The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
SPOKE FOR FREE COINAGE
The Chicago Platform Reaiiirmed Bodily
by the Democrats.
HOLCOMBE WILL LEAD THE TICKET
The Former Governor Named for JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, and
His Nomination Ratified by
the Other Conventions.

Omaha, Neb., August 22.-Nebraska DEM
oerats, populists and silver republicans met
in this city today and fused on nominations
for judge of the supreme court and two
members of the board of regents of the
State university. Former Governor S. A.
Hocombe was nominated for supreme JUS
tice and endorsed by the other two con-
ventions, though not within a fight in
the democratic gathering, where there was
strong opposition to him, emanating from
Douglass county. This opposition centered
on Former United States Senator w. V.
Allen, who could have had majority of
the ballots in the convention, but he pushed
the proffered offer aside and supported his
friend Holcombe. Allen was chairman OF
the resolutions committee in the populist
gate to the democratic gathering. The
democratic platform declared uncompro-
msingiy for the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to /, and endorsed bodily
the Chicago platform of 1896
The money plank is as follows:
The Money Plank
"Our confidence in the principals set forth
in the Chicago platform has been increased
as those principals have been vindicated
by events. The gold standard is less de-
fensibie than it was in 1896. since the
president has confessed it's failure by send
Ing commission to Europe to secure in
ternational bimetalism while the inability
of that commission to secure foreign aid
is added proof that the people of the
United States must act alone if they ex-
pect relief. The present legal ratio of 16
to i.4the fatural and necessary ratio-urtf
the opponents of that ratio have nothing
to offer in its place, but the evasive and
amIbiEuous phraseology which for years
furnished to the gold standard advocates
a mask behind which to hide, while they
secretly labored to make gold monometal-
lism permanent
'fThe scheme to lessen the value of stand
ard money by making gold the only. legal
tender money has at last become apparent
to all and must be resisted by the debt
paying and wealth producing classes of the
country.
''The plan to retire the greenbacks in the
interest 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"
On the question of trusts the platform
declares:
The Question of Trusts.
"The industrial trusts which are spring.
ing up on every hand testify to the admin
istration's Indifference to monopoly or its
inability to cope with 1t.
1--WE denounce the failure of the admin
istraton to enforce the present law against
trusts or to recommend new laws if the
present law is deemed insufficient.
1--WE are opposed to the principle of mo-
nopoly wherever it manifests itself. We
demand the enforcement of the present
federal law, the enactment of such new
legislation as may be necessary, and a
constitutional amendment if the present
constitution is construed TO protect trusts
to the end that the monopohzaton of in
dustry by private corporations may be alb
soutely prevented.
every trust rests upon a corporation
and every corporation is creature of law,
and the state or nation must place upon
the corporations such limitations and re-
strictions as will protect the public from
injury
The platform praises the Nebraska sol
diers for their part in the war in the Phil
ippines and goes on to say: but while we
commend the soldiers for obedience to all
orders emanating from the chief executive,
we condemn the administration policy
which has converted a war for humanity
into war of conquest
The Phil d. Inc War
I'VE believe the Filipinos should have re-
ceived the same treatment as the Cubans,
and that as the Cubans were assured of
ultimate independence and protection. so
the Filipinos should have been assured in
the beginning of our nations intention to
given them independence as soon as sta
BILE government could be established and
protection from outside interference. Such
assurance should be given now If the
Cubans, as is stated in the resolutions of
interveption, are and of right ought to be
free, the same can be said of the Fiipinos.
and this nation would suffer no humilia-
tion in acknowledging adherence to the
doctrine that governments derive their Just
powers from the consent of the governed"
The resolutions declare in favor of arbi-
tration, in favor of popular election of
United States senators, the initiative and
referendum, and declare against any in
creased standing army against any foreign
alliance.
The platform of the popuist convention
endorsed the platform of the populist ma
tional convention of 1896. and In addition