Faith kept with the pensioner.
No deserving old soldier in the poorhouse.
The suppression of dram drinking and dram selling.
A school at the public charge open to all the children, and
free from partisan or sectarian control.
No distinction of birth or religious creed in the rights of
American citizenship.
Devotion paramount and supreme to the country and to the flag.
Clean politics.
Pure administration.
No lobby.
Reform of old abuses.
Leadership along loftier paths.
Minds ever open to the sunlight and the morning, ever open
to new truth and new duty as the new years bring their lessons."
I ought to explain one phrase in this platform, which I have
since much regretted. That is the phrase, "No barbarous Queen
beheading men in Hawaii." It was currently reported in the
press that the Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani, was a semi-
barbarous person, and that when Mr. Blount, Mr. Cleveland's
Commissioner, proposed to restore her government and said
that amnesty should be extended to all persons who had taken
part in the revolution, she had said with great indignation,
"What, is no one to be beheaded?" and that upon that answer
Mr.
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