The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-24
DEMOCRATS ADJOURN.
Adopt Resolutions and Elect Dele
gates Without Trouble.

gates Without Trouble.
h state Democratic convention at
Wichita yesterday adopted the following
resolutions:
We. the Democrats of Kansas, in dele
gate convention assembled, hereby renew
our allegiance to those immortal princi-
pies OF human rights enunciated by JEFF
ferson, defended by jackson and in their
latest and best form Incorporated in the
Democratic national platform of 1886. We
~announc our unqualified approval of
every principle embodied in thai platform
ana here reiterateS the doctrine therein
should have a distinctively American sys-
tenn of finance. which, like our other gov
ernmental functions, should be forever
Tree from foreign ENHANCEMENT. DONNA
ton or influence. That congress alone
has the power to coin and issue money,
and has no right to surrender to the ma
tiona1 banks the peoples p~rerogative to
control the volume of the currency. Tha
we are opposed to gold monometaIlism as
a British policy, un-Americau and anti
late restoration of bimefaIIism as it ex-
listed In our financial system prior to the
demOnetiZation act of 1873.
We believe in the theory of voluntary
Self-government upon which this republic
was founded and as a shining example
of which it has influenced the world for
a century. We want nc modification of
that theory by imperialistic construction.
We want neither foreign subject nor citi-
zens, nor imperialistic colonial govern
ments, Knowing that no country can en-
dure an empire abroad and a republic at
home. We adhere to the spirit of the
Monroe doctrine and the warnings of the
fathers against entangling foreign al
liances and world politics. We insist that
We can not make citizens of millions of
Malays without %corrupting our citizen
ship, nor can We hold them subjects with
out DESTROYING our form of government.
We are against militarism. Win its costly
and eorrupting standing armies, a burden
to the taxpayers, the f~orerunner of COM
pulsory military service and CONSUMPTION
and the unfailing instrument in the over
throw of every republic in history.
lean party has secretly and stealthily
aided every scheme by which European
~bondholders and their American allies
have manipulated the foreign policy of
this country in their interest and against
the interests of the people. 1t has allowed
manufacturers to take a part of the
earnings of the consumers, through a pro-
tective tariff. system, until they. have
grown into giant trusts. that defy the law
and organize by the hundreds without
molestation or protest from the present
administration. We demand relief from
this odious tariff system by the enforce
ment of the federal laws against trusts,
by throwing open to foreign competition.
through the enlargement of the free list
every business managed by a trust and
by the enactment and rigid enforcement
OF drastic antitrust laws in Kansas
We send greeting to that ideal Ameri-
can, William Jennings Bryan, of Ne
pies for which he stands the loyal sup
port of Kansas in the national convention
and at the national election.
We urge a union of the anti-Republican
forces of this state and approve the ac-
/ ton OF the several state committees
known as the Topeka agreement.
The delegates elected by this convention
are hereby instructed to vote as a unit
upon all propositions, and to cast the vote
of Kansas solid for that peerless patriot
and peoples leader, William Jennings
Bryan, and to cast their votes for a cam
didate for vice president who was and is
in full sympathy with the Chicago plat
form and the principles this day here
The convention elected the following
delegates to the national convention in
| Kansas CitX-
First-Delegates, S. F. Nicely. Leaven-
worth; W. w. Letson, Brown. A~lternates,
W. c.. Butts. Jefferson; Charles A. Hag-
second-DeIegates. W. H. Daniels. Wy
andotte; l. p White, Miami Alternates,
]. l. Pettyjohn, Johnson; NJ. Robinson,
Third-Delegates. H. P. Jones. Wilson;
Revilo Newton, Montgomery AIternates,
H. b. Henderson, Cherokee; j. NJ. Mahr,
Crawford.
Fourth-Delegates, R. H. Hazlett, But
Ter; A. J. Eastman, Coffey. A~lternates,
Alfred Fashay. Usage; Gilbert Bitter,
Fifth-Delegates, ]. F. Pendergast,
Dickinson; n. F. Graham, Washington.
A%Iternates. ]. E. Stewart. Clay; August
sixthNDelegates, John .s~chleyer, Ellis;
J; O.. Adams. Rocks; A~lternates, 7. r.
Seventh-Delegates, f. G. FinnuD, Fin
ney; F. L. Gordon, Barber; Altesnates,
T. NJ. Purcell, Rush: R. E. Steele. Reno.
The following Observation-Disclosures were
elected: ]. G. Johnson. Marion; ]. H.
Atwood, Leavenworth; David overmyeTr,
W. B~randenburg, Marshall; j. NJ. Fike
Thomas.
Observation-Disclosures P. Roe, Ne
osho; T. a. Rogers, Mitchell: Ed T. Hack
ney. Sumner; J. M Davis. Bourbon: Ear
Blackshere. Chase; Harry Mcmillan. OF
tawa. The Kansas delegation was in
structed for Bryan for president.
The friends of H. P. Farrelly presented
him with a gold mounted cane as a tes-
timonial of his services as chairman OF
the convention.