The age-herald., 1900-06-14
BRYAN CONFERS
 WITH LEADERS The Kansas City Platform 0ie-
 cuSSed al Length. FFERENCES OF OPINION Some Favor Reafirming the Chicago Platform in Lump and Adding New Issues-Others Want
 It Rewritten
DIFF FERENCES OF OPINION

Chicago, June 13.-William J. Bryan was in Chicago today and the center of much political discussion all of it bearing on what may be done at the Democratic Ma tional convention next month.
 MT. Bryan saw scores of people during the day. He talked .business" with Sen- ator Jones' chairman of the National Com mittee; J. G. Johnson head of the Execu- tive Committed; Charles A. Walsh, secre- tary of the National Committee; D. J.. Campau, National Committeeman Of Michigan.
 The platform to be adopted at Kansas City and the Vice Presidential question, especially the Towne-Populist nomination end Of it, were considered at some length. On the question of platform the trend of discussion forecasted to some extent the differences of opinion which may arise at Kansas City even among loyal Bryan men, The question is whether the money plank shall be handled by reaffirmation of the Chicago platform in a lump whether some blanks of the 1896 platform, and es pecially the money plank, should be re- written. MT. Bryan favors rewriting much of the 1896 platform this year.
 Senator Jones, according to credible ad- vices, advocates reaffirmation of the Chi cago platform as a whole and then quick transition to the newer issues of imperial ism and trusts.
 Bryan Has Not Changed
 "I say, as 1 have before so many times," MT. Bryan said, when asked what he thought the platform and issues this year would or should be, that I think the three big questions before us are money, trusts and imperialism. The money ques- tion, of course, includes the question of silver and of paper money; the question of imperialism includes miltarism and the policy of which our national administra- tion's work in the Philippines and attitude on the Boer questions are samples.
 T believe the principles adopted in the platform of 1856 were adopted as a part of the party creed never to be departed from. l do not think they should be or can be departed from this year. That platform must, however, be added to as new issues arise. As l do not expect to be a delegate to the national convention 1 cannot pre- sume to discuss the form in which these principles shall be stated in the platform to be adopted there.
 T cannot undertake to say what will be the paramount issue. No man can One
 
 othere man thinks another is
 What do l think should be done in the Philippines? think this country should tell those people that we there only for the purpose of establishing a stable govern ment, and that when we have done so, we should turn the islands over to the people there and protect them against foreign ag- gression We have protected the South American republics.
 'The conditions ahead and the plan of campaign? Why, conditions are much more favorable than they were at this time in 1856. The Republican party is on the defen- siVe. It will talk prosperity of course, but we'll be willing to take the votes of all the people who have not had their share of prosperity, and leave them the votes of the people who have had their share.
 T should say our plan of campaign will De to carry every state in the union. Can not carry all of them? 1 would not think so harshly of the people of any state as to say that the people intended to support the republican party"