Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-22
IN BRYAN STATE
Democrats Hold Their Con-
vention Today
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN
Says the Platform of Three Years Ago
Will Be Reaffirmed--He is Opposed
to ExpanSiOn--The Remedy For
the Trust Problem.

Omaha, Neb. Aug 22.--Three conven-
tions, democratic, populist and fusion,
We're called to order this afternoon in
separate halls, all located in one block.
In the democratic convention, w. II.
Thompson, national committeeman for
Nebraska, was named as temporary
chairman. Thompsons appearance was
the signal for applause. On accepting
he spoke as follows:
In the coming battle of 1900 we will
reaffirm the platform of 1896 and renomi-
nate the same leader of democracy. We
Will be true to the pledge of our fathers.
We will, as loyal sons reared to reverence
their teachings, swear anew eternal al
legiance and fidelity to the Declaration
OF Independence. worship its every line
and maintain it's every precept sacred
as the memories of our heroes dead and
loyal as the patriots living To tear there
from one of it's sacred principles is to in
vite the beginning of an endless ruin and
decay.
Party, party, what sins have been
committed for the perpetuity thereof in
the years gone by, but it was left to the
nineteenth century republicans to an
nounce from the rostrum and through
IAC PICSS, tudl lIllS IdtIoH has OulSIO"H
the principles enunciated in this sacred
declaration. Yet the distance is only
from martyred Lincoln to the wobblng
policy of the present administration.
Who will pull down the flag? No man
or nation. But every patriot, every be-
lever in the Declaration of independence,
should join in lifting it up into the sun
light of it's own beauty. and let every
star and every stripe glitter with truth
c,n1r ol<, \,
will toward men. If to be a son Of
America is to be nobler than to have
been a son Of Rome then Americas sons
must be kept out of the Roman business.
If by greed and conquest Rome fell then
we should heed that lesson.
I'VE should treat the Filipino with the
frankness that bccomcth a great nation,
and with the charity inspired by a VIC
torious army as if sitting in the presi-
dents mansion. and not as member of a
board of trade. DO you say | am wrong?
Then let the returning heroes answer. I
appeal to the lips of the living and the
writings of the dead, who knew and
know. If no man is good enough to
govern another without his consent by
and with what authority is our president
acting? If the reason for not announcing
a policy is because congress is not in
session why does not the president make
more caIlS IOF congress, as PROVIDED Ill
the constitution and less calls for arms
and soldiers, not strictly in accordance
with the constitution? Are we to decry
a Russian czar and welcome an American
usurper? Or Is he too afraid of having
a congress on his hands, and thereby to
ignore the constitution and to deprive the
people, Through their agents the men,
bcrs of congress). a right to order what
shall and what shall not be done. Does
the president fear what all know-that
imperialism and militaryism are Siamese
twins and that each is, and must be, a
stranger to n republican form of govern
ment?
However much we may feel for the
oppressed elsewhere, we today plead for
our own institutions, for the home and
the fireside Tear down the flag? No,
but let it not be the emblem of OPP
preston.
What Cleveland tried to do by way
of running or rather running, the finance
of the country Mckinley is trying by
way of war and colonization to ruin and
undermine the established policy of our
government: each attempted not to ad-
wise congress but to run congress, or ar
bitrarily do without it. The one caused
the wreck of the democratic party, the
other is causing, and will cause, the
wreck and ruin of the republican party.
Each has polluted our polltlcS With OIL
Gals and appointees.
."The commission Of one wrong. like the
obtaining Of one luxury demands an
other Once imperialism is adopted, this
demands and must have as its support
militaryism: and these once obtained
must have two confederates, and in order
to have them we must have an alliance
with some other nation and our most
natural alliance is with England. So
here we have the annual American alli-
ance. And again we turn away from the
teachings of all our history from Wash
ington to Mckinley. Democracy ever
true to the teachings of it's founders an
swers no.
.'rhe trust under Mckinley has out
stripped all rivals and today stands with
gun in hand. the drum jor of his pros
perity The gun is to ward Oft the laborer
seeking the employment he lost by the
ASSORTMENT of the establishment of his
employer, and to amuse the travelling
man while he reads his no longer
wanted
I'VE hear the question asked as to
what you are going to do about trusts.
l would remove from them first the fos-
tering care of the government. They
are, to a great extent in this country at
least the direct offspring of a protective
tariff and gold standard. The protective
tariff makes the way easy and the gold
standard makes ii, in numerous cases, 4
business necessity. I would first remove
the protection on every article, and when