The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-05
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS.
They Nominate q Ticket, Endorse Palmer
and DenOunce the Montana Outrage.

They Nominate a Ticket, Endorse Palmer
and Denounce the Montana Outrage.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 4.-The demo-
cratic state convention met at noon. After
the appointment of the several committees
it adjourned till 2 p. m. The convention
met at 2 p. m. and made the temporary or
ganization permanent. The following NOM
nations were made: For state treasurer, 4.
T. Wilson, of Olney; for superintendent of
public instruction, Henry Raab, of Belle
vile; for trustees of the state university,
Richard Morgan, of Livingston; John
H. Bryant, of Bureau. and N. w.
Graham, of Jackson county. A reso-
luton endorsing John M. Palmer for
United States senator was adopted amid
great applause. The platform reaffirms the
platform of 1883, and says the admission of
the fraudulent senators from Montana, the
unseating of representatives duly elected,
in order to add greater strength to the Re
publican majority, are precedents alike
dangerous to the safety and prosperity of
the government. The Mckinley tariff bill
against the toilers of America. The Aus
tralian ballot system is favored. On the
ch-talked of school subject the following
is the platform:
8. When one who, by natural or humane
law, owes duty to another, fails to per-
compel its performance, .(b) punish for
non,performance, To- supply lack where,
to the injury of society, non-performance
is wrongfully persisted in.
4. Wise craftsmanship encourages gen.
eral popular education, but this does not
mean or require unjust or unnecessary in
reference with those who are educating
THAR chil1ran accor1iny Tn tho host of <hoir
ability and oonformably to the condition in
life of the parent and child.
5. Compulsory education, in the sense
that parents who violate or neglect their
parental duty may be compelled to its per-
formance or punished for non-performance,
is licit.
6. Compulsory education, in the sense of
controlling or seeking to control or dis
lodging from their rightful place these
parents who are discharging their parental
duties commensurately with the state of
life of parent and child, is not allowable
even to the state.
z. For the education of his children one
parent may select the public, another may
select a private or UNCONVENTIONAL school,
still another may furnish proper education
without the aid of any school, and each Of
the three, in 80 doing. exercises right pro-
tected by the law of the land as we'll as by
the law of nature, and for doing which he
AOC0o AAOA0AAOA OASubO hO1 dpOlOXNs
8. The public and private or denomina-
tional schools are in law neither related,
nor are they subordinate one to the other,
nor need they be antagonistic. We favor
and pledge ourselves to the enactment of
statutes: First. to require parents who
are not performing their duty in respect to
educating their children to do so; second.
to correct incorrigible truants by provid-
ing means for their amendment and to min
imize the evil of truancy by sending truant
children to such schools as parents may
designate; third, to prohibit child labor
with all its debasing consequences.
Resolved, That the democratic party. in
assembled. heartily endorse the
public school system of the state of Illinois
and it declares that the parental right to
direct and control the education of the
child should forever remain inviolate, and
that provision of the law of 1883, common
" known as the compulsory education stat
ute, impairing that inalienable right, should
be at once repealed.