Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-17

C. Hubbard; Tyler, G. M. Mccoy; Wet
eel. T. H. Meighen.
The convention took recess until
1:30 o'clock to enable the committees
to meet and prepare their reports.
Afternoon Session.
Upon reassembling in the afternoon
the committee on credentials presented
its report, the salient feature being
ruling against the recognition of prox-
les. The report was adopted.
The committee on permanent organ
ization recommended that the tempo
rary organization be made permanent,
and that all representatives of Demo-
cratic newspapers be appointed assist
ant secretaries. The report was
adopted.
The committee on resolutions asked
for further time, which was granted.
There were calls for w. NJ. Kincaid,
of Cameron, who held the big audience
for nearly half an hour in a masterful
discussion of the questions which will
be more fully ventilated upon the
stump during the coming campaign.
He censured the ADMINISTRATION for its
policy in the Philippines and Porto
Rico, quoting law and precedent to
prove the fallacy of the Republican po-
sition.
Hon. Jackson V. Blair, chair
man of the committee on resolutions,
read the committees report, as fol-
lows:
The Platform.
To the Democracy of the First Con-
gressional district of West Virginia,
in convention assembled at Clarksburg,
on this, the 10th day of May, 1900, we,
your Committee on Resolutions, beg
leave to report the following resolu-
tons:
First. Resolved, That we, the Demo-
crots of the First Congressional dis
trict, do reaffirm the time-honored
principles of Jefferson and Jackson.
Second. Resolved, That we endorse
and reaffirm the Chicago platform of
1895, with especial emphasis upon the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to l, and that it shall
be made a plank in the platform of
1900.
Third. Resolved, That we denounce
Imperialism as the foe of liberty; and
repudiate the doctrine that the Consti-
tuition does not follow the flag wher-
ever the sovereign power of the gov
eminent of the United States extends,
and denounce as un-American, uneon-
stitutional and revolutionary the act
of Congress levying tax upon the i'm
ports from Porto Rico, and the asser-
ton of her right to hold as subjects
and not citizens. the people residing
within territory over which the United
States claims jurisdiction.
Fourth. Resolved, That we hold that
all just government derives its powers
from the consent of the governed, and
we denounce as an act of criminal ag-
gression" the attempt to conquer a
people struggling to achieve their in
dependence and establish government
for themselves and suited in their
opinion to their condition and promo
tive of their welfare as they under
stand it, as wicked exercise of des-
potic power and subversive of the fun
damental principles upon which our
own and all other free governments
are founded. We denounce the prose-
eution of war of conquest by the
President of the United States, waged
without the authority and consent of
Congress, as an act of usurpation de-
serving of condemnation and rebuke
at the hands of the American people.
We regard with apprehension the
growth of militarism and the increas-
ing tendency to rely upon force in the
administration of governments. We
hold large standing army and navy
to be dangerous in time of peace to the
liberties of the people and a constant
menace TO the perpetuity of free gov
eminent. Mindful of the lessons of
history and the warnings of our wise
forefathers, we denounce the creation
of large standing army and are OPP
posed to militarism and imperialism
now and always; and to the erection
of an empire upon the ruins of a re-
public. We denounce the present ad-
ministration of the weak, yacillating
and subservient federal executive.
William Mckinley, as arbitrary. cor
rupt unconstitutional and despotic,
and as at variance with all the tradi-
tons of the republic. We regard the
continuance in power of the Republican
party as certain to result in the final
and complete overthrow of the repub-
lie, and call upon all good citizens and
patriots to unite with us to overthrow
1t and to restore once more eonstitu-
tional government
Fifth. Resolved, That we denounce
the system of legislation which has
fostered the growth of trusts and