Pekin to the hills of Santiago. and, as
sharers of common glory and common
destiny, we should share fraterrrslly the
common burdens.
We therefore deprecate and condemn
the bourbon-like selfish and narrow spirit
OF the recent republican convention at Chi
cago, which sought to kindle anew the en-
bers of racial and sectional strife. and
We appeal from 1t to the sober common
sense and patriotic spirit of the American
people.
The Republican Administration.
The existing republican administration
has been spasmodic, cratic, sensational,
spectacular and arbitrary. 1t has made it.
self a satire upon the Congress. the courts,
and upon the settled practices and usages
of national and international law.
ut summoned the Congress into hasty
and futile extra session and virtually adj
journed it leaving behind its flight from
Washington uncalled calendars and unac,
complished tasks.
TT made war, which is the sole power Of
Congress, without its authority, thereby
usurping one of it's fundamental preroga-
tives. 1t violated a plain statute Of the
United States as we'll plain treaty obli-
cations international usages and consti-
tutional law; and has done so under pre-
tense of executing a great public policy
which could have been more easily affected
lawfully, constitutionaly and with honor.
1T forced strained and unnatural con-
structions upon statutes. usurping judicial
Interpretation. and substituting congress-
sfonal enactment decree.
1T withdrew from Congress their cuss
tomary duties of investigation which have
heretofore made the representatives of the
people and the states the terror of evils
doors.
TT conducted a secretive investigation Of
its own and boasted Of a few sample con-
vtcts 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 adminis<
tration the crimes had been committed.
1T ordered assault upon some monopo.
lies but, paralyzed by its first victory, 10
flung out the flag OF truce and cried out
that 1t would not run amuck"-leaving its
future purposes beclouded by its vacillaS
tons.
Appeal to the Country.
Conducting the campaign upon this decs
laration Of our principles and purposes. we
invoke for our candidates the support not
only Of our great and time-honored organi-
ration, but also the active assistance oS
all Of our fellow citizens who, disregarding
past differences upon questions no longer
in issue, desire the perpetuation of oup
constitutional government as framed and
established by the fathers of the republic.e
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