Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-30
||)RaLVER ANDALfAN
Ohio Democrats Give Silver le to 1
Plank First Place in
Platform.
81. 3. Mclean Nominated on First
Ballot for the Govsrnorship
bryan Endorsed.
i Anti.Imperialtsm Also Made an
lssue...Arrival Of the Trans
port Grant.

y. Mooney was made temporary. chair
man and on assuming the gavel he de-
Ivered his address:
He said In part:
There will be today no contest as to
the platform declarations which our
party shall make. There is no difference
OF opinion. The democratic party of
Ohio stands squarely upon every plank
3 OF the Chicago platform of 1896. We
believed 1t then and we believe it now.
The people who sent us here do not
believe in double standard of dem
Ocracy. In 1896 the test was Are you
loyal to the platform?' and that is the
Ohio test today.
The party in Ohio is too thoroughly
honest, too desperately in earnest, to
desire to be misunderstood. The re-
affirmation OF the national platform
does not eliminate and does not fall to
both recognize land emphasize that we
demand the free and unlimited coinage
of both gold and silver at the ratio of
16 to 1. without waiting for the consent
or assistance Of any nation on earth.
I'VE believe that the decentralization
of silver in this country in 1873 was ac-
complished by fraud and crime: that
the action was taken without any de-
mand for or consent by. the people of
the United States, and we decline TO be-
lieve that blessings have flowed or will
flow from legislation so procured and SO
4 enacted. We still distrust the new
found solicitude of England to promote
our material welfare and we deny the
right of the British parliament to par
ticipate in the government of this union
In monetary or other matters.
The silver question is not dead. and
till men cease to think. till the Ameri
can people are willing to take their laws
from Britain. till the republican party
recognizes that not the existence, but
the distribution, Of wealth makes pros
perity, till ease comes to the agricult-
ural classes, till fair wage is paid to
the mechanic and till content and sat
isfaction comes to those who toll, until
the coinage. the democratic party will
stand by the Chicago platform.
''The money question is not, how
ever, the only issue in this campaign.
Everything, from pine lands to pea
nuts, from steel rails to sardines, from
straw board to sugar from tin cans to
tobacco, from crackers to chewing gum,
has been organized into a trust.
mot only are these aggregations of
wealth intended to control prices and to
beat down wages, but in politics they
threaten to affect our liberties.
1--WE charge that the trusts of the
country own this administration and
that their title to 1t was acquired by
purchase, and until Mr.. Hanna is de-
throned we insist that the trusts will
continue as now to be in possession of
their property so acquired. That the
trusts can be controlled by the states
only and not by the general govern
ment is a matter of no consequence to
us, II they can be controlled at all. The
republican party is at fault. SO long as
the attorney general of the United
States is selected and inducted into
ONCE because he is a trust lawyer, and
80 long as an attorney general of the
state of Ohio is retired to private life
because he has undertaken in this re-
spect to enforce the law. the republican
party must fail in Its declaration that it
is opposed to trusts.
I'm condemning the doctrine of i'm
perialism we in no manner abandon our
soldiers in the field. But at the same
time, whenever a purse proud trust
controlled administration dares array
our flag or forces against a people fight
ing for the God-given right to rule
themselves; whenever the sum total of
peoples offending is that they desire
TO be free, 1t will be the duty of the
democratic party to be brave enough to
expose the pretense, to tear the mask
from the covered face of fraud and
greed and avarice. and proclaim that
the recognition of such war for such
purposes is un-American and must be
brought to q close.
I'VE proclaim that there shall be be-
meath our flag no slaves, no subjects,
no colonists, who cannot be citizens,
and lest we be late, we proclaim it now.
z Commercial empire must not be placed
before principle; the doctrine, the
recognition of which made us a great,
free people, must not be ignored, de-
parted from or limited, and we profess
our lasting adherence to the doctrine
that all men are created free and equal
I'VE affirm that the war in the Phil
ippines, as at present conducted, Is one
OF criminal aggression, and we find no
difference in the situation the admins
tration occupies than the one occupied
by Spain in the Philippines before the
surrender Whatever rights we have
were acquired by purchase from Spain;
our right is no higher"
He closed with an eulogy of Bryan.
Two reports We're received from the
committee on credentials and a long
wrangle followed by Representatives of
the various factions. Finally the ma
tority report was adopted, 437 to 1903.
This is victory for John r. Mclean.
The reports on permanent organiza-
tion and resolutions We're then adopted.
The platform re-affirms the entire
Chicago platform. especially the free
silver at 10 to plank; demands renomi-
nation of Bryan; declares the solemn
fact that our government can not be
"both republican and imperial:" says
there is time enough after we have
solved some OF the race problems at
hems 70 attempt benevolent assimila-