The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-09-07
Donaldson eaffery and AFehls
bald Murray Howe Are the
6andIdatss.
GOTH PARTIES CONDEMNED
~AntIaImDsrlalism and a Geld
Standard Fav0rsd In the
Resolutions,
0euntry's RuIn Predicted N
Present Tendencies Are
Unchecked

NEW f0RK, bept, 4,=Iha National
paPtymthe official name OF the third
pAPty==met In convention In Carnegie
hall, this city, and nominated eAHdlr
dates Tor president and Vice president
OF ths United States A platform wAs
adopted md n title and emblem ohosen,
phese aPe tho eaDdidAtesl FOp ppasl'
dent, Donaldson Gallery Of houislanai
for vice presidents, Archibald Murray
Howe OF Cambridge, Mnsh There
WsPe no other candidates f0P Tho p0si'
tieDa and tho nominations wope pe'
eeived with hearty applause, The plAt'
fern adopted sAysi
rvs find our country threatened
with alternative pepilsl On one hand
II public opinion misled by organised
f0p0eh oh 90mmeyeiAllHm thRt have pepr
ysPted \ wap intended by tho people tQ
be u WAp OF humanity Into. \ war on
conquest On the other hand IA u pub
lie opinion sWAysd By deMAg0HiG apH
penis 30 fAGtl0nAl ann GlAAs pAHAlOnB,
tha M0at fhtAl Df dlseases t0 II Pepnbllgl
Wa believe thAt either on th0H0 lntln'
eDoes, " unchecked, would ultimately
80inphHH
Vhs DownlRII ~ our GORRtTy
but WI alR0 believe tNat neither peppes
Hent the sober conviction on our country
MHHl
ngOnvlneed that lhe extension on tho
~jnPisdlgti0n 0t the United stnles f0p lhu
purpose Of holding foreign people As
colonial dependencies N, Nh Innovation
dangerous 10 Onp libeptieB and plpDH,
nAnt 10 tlle principles upon which 0lp
government IN founded, WI pledge our
efforts through vii constitutional means
possible 10 pP0eW the remuneration on
I'LL imperial 0p colonial |ppetensl0ns with
regard DO foreign e0nnCpleH, olAlmed w
have beeD acquired through 0p In G0nH
sequence. OF military or naval opens
lions OF the last TWO yenpsr
IiH0GODd=H Wa further pledge Onp
efforts 30 secure n single gold standard
ana Il sound banking system,
'WhiPd 10 secure n public service
bRsed Oh merit only,
'WOnptlhH=T 10 se9nPe abolition on all
OOpPDpting special. privileges, whether
under Cha Hnise Of Subsidies, bDuDtles,
undesepv9d pensions on tpnat breeding
taPilfsU
Th8Mas N, OsbbpRa pFeslded,
Fhe convention WRs chilled 10 order
by Th0mAs NJ Osborne III Auburn, N,
VI who presided M tho indianapolis
preliminary meeting u month MOO
Everett d. Abbott VIM AeGgetApy,, phepe
was no roll call All Clio Delegates
were volunteers who lind replied nv
thelp presence 10 tho invitation lsanel
10 All peps0nH In sympathy With the OBJ
JeGla Oh th8 pAPtyr
Chairman OsbOpne's apeeall In 0AllinH
Tho meetlnH DO order, followed tle lines
expressed IN th8 PLATFORM Speeches
were nla0 mede BY John Jay oIapmAn
ami Archibald Murray. Howe u WIS
decided Tint Tho party be known Nv tle
National paPty mid tIlAt its emblem bo
the statue Of Liberty on 0apltOl dome,
WnbhlnNtOni
A resolution WIN passed instpuelnH
the campaign committee, when ~ shall
be appointed, 10 provide pRsteps f0p
v0t6Ps Wh0 wish NO GROSS 0ul, any mime
on Tho DemOerAtiG on Republican elee'
tOpAl ticket, th8 pAs69p 10 have on ~ tlig
name Oh some GltlKeD known 20 stand
Tor peace, llbepty and sound M0ney
Yhii N 10 be done In any 9tAte IN which
the committee finds such \ method N
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