Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-29

among the southern people an influential element disposed to encourage the nigrf in his hard struggle for industrial fnde- pendence and assured political status Tine Republican platform adoDted at gShf- cago explicitly demands justice for ali men without regard to race or color and just as explicitly declares for the en- fcrcement and without reservation. in letter and in spirit of the thirteenth. fourteenth and fifteenth amendments 10 the 'consuuion lt is needless to state that I stand with my party sauareIy on that plank in the platform and believe that equal justice 10 all men and the amendments Is in keeping with the real American spirit of fair play.
 AsIATIC IMMIGRATION.
 Tn the matter of the limitation upon Asiatic immigration referred to in the Democratic platform. it is sufficient to say that the present Republican admin istration has shown itself able by diplo- matic negotiations and without necessarv friction with self-respectine goVernmants to minimize the evils suggested and a subsequent Republican administration policy
 CONSERVATION OF NATURAL, RE
 SOURCES
 The conservation of natural resources IS subject to which the present admin istration has given especial attention The necessity for a comprehensive ars, systematic improvement of our water- ways, the preservation of our soil and of our forests, the securing from private Appropriation the power in naYfs5bis streams, the retention of the undi sed coal lands Of the government from Nlien- ation, all will properly claim from the next administration earnest attention and appropriate legislation.
 PU BLICIT4 OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIB | BUTTONS AND EXPENDITURES i Another plank of the Democratic plat | form refers to the failure of the Re- i publican convention to express an OpL.- Ion in favor of the publicity of contri- l buttons received and expenditures made l m elections. Here again We contract our | opponents promises with our own acts. treat improvement has taken place uu- ! der Republican auspices in respect to the Icollection and expenditure of money for
 this purpose. The old and perniciOus aries of government employees in order To pay the expenses of the party in con | trol Of the administration has been aDolshed by statute. By law passed | by the Republican congress in 1907 con- | tributions by corporations to influence or | pay the expenses connected with the i election of presidential electors, or of | members of congress. is forbidden under penalty. S
 IT I am elected president. I slan Sle upon congress with every hope of sue
 cess that a law be passed requiring a | filing in federal office of a statement of contributions filed by committees and ! candidates in elections for members of | congress and in such other elections as congress.
 1 9LsiiLlIL'le tue tNepuDliCSth party pE ths subjected all it's receipts and expendi- lures to the compulsory obligation of such law.
 ELECTION OF SENATORS. 1 With respect to the election of senators by the people, personally I am inclined to favor it, but it is hardly a party question. A resolution in its favor has passed a Republican house of representa- 1 tives several times and has been rejected in Q Republican senate by the votes Of I bnth a approved by the legislatures of many Re publican states. In a number of states, both Democratic and Republican. sub
 stantially such a system now prevails