HANNA ANALYZES
BRYAN’S ACCEPTANCE.
The Democratic Leader Again
Switches His Issue.
Bryan and Brynniam Punctured nt an
Enthnalaatic Meeting Held at the
Commercial McKinley Club
in Chicago.
Three thousand people tried to crowd
iuto the quarter* of tho McKinley Com
mercial Club in Chicago, Sept. 1H, to *ee
and hear Senator Hanna. On that occa
sion Senator Hanna made the following
apeech:
I take for my text Mr. Bryan’* view*
on the minor iasues of the campaign as
act forth in hi* letter of acceptance pub
imbed to-day. Ju»f iiefore the Democrat
ic convention at Kniian* City many pil
grimage* were made to Lincoln, Neb., by
Democratic in Unions rlea at the urgent
call of Mr. Bryan. This was for the pur
po*o of putting Bryan'* pet scheme of
free silver in the platform.
But, If you remember correctly, that la
*u« waa only placed in the platform by a
majority of one vote of the committee.
Now liryau ha* relegated the allver laaue
to the rear, and brings out imperialism a*
the chief issue. Bryan gained this issue
when tlie treaty waa made with Spain in
which the Philippine lalumla were pur
chased. lie went to Washington and by
hia own Influence forced certain Demo
cratic Senator* to adopt the treaty, in
order that the Democratic party might
hght against it In tlx- coming campaign.
That prove* that Bryan him not the cour
age to stand by his own convictions.
Hryaa'a letter apeak* of truata. Yet he
doe# not mention the ice truat or tin- cot
tou bale truat. In the latter Senator
Jonc* is heavily interested. Every one
Knows the atory of the Ice truat. Aa
[Bryan declare* that the truat la one of
the main Ihmiicn of this campaign, I can
say that \?e are ready to meet him on thut
(proposition aa well a* on any other.
Hanna's Relations with Labor,
Bryan al»r> makes much ado concern
In* the conflict between capitil und or
ganlzed labor. For myself, I have this to
say: I was the first man III Ohio to rec
ognize organized lalsir. It was in 1871,
when i was in the coal business in t'leve
laud, Ohio. John Kenney and John Janies,
President and Secretary of the first bitu
Bullions coal minora* organization in the
(United Ktates, called upon me and stated
ftliat the minora had organized Into a
•union.
Aa I was a lending coal operator, the
two gentlemen urged me to use my infill
♦nee iu oi'gnufzlng the operators. That
rwas my first experience with u trust. 1
organized the operators in the district iu
which I wus interested, and during my
entire experience there we never hud a
■trike or trouble of any kind,
i I want to make this statement here,
,once and for all, ill reply to ull these
charges and insinuation* witli reference
to my aspect toward labor: If any man
In the United Ktates of America can
tiring into my presence a man who has
giver worked for me and truthfully state
fend substantiate that I have refused to
fncet at any time and anywhere any man
Bu my employ, that I hnviywcr intention
ally done any man a harm, that I have
ever insisted on lowering wage* to any
■nan who works for me, or who can truth
fully say that I have done evil to him, I
will resign from the United Ktates Mcuutc
to-morrow. (Orest applause.} I made
the proposition in 1SP7 I have found no
takers, and it is still open. (Laughter and
applause.)
• Republican Party Against Trusts.
Now, then, about this trust question, a
few words more. I would like to have
Mi. Hryau or any other Democrat tell inc
■what n trust is. 1 don’t believe there is
,a trust iu the United Ktates, for every
iHtatc law and national law will destroy
any trust that comes within its Jurisdic
lion; and the only laws, Ktate and un
ttonal, that have ever been put upon stat
site books were enacted by the Uepuh
Ucau party. (A voice—Never enforced.I
Y«s, they are enforced. (Voice*—Put him
out I No, don't put him out. I don't
want to put anybody out. (A voice— II*
is s good Democrat; he shoots iu th<
rear I
\V- have no objections to tbc Denm
era tie party being opposed to trusts, but
■they bare got no patent oil it. (Laugh
iter 1
tlrvan’a Policy for Philippine*.
^ Now, then, one word more with refer
ence to the poaitiou of Mr. liryan upon
thia Philippine question and it has la-eii
pro thoroughly exploded that l won’t men
tiou it except in passing. I recited to
you the part that he took ill the exeeu
(ion of that treaty, and the authority
that he unfed with hia party to ratify the
treaty, and I thiuk I have eouvinced a
great many of my hearers that hia pur
gioae and motive wan not patriotic, II
tell* the people of the I'nitod States what
he will do if he is elected President of llu
United Slab's III* first set would la* t<
haul down the American dag in the Phil
Ipptlien i A voice “lie llevt-r coill-l d*
It "I
I'hcu he would establish a stable g
erniiicui h*' <Iim *u i republican c a
eruiio ill and pliilMbl) pul Aginualdo
the bead of it. 'I’hcu he said that to
would establish a protectorate by tie
Un-te.I Slates, pull down lie America!. I
t! .g withdraw -oir aoldiet> fr-ou the s
and leave onr hurled dead there undei
the supervise at it Aguiiiald-i 0-1*11111-1
vu-iy tcsligc -it power w hi. h h - *
to us leg-.tty and law full.. and ib.-u esial.
lull « p- ile.to.al. which Mo alts sli
It IochMs that lb-- g >t. intieml of Ih
Uttii.d State* w .old be ol.llg.-d to pfHtest
the go.- luineui of Aguiuablo fr.uu all I
ciga f>M-* atnl mleft.h-u-«* And wh.i
Would U- the lesult t
Judging th« future by the past, the w.%1
a. lion. .| Agu.uatdo would »>o h a» ’■
ahoch the 1 istltunl W• IIhi and, if for I.
ulhafe 1-1 -cm the nation* Would Interfei.
ta tig.- laiwnir of humanity as we did i >
t uba Hot if for »l#«k res.,it* an
Hwtup. au psatple ahowhl makr up lb. i
tomU that 1 her waul cl • fo.,ih 11 in Iki
*r.hipeisg" sail propose is lake it, what
w *uld he the (sly of ih. I wiled Hiate*
s!
A w '-I ha. , ra) ,\i h < < I* d
f ait wf lwl.il*. twal t.isbsl,
Mr Hrga« h* % |t*»f f 4 « <4 U ftdt
feat, an nevwhn -an t m •• whi he >»m
veys the Monroe doctrine to Asiatic wa
ters. Whoever heard of such a thing?
The Monroe doctrine is founded purely
and simply on the determination on tiie
part of the government of the United
Stntes that no foreign country should in
terfere in the western hemisphere. Mr.
Bryan would do what? Spread it all over
the world and we would stand behind and
defend it. What do you call that if it
isn’t imperialism? As a result of that
procedure w# would find ourselves in
volved In ail kinds of foreign wars. (A
voice—That is right.) That is true—ami
yet Mr. Bryan is for peace. He was for
peace when he resigned from the army
and he has been for peace ever since. I
am for pence. I'm a Quaker. I am for
peace, but not peace at nny price. I am
not for peace, and I know that the ma
jority of the people of this country are
not for pence, with that brigand Agui
nuldo ns long as he is hiding in the bushes
and shooting down from ambush our boys
in blue. (Applause.)
Bryan Swltchca Issues.
But Mr. Bryan has already been driven
from his position on Imperialism. lie
knows now what many of us knew in tie*
beginning—that it was only one rooster
that lie was going to put in tiie pit, and
he would light it ns long as lie could.
Now ho has got ins last gamecock. Trust,
ami that goes into the pit for tiie next
thirty duys, and the Republican purty
will lie prepared to meet him on all such
questions, and if I bad (lie time and voice
and opportunity I would like to speak to
every laboring man in the United States
upon that question; because in warning
the laboring people of this country against
this huge monster, the trusts, in the mime
breath he says that the Itingley bill Is
the ineuhntor of trusts.
Now, we are getting to know where we
stand with the laboring people when we
come to the tariff, and we won't allow
him to evade tiie issue that he lias made
on the bald proposition that tiie protect
ive tariff principle goes band In hand with
trusts. We keep the protective tariff
principle there and we will furnish our
own definition for trusts. I say we are
at home on that proposition because we
have at the bead of our national ticket
that great advocate of protection, Will
iam McKinley; because in him we have
the lies) friend of tin* United States; anti
tbare isn’t a laboring man in the city of
Chicago, or in the State of Illinois, or in
the United Suites, who knows anything
about public affairs, who knows anything
about the career of President McKinley,
that does not know frmn actual proof tiie
fact that during his whole public life he
is the only nmn that tiie workingmen of
litis country always felt at liberty to call
upon to support their interests, and he
never failed them. And lie is just ns
much their friend to-day as he was fifteen
years ago.
Ilryun and the I,shoring Men.
And now let me ask what has W. J.
Bryan done for the workingmen of this
country? (A voice; "Nothing." An
other voice: "Yea, he charged n* half u
dollar to hear him talk.”) Not a thing.
fame near aaying damn. Not n thing,
ffia career in public life la available to
every man. Ilia abort service was mark
ed and made conspicuous by hia opposi
tion to tile tariff bill. And wliat has in
done since to show any particular inter
eat in the working people of this country?
lie tells them what he would do. il*> Is
prolific- in promises, rosy in painting the
picture ns to what would be the result of
Ins administration, but 1 charge you.
workingmen, turn nwny from that picture
and look upon the other; and the other is
McKinley.
Do not let us take any promise from
any candidate or any man whose whole
record lias shown tlmt his overawing am
bition is to be President of the United
States. He w-ill ri'le any issue, he w-ill
i limb on to any platform that is made for
him. he will preach any doctrine, he will
even abuse me to tie President of the
United States.
Most Imimrtimt Issues.
Now, bringing these issues home to each
and every individual, I want to bring
them there because I expect and I know
that every man who goes to the polls on
-Ic-c-tiou day having heard the arguments
u the case, having considered how the de
rision of these issues will twiir upon his
personal interests and those of his family,
will cast that ballot intelligently in his
own interest and not in Mr. Bryan's. But
there is a further responsibility which
comes to every uiun and to every woman
who eau influence u man.
I say that the- importance of the issues
in tins campaign at this time and under
tliese conditions is greater tnou ever lie
fore Id the history of our country. I say
so because I believe it, because I know
ihat any reversing of the present policy
of the ailniiiiistration of this government,
any change in that administration, would
tiring about a condition of things iu tin
hitsincss and industrial interests of thi*
country that would dwarf the flood and
•dorm at lialvc.tiin it would mean u bur
ricane that would carry before it every
interest, it would be a flood that would
ingulf the property and the material in
lerest* of every man, woman and child
that enjoys the present pru»i>erity.
Where Interests Are.
There is no question where your inter
est Is, liecause every year, every month
tud every day of the administration **i
William McKinley has been an object |c*
*ott. Kvcry man who has an iu*uratu<
•it his life for the bci,• tit of hi* faniily
every man who ha* hi* deposits in ,t *i>
mg* liauk of a lo»u ussmdatiou where h<
hs* g.ithcred together peril,,p* the *,tv
otg* of u tir.lllii. where hi* helievcs it 0
*»fe, and it I*, although that imuey ibai
he deposit* iu a sav ing* iiauk 1* not tlo r*
for they don't keep the looney in tiieti
anil* What do iluy d.i with n ■ ||, ,
lives! it In *••- tit it I* ., lit b ud- ali i noo i
..igc«. sail* »itig thi limelve* that llti
■ropefly lu-hiiot Ui.*«e .1* urities i* |wi
■ *tly g I for the 1 ait made amt it b
tder all ii-*f‘tisi OMtditluB* Hut * Ip
*Us Ihat Mt Hli n .it*Olid Is- electi*
I c»l fill bill IA • \ C1|,| Hop
owing he *lootld t* It* in. m * t |V*,'i
loiicc li iii 'j * apt!ai o withdrawn fr- i.
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'•^ltf*r||« 9 f 41.1 Ml Uut • II 111'
l««u >*f tk|( H l|-|« ik«4|| till
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4H4 t#) ik« |*i >§•«•*t} ik«i t
lepvesentvd h> the am unite* 10 ihe vault
• f flow bans* covering fum deposit t
i I'umI in v #t**e t bs. is yoor prupedi
i. d . .a t b» tig iu the saving* baas «>
the Ilf* i**m»«*» n-mpsa) It M yuat,
low b«*« pal l. IS lb*t» rssli*l| fur S4*>
seeping 'rbey ate doing tSM dn.y ft*
bare baibbrd v sails »t deposit »*. u(
igsHss. .be burglar and <b- thief, .be
hat# amplerrd n**W wf Ibi.frit) sad sto
uy l» M*v*st yew. ims>| *sl proto** j ■*»
ittirrvs**. and ibefefwre I say limy ba*
■ *we Ibett duty
t'r(n All to Work for McKinley,
Now you do yours. Do your# by net
only depositing your vote for McKinley,
tiut get ns many of your neighbor# who
nre undecided upon these questions, per
haps for want of knowledge, as you cnn.
to vote as you do; make it your business
to secure one more vote for the President
of the United States, and that small effort
will put us on a perfectly safe basis.
Won't you do that much for your family?
Won’t you do that much for the national
good? Haven't you pride enough to do
that much for the national honor, integ
rity, and the flag? (Voices: "Yes, yes.”)
Ail right, then do it. Uood-hy.
HUGO DENKENSPRUCT
Relates One of His Experiences as Jus*
tice of the Peace.
(By William E. Anderson.)
"Yea, you are right, Jonathan, Mr,
Bryan will do good to hi# own party
tulking about political equality, liberty
and the right# of man, for it was always
hard for hi# friend# to make such tilings
work in thi# country among the Ameri
can-horn colored citizens. But it is a j
little late to do any good in those Stale#
where Mr. Bryan will gel nearly all the
votes cast. No, you are wrong, Jona
than. The very many kvotation# he
makes from Washington, Lincoln and
others isn't quite a case of the "Devil
kvoting scripture,' i't goes a long way
ahead of that and Just tit* the case 1
arn about to tell you.
"During my term a# justice of the
peace in this town we had a great deal
of trouble with tramps. They used to
get into the school houses to sleep and
at last they got so bold, a school house
wasn't good enough for them. They be
gan to profane the churches. Big Jo
hannes, neighbor Smith’s son, was con
stable an<l he at la#t arrested a gang In
the Methodist church down there. He
IihiI not much experience, you sec; and a
schmsrt lawyer from the village was up
before me to defend them. That man
really wa# a tine pleader; and a# he knew
the Bible kvotutions well, lie made a good
Impression on the court. He said that
his friends, the defendants, went from
the school houses to the church to get
religion; and that the Lord wa# where
‘two or three were gathered together in
His name,' and so on. Then he pulled
out the note# of a sermon which be got
from ouo of the tramps and said his cli
ents were in church to have divine wor
ship. I remember the text. It was, ‘(Jo
ye into ail the world and preach the gos
pel to every people.' Wasn't that a co
incidence to remind me of Bryan's pious
remarks on the same text?
"The lawyer got along so well that I
about made up my mind to kvit the pris
oners. But the Bohmurt young lawyer
didu't know it so he began to go for big
Johannes and cross-k vest ion him. Jo
hannes was the only witness, you see,
and didn’t have much experience. By
and by Johannes could not stand
so much fun at his expense, so
he got mad and yelled out: “That
may all be, Mr. Lawyer, what you
say. You seem to know that the
notes of the sermon you got from that
big hobo were his own notes; but I know
wliat you don't know, and that is that
the gang you say he was preaching to
tore out of the pulpit Bible all the book
if Genesis iiini Kxodus, including the ten
commandments, to light, their pipe* with
while they listened to the sermon.' Then
I reversed my decision, Jonathan, and
sent those fellows to the calaboose.”
ARE SOLDIERS TO BE
PAID IN SILVER?
A Pertinent Inquiry from an Old
Noldier Still l uulowered.
In Mr. Bryan’s speech of acceptance,
No. I, he said that if hit was elected to
the office of President of the l-tilted
States next November that as soon as he
was inaugurated lie would immediately
call an extra session of Congress ami
give freedom to the inhabitants of the
I’hllppine Islands and recall the army "f
the United Btates, which would include
the bringing home of tin* "Stars and
Stripes."
If elected President of the United
States Mr. Itryan will become command
er-in-ebief of the army. This being the
case,
Will Mr Bryan pay the soldieru of the
United State* .»f America in silver?
It is very important that the soldiers
of the American army understand this
matter dearly and distinctly as to what
Mr. Bryan's intentions are in the mateer.
OLD SOLDI'Kit.
New Castle, l’a,, Sept. 1. 1!*K>.
WH*t
tyY0SM*..
| PEOPLE'S BAIuTdEPOSITS I
SHOW IMMENSE INCREASE, jj
o < ►
o Prowporily IIhn Como to t lio <>
\\ People. ;;
<► . . ♦
The one aupreuie teat of proaperlty la
the money in the bauk. This i* a self*
evident truth. If a mau'a family is well
clothed aud fed mid in a comfortable
home, and beaidea tIn* lie eau put money
iu the bauk, it uniat lie admitted that he
i* prosperous.
In the follow iug unparalleled allow ing
Ilf the Inereaae ill the number of deposits
from the dark days of the 1 temucratic
Wilaoti bill regime iu IMd to the glorious
days of VI. KinU-y prosperity, tie most
marvelous of all is tin increase in the
norther of depositor* sud in the iiiiuint
of deposits in the tarings hanks of the
country. Those bsuks are particularly
tb< oin-a where the wag* earners of the
country put their savings
Ml Itryau says the people IN Hot price |
p. roiia. Mo say all hts calamity follow
\\ *- commend to them the fohowrng
oil. nl figures from the report of the
toplruller of the 1 often } of ih« I nit
• ed Mtatss for lMat They #r* u'iiiih*er
side
ft IT A I. 1 Mill* Mi A I I.M
Total So Wp- sil us
Iksak i 'it*
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aisle and private .. VkifSd W*idtf»
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Total amount of ilepoaitK.
is;* i is«y.
National . .$1.155.1l)la5MH fl.R'lO,116,1 «4>
State uul
private., 214.442.r»10 418,281.267
Loan ami
tr ial coa. 230.50I.N02 570.724.117
Saving#.. 1.265,450.416 1.7*2.071.4*1
Total ...13,674,5*0,406 M,H0N,0U6,0<iQ
lucre##*' in
ain't of
tle|Hi«ita., »1.7Tl.raal,.M#!l
Average Itepo#il# in All llmili*.
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u-ft of |*fv4 ^ it M K »»b|i
ELECTION OF 1900.
Democratic Platform Adopted at
Kansas City, July 4, I'MK).
The »-arty (Democratic) Ht«nd»
Where It Did In 1HOO on the
Money Question.— William J. Ilryan
at Zanesville, Ohio, Kept. 4, 1900.
Nominated:
For President—WILLIAM J. BRYAN
of Nebraska.
Vice-President—ADLAI E. STEVEN
SON of Illinois.
Platform.
We, the Democrats of the United
Stntes, in national convention assembled,
do resItlrm our allegiance to those great
essential principles of justicp and liberty
itl>ou which our institutions are founded,
and which the Democratic party has ad
Vocated from Jefferson's time to our own
—freedom of speech, freedom of the
press, freedom of conscience, the preser
vation of personal rights, the equality of
all citizens before the law, and the fait
fill observance of constitutional limita
tions.
Htate Might*.
During all these years the Democratic
party lias resisted the tendency of seltish
interests to the centralization of govern
mental power, and steadfastly maintain
ed the integrity of the dual scheme of
government established by the founders
of this republic or republics. Under its
guidance and teachings the great princi
ple of local self-government lias found
its best expression in the maintenance
of the rights of the Ktates and in its as
sertlon of the necessity of confining the
general government to the exercise of the
powers granted by tile Constitution of
the United Ktates.
The Money Question.
Recognizing that the money system is
paramount to all other* at this time, we
invite attention to the fact that the
Federal Constitution name* silver and
gold together as the money metals of the
Fnited States, und that the first coinage
law passed by Congress under the Con
stitution made the silver dollar the mon
etary unft, arid admitted gold to free
coinage at a ratio based upon the silver
dollar unit.
We declare that the act of 1873 demon
etizing silver without the knowledge or
approval of the American jienple has re
sulted in the appreciation of gold and a
corresponding fall in the prices of com
modities produced by the people; a heavy
increase in the burden of taxation and of
all debts, public and private; the enrich*
merit of the money holding classes at
home and abroad; prostration of indus
try and impoverishment of the people.
We ale unalterably opposed to gold
monometallism, which lias locked fast
rtie prosperity of an industrial people in
itie paralysis of hard times, tiold mono*
metallism is a RritUh policy, and its
adoption has brought other nations into
financial servitude to London. It is not
only un-Amcrican. but anti American,
ami it can be fastened on the Fnited
States only by the sliding i# that spirit
and love of liberty which proclaimed out
independence in 177*1 and won it in the
war of tire Revolution.
Free (silver.
We demand tire free nnd unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at the
present legal ratio of lti to 1, without
waiting for tire aid or consent of any
other nation. We demand that the
standard silver dollar shall he a full legal
tender, equally with gold, for ail debts,
public and private, and we favor such
legislation as will prevent for tire future
the demonetization of any kind of legal
tender money by private contract.
We are opposed to the policy and prac
tice of surrendering to the holders of
the obligations of the United States tire
option reserved by law to the government
nf redeeming such obligations in either
silver coin or gold coin.
ImitkI I Mane*.
We nre opposed to the issuing of inter
ext-hearing bonds of the I'nited States
in lime of peace, ami condemn the traf
ticking with banking syndicates which,
in exchange for bonds and at an enor
mous profit to themselves, supply the
Federal treasury with gold to lusiutain
the policy of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has the power to coin
and issue money, and 1’resident Jackson
declared that this power could not be del
egatixl to corporations or individuals. We
therefore demand that the pi vver to issue
notes to circulate sx money t>c taken from
the national baukx. and that all paper
money shall !»• issued directly try the
Treasury 1 icpnrtim-tit, lie redeemable In
coin, snd receivable for all debts, public
and private.
Tsrltf for itrvtnur,
We hold that tile tariff duties should be
levied for purposes of revenue, such dli
fey to be so adjusted us to Operate <*|0ul
Sv throughout the country and not dis
criminate between class or section, and
that taxation should t>e limited hy the
needs of the government honestly and
• 4 ortiHHieally administered. We do
liounre, a-* disturbing to busttt****- the lie
publican threat to restore tin Mi Kinh-v
, ts, w hlt-li has been iwne yoinleuilted by
the |M-op|e in national eleetlwt*> and
which, enacted under the f ’** t * » *<f
protection to h»m« industry, proved s
.roltnc breeib-r «f trusts snd uortnipali* ■
> orb ited the few at the espetv** of leant,
rivtrirtisl trade Mid deprived tire pro
to- < IS of the great Viocro-ah staple* of
t. • c*s to their h i-lral liouhet*. I util
the mon« y *|u* stion is settled X1 an* op
posed t« any agitation for farther
i hshgrs lit niii tariff law*, M-r|‘ sock
4* are necessary to tunhe the ihtrit to
revenue isssnl hy the advene d»*i*--0
f tho Mupti me Court us the i» -« o. lev
the to. our# 1st,
there Would he !< deficit it the irvr
,no* hut f*o the aiiuuiroeot In the Xs
urris, Court of a la* |owol hr • ten*
ia, . ai„ t oogres* to ■iikS por* uh»- **f
* to ISO I 1* b - "I’ * * It*#1 '
i a ft» use hundred sears, ttM> 1 <sr« has
ug mdrtts-l »>»i«*»itu*h»i«at ho-it u>* l<
,1* iuv *io*ai whp-tl had to*eg V**eubd
hr ihe ikiei) |**t|r< who her* ever *•(
-Ur that is Sr k it * de* tare that it is tto
duty of Congress to use all the constitu
tioual power which remains utter that
decision, or which may come by its re
versal by the court, as it may hereafter
be constituted, so that the burdens of tax
ation may be equally and impartially
laid, to the end that wealth may bear
its due proportion of the expenses of the
government.
lmmlarstlon.
We hold that the moat efficient way to
protect American labor is to prevent the
importation of foreign pauper labor to
compete with it in the home market, and
that the value of the home market to our
American farmers and artisans is greatly
reduced by a vicious monetary system,
which depresses the price of their pro
ducts below the cost of production, and
thus deprives them of the means of pur
chasing the products of our home manu
facture.
Congressional A pprnprintlons.
We denounce the profligate waste of
the money wrung from the people by op
pressive taxation and the lavish appro
priations of recent Republican Con
gresses, which have kept taxes high,
while the labor that pays them is unem
ployed, and the products of the peoples
toil are depressed in price until they no
longer repuy the cost of production. We
demand u return to that simplicity and
economy which best befit a Democratic
government and a reduction in the num
ber of useless offices, the salaries of
which drain the substance of the people.
Federal Interference,
We denounce arbitrary Interference by
Federal authorities in local affairs us a
violation of the Constitution of the Unit
ed States and a crime against free insti
tutions, and we especially object to gov
ernment by injunction as a nov and high
ly dangerous form of oppression, by
w hich Federal judges, in contempt of the
laws of the States and rights of citizens, ^
become at once legislators, judges and ex
ecutioners, and we approve the bill pitss
ed at the lust session of the United
States Senate, and now pending in the
House, relative to contempts in Federal
courts, and providing for trials by jury
in certain cases of contempt,
I'acillc I milling Kill.
No discrimination should be indulged
by the government of the United States
in favor of any of its debtors. We ap
prove of the refusal of the Fifty-third
Congress to pass the Pacific Railroad
funding lull, and denounce the effort of
the present Republican Congress to eii
act a similar iiicusiire.
Pensions.
iircogiiizlng the just claims of deserv
ing Union soldiers, we heartily indorse
tlie rule of the preseut Commissioner of
i'elisions tiiat no uuiues shall he arbi
trarily dropped from the pension roll,
und the fact of an enlistment and ser
vice should lie deemed conclusive evi
dence against disease or disability before
enlistment.
t libs.
We extend our sympathy to the people
of Cuba in their heroic struggle for lib
erty and independence.
The Civil Service.
We are opposed to life tenure in the
public service. We favor appointments
based on merit, fixed terms of office, and
such an administration of the civil ser
vice laws as will afford equal opportuni
ties of all citizens of ascertained bluetts.
No 'I bird Term.
We declare it to be the unwritten luw
of this republic, established by custom 1
and usage of oue hundred years, and
-auctioned by the examples of the great
est aud wisest of those who founded aud
have maintained our government, that
no man should la- eligible for a third
term of tin- presidential office.
Corporate Wealth.
The absorption of wealth by the few,
tin- consolidation of our leading railroad
systems, and formation of trusts and
pools require a stricter control by the
Federal government of those arteries of
commerce. We demand the enlargement
of the powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, und such restrictions aud
guarantees in the control of railroads as
will protect the people from robbery and
oppression.
Admission of Territories.
We favor the admission of the terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona into
the Union as States, and we favor the
ittrly admission of ail the territories giv
ing the necessary population und re
-ources to entitle them to statehood, aud
while they remain territories we hold
that the officials appointed to administer
the government of any territory, togeth
er with the District of Columbia aud
\iasktt, should be bona tide residents of
the territory or district in which their
duties are to lie performed. The Demo
■ratic [tarty believes in home rule aud
tliut all public lands of the United States
should be appropriated to the establish
ment of free homes for American citi
zens.
We recommend that the territory of
Alaska be granted a delegate in Con
giess, and that tlie general laud and tim
ber laws of the United States he ex
tended to sutd territory.
>1 pin Ktvcr ImtiriivcBirnti.
The Federal government should car*
for ami improve the Mississippi river aud
other great waterway a of the Itepiibllc,
*o as to secure for the Interior people
eaay and cheap transportation to tide
water. When any waterway of the rt
puhiic is of sutHeieut importance to de
mamI aid of the government, such aid
should Im> extended upon a di-Auite plan
of continuous work until permanent im
orovenient is secured.
Foil tiding in the justice of our cause
Hid the uccesatty of its aueeeaa at the
(Hills, we atthmlt t lie f. r. g .iug deciara
Moll of prini ipies and purp.wea to the
i. derate judgment of the American
.« . We In* iu the support of alt riti
OHS who appro*’*- lli-lo. Slot who ill s|r*
I, ha * e tlieiu made effective through Ug
isialion for the relief of the people amt
ih«* restoration of the imintry** pfuv
urritt
H rlwler Mavis V|. Kiitley
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is glils.re, I -i I itave hlrit.it ttn*l neigh
l.i.rs m this city, a hi. h i* n«. I*t>vn> , Uatcg
to whot I ».** »i...ut to .«* When (he
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