The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-22
INDIANA DEMOCRATS.
State. Convention in Session at In
dianapolis.

Indianapolis. June 22@The State Demo-
cratic convention , met IN Tomllnson hall at
ton is made up of / 52S delegates. United
n BrisoW Was eiected secretaT1' Tbere
were only two contests before the COM
mittee on credentials and they were
State Chairman Martin called the con-
vention to order. The rules provided that
all resolutions should go to the commit
tee without debate and that the first NOM
ination should be for secretary of state
Senator Turpie, on assuming the gaVel,
received with cheers. He spoke in
part follows:
and outrages committed by the, kingdom
Of Spain "a against the people Of the United
pie of the republic of Cuba, ending in the
destruction of the battleship Maine and
clare war against that country. Since
the 21st of April last we have been en-
gagged in a foreign war, and this changed
condition has imposed upon the congress
and people of the United States new du-
ties connected with its progress and pros
ecution. A diligent, vigorous and ener-
geuc prosecution OF the war IS at this
and treasure, but of effort in achieving
the object and purposes of our appeal to
arms, in redresSing the wrongs and vim
dicating the rights of liberty and human
ity, so closely related to our national
prestige and honor and to the great cause
pouse and maintain.
poses is adequate supply of revenue,
and at the very beginning Of our lahors
orable secretary of the treasury, notwith-
standing the romance of arithmetic, which
he issues as a circular daily, showing a
surplus of many millions. that in fact he
had not available on hand funds sufficient
provide therefor This disclosure was not
commonly called the DingIey bill, is not
a war measure. 1t is very far from that.
quiet exceedingly pacific spolfation of the
earnings of labor and the products of the
groups of monopolies who dictated its
rates and schedules. 1t afforded it's BEN
piIIage, but it yielded a return of revenue
SO scant as to be insufficient even in
for the trusts forgot the treasury. There
was nothing left to congress except to
carry the war. The war revenue bill
passed contained many things worthy of
coinage of the silver in the treasury, the
taxes levied against the sleeping car COM
pany and the sugar trust. Those multi
millionaire combinations were thus given
ton toward the payment of the expenses
of the war. The bill contained many
things grossly wrong-among these the
bond issue, but it carried supplies to the
army and navy engaged at the front
against the public enemy-supplies were
necessary
The platform which was adopted, af-
firms that the present war with Spain is
just and righteous and recalls with
pride the persistent support of the
cause by Democratic senators and rep
resentatives, congratulates the country
on the universally patriotic uprising
which swept the last vestige of section
alism away; rejoices in the deeds OF
Dewey, Bagley and Hobson. The plat
form favors such a permanent strength
ening of the navy of the United States
and coast defenceS as shall insure ade-
quate protection against foreign ag-
gression; liberal pensions are advocated
for the survivors of the civil and pres
ent war.
The platform favors the construction
and control of the Nicaragua canal by
this government, when it's feasibility
shall be determined, but oppose a loan
of the national credit to any private
corporation for that purpose.
On the financial question, the plat
form affirms with emphasis, loyalty to the
platform adopted by the national Dem
ocratic convention in 1896 in Chicago in
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
of both gold and silver
The platform declares against the de-
clared purpose of the present secretary
of the treasury to apply the gold stand
ard policy more thoroughly.