The sun., 1908-07-10

entitle him to the treatment due him as
such.
CIVIL sERvIoR.
The laws pertaining TO the civil service
should be honestly and rigidly enforosA.
TO the end that merit and ability should be
the standard Of appointment and promo
ton rather than services rendered TO q
political party. s..,
Wa favor a generous pension policy.
both an q matter Of justice to the surviving
veterans, and their dependents and because
II tends b. relieve the country Of the neceg-
ity Of maintaining large standing army.
HEALTH BUREAU.
We advocate the organisation OF all
existing national public health agencies
into a national bureau Of public health.
with such power over sanitary conditions
connected with factories. mines. tene-
ments, child labor and other such subjects
as are properly within the jurisdiction OF
the Federal Government and do not inter-
fere with this power Of tho States con-
trolling public health agencies.
AoRIcuLTuRAL AND MECHANICAL EpUcA-
The Democratic party favors the ex-
tension Of agricultural, mechanical and
Industrial education. We therefore favor
the establishment Of district agricultural
experiment stations and secondary agri-
cultural and mechanical colleges in the
several States.
POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS.
We favor the election Of United State
Senators by direct vote Of the people and
regard this reform as the gateway TO other
national reforns.
OKLAHOMA.
We welcome Oklahoma to the sisterhood
of States and heartily congratulate her
upon the auspicious beginning o. a great
career.
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
The national Democratic party has for the
last sixteen years labored for the admission
of Arizona and New Mexico as separate
States of the Federal Union, and recog-
nizing that each possesses every quail
fication to successfully maintain separate
State governments we favor the immediate
admission Of these Territories as separate
States.
GRAZING LANDS.
The establishments of rules and regula-
tions, il any such are necessary, in rela-
ton to free grazing upon the public lands
outside of forest or other reservations,
until the time they shall eventually be dis
posed Of, should be left to the people Of the
States respectively In which such lands
may be situated
WATERWAYS.
Water furnishes the cheapest means Of
transportation, and the national Govern
ment. having the control Of navigable
waters, should improve them TO their full
est capacity. We earnestly favor the im-
mediate adoption Of liberal and compre-
hensive plan for improving every water
course In the Union which Ia justified by
the needs of commerce; and to secure that
end we favor when practicable the conneo-
ton of the Great Lakes with the navigable
rivers and with the Gulf through the Mis-
sissippi River, and the navigable rivers
with each other and the rivers, bays and
sounds of our coasts with each other by
artificial canals. with view to perfecting
a system Of inland waterways to be navi-
gated by vessels Of standard draught.
We favor the coordination OF the various
services Of the Government connected
with waterways in one service, for the
purpose of aiding In the completion Of such
a system Of waterways, and we favor the
creation of a fund, ample for continuous
work which shall be conducted under the
direction of a commission Of experts to be
authorized by law.
POS ROADS.
We favor Federal aid to State and local
authorities in the construction and main
tenanoe Of post roads.
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE.
We pledge the Democratic party to the
enactment OF a law to regulate the rates
and services OF telegraph and telephone
companies engaged In the Transmission Of
messages between the States, under the
Jurisdiction OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
NATURAL RESOURCES.
We repeat the demand for internal
development and for the conservation
of our natural resources contained in previ-
GUS platforms, the enforcement Of which
Mr.. Roosevelt has vainly sought from a
reluctant party; and to that end we insist
upon the preservation, protection and
replacement of needed forests, the preser-
walton of the public domain for home
seekers, the protection Of the natural re-
sources in timber, coal, iron and oil against
monopolistic control, the development Of
our waterways for navigation and every
other useful purpose, including the irrig =
ton of arid lands the reclamation Of swamp
lands, the Qualification Of streams, the
development Of water power and the preser-
walton Of electric power generated by this
natural force from the control Of monopoly;
and to such end we urge the exercise Of all
powers, national, State and municipal
both separately and in cooperation.
We insist upon policy Of administration
of our forest reserves which shall relieve them
of the abuses which have arisen hereunder
and which shall as far as practicable oon-
form to the police regulations Of the several
States where they are located. which shall
enable homesteaders as Of right to OCCUPY
and acquire titls to all portions thereof
which are especially adapted to agriculture
and which shall furnish system Of timber
sales available as we'll to the private citizen
as to the larger manufacturer and con-
sumer.
HAWAII.
We Foyor the aDplication NJ the princDleS