Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-26
THE PLATFORM.

The platform will endorse the Chicago
declaration OF principles, denounce the
trusts and Imperialism. advocate bal
lot reform and pure elections and con-
denim machine politics. The convention
will also nominate candidates for Audi
tor-Goneral Congress at large, the
Presidential electors and elect eight del
egates at large to the National conven-
ton.
Col. Bryan reached here at 3 o'clock,
and was escorted to the Board of Trade
rooms, where the State Committee was
In session, by committee representing
the State and local Democratic COM
mittees He was introduced to the as
6emblage by State Chairman RIllang
and made short speech. which was
received with much enthusiasm. At
the close of the meeting he held an in
formal reception at the Commonwealth
Hotel, and later he was the guest OF
Mayor Fritchey at dinner party ut
which Colonel Guffey. Chairman Ril-
lang and other party leaders were pres
ent. After to-nIghts meeting he at
tended session of the local lodge of
Modern Woodmen, OF which he is an
active member Mt his home in Lincoln.
Colonel Bryan will go from here to
Smyrna and Wilmington, Del, and
from there to Washington to meet the
National leaders.
large crowd greeted the Nebraskan
at this afternoons meeting. He con-
tended that the young men were grow
Ing to see that Republican principles OF
monopoly kept down all but the very
few, and added
ODDS AGAINST EASTERN DEMO
GRATIS.
1--WE appreciate the odds Eastern
ncn-Opr1tS have
said he. 1T is easy to be Democrat
In the South, and it is easier to be a
Democrat in the West than it used to
be. I believe the time will come when
Chicago platform Democracy will be
as popular in Pennsylvania as it is out
in Nebraska. While no Republicans can
remember what was in the Republican
platform of 1896. and why no gold Dem
ocrat can repeat the Indianapolis pfHt=
form, every Democrat and Republican
can remember the Chicago platform.
The Democrats ought to make progress
in the State, because the Republican
party is more corrupt in this State than
in any other State in the Union I'm
less the people have forgotten to think
and act for themselves, they ought
to rise up and wipe the Republican
party out of existence. believe we
are going to win in the campaign of
19O0.''
THE NIGHT MEETING.
Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 25.-At to-
nights meeting Mr.. Bryan opened with
congratulations to the Pennsylvania
Democracy on the suspicious opening
of the campaign of 1900, and predicted
that the vote this year would be large
ay increased, both because Of the issues
and because of the hostility which ma
chine politics is arousing among Re-
publicans:
After reiterating his ideas as to the
dollar mark in Republican politics, Mr.
Bryan said:
isn't it strange that men who have
1abored to fasten the gold standard on
their country for thirty years should
now be defending their position by ar.
guments that have arisen since the
election? When say that reverses in
a war with handful Of Beers will
shake our financial system. where will
be the gold standard If England ever
attacks nation of her size and gets
into a real war? When we join our
selves to the gold standard: when we
make gold alone the legal tender for the
payment of debts we connect ourselves
with every disturbance in Europe and
make ourselves dependent upon their
condition for their prosperity"
A PERPETUAL DEBT.
Colonel Bryan said that the Republi-
can party seeks to fasten upon this
country perpetual and ever-increasing
debt. In order that banks may control
the volume Of the peoples money. When
man tells you now that more gold
means more money, and that more
money means better times you tell him
that he has admitted the quantitive
theory OF money, and that is what we
commended for in 1895. We wanted more
gold and we wanted more silver, too.
THE TRUSTS.
Discussing trusts. Mr.. Bryan said:
e"If they are bad are you going to say
you cant help yourselves; that you
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