Show L NEW PARTY In California they had seven State tickets in the political field yesterday which of course were the occasion of heavy scratching at the polls Surely there were parties enough to represent every shade of political opinion One of the nevrly organized parties which became more formidable than was expected drawing support from all parties wag the American organized with a view of becoming national in its relation to the politics of the country and not local merely The founders of this party proclaim their first and I fundamental principle to be patriotism and obedience to the law and maintain that the highest duty of members is the defense of the soil under the flag the preservation of social order the maintenance of individual rights and the protection of life and property within our national borders It pledges itself tocheriihas foun dation upon which our republican commonwealth com-monwealth is founded the nonsectarian nonsecta-rian Lee American school which shall be circumscribed by no solemn circle of the church It proposes to reform the immigration laws with a view of I excluding from our shore all who cannot can-not give assuranca and proof of becoming becom-ing good Americans It pledges itself that its first act of power shall be to unconditionally un-conditionally repeal all naturalization laws and will neither sell nor give away iI 1 i another acre of public domain except to j I American citizens and then only in i I email quantities and for actual occupation I occu-pation and cultivation It would restrict f re-strict to alien residents the ownership i of real property for purposes of business use and residence to nonresfdent i I I aliens it will deny the ownership of real I I estate I This American Party proposes to so I reform the laws that American labor I shall not be brought in competition with the cheap labor ot Europe or permit per-mit the importation of pauper labor la-bor irons Europe to these shores t and will endeavor to throw open every avenue of industry and employment tot to-t every boy and Kid of American birth Vaen it attains to power the party I would have the army and navy and t political force composed of those born tt upon the soil and as a rule would confine con-fine the holding of office to American citizens of native birth Such in brief I are the pledges dint principles of the American party And like nearly all political parties in its creed there is much that is good and some thine that are bad The party makes i s loudest protest against the Irish Catholics in Amenca claiming that it is from them that the country receives the most oftensive assaults against the American system of education Their > the class which is unfriendlv to frvrdom the pnss and the party i cbarzes that it is the Roman clergv which alone among priests undertakes to interfere npolitical affairs And while they disclaim any intention to interfere in-terfere with the faith of the Catholics they demand absolute noninterference in political affairs and in conclusion appeal to alt Americans to support their principle |