The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-03-28
TIE PLATFORM
ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRATS Of
BRYAN'S STATE.

and Free Coinage Of Silver Re-
aHirmed-Porto Rico Tariff Opposed.
Other Issues joined-Bryan ard
Victory the Battle Cry.
The platform adopted by the Ne
braska Democratic Convention was
as follows:
We, the Democrats Of Nebraska,
in convention assembled, do hereby
reaffrm and endorse, in whole and
in part, in letter and in spirit, the
platform adopted by the Democratic
National convention held in Chicago,
1896.
We favor amendments to the Fed
eral Constitution specially authoriz-
ing an income tax and providing for
the election of United States Sena-
tors by 8 direct vote Of the people.
We oppose government by Injunction
and the blacklist, andi:avor arbitration
as q means of settling disputes be-
corporations and their employees.
We observe with approval the sup
port given by Democrats throughout
the coutry to the movement looking
towards the municipal ownership of
municipal franchises.
We favor the principal of the initia-
tive and referendum wherever it can
be applied.
We are in favor Of liberal pensions
to deserving soldiers and to their de-
pendants; We believe that the names
upon the pension rolls should not be
arbitrarily dropped, and We believe,
as stated in the last national platform,
that the fact of enlistment and SER
vice should be deemed conclusive
evidence against disease and dissbili-
ty before enlistment.
We are in favor of the immediate
construction and Notification of the
Nicaraguan canal by the United
States.
We condemn the Dingley Tariff
law as a trust breeding and extor-
ton inviting measure, skillfully de-
vised for the purpose Of giving tothe
few favors which they do not deserve
and of placing upon the many burdens
which they should not bear.
We welcome the opportunity Of
forded this year to take the Federal
government out Of the hands of the
Republican party, which has aban.
doned American ideas and American
ideals and. at the command of cor
porate wealth, has plotted against
the financial independence Of the in
dividual and now contemplstes the
nullifcation of the declaration of
American independence.
We pledge ourselves to wage an
~unceasipg warfare against all the
trusts-the money trust, the indus
trial trust and the international land
grabbing trust.
Instead of a system which would
chain our nation to the gold standard
and compel it to participate in all
the disturbances which come to
European nations, We demand an
American financial system, made by
the American people for themselves,
to be secured by the immediate res
toration of the free and unlimited
coinage Of gold and silver at the
present legal ratio of 16 to l with
ont waiting for the aid or consent of
any other nation.
The Republican administration has
9 admitted the gold standard to be
unsatisfactory by appointing a COM
mittee to solicit foreign aid in restor-
ing the double standard, and a Re
publican Congress, even while trying
to make the gold standard permanent,
has confessed judgment against the
standard by attempting to revive the
delusive hope Of international bimet-
aiism.
Instead of the system favored by
the Republican party, under which
national banks are to be permitted
to issue and control the volume Of
paper money for their own profit, We
~reiterate our demand for that fnan-
cisl system which recognizes the
governments sovereign right to issue
all money. We demand the reten-
ton of the greenbacks as they now
exist and the retirement of national
bank notes as rapidly as greenbscks
can be substituted for them.
We believe that private monopo-
lies are indefensible and intolerable,
and We condemn the national admin
stration for it's failure to enforce the
present law against the trusts or to
recommend a more effective way.
We favor a State Constitution
which will prohibit the organization
of q monopoly within the State and