The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-07-07

ing for the election Of United States
senators by the direct vote OF the peo-
pie. but these measures have been
Esandbagged in the senate by those
who are determined that the senate
shall O become an integral part of
our free. representative institutions.
The Democratic party will continue
to labor for the direct election OF
United States senators, and 1t ap-
peals to the voters of America to
elect members of the different state
legislatures who will pledge them
selves to vote for nc candidate for
the United States senate that is not
in favor of this reform.
The affirmative position of the Dem
ocratic party upon these great ques-
lions will be made clear during the
impending campaign, and disdaining
all subterfuges it will speak in a an
guage tina cannot be misunderstood.
Its voice will ring with a genuine
love for humanity and the charge OF
~insincerity will never be brought to
its doors. Let our party declaration in
this convention present the strong
contrast between that which we here
propose and that which was declared
at Chicago. Let n man AXE the
temperature of the Chicago platform
and discover, If he can, any sign OF
human warmth. Not a single senti-
ment Is there to redeem it from the
materialism p~ermeating it through
and through.
On the bosom of the Pacific will be
enacted the great commercial strug-
giles of the future, and b interests
of American commerce in connection
with the exposure of our western
shores to any hostile attack will de-
mand that h greater portion of the
American navy shall be retained in
the waters of the Pacific to preserve
the a of the world. This magnif-
icent country of ours las not only
and the other white nations of the
earth, but 1t has likewise proved al
Turing to the brown and yellow races
of the East. Some protection has been
afforded by the exclusion of Chinese
labor, out the evil is but half met II
Hindus and other Asiatic people be
not also excluded from our shores.
Not only the white toilers of Ameri-
ca, but all our people, without res
pect to class OF residence, are vitality
interested in this menace to our So
cial and Industrial life from Asiatic
quarters, and If this Is to remain a
white mans country immediate steps
should be taken to prevent Asiatic
immigration of whatsoever character.
This national convention meets at
a time when the angel of peace is
novering over the entire world and
the nations of the world each day are
Strengthening those ties of friend
ship and ommon interest that will
render war less frequent and permit
mankind to turn their hands to the
~peaceable pursuits of life rather than
to the destruction of one another.
The Democratic party realizes the
part that America must inevitably
play in h affairs of he world, and
that we cannot escape participation
in h settlement of every world prob
lem that arises; but Americas weight
and influence must ever be on the
side of peace, on the side of justice,
on the side of the oppressed; and If
the will of the people shall commit
to our hands the sceptre of power,
1t will be used for the realization OF
the high American ideals that raise
our own people to loftier and better
things and through our precepts and
examples contribute to the well being
and happiness of all mankind.