The Corvallis gazette., July 16, 1896, Image 1

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COR VALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1896.
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LUCIEN BONAPARTE.
B .Was the Ablest and Most Courageous
of tbe Emperor! Rrotbexm.
The younger brother had, after the
first juvenile heats of - radicalism, be
come a moderate republican, holding
his convictions resolutely. Having op
posed the hereditary consulate for Na
poleon, he withdrew, unmindful of any
reward he might have claimed for his
services of Brumaire, to lead a life of
study and cultivate his inborn literary
tastes. On the death of his first wife,
by whom he had two daughters, he mar
ried, in direct opposition to Napoleon's
wishes, the beautiful and accomplished
Mme. de Jauberthon. This was in 1803.
He had been importuned to put her
away and lend himself to the project of
buttressing the empire by himself ac
cepting a crown and contracting a royal
marriage. He was by far the ablest and
most courageous of the Bonaparte broth
ers, but his heart was true, his princi
ples were fixed, and he was utterly in
different to the rise of Napoleonic em
pire. It was with reluctance that he came
to Mantua. There are two accounts of
what happened there that which has
long been accepted of Napoleon offering
and Lucien hotly refusing the crown of
Portugal, with the hand of Prince Fer
dinand for his daughter Charlotte, and
that which makes the first offer to have
been Etruria. Both accounts agree, how
ever, that the bid was raised to the
promise of Italy all on condition that
he should divorce his wife and rule in
the interest of his brother's imperial
power. Lucien disdained even this
bribe, declaring that he would accept
the crown, but that he would rule in
the interests of his subjects, and that he
would in no case consider a divorce.
Angry words were spoken. Napoleon
crushed in his hand a watch with which
he had been toying, hissing out that
thus he would crush wills which opposed
his. "I defy you to commit a crime,''
retorted Lucien.
Before parting there was a half recon
ciliation, and Napoleon requested that
at least his brother's eldest daughter
might be sent to Paris for use in his
scheme of royal alliances. Lucien as
sented, and the child, a clever girl of
about 14, was sent to live with Mme.
Mere. She was thoroughly discontented
and wrote bright, sarcastic letters to
her stepmother, whom she loved, de
picting the avarice of her grandmother
and the foibles of her other relatives.
These, like all other suspected letters of
the time, were, intercepted and read in
the "cabinet noir." Their contents be
ing made known to Napoleon, he sent
the petulant, witty writer back to her
father. Despairing of any support from
Lucien or his family, Napoleon formal'
ly adopted his stepson Eugene, the vice
roy, with a view to consolidating and
confirming the Italian feeling of depend
ence on France. Professor $loane's
"Life of Napoleon" in Century.
"To be in a brown study" is t eor
ruption of brow study, a study requir
ing much thought and contraction f
tbe brows.
BRYAN OF NEBRASKA
Nominated lor President by
the Democrats.
DELEGATES STAMPEDED TO HIM
He Was Elected on the Fifth Ballot
Arthur Sewell, of Maine, for
Vice-President.
Chicago. W. J. Bryan; "the boy
orator of the Platte," and ex-oongress-man
from Nebraska, was nominated
by the Demooratio national convention
at Chicago, upon the fifth ballot.
Ever sinoe Bryan's brilliant oratori
cal effort on the third day of the con
vention, he has been steadily gaining
strength in the convention, and after
tbe first ballot former supporters of
other candidates rapidly transferred
their allegiance, singly, in pairs and in
droves, to the young statesman who
had bo ably defended their free-silver
cause in and out of convention, and at
all times.
After Mr. Bryan was nominated the
convention unanimously ratified the
choice of the majority.
The decks were cleared for balloting,
which was to begin as soon as the
Demooratio national convention reas
sembled, at 10 o'clock on tbe fourth
W J Bryant
day. The real struggle opened with
the delegates wrought to an intense
pitch over tbe sensational develop
ments of the previous day, when th
Bryan wave swept through the con
vention, and threatened for a time at
least to stampede it then and there.
It had disturbed all calculations and
thrown the ranks of the other candi
dates into confusion..
The Brayn forces were making th
most of tbe phenomenal rise of the
young orator of Nebraska. The ad
journment at midnight had given the
leaders of other candidates an opportu
nity to rally their forces, and it served
also to give some hours in which boum
cool oounsel might prevail against the
wave of sentiment which was at high
tide the night before.
Delegate Miller, of Oregon, added
to the list of nominations the name oi
Sylvester Pennoyer, of Oregon. Th
names of Bland, Bryan, Boies, Black
burn, Matthews, McLean, Pattison and
Pennoyer were before the convention.
There were no . other nominations,
and Chairman White announced that
the roll-call of states for tbe nomina
tion of president, would proceed. Qreal
excitement swept over the halL Th
first ballot resulted as follows:
Blackburn, 88; Bland, 233; Boies, 86
Bryan, 106; Campbell, 2; Hill, 1
Matthews, 87; MoLean, 64; Pattison
96; Pennoyer, 10; Russell, 2; Steven
son, 2; Teller, 18; Tillman, 17; no
voting 183.
On the"eoond ballot Massaohustetti
deserted Bland for Bryan, whiot
created a sensation and started th
other states, and in the two following
ballots Bryan kept gradually gaininj
one state after another, until the resul
of tbe fourth ballot showed Bryan ii
the lead with 376, Bland having fallei
to 241. This precipitated anothei
demonstration which lasted for fort
minutes. Twenty thousand peopli
yelled themselves hoarse cheering foi
tbe Nebraskan. Several of the states
delegates then retired for consultation
and when they filed back into the hal
the fifth ballot was taken, resulting ii
Bryan receiving the necessary two
thirds. On motion it was made unani
mous.
' The Vice-Presidency.
A caucus of delegates was held unti
2:80 in the morning, but no agreement
oould be reached on the vice-presidency.
When the convention opened in th
morning the following names were pre
sen ted: Bland, of Missouri; MoLean,
of Ohio; Williams, of Massachusetts
Sibley, of Pennsylvania; Fithian, ol
Illinois; Daniel, of Virginia; Pennoyer,
of Oregon, and Sewell, of Maine.
Five ballots were taken. Up to th
fourth ballot Bland and McLean led.
Their names were then withdrawn,
and on the fifth ballot Arthur Sewell,
of Maine, was elected.
After - the third ballot was taker
Bland sent a telegram to the conven
tion, asking that his name be with
drawn and that the nomination be
given to some man east of the Missis
sippi river. " .
W. J. Bryan's Career. "
William Jennings Bryan, who if
popularly known as "the boy orator ol
the Platte," is the youngest man ever
nominated for the presidency by a po
litical party in the United States, ex.
oeeding, as he does, the age limitation
fixed by the constitution by only six
teen months. He is the editor of the
Omaha Daily and Weekly World-Her
ald, one of the leading silver organs ol
tbe country, and has for many years,
advocated the free ooinaga of silver.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Villages upon the island of Crete are
being pillaged by Turks.
James Stansbury, the Australian,
won the soulling matoh with "Wag"
Harding the English champion, on the
Thames. '
The new searchlight at Barnegat,
N. J., near New York harobr, throws a
light which can be seen nearly 100
miles at sea.
Patrick Carney, 60 years of age, was
kicked to death in Chicago by James
Wilson. The killing was a- most
brutal affair, the result of a family
row.
v English bimetalists convened in Lon
don. They declared for the remoneti
zation of silver, and think it should be
accomplished by international agree
ment. The Northern Pacific receivers were
given judgment in the federal court in
Seattle by default against the Seattle,
Lake Shore &Eastern railroad for $1,
258.690.63. For tbe restoration of sight to his
rapidly failing eyes, Charles Broadway
Rouss, a millionaire of New York,
will pay 1100,000. This offer is open
to any one who may wish to try, man,
woman or child.
The city authorities of Taooma in
dulged in another wire cutting party,
during the progress of which the wires
of the Commercial Eleotrio Light &
Power Company were again removed,
the company having replaced the wires
daring the day. ' .
- The boathouse in connection" with
George & Baker's oannery, near As
toria, was burned, together with a
two-masted plunger and a barge.
Prompt. work saved the cannery proper
from destruction. The fire was of in
cendiary origin. Loss not stated.
In the federal court in Seattle,
Judge Hanford, made an order dis
missing Oakes, Rouse and Payne, .the
old receivers- of the Northern Pacific,
excusing them and their sureties from
further liability, and wiping out the
charges of contempt of oourt, which
have been pending against them be
cause of their failure to show up in
oourt when they were under tbe fire
box, as the oourt direoted. - -
WERE MURDERED AT NIGHT
Chris VeJIn and F. O. Nelson Killed
Kear Astoria.
Astoria, Or., July 14. Chris Vejin
and F. O. Nelson were murdered on
the ashing ton side of the Columbia
river, near Point Ellis, about 2 o'olook
this morning, and as yet no informa
tion has been obtained that points to
the identity of the assassins. Vejin
owned a whisky soow, which he had
anchored near the scene of the murder
sinoe the fishing , season opened," and
was also engaged in fishing. Nelson
attended J. Q. Megler's fish station a
short distance above Point Ellis, and
started out from the whisky scow in
company with Vejin shortly after 1
o'clock. This was the last seen of
them alive. Several shots were heard
near by about 3 o'olook, and at day
break the body of Vejin was found in
his boat and that of his companion
among the rooks on the shore, a short
distance away. Vejin's breast had
been pierced by a revolver bullet, and
a similar messenger of death had pene
trated the side of Nelson's head. Both
shots had been fired at close range, the
faces of the murdered men being powder-burned.
At noon today Sheriff Hare and Cor
oner Pohl proceeded to the scene and
brought the bodies to this city.
The Point Ellioe Disaster.
Victoria, July 14. An aotion has
been commenced by Martha Kane
James against the oity of Victoria for
damages caused by tbe death of Fran
cis Thomas James, which was brought
by the negligenoe of the defendant in
and about Point Ellioe bridge. The
plaintiff brings the aotion for the ben
efit of herself and Maria Louise Lang
don, Maud, Willie and Charles Thom
as, children of the deceased. In this
aotion the tramway company is not
made the defendant, for the probable
reason that tbe deceased was not on the
oar, but was crossing the bridge on his
bioyole at the time that the ill-fated
car went through the bridge May 26
last So far there is-only one other
case pending for damages arising out
of the accident. It is brought by A. S.
Potts against both the city and the
company. He alleges that the oity
wastnegligent in allowing the bridge
to become out of repair, and the com
pany also negligent in allowing the
oar to be overloaded. The damages
are named at 130,000.
Havana, July 9. It is reported from
Santiago de Cuba that Jose Maceo, tbe
well-known insurgent leader, and bro
ther of Antonio Maceo, has been killed.
Insistent rumors have been circulated
that Jose Maceo died in the last en
gagement in whioh he took part in
Santiago de Cuba.
A Two Hoars' Fight.
Havana, July 14. A fight between
Colonel Pinera's forces and men under
General Capet in the San Lorenzo hills,
near Mosoenas, in the Holguin distriot,
lasted two hours and resulted in the
defeat of the insurgents. They left
seven killed and carried off seventy
killed and wounded. The troops Had
four killed and fifteen wounded.
Brooklyn Catholic Church Destroyed.
New "York, July 14. The Roman
Catholic Churoh of the Visitation, in
Brooklyn, with its contents, was de
stroyed by fire tonight. The loss is es
timated at' 160,000; insurance, f60,
000. The cause of the fire is unknown.
- -;. Swept Over a Dam.
Lawrence, Kan., July 14. A row
boat oontaining six people was swept
over the dam across the Kaw river just
above town at 8 o'olook tonight and
four lives were lost.
MAD WITH EXCITEMENT
Wild Scenes Enacted in the
Chicago Coliseum.
BRYAN'S PASSIONATE OBATOBY
Delegates and Spectators Alike Carried
Away by His Speech Stam
pede for the Nebraskan.
Chicago. On the third day's session
of the national Demooratio convention,
ten acres of people on the sloping sides
of the Coliseum saw the silver-helm et
ed gladiators in the arena overpower the
gold phalanx and plant the banner of
silver upon the ramparts of Democracy.
They saw what may prove the disrup
tion or the success of a great political
party, amid scenes of enthusiasm suoh
as, perhaps, never before ooourred in a
national convention.
They saw 20,000 people, with Im
aginations inflamed by the burning
words of passionate oratory, swayed
like wind-swept fields; they heard the
awful roar of 20,000 voioes burst like a
volcano against the reverberating dome
overhead; they saw a man (Bryan of
Nebraska) carried upon the shoulders
of others intoxicated with enthusiasm.
Amidst the tumult and turbulence,
they listened to appeals, to threats, to
cries for mercy (from Hill of New.
York), and finally, they watched the
jubilant majority seat its delegates and
the vanquished stalk sullenly forth into
the daylight The battle for supremacy
of .Demooratio principles was fought in
a session that lasted from 1 1 o'clock in
the morning until shortly before 6
o'clock in the afternoon. . -.
Eaoh side sent its champions to the
forum. Senator Tillman, of South
Carolina; Senator Jones, of Arkansas;
ex-Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska,
crossed swords with Senator Hill, of
New York; Senator Vilas, of Wiscon
sin, and ex-Governor Russell, of Mas
sachusetts. The sinister-looking senator from
the state of Calhoun (Tillman), with
his eye blazing defiance which mani
fested its unfriendlinesss by a storm of
hisses, opened the debate with a wildly
passionate speech, in which he affirmed
that the battle for the restoration of
silver was a war for the emancipation
of the white slaves, as the war of 1860
had been for the emancipation of the
blaok slaves. Disruption of the
Democracy had brought one, and he in
vited another disruption if it would re
sult in this other emancipation.
He went to the extreme of glorying
in the suggestion presented, that the
issue was a seotional one, a declaration
whioh aroused the resentment of Sena
tor Jones, and he repudiated it in a
brief speech whioh aroused the first
demonstration of the day. Even the
gold delegates joined heartily in this
demonstration against sectionalism.
Senator Vilas bitterly denounced
what he termed tn attempt to launch
the party in a career so wild that the
world stood aghast. With a wave of
his arm, that was full of impressive
portent, he sounded his warning.
Ex-Governor Russell, the keen Mas
sachusetts statesman, who has thrice
carried the standard of Democracy to
victory in the Old Bay state, pleaded
for a word of concession, of concilia
tion, and oonlouded with a solemn
warning that the oountry, it not the
convention, would listen. -
Demonstrations followed at frequent
intervals throughout the speeches, but
it was Senator Hill who aroused the
gold forces to their wildest enthusiasm,
and Bryan, the "boy orator of the
Platte," who set the silevr men aflame.
The demonstration for Hill, who
with olose logio and trenchant blade
sought the very heart of the conven
tion as he bitterly assailed as undemo
cratic the new oreed whioh the ma
jority was to proclaim, lasted about
18 minutes. Although more pro
traoted than that whioh greeted
Bryan, it was of a different nature.
The latter was the spontaneous out
burst of an enthusiasm kindled by the
touch of magnetic eloquence. The
star of the brilliant young orator from
the plains of Nebraska has burned
brightly on the horizon of the conven
tion for two days. There were several
demonstrations in his behalf the day
before, but this was the first oppor
tunity he had to show himself. The
audience had been warmed up, and
was full of pent-up enthusiasm. The
powder magazine needed but the spark,
and Bryan applied it with the skill of
genius. His very appearance captured
the audience. Dressed like a plain
Westerner, in a black suit of alpaca,
he stood with a smile playing over his
handsome, mobile, clear-out faoe,
while with uplifted hand he invited
the waiting thousands.
: He has a faoe whose lines might
have been chiseled from alabaster by
some master soulpter. His month is
firm, his, eyes bright, his nose Roman,
his raven hair is brushed back from his
forehead and falls to his collar.
With well-modulated voice, which
gradually rose in pitch until it pene
trated the furthermost limits of the
hall, he wove the spell upon his audi
ence. His speech was a masterpiece of
fervent oratory. With consummate
eloquence he stated the case of silver
and parried the arguments of the gold
men.- Mare Antony never applied the
match more effectively.
His closing remarks were:
"Having behind us the commercial
interests, the laboring interests, and all
the toiling masses, we shall answer their
demands for the gold standard by say
ing to them: 'You shall not press
down upon the brow of labor this crown
of thorns. You shall not crucify man
kind upon the cross of gold.' "
The convention took fire with enthu
siasm. It crackled as with the war of
flames. Hill was forgotten; all else
was forgotten for the moment. ' Cheers
swelled to yells, yells beoame screams.
Every chair in the valley of the Coli
seum and every ohair in the vast wil
derness on the hillsides beoame a dock
on whioh frantio men and women were
wildly waving handkerchiefs, canes,
hats and umbrellas anything movable.
Some, like . men demented, divested
themselves of their coats and flung
them high in the air.
A Texas delegate uprooted the purple
standard of his state and bore it fran
tically to the place where rose the
standard of Nebraska. In a twinkling
others, followed the example. - Two
thirds of tbe state staffs were torn from
their sockets and carried as trophies to
Nebraska, where they danced in mid
air. A dozen delegates rushed upon
the stage and shouldered the half -dazed
orator and bore him in triumph down
the aisle. Louder and louder shrieked
the thousands, until the volume of
sound broke like a gigantio wave, and
fell only to rise and break again.
For almost ten minutes this madden
ed tumult continued, while the dele
gates with the state standards paraded
the inclosura Old political generals
were stupified. If the ballot for the
nomination had been taken, it would
have been a stampede.
When it was all over the votes were
taken first on the minority substitute
for the platform offered by Senator
Hill, which was defeated 626 to 850.
Then, on the resolution to indorse the
administration, whioh was beaten, 367
to 664, and lastly on tbe adoption of
the platform, which was carried, 628
to 801.
Senator Tillman, after the rejection
of the resolution to indorse the admin
istration, withdrew his resolution to
censure the administration.
The Night Session.
At the night session, in the presenoe
of fully 26,000 people, the nominating
speeches were made, and there was a
repetition of tbe exciting soense of the
afternoon. The Bryan enthusiasm
oontinued. The galleries went frantio
at every mention of his name, and the
wild demonstrations of the afternoon
were duplicated when he was placed
in nomination by Hon. H. T. Lewis,
of Georgia, and seconded by W. C. K.
Lutz, of North Carolina; George F.
Williams, of Massachusetts, and
Thomas J. Kernan, of Louisiana.
Senator Vest plaoed Bland in nomin
ation, and Governor Overmeyer, of
Kansas, seconded the nomination.
The name of Claude Matthews, of In
diana, was presented by Turpie, of In
diana, and seconded by Delegate Trip
pett, of California.
Fred White, of Iowa, plaoed Boies
in nomination, and the Waterloo
statesman owed a magnificent ovation
to the enthusiasm of Miss Minnie
Murray, a young woman from Nashua,
la., who led the Boies demonstration,
as Miss Carson Lake did the Blaine
demonstration at Minneapolis four
years ago. .
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Declares for Freo Coinage of Silver at
the Present Ratio of 10 to 1.
We, the democrats of the United States,
in convention assembled, reaffirm our al
legiance to those great essential principles
of justice and liberty upon which our in
stitutions are founded, and which the
democratic party has advocated from Jef
ferson's time to our own freedom of
speech, freedom of the press, freedom of
conscience, the preservation of personal
rights, the equality of all citizens before
tbe law, and tbe faithful observance of
constitutional limitations.
During all these years the democratic
party has resisted the tendency of selfish
Interests to the centralization of govern
mental power, and steadfastly maintained
the Integrity of the dual scheme of govern
ment, as established by the founders of
this republic of republics. Under Its guid
ance and teachings, the great principle of
local self-government has found its best
expression in the maintenance of the rights
of states, and its assertion of the necessity
of confining the general government to the
exercise of the powers granted by the con
stitution of the United States. Recogniz
ing that the money question is paramount
to all others at this time, we Invite atten
tion to the fact that the federal con
stitution named silver and gold together
as the money metals of the United States,
and that the first coinage law passed by
congress under the constitution made the
silver dollar the monetary unit and ad
mitted gold to free coinage at a ratio based
upon the silver-dollar unit
We declare ttat the act of 1873, demone
tizing silver without the knowledge or ap
proval of the American people, has result
ed in the appreciation of gold and a cor
responding fall in the price of commodities
produced by ths people, a heavy Increase
in the burden of taxation, and of all debts,
public and private, the enrichment of the
money-lending classes at home and abroad,
prostration of industry and impoverish
ment of the people.
We are unalterably 'opposed to mono
metallsm, which has locked fast the pros
perity of an industrial people In the
paralysis of hard times. Gold monometall
ism is a British policy, and its adoption
has brought other nations into financial
servitude to London. It is not only un
American, but anti-American, and can be
fastened on the United States only by the
sinking of that spirit and love of liberty
which proclaimed our political indepen
dence In 1776, and won it in the war of the
Revolution. -
We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of both gold and sljwer at ths present
legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for
th aid or consent of any other nation. We
demand that the standard silver, dollar
shall be full legal tender equally with
gold for all debts, public and private, and
we favor such legislation as will prevent
for the future the demonetization of any
kind of legal-tender money by private con
tract. .
We are opposed to the policy and practice
of surrendering to the holders of the ob
ligations of the United States the option
reserved by law to the government of re
deeming such obligations in silver or in
gold coin. We are opposed to the Issuing of
Interest-bearing bonds of the United States
in time of peace, and condemn the traf
ficking with banking syndicates, which,: In
exchange for bonds at an. enormous profit
to themselves, supply the federal treasury
with gold to maintain the policy of gold
monometallsm.
Congress alone has the power to coin
and issue money, and President Jackson
declared that this power could not be dele
gated to incorporations or individuals. We
therefore demand that the power to issue
notes to circulate as money be taken from
the national banks, and that all paper
money shall be Issued directly by the treas
ury department, be redeemable in coin,
and receivable for all debts, public and
private. r
We hold that the tariff duties should be
levied for the purpose of revenue, such
duties to be so readjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country, and not
discriminate between class or section, and
that taxation should be limited by the
needs of government, honestly and eco
nomically administered.
We denounce as disturbing to business
the republican threat to restore the Mc
Kinley law. which has been twice con
demned by the people in national elections,
and which, enacted under the false plea of
protection to home industries, proved a
prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies,
enriched tbe few at the expense of tbe
many, restricted trade and deprived the
producers of the great American staples
of access to their natural markets. Until
the money question is settled, we are op
posed to any agitation for further changes
in our tariff laws, except such as are nec
essary to make up the deficit in revenues
caused by the adverse decision of the su
preme court on the income tax. But for
this decision of the supreme court, there
would be no deficit In the revenue under
the law passed by the democratic congress,
in strict pursuanc of the uniform decisions
of that court for nearly 100 years, that
court having under that decision sus
tained constitutional objections to its
enactment which had been overruled by
the ablest judges who have ever sat on
that bench. " ,
We declare that it is the duty of con
gress to use all the constitutional power
which remains after that decision, or which
may come from Its reversal by the court
as it may hereafter be constituted, so that
the burdens of taxation may be equally
and impartially divided, to the end that .
we may all bear the due proportion of the
expenses of government.
We hold that the most efficient way of
protecting 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 prices of their prod
ucts below the cost of production, and thus
deprives them of the means of purchas
ing the products of our home manufac
tories. The absorption of wealth by the
few, the consolidation of our leading rail
way systems, and the formation of truBts
and pools require a stricter control by
the federal government of those arteries of
commerce.
We demand the enlargement of the pow
ers of the Interstate commerce commis
sion, and such restrictions and guarantees
in the control of the railroads as will pro
tect the people from robbery and oppres
sion. We denounce the profligate waste of
money wrung from the people by oppress
slve- taxation, and the lavish appropria
tions of recent republican congresses,
which have kept the taxes high while the
labor that pays them Is unemployed, and
the products of the people's toil are de
pressed In price until they no longer repay
the cost of production. We demand a re
turn to that simplicity and economy which
befit a democratic government, and a rer
ductlon In the number of useless offices,
the salaries of which drain the substance
of the people.
We denounce arbitrary Interference by
federal authorities in local affairs as a
violation of the constitution of the United
States and a crime against free lnstitu-
Hons, and we especially object to govern
ment interference by injunction, as a new1
and highly dangerous form of oppression,
by which federal judges, in contempt of
the laws of the states and rights of citi
zens, become at once legislators. Judges
and executors, and we approve the bill
passed at the last session of the United
States senate, and now pending In the
house of representatives, relative to con-'
tempts in federal courts, and providing for
trials by Jury In certain cases of con-
tempt. - 1
No discrimination should be Indulged In
by the government of the United States In!
favor of any of its debtors. r
We approve of the refusal of the 63d
congress to pass the Pacific railroad fund
ing bill, and denounce the efTort of the,
present congress to enact a similar meas
ure. Recognizing the Just claim of deserving
Union soldiers, we heartily indorse the rula
of Commissioner M irphy that no names
shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pen-,
sion rolls, and that fact of enlistment and
service should be deemed conclusive evl-.
dence against disease and disability before
enlistment.
We favor the admission of the territories;
of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union
as states, and we favor the early
admission of all the territories having the,
necessary population and resources to en-'
title them to statehood, and while they re
main territories we hold that the officials
appointed to administer the government of
any territory, together with the District of -Columbia
and Alaska, should be bona fide'
residents of the territory or district In ;
which their duties are to be performed.'
The democratic party believes In home'
rule, and that all public lands of ths '.
United States should be annroDriated to,
the establishment of free homes for Amer-'
lean citizens. i .
We recommend that the territory of ,
Alaska be granted a delegate in congress'
and that the general land and timber laws , '
of the United States be extended to said ,
territory. f - - -. . 2
We extend our sympathy to" the people of ;
Cuba In their heroic struggle for liberty
and Independence. -' - - -
The federal government should care for"
and Improve the Misslssipppl river and . -other
great waterways of the republic, so
as to secure for the Interior states easy
and cheap transportation to tidewater. .
When any waterway of the republic Is of '
sufficient importance to demand aid of the ;
government, such aid should be extended .
upon a definite plan of. continuous work,
until permanent Improvement is secured.
We are" opposed to life tenure In pub- .
11c service. We- favor appointments based a
upon merit, fixed terms of office, and such .-,
an administration of the civil service laws ..
as will afford equal opportunity to all clti- '
zens of a certain fitness. , . .. - ,
We declare It to be the unwritten law
of this republic, established by custom and '
usage of 100 years and sanctioned by the ;
examples of the greatest and wisest of
those who founded and have maintained '
our government, that no man shall be ell- j
glble for a third tirm of the presidential ,
office. . , . . . '
Confident In the justice of our cause and
necessity of its success, at the polls, wt
submit the foregoing declaration of prin- V
clples to the considerate judgment of the y l
American people. , We Invite the support of
all citizens who approve them, and desire J
to have them made effective through legis
lation, for the reilef of the people and the
restoration of the country's prosperity, .
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