The Wichita daily eagle., 1900-04-27
DEMOCRATS CALL 1T "H0T'
Platform Adopted by the Democrats
ofPawnee County.

Guthrie, o r.. April 26.-The Demo-
Gratis of the territory are circulating with
great glee what they call "hot plat
form" 1t was the one adopted last week
by the Democrats of Pawnee county and
reads as follows:
I'VE. your committee. hereby recommend
the adoption OF the following resolutions,
to-wit:
THAT we hereby confirm the principles
of the Chicago platform, and pledge our
hearty support to the nomination of Hon
William Jennings Bryan, as Democratic
candidate for president. That by his X
alted and persistent patriotic efforts for
the emancipation OF the liberty loving
people of this nation from their present
trust slavery, and their rescue from cap
italistic greed, he deserves the unfa.t-
ering support of the people of this ma
tion. That we denounce the vacillatiug
policy of President Mckinley 'of plain
duty as his stereotyped explanation to
Hanna's various trust schemes is thread
bare of further deception.
1.-The Republican party. under the
Hanna Mckinley administration, in the
abandonment of .bimetallism and disdain
for an international monetary commits
sion, in its purchase of a wornout Spanish
war against the Filipinos and imperiai
policy inaugurated; in its Unconstitutional
exactions Of a tariff from our newly
acquired island of Porto Rico, and in the
continued heavy drain by the revenue
stamp act for the upbuilding of the great
standing army has demonstrated that the
Republican party IS wholly in the interest
of the office-holding class, whose chief
manipulators, the Hanna-Hay combina-
ton, are fed from the corruption fund or
the trusts, and that the fat fried from
stupendous government contracts danger
ously imperils our future. That this policy
of peIf and piunder, so revolving TO the
decent instincts Of American citizenship,
deserves utter condemnation at the polls.
"We condemn the foreign entagl.ng
secret alliance with England that the
McKinley-Hanna-Hay manipulators have
made and their sympathy against the
Beers constitute themselves cxecrable OBJ
iects to the mould of the exemplary citi-
zenship cast by Washington and rounded
by Lincoln. Believing the time is now
ripe for party prejudices that heretofore
has stimulated party success, should be
laid aside, and that the common people
should inaugurate into power men of the
stamp of Washington, Lincoln and Bryan
whose principles are relentlessly opposed
by the HANNAH a-Hay-McKinley British
loving secret combinations Upon this
platform we cordially invite the support
of all the people to the standard of re-
form and Democracy. thereby to safe
guard the nation and our homes
1--WE hereby cordially endorse and ap-
prove the plan of precinct organization as
originated by the national committee,
recommending that those receiving com
from said committee act up
on the policy therein outlined.
1--WE point with pride to the able and
efficient services rendered by the Demo
Gratis in congress in behalf of the free I
homes BILL a measure Of such vital and
Importance to all Oklaho Z
mans; a measure devoted to the up
building ofman's grandest institution, the
home
I'm consideration Of the fact that Paw
nee county has never had delegate TO /
the national convention, we hereby cord !
ialIv and unanimously endorse the can
didacv of the brilliant young statesman |
and orator, the Hon. c. j. Wrightsman, I
for delegate to the national convention at |
Kansas City, and cheerfully recommend
him to the favorable consideration of the |
Ell Reno convention. We further recon-
mend that he be allowed to select the |
delegates attending with him the said
&C A WATERS,
"ROBERT CHASTEEN,