Middletown transcript., 1898-09-17
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

Dover on Tuesday nominated by &C
clamation, L. Irving Handy, Of New
ark, for Congress; DR.. L. A. 81. Bishol
of Dover, for State Auditor, and Wilt
M. Ross, of Seaford, for State Treas
urer. The only contest was for Auditor
Mr.. Handy and Mr.. Ross having hat
but one term each were renominatet
without opposition. To Kent county
belonged the third place and DR.. Bishop
was nominated in the Kent caucus
over w. S. Heverin by vote of A
to 16.
John Biggs, Esqr., made the speech
of the convention when he called tht
delegates to order. Mr.. Handy wai
not permitted to speak. 1t was feared
he could not straddle the platform
gracefully. W. T. Records was chair
man.
The following State Central Com
mittee was named: New Castle county
John Biggs, John Pyle, E. B. Fra
zer, Clarence R. Cochran. Colen Fer.
guson.
Kent county-Wilson T. Cavender,
Robert j. Reynolds, David Reese, e.
L. Clark, W. G. Hardesty.
Sussex county-W. T. Records, Fl.
G. Pennington, F. G. Maull, Everett
Hickman and E. D. Hearn. The con.
vention adopted the plow as the elec-
tion emblem.
Pat Nealy after many apologies and
much explanation to "my fellow Dem
ocrats from Kent and Sussex" got a
resolution passed giving go delegates
to Kent and Sussex each, six to each
District, so to rural New Castle. five
to each District, and Is to Whining
ton, three from each District. This
increases Wilmington's Uote by three.
The following is
THE PLATFORM.
The committee on resolutions report
ed the following, which was read by
John G.. Gray Of Wilmington:
1.-THE Democracy of Delaware, in
convention assembled, declares anew
its devotion to all the cardinal princi-
pies Of the Democratic faith, which
has come down TO us from the days of
Jefferson and Jackson, and invites
those voters who believe in equal rights
under the law for all and special privi-
leges for none, to unite in earnest sup
port of the ticket this day nominated.
"We endorse and approve the wise
and conservative administration of
Gov. Tunnel in managing the affairs
Of our State, and we heartily commend
the zeal, ability and patriotism display
ed by the Senators and Representative
in Congress from Delaware. We re-
cognize the generous appropriation Sc
cured for the improvement of Whining
ton harbor as an evidence of the energy
and watchfulness Of our Senators and
Congressman to promote in every
legitimate way the business interests
of the people of Delaware. Their at
titude on the important national ques-
tions which have recently come before
Congress has fully and justly repre-
sented the patriotism and Democracy
Of Delaware.
"Tne administration of national
affairs under President Mckinley has
been disappointment to the country
and has utterly failed to realize the
hopes and promises of those who sup
ported him for election. Prosperity
has not returned to the masses of the
people. The growth of trusts, COM
bines and monopolies has not been
checked. No measures of economy to
limit extravaganza in public expendi-
lures have been introduced. The
necessity of reforming our currency
system is admitted on all sides and con-
fessed by the President himself, (who
sent monetary commission abroad to
consult foreign governments and ask
ed for the appointment of another
monetary commission to consider tie
question here at home), but notwitn-
standing the admitted evils of our pres.
ent complicated, illogical and injurious
currency system, the Republican Con-
gress and administration have taken no
positive and effective measures for re-
form.
"The Dingley tariff act increased
taxes, making the highest tariff sched-
ules known to our history, without in
creaaing revenue sufficiently to meet
the expenditures Of government. 1t
increased the special advantages and
privileges of the sugar trust, and of
every other trust, but it did not in
crease the wa yes of labor nor revive
the depression under which agriculture
languishes. Every indication points
! to the necessity Of expansion in our
foreign trade and we demand that the
fetters of the DiDgley tariff act be re-
moved.
''We believe that all taxation, State
or national, should be so laid as to
place the least restraint possible on the
labor, industry and enterprise Of the
people, and that no privileged class or
private interest should be permitted to
use the taxing power for their own
ends.
"We denounce the inequalities of the
war revenue act Every patriotic
American is willing to pay his share of
the necessary expenses of the Spanish
war, but in tue war revenue act the
whole burden of taxation falls upon
articles consumed by the masses of the
people and upon the commercial ac-
tiVity Of business men. The great ac-
nnmulatinn Of mnaItE in the hands ne