Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-09-10
Palmer For President.
GEN. s. D. BUCKNER, OF KEN
TUCKY, FOR vICE-PREs-
IDENT.
The Sound Money Advocates Name
Their Leaders at Indianapolis
Senator Palmer Chosen
on the First
Ballot.
Special Dispatch to the Ledger.

l
The Sound Money Democratic Con.
vention in session in this city is at.
tended by delegates from nearly every
state in the Union and the enthusiasm
displayed was unbounded.
Senator John M. Palmer, of Illinois
and Gen. s. d. Buckner, of Kentucky
were chosen as the standard bearers
| PALMER NOMINATED.
| A motion that Gen. Palmer be nom
mated by acclamation was voted out
of order and he was nominated at 8: AZ
O'Clock on the first ballot as follows:
Palmer 75719, Bragg 1241a. Necessary
to a choice, 553.
| Gen. Bragg mounted chair amid
great cheering and on his motion the
rules were suspended and Palmer was
made the nominee by acclamation.
| BUCKNER NOMINATED.
After the din over the presidential
nomination had subsidized the roll OF
states was ordered for presentation of
candidates for the presidency
Cries of ''Kentucky" and cheers, the
band playing "Old Kentucky Home" )"
and the audience joining in the sing
ing. Browder, of Kentucky, took the
platform and presented the name of
Gen. Buckner. The rules were sus-
pended and Buckner was nominated
by acclamation at 4:04 p. m.
The audience and delegates then
begun singing "America" and "Annie
Rooney"
| At 4:12 the convention adjourned
| sine die.
Palmer was placed in nomination by
Michigan, and Buckner by Kentucky
THE PLATFORM.
| INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 3.-Following
is the full text of the platform recon-
mended by the committee on resolu-
| tions:
This convention has assembled te
uphold the principles on which depend
the honor of the American people, in
order that the Democrats throughout
1.-THE country may unite their patriotic
efforts to prevent disaster to the coun-
try and ruin from their party.
The Democratic party is pledged to
| equal and exact justice to all men ol
every creed and condition, to the
largest freedom to the individual con-
sistent with good government; to the
preservation of the federal govern
ment in it's constitutional vigor and to
the support of the state in all theil
just rights; to economy in the public
expenditures; to the maintenance oi
the public faith in ''sound money!
and it is opposed to paternalism AND
ali class legislation.
The declarations of the Chicago
convention attack individual freedom
the right of private contract, the inde-
pendence of the judiciary and the au-
thority of the President to enforce
federal laws. They advocate reck-
less attempt to increase the price Of
silver by legislation to the debasemeni
of our monetary standard and threat.
en- unlimited issues of paper money By
the government. They abandon fol
| Republican allies the Democratic cause
of tariff reform to court the favor OF
protectionists to their fiscal heresy.
In view of these and other grave de-
partures from the Democratic princi-
Piles, we cannot support the candi-
dates of that convention, nor be bound
by its acts.
The Democratic party has survived
many defeats, but could not survive a
victory won in behalf of the doctrine
and policy proclaimed in its name at
| Chicago.
The conditions, however, which
make such things possible from ma
tional convention are the direct result
of class legislation from the Republi-
can party. 1t will still proclaim as ii
has for forty years the power of the
government to raise and maintain
prices by law, and it proposes no
remedy for existing evils except op.
pressive and unjust taxation.
The national Democracy here re-
convened, therefore, renews its dec
laration of faith in Democratic princi-
Piles, especially as applicable to the
conditions of the times. Taxation
tariff, excise or direct, is rightfully
imposed only for public purposes and
not for private gain. Its amount ia
justly measured by public expendi'
lures, which should be limited by
economy. The sum derived by the
treasury from tariff and excises ID
levied by the amount of trade and
consumption. The amount required
by the treasury is determined by the
| appropriations made by Congress
The demand of the Republican party
| for an increase in tariff taxation has itf
pretext in the stagnation of trade and
reduced consumption, due entirely to
the loss of confidence that has follow
ed the Populist threat of free coinage
and depreciation of our money and the
Republican practice of extravagani
appropriations and beyond the needs
of good government.
We arraign and condemn the Popu-
listic conventions of Chicago and st
Louis for their cooperation with the
Republican party in creating these
| conditions which are pleaded in Just
fiction of heavy increase of the bur.
dens of the people by a further resor,
to protection and its ally, free coinage
of silver, as schemes for the persona
profit of q few at the expense of the
masses, and oppose the two partie,
which stand for these schemes Al
hostile to the people of the republis
whose food and shelter, comfort ani
prosperity are attacked by higher
taxes and deprecated money. In fne
we re-affirm the historic Democratic
doctrine of tariff for revenue only.
We demand that henceforth modern
and liberal policies towards American
shipping shall take the place of ON
imitation OF restricted statutes of tn,
Eighteenth century, which were Ioni