The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-30
OHIO DEMOCRATS.
Big Gathering at the State Conven-
tiOn al GAINESVILLE.
Chairman Mooney kuaIgns Trusts and
Dsnuunces Imperialism.

GAINESVILLE. Aug. 3O-Memorlal Han
was packed when Hon. w $. Thomas,
.cnidHman OF the DEM ratic state COM
mirtee today, called the state cohNeh'
ton to order. In the opening prayer
Very Rev. l.. Il. Kearney prayed mos'
earnestly for the deliverance OF INV
Filpn0s from "the brute force now
being inflicted upon them.
Judge w. II. Mooney, temporary
chairman OF the convention was re-
ceived With a great ovation. He said N
mart. There viii n today no contest
as 10 the platform declarations which
OUR PARTY shall make. There Is 40 dit-
ference of opinion. The Democratic
marty OF Ohio stands squarely upon eV'
cry plank OF the Chicago platform -
1896. We believed in it then and we be.
lieye it now. The money question - ho'
the only Issue in this campalgn.tNery-
thing. from pine lands 10 peanuts Iro"
steel rails 90 sardnes, from stfaWper-
rios to sugar from tin cans - tobacco
from crackers 10 chewing gum has been
organized into trust.
Ne charge that the trusts OF the
country own this administration ana
that their title TO 10 was acquired by
purchase and until MIR. Hanna rs de.
throned we insist that the trusts VIII.
continue as now % be IN possession Oh
their property 50 acquired,
So long as the attorney general or the
limited States is selected and inducted
into office because he is a trust lawyer,
and so long as an attorney general or
the STATE of Ohio is retired TO private
life because ne has undertaken IN TINS
respect TO enforce ahe law, the repuDll-
can party must fall in its declaration
that il Is opposed % trusts.
we charge that the Republican party
as at present controlled stands tOf' VI
indeed Il has not already entered into,
an Anglo-AmeTioan alliance. We per
ceive no necessity 10 aid Great Britain
IN tho nainhenance of British policy
anywhere and with full confidence IN
the strength of our cause and country.
we ask no aid from Britain In main
tanning American policy anywhere that
n is necessary or desirable 10 MAINTAIN
one We oppose the Anglo American
aIuance: we would equally oppose any
other alliance. and our motto VIII con-
tinue to be in the future, as IN the past:
me flag. one country one allegiance.
'In condemning the doctrine OF I'M
nerialism we fn no manner abandon
time. whenever purse-proud, trust
controlled administration dares arras
our flag or forces against people
fighting for the God-given right TO ruls
themselves. whenever the sum total OF
a peoples offending is that they desir'
TO be free il will be the duty OF ths
Democratic party to be brave enough
To expose the pretense. TO tear the masr
from the covered head OF fraud ano
greed and avarice and proclaim tha'
the recognition of such war Tor sucf
purposes ds unAmerdcan ana must b'
brought to close.
I'VE proclaim thu there shall be be
meath our flag no slaves, no subjects,n.
colonists. who cannot be citizens, ant'
lest we be late. we proclaim IL now
Commercial empire must not be place.
before principle; the doctrine. the rec
ognition of which made us "A great. fre
people. must not be ignored. departc I
from or limited and we profess ou'
lasting adherence 10 the doctrine tha
all men are free and equal. We affirm
that the war i'm the Philippines as n
present conducted is one of crimina
aggression"