The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-17

Des Mones, Iowa, Aug. 16.-The dem
ocratc state convention to-day nomi-
mated the following ticket:
Governor Frederick e. White of keo-
kuk county; lieutenant governor, M. L.
Bevis of Montgomery county; judge of
the supreme court A. Van Wageneen
of Woodbury. county; railway commits
sioner, w. H. Calhoun of Marshall
county; superintendent of public in
county.
The populist state convention also
met and Endorsed the above ticket.
All the nominees are democrats except
| Calhoun, who was the populist candi-
| date.
The Chicago platform was indorsed
in its entirety and the democratic state
committee was empowered to fill any
vacancies caused by death or other
wise. Cato Sells could have been nomi-
mated for governor, but was not accept
able to the Populsts and withdrew,
throwing his strength to White, who
| was the candidate on the fusion ticket
| two years ago, being defeated by Gov
| ernor Shaw. The convention was very
| turbulent throughout and the business
| was transacted with difficulty, but the
results are satisfactory to the radical
| silver element. which was in control.
1t is not probable, however, that the
sound money element will make an at
! tempt to maintain a separate organlZa-
| ton this year.
The Resolutions.
The committee on resolutions finally
| made its report and after indorsing the
| Chicago platform in the whole and in
4 IL hltp ~ i'm n
| for and loyalty to that peerless expo
'nent of democracy. William j. Bryan.
| and favors' him for the nomination in
| 1900. The convention then goes on to
| say:
| I'VE rejoice in the exalted sentiment
| and motive that prompted the govern
| ment of the United States to take up
arms in defense of the bitterly op-
| pressed people of Cuba, in the success
| full termina ton of the war with spain
| and in the patriotism and unsurpassed
bravery displayed by soldiers and sail
ors on land and sea. The war for the
| liberation of the Cubans was worthy
| of the greatest republic and most civ
ilized nation that has flourished in the
tides of time, but for the same reason
that we glory in the successful war
against Spain, we deprecate the contin-
ued war against the Filipinos. one
war was for the emancipation of the
people. the OlntT was lOT lHe SubJhso-
ton of the people, and if the war
against Spain was right, and it was,
that against the natives of the Phil
| ippines, who have committed no offense
save love for liberty and to be willing
to fight and die for it, is wrong.
THE war authorized by congress to
conquer the natives of the Philippines
is reputation of the American doc
trine of consent affirmed in the Declar-
alton of Independence and in conflict
with the principles which George
Washington and his fellow patriots OF
the revolution made sacrifices to estab-
lish.
1--WE also condemn the war against
the Filipinos believing it to have beer
inspired by Great Britain for the pur-
pose of producing conditions that vii
force an Anglo-American alliance, anc
we not only protest against the wal
and demand its termination by exten
sion to the Filipinos of the same as
surance given to the Cubans, but W.
record our deep seated antagonism OF