| Show THE RIGHTS EIGHTS OF CITIZENS IN territories have been made by tho the managers of the republican party for the next national convention and among amon gother othen other thing sit bit hab hus been agreed that delegates are to be elected by the district method 17 the republican publican Ke people in each congressional gress lonal district are to have if they choose to exercise their rights the selection of the delegate who represents presenta re that diritti district ct the dele gates at large bargo aro are to be chosen by the state conventions of course but the tho sta state to Convent conventions lo n s a aro r 0 not to have the right or even eten the opportunity port unity to pack a full delegation from the districts and tie tle it up under fethe the unit rule for tue ine by some ambitious and daring leader tee philadelphia american con alders this one of tho the measures essential sentral to the future fatur 0 harmonious and efficient work of tho the republican organization butas but is exercised ged sed over the continuance of representation of the territories in the convention ven tion jt it objects to territorial delegates being allowed to take part and asks can any one explain why this should be so why need the territories be represented they are in no way a part of the election fon oon president they have no eleo elec tors their dele delegated delegates gatea are simply an i extraneous and interfering element and it is only because they are not numerous that they can be ba tole toie tolerated raed at all it Is true that the territories are not permitted to take any part in the election for president but is that any reason why they should have no voice at au all in the nomination or in the affairs of the political party with which they may be connected no solid argument can be given for the exclusion of american citizens from nil nii participation in the government under which they live simply because they have changed their residence from a state to a territory of the united states it is a great wrong to stifle their voice in the election for president that official has the power of filling by appointment the offices with which they are immediately concerned and which aie ate filled by the people in the states sta es and therefore they are all the more entitled to a part in the presidential election it if they may not elect their own annie ers cra they certainly ought to haye hate something to bay eny la in the tho choice of the person who appoints those officers and how much republicanism la is there in the system tuat tuni prevents the exercise of this rih rit tit but once this dee dea despotte despotic potte treatment of the territory has passed into apart a part of our nati national syb bys system tem tom a standing contradiction to the declaration la that nil nii citizens are equal before the law is there any auy reason why the anti republican anomaly should be incorporated into political organizations established for the ex prem purpose of maintaining republican principles we wee consider that the members of the republican party in a territory have as much right to representation in the councils of that party as itt its members in a state and eo bo with the members of the democratic party if not why not la Is it because they are allowed no electors in a presidential election that appear appears to ua to be ba an additional why their own party should give them representation in its conventions ve vent ions lons that some little justice may be accorded them the whole theory and practice of territorial inequality la is subversive of constitutional liberty and the doctrine of popular sovereignty it cannot be made to ment meni founded upon a recognition of the principle of equal rights why a citizen who can vote for president in a state should lose that power as boon hoon as he attempt attempts to aid in the progress of his country by cro crossing gitig the line of that state and helping to found or build up a new commonwealth which Is to become an addition to the wealth and glory of the union do citizens of the united states be come less competent to manage their own local affairs and to choose the men who are to preside over national affairs by their change of residence Is it not rather probable that their new experience will qualify them for a more intelligent ex of the rights and privileges of citizenship the more that as assumption on which the exclusion of the terri from all part or lot in the management of national affairs is examined the balder und end more ridiculous it appears it makes no difference to the facts or the logic that congress has adopted the existing policy and that it has been sanctioned by a ruling of the supreme court of the country it is just as wrong and absurd as as though the subject were only mooted e d rules and nd customs will not make a wrong right the natural rights jf if men and the guaranteed rights of citizens remain although custom and judicial decisions may have arrested their exercise for a benson season the inalienable rights of man are not appendages to state hood they are universal and they belong equably to a omy dody of citizens dutalie as inside of state lines th tho a purchase of lands from the federal federal government and the mccu pation thereof beyond the ies les of organized states does not and cannot properly deprive the occupants of the rights and privileges of citizenship the system which has been bean adopted no matter wb what at tribunal has it la Is in plain violation of the basic principles of american reau republicanism and la Is neither more nor less than tyranny and any political party which imi imitates fates it and carries out its spirit and course towards the members of that party la Is unworthy of the title either of republican or democrat either the tho territorial lai system should be changed or the declaration of independence should be revised soab sons so aa to read all men in the states but bat nob not in ahe uhe terr territories are created equal and are endowed by the creator with certain inalienable rights right sj etc but when lie lib they ile remove into territories such brints rights are relinquished and the i men become va vassals sEals 11 the american says many good things but this time it has gone off wrong and the republican par ty ly has shown good sense in not casting out the delegates of its members in those singularly constituted organizations the territories |
