The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-10
KANSAS DEMOCRATS.
The Re-submissiOnists Join Hands
With Them.
THE TWO PLATFORMS ADOPTED.
Ingalls, Receives Scoring-Anti- Prohibition
lst Republicans-1h Fusion Nominees
For State Offices.

WICHITA, Kan, Sept. 3.-Democrats and
Resubmissionists of the state convention
met today. The Resubmissionists is com
posed OF the faction of the Republican
party which opposes prohibition, favors
nigh license and is striving to obtain,
through the legislature, resubmission of
the prohibitory amendment by vote of the
people. To attain these ends they formed
separate party and fused with the Demo-
Gratis Both the conventions met at the
same hour in different halls.
The Democratic convention elected John
5. Sheridan, of Paola temporary chair
man, and recess was taken. During re-
cess subcommittee conferred with one
from the Resubmissionists on resolutions
and reported platform to the full commit
tee. On reassembling the Democratic con-
ventlon made the temporary organization
permanent, and adopted the platform. IL
declares opposition TO paternalism in gov
eminent, state and national affairs de-
plores the tendency manifested by preacher
politicians who pose as leaders of the Re-
publican party in this state to
make religious belief the test Of
eligibility for political means; declares the
federal election bill the legitimate offspring
OF the party which tlched the presidency;
favors Tariff base upon public necessities;
the Tree coinage OF silver; liberal pension
laws; expresses sympathy with labor in its
struggle with the money power, whether
in factory or farm; opposes sumptuary
legislation and demands an early resubmis-
sion OF the prOh1bltory amendment, believ-
ing that prohibition has brought upon the
people OF the state incalculable evils, and
declares emphatically in favor of high
license ana local option. Another plank
denounces the Kansas Republican Senator,
ingalls,, as imam who denounced reform
in politics as dream; declared the de-
caloGue has no place in politics and ex
presses the belief that the use of money
aud the employment of hired accessiCns in
campaigns, iustitiable.''
The Republican Resubmission conven-
ton selected d. A. Banta, of Great Bend,
temporary chairman, and the organization
was soon after made permanent. About
three hundred delegates are present. The
resolutions committee reported a platform
pledglng loyalty to the principles of the
national Republican party; favoring re-
ciprocity; demanding the free coinage of
silver; such notifications of the tariff as
will give equal protection; equal bankrupt
laws; liberal pension laws. On the ques-
ton OF prohibition, the platform says:
1--WE arraign the party managers in this
state as disloyal to the principles and I'M
faithful to the interests of the Republi-
can party. We charge they have
put the party in Kansas out of harmony
with the national Republican party and
thereby absolved us from all obligations to
it, We.no longer acknowledge their lead
ership. Lured by the seductive wiles of
impractical Missionaries they have commit
ted the party TO extravaganza and foIlies
which, unless properly checked, will bank
rupt and depopulate the state. This i'm
pels US to the only method which promises
| success, to withdraw from party prefer
ences to state politics for time and unite
with such of our fellow citizens of
the state as share our convictions,
without regard to party, for the
purpose of correcting the follies on
which the principles are based Of our liber-
ties and the hope of our institution. 1t is
un-Americau and un-Democratic, and not
IN harmony with the purposes and
spirits of our institutions The existence
of q prohibItory law is perpetual menace
to the material interests of the state. 1t
burdens US with taxation and deprives us
of all control OF the liquor traffic and drives
away our population. 1t prevents immi-
grafton, makes the building of large cities
within the state impossible; encourages
perjury, makes more than all other agencies
combined, and does not lessen crime or
pauperism; does not employ jails, peniten-
tiaries, lunatic asylums or aims houses,
and believing that any public measure in
the hands of an enlightened people is
absolutely safe, we demand the question of
the prohibitory amendment to the consti-
| tuition to be resubmitted to the people at as
early date as possible"
There were two candidates for governor
ex- Governor Charles Robinson, Resub
missionist, and ex- Governor Click, the only
Democratic governor ever elected in the
state. When the determination to frls,
with the Resubmissionists became evident,
Click withdrew and Robinson was nomi-
mated by acclimation. He was the first
governor after the admission of Kansas
into the union. In 1882 he ran for gov
ernor on the greenback ticket, and rthis
year was one of the leaders in forming the
Resubmission Republican parey. The
ticket completed is as follows: Lieutenant
governor, d. A. Banta, of Great Bend;
treasurer, Thomas Kirby of Abilene; au-
ditor, Joseph Dillon, of Kearney county;
superintendent of public instruction, Nj.
H. Wood, of Anderson county; chief JUS
tice of the supreme court, M. B. Nicholson,
of Geary county.