The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-05

generous provision for the old soldiers, the vanishing forces of the republic; liberal appropriations for the improve ment of waterways and harbors, Tn. cluding the Ohio river and the Great Lakes, in accordance with general plan which shall be comprehensive and just to all portions of the country; the organization of all existing national public health agencies into a single na- tional health department.
 revision of the tariff by special session of the next congress. insuring the maintenance of the true principle of protection by imposing such custom duties as will equal the difference be- tween the cost of production at home and abroad, together with reasonable profit, to the end that, without excess i've duties, American manufacturers, farmers, producers, and wage earners may have adequate protection,
 A sound financial system In harmony with the achievements of the republic an party, and such modification of the currency laws as will provide for tho demands of commerce, satisfy the needs of ali portions of the country and have at all times the quality of undoubted security.
 The civil and political rights of the American negro in every state, believ- ing as we do, that his marvellous prog ress in intelligence, Industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and announcement of the nation, and that those legislative enactments that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone are unfair, un-American. and repugnant to the su- preme law of the land; we favor the reduction of representation in congress and the electoral college In all stat as Of this nation where white and colored citizens are disfranchised to the end that the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United states may be enforced according to the letter and spirit.
 The speedy completion of the Panama canal, the development step by step, of popular government in the Philip pines. and the continued expansion of American influence and trade in the interestof peace and progress among the nations of the earth.
 These are the policies Of the repub- lican party, as exemplified in the ad ministration of Theodore Roosevelt We endorse his splendid administration and declare that neither halt nor re- treat shall be sounded in the march toward better government. We special ly approve the enactmentof the rail
 road rate law, the strengthening of the supervisory powers of the interstate commerce commission, the prosecution or llleSdl lHttTtsls anu iiohupolIes' anu of evil-doers. both in the public ser vice and in the commercial world to- gether with the enforcement of all wholesome measures which have made
 safer the guarantee of life, liberty and property.
 We congratulate the American peopls that their recent safe passage through
 a financial disturbance indicates the l sound basis upon which our conner cial industrial and agricultural inter. ests are founded and the republican party hsils with confidence the sign: 1 now appearing for a complete restor. | ation of business prosperity in all lines | of trade, commerce. and ma nufactur. i ing.
 In the state we stand for honesty ana
 economy in public office. the extension | of the merit system. competitive bid l ding for supplies for state institutions