Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-13
DEMOCRATS OF'|[[|ND|S.
The State Convention Held in Spring
field Yesterday.

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| ABIDE BY WASHINGTON'S ADVICE
TO REFRAIN FROM ENTANGLING
| FOREIGN ALLIANCES ~ WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN RECOGNIZED
AS THE EXPONENT OF DEMO
| CRATIC PRINCIPLES-THE WAR
| FULLY JUSTIFIED.
| Springfield, Ills, July 12-The Demo-
cratic State convention to-day nomin-
ated the following ticket:
State Treasurer, Willard F. Dunlap,
Jacksonville; State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Perry O. Silver, of
Freeport; Trustees of the University
of Illinois, Jacob E. Siler, of Mt Car
mel, Napoleon B. Morrison, of Oden,
and DR.. Julia Holmes Smith, of Chi
cago.
The convention was held at the Ex-
position building at the State Fair
Grounds. William Prentiss, of Chicago,
was both temporary and permanent
chairman, and A. G. Bentley, of Pitts
uOiu, was SECRETARY.
Temporary Chairman Prentiss, in
addressing the convention, said:
The issues of '96 are the issues of
98, and will continue to be until the
American people gain financial indie
pendence and until the essential priN-
ciples of the Chicago platform of 80
shall be enacted into law.
For the first time within the memory
OF most of us, our country is engaged
IN foreign war. Though long ago
and from the first Democrats took the
lead in advocating the cause of Cuba
IN the halls Of Congress and elsewhere
and
A UNITED DEMOCRACY
in Congress, aided by a few liberty
loving Republicans, compelled inter-
Ventlon by unwilling hands in behalf
OF the outraged and starving Cubans.
and although the first American blood
to be shed in the glorious cause was
the blood of a Democrat, and although
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can side thus far on sea and land have
been, most of them, Democrats, still
this is not Democratic war, nor is it a
Republican war. No political party
can claim the glory of it and have the
claim allowed. 1t is war waged by
the American people in the noblest of
n9uSnS-fhn of Inv, ~
Democrats and Republicans bear no
party name in the conduct of this war.
Together as Americans they will wage
1t to glorious end. AS Americans we
will bear and follow the stars and
stripes to the islands of the sea. AS
Americans we will, if need be, bear and
follow the flag across the Atlantic and
plant the starry banner of the free on
the soil of Spain itself. Republicans of
Illinois and of the nation; the Demo-
Gratis of Illinois and the nation greet
you and say to you that in the conduct
of this war with Spain, William Nc
Kinley is no more your President than
ours. He is the Commander-in-Chief
of the armies and navies of the United
States, and as such the Democrats of
Illinois and of the nation will be as
loyal to him as they would if William
Jennings Bryan We're in his place. For
the same reason that we wage the war,
the cause Of humanity, we hope and
pray that it may speedily come to an
end. But it must not end until Cuba
is free and the armies and navies of
Spain and Spanish oppression and
Spanish rule shall have departed for
ever from the western hemisphere. We
wage no war for conquest.
OUR FLAG SHALL MEAN LIBERTY,
independence to the oppressed wherev-
er it may go. The time seems not far
off when the Stars and Stripes shall
float in peace over both Cuba and
Porto Rico and that our flag will be
their flag and that it will be cherished
there as here as the emblem of lib
erty, peace, justice and progress. But
while We wage foreign war in behalf
of human liberty, we must not forget
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home. We must not forget that OPP
pressors are not all Spaniards and that
men, women and children go hungry
and naked in other lands than Cuba.
We must remember, too, that chiefest
among the many crimes against Cuba
have been and are the sDoliations Of
the tax-gatherer and her financial
bondage. Her deliverance from the
Spaniard is certain, but when he shall
be forever driven from the island the
hardest, almost hopeless, task will be
to keep her people free from eternal
vassalage to foreign fnanciers and
bond syndicates.
Preceding the convention there was
a hot fight at the meeting of the dele
gates from the Tenth Congressional
district over the selection of a member
of the State Central Committee. Ben
T. Cable who two years ago was one
of the leading gold Democrats of the
country. was put in nomination and
was bitterly opposed by A. w. Bos-
tan, of Whiteside, and others, who
insisted that if he wished to return to
the Democratic fold. he should wait
| two years on probation.
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