The Corvallis gazette., June 25, 1896, Image 1

VOL. XXXIII.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1896.
NO. 15.
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CORVALLTS OREGON
General Fairchild's Parol.
General Fairchild brought with him
a relic of the war the other day to show
to the Loyal legion, which was cf great
interest to them, as it would be to all
old soldiers. It was a elipcf paper a lit
tle yellowed and carefully framed,
which is one cf a limited number of in
dividual paroles issued during the civil
war. It is worded this way:
I, a prisoner of war captured near Gettys
burg, do give my parole cf honor not to take
np arms against the Confederate Btutos or to
do nny military duty whatever, or to give any
information that nay bo prejudicial to the in
terests of the sumo until regular exchange.
This parole i3 extended to the wounded in
consideration of humanity, to save a painful
and tedious march to the rear.
Lucius FAiRormjj,
Colonel Second Wisconsin Volunteers.
"It was the second day of Gettys
burg," said CJencral Fairchild in speak
ing cf it. "I had teen wounded the day
before and had just had an amputation,
and I was not feeling exactly like 'tak
ing up arms against the Confederate
States or doing any military duty nvhat
ever. It was Captain Emack, Company
B of the First Maryland volunteers,
who came tome and asked me my name
and rank and whether I -would give pa
role. I would have given anything
signed anything just to be left alone.
A few other individual paroles were
given that day and run off at Iho Gettys
burg printing office. " Milwaukee Wis
consin. Bicycles In Vienna.
How far government should go in car
ing for the safety of the individual is a
nice question, about which there is
much difference of opinion. A striking
example of "paternalism" is presented
by the regulations which govern bicycle
riding in Vienna, as set forth by a cor
respondent of the New York Home
Journal.
In Vienna all bicycle riders before
obtaining permission to ride ou the pub
lic streets must pass an official exami
nation. They are required to ride be
tween boards laid on the floor without
touching the sides or edges of the boards.
At the word of command they must be
able to dismount either right, left or
backward. Until the rider passes this
strict examination satisfactorily a li
cense to ride on the public highway is
refused.
That is all very well in its way. For
a government to take such parental care
of its people is regarded by many as evi
dence of a high state of civilization, but
the fact is that, so far as New York is
concerned, the most serious accidents,
those causing loss of life, have nearly
all befallen experienced riders. It is the
experts who are killed those who take
great risks. -
In New York. "Hello, Jones! How
did you get here?" "Walked." "Walk
ed! from Buffalo! What on earth did
you do that for?" "Oh, we brought the
baby. He's teething." Truth.
"Ethel, did you really steal that etch
ing from a borrowed book?" "Yes, I
ust had to the curve of the chin and
throat were so perfect" Chicago Rec
ord.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in a Condensed Form.
President Cleveland will take no ac
tion as to the Cuban rebellion.
John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, was
made permanent chairman of the Re
publican national convention at St.
Louis.
Adolpb Padelford is dead in Paris.
He was the the husband of Bettina
Girard, the actress, whom he paid
20,000 to drop her name.
The pump house of the North End
Water Works, Taooma, was burned
down, leaving that entire section of
the city without water for a day.
Sarah Blackburn obtained a verdict
at Oregon City from the Southern Pa
cific Railway Company for $2,000 for
the kililng of Mark Blackburn, by a
train at a street crossing.
As a result of the recent warm
weather rivers and creeks in Idaho are
booming, and lands in many places
are overflowed. It is estimated that
damage to the amount of $12,000 has
been done to the road between Wallaoe
and Osborne.
Owing to poor attendance and bad
weather, the Portland baseball club ol
the Paoifio leauge, has been disbanded.
The Seattle club followed suit. Ta
ooma will make an effort to hold to
gether. An effort will be made to
have desultory games throughout the
summer.
John Connors shot Mamie Mulligan
three times in the head, in Chicago.
He then shot himself through the right
temple. He is dead. The girl is not
expected to live. The deed was com
mitted because the girl would not
marry him. Connors is 45 years old,
and Miss Mulligan is 16.
The British steamer Drummond Cas
tle, Captain N. M. Pierie, from Cape
Town, for London, oollided with an
unknown steamer' near Brest, France.
She sank in three minutes with 144
passengers and 103 officers and crew on
board. Two men were pioked np by a
fishing boat The fate of the steamer
with which she collided ia not known.
News of a terrible earthquake, in
volving the loss of over a thousand
lives, has reaohed Yokohama from the
island of Yesso, which . contains the '
northern provinces of Japan. The
subterraneous disturbance lasted about
twenty hours, and during that period
the utmost terror prevailed. Ground
rumblings are described as resembling
the roar of distant cannon. Shock fol
lowed shock almost in uninterrupted
succession. In all it was estimated
that about 150 shocks occurred. The
whole town of Kumaishi is destroyed
by a tidal wave, whioh accompanied
the earthquake. Many disasters to
shipping are reported from the tidal
wave.
A year-old baby fell out of a fourth-
atory window in Chicago the other day '
and sustained no serious damage. He
lit in a mudhole.
The banks at Cheney, Wash., sus
pended payment and failed to open
their doors. Hard times and inability
to make collections are the causes as
signed for the failures.
A young man named Conway, a
brakeman on a gravel train, fell be- j
tween two cars of the moving train
near Arlington, Or., and had his
right leg crashed in two places. I
The coroner's jury impaneled to in-,
vestigate the fatal shooting of Charles J
Rice, near Roseburg, returned a verdict
of willful murder against James Dix
on, the boy who fired the fatal shot
. A 16-year-old boy named Charles
Wyatt accidentally shot and killed
himself with a 22-caliber rifle near
Uentralia, Wash., while out hunting
in company with another lad of about
his own age.
By a fire at Hoquiam, Wash., the
mill of the Northwest Lumber Com
pany was destroyed, and the barkentine
North Bend, which was taking on a
cargo at the dock, was damaged to the
extent of $1,000. The amount of the
damage to the mill has not been esti
mated. The Goodrioh reservoir, fifteen miles
from Baker City, broke, and a great
volume of water rushed down the gulch
about four miles, where- it jumped
from Goodrich creek to Pine creek.
About three miles further the flood
itrnok R. French's house and dashed
it to pieces, drowning the family, con
sisting of the parents and five child
ren, agea ranging from 8 to 12 year.
The bodiea were found scattered along
the creek a distance of two miles. The
clothing was torn off and the bodies
mangled. Large pine trees were car
ried miles down the stream and. fences
and bridges were swept away. Grain
fields are badly damaged. The reser
voir was constructed in 1863 and has
Veen used for mining purposes.
Indian War Veterans.
The grand encampment of Indian
war veterans of the Pacific Northwest
was held in Portland this week, pre
sided over by Grand Commander Thos.
A. Wood, and Otto Kleemann acting
as grand adjutant The representation
of members was unusually large, and
was augmented by a large attendance
of the women's auxiliary, embraoing
the wives and daughters of the sturdy
men, who In the earlier history of the
Northwest protected their homes and
families from the hostile savages. Th
meeting lasted three days. .
Must Be Brought to Trial.
A Cape Town dispatch says the sec
retary of state for the Transvaal has
telegraphed the British high commis
sioner there that, having in view the
welfare and peace of South Africa, the
Transvaal government is convinced
that the proofs in its possession, which
are at the disposal of Great Britain,'
now completely justify and compel the
bringing to trial of Cecil Rhodes, A1-,
fred Beit and Dr. Harris, all of the'
British South Africa Company, and
connected with the raid into the Trans
vaal. The secretary adds that the
Transvaal secretary is obliged to press
this step on Great Britain, and also to
urge that all odntrol of the British
Chartered South Africa Company be
transferred to Great Britain.
The Justice Was Speedy.
. Paul Kamaune, a. kanaka, was hang
ed in the prison- corridor in Folsom,
Cal., for the murder of Mrs. Ellen
Robinson at Latrobe, Eldorado county,
on May 6, 1896. The execution was
deovid of sensational incidents, and
was witnessed by only the few persons
required by law. The murderer died
without a word or a tremor on the
scaffold. He was pronounced dead
exactly 11 minutes after the fall of the
drop, his neck being broken. It was
the quickest exeoution on record, the
body being cut down just 12 minutes
after the prisoner left his cell.
Few Troops Will be Moved.
The programme for the annual move
ment of troops has been definitely ar
ranged at last, and the necessary oraers
will go forward at onoe to department
commanders. There will be much
disappointment over the fact that with
the exception of two companies of the
11th infantry, the movements are con
fined to two regiments. It is under
stood that lack of funds is the cause for
limited oLanges. ;
Ten Th on sand Prawned.
A Yokohama dispatch says: It is
estimated that 10,000 people were
drowned by the tidal wave on the
island of Yesso, in the northern part of
Japan, which accompanied a succession
of frightful earthquakes lasting about
twenty hours. In addition to the town
of Kumassia, which was wholly de
stroyed, many other ooast towns have
been washed away entirely or in part
The Strike Situation.
Every cannery on the lower Colum
bia river is in operation, some of them
taxed to their utmost oapaoity to
randle the catch of fish, and it looks
as if the fishermen's strike is about,
over for this year. j
Venezuela for Gold. '
Minister Andrada, of Venezuela, has'
reoeived advices from Caracas as to
the final ratification of the constitu
tional amendment by which Vene
sjela adopts the gold standard.
Fortune's Favorite.
George Delong, who had been pick
ing strawberries in Benton Harbor,
Mich , has fallen heir to a fortune of
$150,000 by the death , of an mnole in
the St Louis tornado.
Five to Be Hanged. '
Judge Parker, of the federal court,
of Fort Smith, Ark. , has , sentenced
Dennis Davis, George W. Wilson,
Frank Carver, Jesse and John Notice
to be hanged July 9, for murders com
mitted in the Indian territory. Carver
killed his mistress, Annie Maledon.
This is the second time he and Davis
have been sentenced.
Some Silver Statistics.
Of the silver bullion purchased un
der the act of July 14, 1890, there are
now on hand 132,998,452 fine ounces;
the oost of this bullion is $119,941,055;
its coining value $172,541,414. The
total number of silver dollars coined
from bullion purchased under the aot of
July 14, 1890, to June 1, 1896, was
46,104,651. Upon this coinage there
was a seignorage or profit of $10,-
117,234. - -
Patters- n Was JGlec ed.
C. T. Patterson, of Taooma, has been
elected commander of the G. A. R. for
the department of Washington and
Alaska. - . j f
Drowned In the Umatilla.
A young son of A. B. Hogue, of Pen
dleton, while playing on a footlog over
the Umatilla river, lost his balance
and fell into the rapidly running
stream and was drowned. His body
has not been recovered.
Burial of the French Family.
The burial of the French family, the
victims of the -reservoir disaster at
Baker City, took place in that city, the
seven bodies all being interred in one
grave. The foneral was the most im
pressive, and the bodies were followed
to the cemetery by a procession of car
riages one mile in length. '
Outbreak of Natives.
A new outbreak of the natives of
Matabeland occurred between Umtali
and Salisbury. At a meeting in that
vioinity June 9, of a number of chiefs
under Makoni, all except four agreed
to revolt, and several whites were mur
dered. General Dlmond Is Dead.
General W. M. Dimond, of the Cali
fornia National Guard, died at the
Gilsey house in New York.
Hold-Up Near Baker City.
The MoEwen-Canyon City stage was
held up., six miles from McEwen, Or.,
by two ' masked men armed with re
volvers. They relieved one passenger
of $12 and then emptied the mail sacks,
taking all they deemed valuable.
Massacred to a Man.
The report that the party headed by
the Marquis de Mores, consisting of 85
men, bound for the Soudan to enlist
the Arab chiefs against the British, has
been massacred to a man, is confirmed.
The members of the DeMores expedition
were killed near Cademaa.
IGEOF
a
MeKinley for President, Ho
bart for Vice-President.
NOMINATED ON FIRST BALLOT
Thrilling; Scenes In the Hall When the
Results Were Announced Silver Men
Bolted the Gold Standard Platform.
St Louis, Mo. The Republican na
tional convention has nailed its prin
cipals to the masthead and placed in
sommanc of the ship, whioh is to bear
it to fortune or disaster in November,
its popular idol, Wjlliam McKinley, of
Ohio, and Garret A. Hobart, of New
Jersey.
But there was mutiny aboard, and,
before the lines were cast off, some of
the members of the orew who had
shipped on many a voyage refused to
subscribe to the new' shipping articles
and walked down the gang plank.
Vote by States for President.
STATES.
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho -.
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire...
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina....
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon '
Pennsylvania .....
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington j
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Indian Territory..
Dist. of Columbia.
Alaska
26
19
17
65!
19V4
6
48
8
6
58
.4! 4
Total I 922661;S4 6861i35V4
Vote by States for Vice-President.
to
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STATES.
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire ....
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming ."
Arizona
New Mexico -
Oklahoma
Indian Territory ....
District of Columbia.
Alaska
10
10
14
11
5
3
12
3
21
44
12
8
20
8
8
4
16
5
10
17
8
S
1
12
7
12
5
23
14
14
2
6
13
10
1
16
8
20
72
Vi
20i
i
25
8
64
3
15
15
11
5
8
8
12
3
6
4
20
Totala
553
280:
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The last day of the convention was
held in session for ten hours to accom
plish the work cut out for it, and the
scenes at different times were tragic,
dramatic and inspiring. Folly 15,000
people" were in the vast auditorium to
hiss or cheer by turns.
The bolt of the silver men from the
West furnished the most dramatic in
cident of the day. Led by Senator
Teller, they had previously declared
their intention of refusing to subscribe
to the gold plank in the platform, but,
after Senator Teller had made his final
appeal to the convention . not to take
the step whioh would drive him and
his colleagues out of the ranks of the
party which in the past honored them,
and they had delighted to serve, the
convention had voted, 818 to 105,
to stand by the gold declaration in the
platform. When Senator Teller made
his declaration, saying: "I must sever
my connection with the political party
which makes the gold plank one of the
principal articles of its faith," be
paused and swpet his eyes across the
halL The galleries rose with a yell,
and mingled with the yell was a fusi
lade of hisses. There was a pathos in
the senator's voioe, and those nearest
oould deteot a glimmer of tears while
he said there would be heartburnings
and grief in the sacrifice he and bis
colleagues were to make for their con
sciences. .
- Cheers then oame from the silver
delegates and the gold men were on
their feet from the admiration of the
man, not of his cause. The hisses
were few this time.
No one who witnessed the scenes will
forget them to his dying day, the pic
ture of Senator Frank Cannon, of
Utah, facing from the platform 10,000
irate, hissing, jeering- people, as he
lead the valediotory of the silver men.
The very courage displayed by him
won for him the admiration whioh
compelled silence. When be had fin
ished he turned and shook hands with
the chairman and other friends on the
platform.
He then locked arms with Senator
Teller, and the two men left the stand
and moved down between the walls of
yelling delegates to where the standard
of the Idaho delegation stood. There
th"y weje joined by the handsome,
stalwart Dubois, and the three con
tinued their march to the main door,
their followers falling in behind them
as they left the building.
Carter and Mantle of Montana, kept
their seats, signifying their willingness
to abide by the plartfom.
The silver men who bolted imme
diately perfected plans to place Senator
Teller in nomination as an independent
silver candidate for president
After this sensational inoident the
convention turned to the work of
selecting the standard-bearers. It was
a foregone conclusion that McKinley
would be nominated.
Baldwin, of Council Bluffs, nomi
nated Allison, Senator Lodge nominat
ed Reed, Hastings nominated Quay,
Depew nominated Morton, and For
aker, in a masterly effort which turned
the convention into bedlam, nominated
McKinley.
Save for the tumult that followed
Woloott's speech placing Blaine in
nomination four years ago, the demon
stration bad no parallel in the nation,
at least in length. The applause
lasted twenty-seven minutes.
Just at the close of the shouting
thousands were ready to sink from
sheer exhaustion. Altogether the scene
was a remarkable one, and testified to
the popularity of the candidate who
had been placed in the field.
The ballot was then taken and Mo
Kinley's vote exceeded the expectation
of his friends, as he received 661),
within a vote and a half of 200 more
than a majority, and almost three
times as many as his five opponents.
(ill'
rut s nmfs v
HhJov William McKinley.
The nomination was made unanim
ous with enthusiastic speeches from the
representatives of the other candidates.
After the decision of the Piatt forces
not to present the name of Governor
Morton, the nominati-n of Hobart, of
New Jersey, for vice president, became
a certainty. The McKinley force was
thrown for bim, which was too potent
to overcome, besides, it was the general
sense of the delegates that the situa
tion required the nomination of an
Eastern man for vice-president. The
nominating speeches were brief.
Bulkley, of Connecticut; Lippitt, of
Rhode Island, and General Walker, of
Virginia, were also placed in nomina
tion, but it only required one ballot to
determine the result. Hobart received
5304 votes, 90 more than a majority.
Evans, his nearest competitor, received
280. There were scattering votes for
Reed, Thurston, Grant, Depew, Morton
and Brown.
PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Protective Tariff, Reciprocity and the
Gold Standard.
The platform adopted by the national
Republican convention is as follows:
"The republicans of the United States,
assembled by their representatives in na
tional convention, appealing for the popu
lar and historic Jusiification of their claims
to the matchless achievements of 30 years
of republican rule, earnestly and confi
dently address themselves to the awak
ened intelligence, experience and con
science of their countrymen, in the follow
ing declaration of facts and principles:
"For the first time since the civil war,
the American people have witnessed the
calamitous consequences of full and unre
stricted democratic control of the govern
ment. It has been a record of unparal
leled incapacity, dishonor and disaster.
"In administrative management, it has
ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable revenue,
entailed an unceasing deficit, eked out or
dinary current expenses with borrowed
money, piled up the public debt by $262,
000,000 in .time of peace, forced an adverse
balance of trade. Kept a perpetual menace
hanging over the redemption fund, pawned
American credit to alien syndicates, and
reversed all the measures and results of
successful republican rule.
"In the broad effect of its policy, It has
precipitated panic,, blighted Industry and
trade with prolonged depression, , closed
factories, reduced work and wages, halted
enterprise and crippled American produc
tion while stimulating foreign production
for the American market. Every consider
ation of public safety and individual in
terest demands that the government shall
be rescued from the hands of those who
have, shown themselves incapable to con
duct it without disaster at home and dis
honor abroad, and shall be restored to the
parity which for 30 years administered it
with unequaled success and prosperity, and
in this connection we heartily indorse the
wisdom, patriotism and success of the
administration of President Harrison.
"We renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark
of American industrial independence and
the foundation of American development
and prosperity. This true American policy
taxes foreign products, encourages home
industry, and puts the burden of revenue on
foreign goods; it secures the American mar
ket for the American producer; it upholds
the American standard of wages for the
American worklngman; it puts the factory
by the aide of the farm and makes the
American farmer less dependent on foreign
demand and price; it diffuses general thrift
and founds the strength of all on the
strength of each. In its reasonable appli
cation it is just, fair and impartial; equal
ly opposed to foreign control and domestic
monopoly; to sectional discrimination and
individual favoritism.
"We denounce the present democratic
tariff as sectional, injurious to the public
credit and destructive to business enter
prise. We demand such an equitable tar
iff, on such foreign imports as come into
competition with American products, as
will not only furnish adequate revenue foi
the necessary expenses of the government,
but protect American labor from degrada
tion the wage level of other lands.
"We are not pledged o any particular
schedules. '- The question of rates la a
practical question, to b governed by toe
conditions of the time and of production;
the ruling and uncompromising principle
is the protection and development of
American labor and industry. The country
demands a right settlement and then It
wants rest.
"We believe the repeal of the reciprocity 1
arrangements negotiated by the lasi re
publican administration was a national
disgrace, and we demand their renewal
and extension on such terms as will equal
ize our trade with other nations, remove .
the restrictions which now obstruct the
sale of American products in the ports of
other countries, and secure enlarged mar
kets for the products of our farms, forests
and factories.
"Protection and reciprocity are the twin
measures of republican policy, and go
hand in hand. Democratic rule has reck- "
lessly struck down both, and both must be
re-established. Protection, for what we
produce; free admissions for the necessaries
of life which we do not proce: recip
rocal agreements of mutual interests
which gain open markets in return for our
open markets to others. Protection builds
up domestic industry and trade and se
cures our own market for ourselves; re
ciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds
an outlet for our surplus.
"We condemn the present administra
tion for not keeping faith with the sugar
producers of this country. The republican
party favors such protection as will lead
to the production on American soil, of ail
the sugar which the American people use,
and for which they pay other countries
more than J100.000.0OO annnallv
k "To all of our products to those of the
lume ana neia, as well as those of the
sheep and the factory to hemp, to wool,
the product of the great industry of sheep
husbandry, as well as to the finished wool
ens of the mill, we promise the most ample
protection.
"We favor restoring the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the up
building of our merchant marine, and the
protection of our shipping interests in the
foreign-carrying trade, so American ships,
the product of American labor, employed
in American shipyards, sailing under the "
Stars and Stripes, and manned, officered,
and owned by Americans, may regain the
carrying of our foreign commerce.
"The republican party is unreservedly
for sound money. It caused the enact
ment of the law providing for the re
sumption of specie payments in 1879; since
then every dollar has been as good as
gold; we are unalterably opposed to every'
measure calculated to debase our currency
or impair the credit of our country.
"We are, therefore, opposed to the free
coinage of sliver except by international
agreement, with the leading commercial
nations of the world, which we pledge
ourselves to promote, and until such
agreement can be obtained the existing
gold standard must be preserved
"All our silver and paper currency must
be maintained at parity with gold, and we
7r?ZAlL "VaSUrf. desiened to maintain.
Inviolably, the obligations of the Unitei
States, and all our money, whether ocin
or paper, at the present standard the
standard of the most enlightened nations
or the earth.
"The veterans of the Union armies de
serve and should receive kind treatment
and generous recognition. Whenever
practicable they should be given the pref
erence in the matter of employement. and
they are entitled to the enactment of such
iaTS,s a.re besf calculated to secure the
fulfillment of the pledges made to them
in the dark days of the country's peril.
V e denounce the practice in the pension
bureau, so recklessly and unjustly carried
on by the present administration, of re
ducing pensions and arbitrarily dropping
names from the rolls, as deserving thi
severest condemnation of the American
"Our foreign policy should be at all
i8'. P1. vigorous and dignified, and
i..?yri.Interes.til.,n, ne w stern hemisphere -carefully
watched and guarded. The
Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by
knited States, and no foreign power
should be permitted to interfere with
them; the Nicaragua canal should be bu It.
owned, and operated by the United States
and by the purchase of the Danish Islands
wiLh,0Uld Eecure the proper and mucb
De.?Zd naval station in the West Indies.
The massacres in Armenia have
aroused the deep sympathy and Just in
dignation of the American people, and we
believe the bnlted States should exert all
tne influence it can properly exert to brine
these atrocities to an end. In Turkey
American residents have been exposed to
the gravest dangers and American proper
ty destroyed. There, as everywhere, Amer
ican citizens and American property must
be absolutely protected at. all hazards and
at any cost.
"We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its
fullest extent, and we reaffirm the right
UJeKLmted States to give the doctrine
effect, by responding ta the appeals of any
American state for friendly intervention
in case of European encroachment.
'We have not interfered and shall not In
terfere with the existing possessions of any
Jiiiropean jxiwer in thia hemisphere, but
those possessions must not, on any pretext,
be extended. We hopefully look forward to
the eventual withdrawal of the European
powers from this hemisphere and to the
ultimate union of all the English-speaking
parAa ?ftfle continent by the free consent
of its inhabitants.
"From .the hour of achieving their own
independence, the people of the United
States have regarded with sympathy the
struggles of our American people to free
themselves from European domination. We
watch with deep and abiding interest the
heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against
cruelty and oppression, and our best hopes
go out for the full success of their deter
mined contest for liberty.
"The government of Spain, having lo3t
control of Cuba, and being unable to pro
tect the property or lives of resident
American citizens, r to comply with its
treaty obligations, we believe the govern
ment of the United States should actively
use its influence and good offices to re
store peace and give independence to the
island.
"Tho peace and security of the republic
and he maintenance of Its rightful influ
ence among the nations of the earth, de
mand a naval power commensurate with
its position and responsibility. We, there
fore, favor the continued enlargement of
the navy and a complete system of harbor
and seaeoast defenses.
"For the protection of the quality of our
American citizenship and the wages of
our workingmen against tne fatal competi
tion of low-priced labor, we demand ithat
the immigration laws be thoroughly en
forced and so extended as to exclude from
entrance to the United States those who
can neither read nor write.
"The civil service law was placed on itha
statute books by the republican party,
which has always sustained it, and we re
new our repeated declarations that it shall
be thoroughly and honestly enforced and
extended wherever practicable.
"We demand that every citizen of the
United States shall be allowed to cast
one free and unrestricted ballot, and that
such ballot be counted and returned as
cast.
"We proclaim our unqualified condemna
tion of the uncivilized and barbarous prac
tice, well known as lynching, or killing
of human beings suspected or charged
with crime, without process of law.
"We favor the creation of a national
board of arbitration to settle and adjust
differences which may arise between em
ployers and employes engaged in Interstate
commerce.
"We believe In an Immediate return to
the free homestead policy of the republi
can party, and urge the passage by con
gress of the satisfactory free-homestead
measure, which has already passed the
house and is now pending in the senate.
"We favor the admission of the remain
ing territories at the earliest practicable
date, having flue regard to the interest of
the territories and the United States. All
the federal officers appointed for the terri
tories should be selected from bona fide
residents thereof, and the right of self
government should be accorded as far aa
practicable.
"We believe the citizens of Alaska
should have representation In the "con
gress of the United States, to the end that
needful legislation may be Intelligently
enacted.
"We sympathize with all wise and legiti
mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils
of Intemperance and promote morality.
"The republican party is mindful of the
rights of women. Protection of American
industries includes equal opportunities,
equal pay for equal work and protection
to the home.
"We favor the admission of women to
wider spheres of usefulness, and welcome
their co-operation in rescuing the country
from dmocratlo and populist mismanage
ment and misrule.
"Such are the principles and policies ot
the republican party.
"By these principles we will abide, and
these policies we will put into execution.
We ask for them the considerate judg
ment of the American people. Confident
alike in the history of our great party,
and in the justice of our cause, we present
our platform and our candidates In the
full assurance that the ejection will bring
victory to the republican party and pros
perity to the people of the United State"