The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-07-16

the public from watered stock and 10
prohibit the control by such CORPORATION
OF more than fifty per cent OF the total
amount OF any product consumed in the
United Stntes, and third, a law competl-
| ing such licensed corporations to sell all
purchasers In all parts of the county
on the same terms. after making due al
| lowance for cost Of transportation
HOME RULE.
| we arrest our confidence in and admi-
| ration for the wisdom of the fathers In
| so organizing the federal government as
| to secure home rule TO the people of each
| state; and we pledge ourselves to com
| bat with unceasng vigilance the efforts
of those who are striving by usurpation
| to seize the powers of the people of the
| states for exploitation by the federal
! government.
Believing with jefferson in "the sup
; port Of the state governments in all
| thelr rights as the most competent ad-
min .stratton of our domestic concerns
| and the surest bulwark against anti-rc-
publican tendencies; and i'm "the pre-
scrVation of the general government in
| its whole constitutional vigor, as the
| sheet anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad; we are opposed to tho
Capitalization implied in the sugges-
! tiJns, now frequently made, that the
| powers of the general government should
| toe extended to executive and legislative
action and by judicial construction.
There is no twilight zone between the
| nation and the states in which eXbl0lting
interests can take refuge from both and
| ii is necessary that the federal govern
| ment shall exercise the powers delegated
| to IL as ii is that the state governments
shall use the authority reserved to them
! but we insist that the federal remedies
| for the regulation of interstate com
merce and for the prevention of private
monopoly shall be added to, not substi-
| tuted for state remedies.
| MERCHANT MARINE
we believe in the dpbulyding of the
| American merchant marine without new
/ ftr D11 f1,a ,1,
and without bounties from the public
| treasury.
THE NAVY.
The constitutional provision that
navy shall be provided and maintained
means an adequate navy and we be-
| lieve that the interests of this country
would be best served by having a navy
sufficient to defend the coats of this
country and protect American citizens
| wherever their rights may be in jeop-
| ardy.
PROTECTION OF AMERICAN CITI-
ZENS.
We pledge ourselves to insist upon the
! Just and lawful protection of our citi
| Zens at home and abroad, and to use
all proper methods to secure for chem;
whether native born or naturalzed and
| without distinction of race or creed,
| the equal protection of the law and the
| enjoyment of all rights and privileges
| open to them under our treaty; and
if, under existing treaties, the right OF
travel and sojourn is denied TO American
citizens, or recognition is withheld from
American passports by any countries on
| the ground of race or creed, we favor
| prompt negotiations with the govern
ments of such countries to secure the
removal of these unjust determinations.
We demand that all over the world
duly authenticated passport issued by
the government of the United States to
an American citizens shall be proof of
the fact that he is an American citizen
and shall enttle him to the treatment
a i'm
CIVIL SERVICE.
The laws pertaining to the civil SER
vice should be honestly and rigidly en-
forced to the end that merit and abi
ity shall be the standard of appoint
ment and promotion rather than SER
vices rendered to a political party.
PENSIONS.
We favor a generous pension policy,
both as a matter of justice to the sur
viving veterans and their dependents and
because it tends to relieve the country
of the necessity of maintaining a large
HEALTH BUREAU.
We advocate the organization of all
existing national public health agencies
into a national bureau of public health,
with such power over sanitary Condi
tiOns connected with factories, mines,
tenements, child labor and other such
subjects as are properly within the jur-
isdiCtion of the federal government, and
do not interfere with the power of
the states controlling public health
agencies.
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
EDUCATION.
The Democratic party favors the ex-
tension of agricultural, mechanical and
industrial educations. We, therefore,
favor the establishment of district agri-
cultural experiment stations, the Sec
Ondary agricultural and mechanical col
lcEes in the several states
POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS.
We favor the election of United States
hV M
and regard this reform as the gateway
to other national reforms.
OKLAHOMA.
We welcome Oklahoma to the sister
hood of states and heartily congratu-
late her on the auspicious beginning of
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
The national Democratic party has for
the last 16 years labored for the admis-
sion of Arizona and New Mexico as sep
arate states of the federal union, and,
recognizing that each possesses every
qualification to successfully maintain
separate state governments, we favor
the immediate admission of these terri
tories as separate states
GRAZING LANDS.
The establishment of rules and regula-
tions, If any such are necessary, in re-
lation to free grazing upon the public
lands outside of forest or other reser-
vations, until the same shall eventually
be disposed of, should be LETT 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
fullest capacity. We earnestly favor the
immediate adoption of a liberal and
comprehensive plan for improving every
water course in the union, which is
justified by the needs of commerce, and,
to secure that end, we favor when prac-
Lakes with the navigable rivers and
with the gulf through the Mississippi
river and the navigable rivers with
each other, and the rivers, bays and
sounds of other coasts with each other
by artificial canals, with view to per-
fecting a system of inland waterways,
to be navigable by vessels Of stan Jard
draught
We favor the coordination of the var
ious services of the government con-
nected with waterways, in one service,
tion of such a system of inland water
ways; and we favor the creation of
fund ample for continuous work,
which shall be conducted under the di-
rection of a commission of experts to be
POST ROADS.
We favor federal aid to state and
local authorities to the construction of
post roads.
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE.
We pledge the Democratic party to
rates and services of telegraph and
telephone companies engaged in the
transmission of messages between the
states, under the jurisdiction of the In