The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-24
BUT KANSAS DEMOCRATS HINTEn
AT SELECTION OF MIR. TOwNE
AT KANSAS CITY
FAVORED CHICAGO PLATFORM
URGED THAT MIR. BRYAN's run
MING MATE BE A sTEADFAsT
ADVOCATE OF 1T
GOLD DEMOCRATS CONFER
Action of the Democrats at Kansns
City Will Decide Whether They
VIII Place n Ticket In
the Field.

WICHITA, Kan, May 23.-The Kansas
day, selected delegates to the Kansas
City convention. and instructed them for
Bryan. The resolutions bid the delegates
not only to support Bryan for president.
but also to support for vice president a
man who is not only now, but was In
1856, in full sympathy with the Chicago
platform. Six delegates were selected at
large: J. H. Jones, of Marion county;
David Overmeyer, of Shawnee; James y.
F1ke, OF Thomas; John O. Atwood, OF
Leavenworth; DR.. c. w. Brandenburg, OF
Marshall, and H. w. Stewart, of Sedge-
wick. John F. Rowe, of Neosho; A. T.
Rogers, of Mitchell e. T. Hackney, Of
Sumner; J. NJ Davis, of Bourbon; Early
Blackshere, of Chase, and Harry McMil-
Ian, of Ottawa, were elected alternates
at large. Resolutions were adopted, in
part, as follows:
I'VE. the Democrats Of Kansas. I'm
delegate convention assembled, hereby re-
new our allegiance to the immoral prlncI-
pies OF human rights enunc1ated by JEFF
ferson, defended by Jackson, and in their
latest and best form, Incorporated in the
Democratic national platform of 1886. We
principle embodied In that platform and
here reiterate the doctrine therein an
nounced that the American people should
have a diStinctiVely American system of
finance, which, like our other government
tai functions, should be forever free from
foreign entanglements, domination or in
huence; that congress alone has the pow
er 10 coin and issue money, and has no
right to surrender to the national banks
the people prerogatiYe to control the
volume or the currency; that we are op-
nm a ligrTa tFeF,
policy, un-AmerIcan and antl-American,
and that we favor the immediate restora-
tion of bimetallism as it existed In our
financial system prior TO the demonetiza-
ton act of 1913
I'VE believe in the theory of voluntary
self government, upon which this republic
is founded, and as shining example OF
which 1t has influenced the world for a
century. We want no modification of that
theory by imperialistio construction. We
want neither foreign subjects nor citizens
nor imperialistic colonial government
knowing that country can endure 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 alliances and
world politics. We insist that we cannot
make citizens Of Malays without corrupt
ing our citizenship, nor can we hold them
subjects without destroying our form OF
government. We are against militarism,
with its costly and corrupting standing
armies, burden TO the taxpayers, the
forerunners of compulsory military serv-
ice and conscription, and the unfailing in
strument IN the overthrow of every cOun-
try in history.
THE Republican party has secretly and
stealthily aided every scheme by which
European bondholders and their Ameri-
can allies have manipulated the financial
interest of this country in their interest
and against the interests of the people. 1t
has allowed manufacturers to take part
OF the earnings of consumers, through
protective tariff system, until they have
grown into giant trusts that defy the
law and organize by the hundreds with
! out mo.estation or protest from the pres
ent administration. We demand relief
from this odious tariff system by the en-
fOrcement of the federal laws against
trusts, by throwing open TO foreign COM
petition, through the enlargement Of the
free list every business managed by a
trust, and by the enactment and rigid en-
| forcement Of drastic antitrust laws in
Kansas