Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-24

each met with quick endorsement at
the hands of the other parties. The
conventions We're held in three sepa-
rate halls.
The usual platforms were adopted and
strong anti-pass resolutions We're ac-
cepted.
The fusionists made some headway in
getting ready for their three conven-
tions during the forenoon, and when
the time came for calling to order in the
afternoon it was apparent that the
pleading of the leaders for harmony had
not been in vain. Whatever Of per-
sonal opposition to Mr. Holcomb
had been manifested was swept
away, the Democrats declaring by a
vote of almost two to one for carrying
out the implied agreement of two years
] ago when the Populists gave the judge
I ship to the Democrats.
M. G. Harrington, Democratic nomi-
nee for congress in the Sixth district,
made statement to the Democratic
convention at the close of his speech, i'll
which he said that in the interest Of
the utmost harmony and success at the
polls, he was ready to withdraw and as
sist in the election of the nominee of
the Populist convention, Judge Neville,
/ if the state central committee and the
Democrats of the state desired this solu-
ton of the veXatious problem.
At the Democratic convention, Tenn
porary Chairman Thompson spoke for
45 minutes and briefly referred to the
issues that are pending in the coming
campaign. His references to Bryan
We're enthusiastically received and the
applause was particularly vigorous
when he closed by alluding to Bryan as
the "new Andrew Jackson
The Resolutions.
I The following is the platform:
| We, the Democrats of the state of Ne
braska, in convention assembled indorse
and emphasize each and every plank of
the national platform adopted at Chicago
in 1896
| Our confidence in the principles set forth
in that platform has been increased as
those principles have been vindicated by
events. The gold standard is less defen-
| sible now than it was in 1885, since the
!, president has confessed its failure by
sending commission to Europe to secure
foreign aid is added proof that the people
of the United States must act alone il
they expect relief The present legal ratio
of l6 to l is the natural and necessary
ratio and the opponents of that ratio have
nothing to offer in its place but the evasive
and ambiguous phraseology which fo1
years furnished to the gold standard ad.
vocates mask behind which to hide
while they secretly labored to make gold
monometallism permanent. Any improve
ment in business conditions due to the
increased production of gold or to favor.
able balance of trade, instead of support
ing the gold standard doctrine, shows
that more money makes better times and
points the way to bimetallism as the
means of securing permanent increase
in the volume of standard money t. rough
out the world.
The Republican scheme to lessen the
volume of standard money by making
gold the only legal tender money has al
last become apparent to all and must be
rescinded by the debt paying and wealth
producing classes of the country. The
plan to retire the greenbacks in the inter
est of national bank notes. denounced by
the Democrats in 1896, but then defended
by the Republicans, has boldly stalked
forth from it's hiding place and threatens
the formation of a gigantic paper money
| trust.
Arbitration grows more necessary every
year and government by injunction grows
more dangerous to the liberties of the
people.
The industrial trusts, springing up or
every hand, testify to the administration
Indifference to monopoly, or to its inabil
ity to cope with it.
We denounce the failure of the admin
istration to enforce the present Law
against trusts, or to recommend new laws
if the present law is deemed insufficient
We are opposed to the principle of mo
nOpoly wherever it manifests itself. W.
demand the enforcement of the presen
federal law, the enactment of such new
J legislation as may be necessary and con
stitutional amendment, if the present
constitution is construed to protect trusts
to the end that the monopolization of in
dustry by private corporations may be alb
solntelv nrevented. Every trust rest