The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-02
Q Kansas City at O'Clock tomorrow

to Kansas City at o'clock tomorrow
| morning
The feature Of the day In Lincoln. aside
| the visit of Mr. Hill, was the fact that a
draft of the Democratic platform, said to
nave the Endorsement of Mr.. Bryan an,s
meeting the approval of his friends in
| nearly han the states in the Union, has
| peen made. 1t makes the three leading
issues of the campaign imperialism. mill
tarism and trusts, in the order named.
The financial plank, according to the pres
| ent draft will be q brief plank reaffirm-
| ing the Chicago platform, and in that
plank is the reaffirmation Of 16 to 1, in
come tax, repeal of the currency laws and
| minor issues
POLITICIANS THINNING OUT.
There was thinning out this morn
| Ing of the Democratic politicians
who have been here for the past
three days, all going to Kansas s
| City, but enough new ones came in to
nearly fill the gap, and Mr. Bryan was
| Kept busy receiving his visitors until late
in the evening. The Bryan pew In the
First Presbyterian church was not occu-
pied at the morning service, Mr.. Bryan
admitting that he did not get up in time
to attend church
Shortly after noon he saddled his horse
ana rode to the Burlington depot to keep
an appointment with a party of Nississip-
pl editorial eXcursionists who have been
to Salt Lake City and came in TODAY from
DenVer. There were seventy-five in the
party many OF them ladies, and they
cneered Mr.. Bryan when he appeared
Ira Woodson, Democratic national COM
mitteeman for Kentucky: Mayor James a
Mcclure, of Syracuse, N Y, and Eugene
hughes, treasurer of the Democratic state
committee of New York also of Svr-
acuse, arrived during the day. Mr.. Wood
son met Mr.. Bryan by appointment at
0 CLOCK, and they We're in conference some
time. Later, accompanied by the New
york gentleman, they paid visit to the
Bryan farm
John M Tomlinson, of Alabama a dele
gate at large from that state, who is also
chairman of the National BimetalIIc
league gave the Associated Press the fol-
lowing: The bimetallists will not insist
On giving the currency question any more
prominence in the platform than the cues
tlon OF imperialism or trusts; will insist
on specific declaration for the independ-
ent coinage of gold and silver at the ex-
lstlng legal ratio of 16 to l. Why any one
should favor a general reaffirmation of
the Chicago platform and oppose a spe-
cine declaration on the currency ques-
ton is not plain, unless 1t be to give our
opponents an opportunity to say-which
they would say-that we had weakened on
the currency plank Of 1896.
i do not think there will be any doubt
about the platform containing specific dec
larations. Mr.. Bryan, who knows but one
way of fighting, and that is In a direct and
straightforward way, could hardly be
asked to stand on a platform about which
there could be the least misunderstand-
ing.
AS to the vice presidency, I do not an
ticipate that the convention would Sc
lect man not in accord with the head Of
the ticket and all the declarations of the
platform that will be adopted"
Mr.. Tomlinson is regarded as standing
as close to Mr. Bryan as any of the gen
tlemen who have visited Lincoln.
National Committeeman Woodson. OF
kentucky, tonight gave the following to
the Associated Press:
Inc feverish anxiety of some of our
friends who were not very enthusiastic
IN their support of the Chicago platform
in 1896 to have that platform simply re-
ahlrmed indicates that, in their estima-
tion, there is a difference between reaf-
firmation and restating a principle. The
object, 1t Is manifest, is to slight silver.
Other planks of the Chicago platform will
be restated with emphasis, and this all
seem to desire And to Slight silver would
be heralded as an abandonment and
claimed as victory by the advocates OF
the gold standard. This would embarrass
MT. Bryan IN the campaign, who has made
MS greatest reputation as the champion
OF silver, and as a man who lodges no
issues. If the convention desires to get
away from silver it should nominate some
other candidate than Bryan. 1 do not
believe the convention will fail to restate
Its loyalty to bimetallism In as strong
terms as We're employed in 1896.
Il have been disposed to favor ShiveIev
as the candidate for vice president, and
l see no reason why I should change He
is as true to the party as Bryan himself.
He is splendid campaigner. and would
be of great assistance to Mr. BRYAN In
that particular His location is right.
Iowne would make an ideal running
mate for Bryan under different circum
stances, but L don't believe his nominal
ton possible. The shot that killed Goebel
sounded the death knell of the Republic
an party. If this Is not literally true.
surely, then, the act of the recent Ken
lucky Republican convention indorsing
the conduct of Taylor does settle it,"
Mr. Woodson concluded by saying that
Gov. Mount, of Indiana, is entirely with
out excuse In harboring Mr. Taylor. Mr..
Woodson left tonight for Kansas CITY.
to be in attendance at the meeting of the
national committee tomorrow.