The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-07
Chicago Platform Reafirmed, Sixteen
to-One Theory Endorsed and
Things Republican Denounced.
HAD TO CALL THE POLICE
WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS HAD A
DIsORDERLY CONVENTION.
Holt for Govcrnor-NationaI Negro
Party to Be Formed-Dem0cratic
Conventions in the Dakotas.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, June 6.-The Mis-
souri, Democratic convention nominated the
following ticket to-day: For Governor,
Alexander NJ Dockery OF Gallatin; Lieu
tenant Governor. John A. Lee, of st. Louis;
secretary of state, s. B. Cook. of Mexico;
auditor, Albert o. Allen, of New Madrid;
attorney general, z. c. Crow, of Webb
City; treasurer, r. p. Williams. of Fayette;
railway and warehouse commissioner, Jo-
seph Harrington, of Jefferson City; pres
idential electors at large, James A. Reed,
of Kansas City, and William A. Rothwell,
of Moberly.
The convention was in session continu-
ously from $3.50 in the morning until $50 in
the evening, declining to take a recess
until its work had been completed. The
contests in the st. Louis and Kansas City
delegations, which 1t had taken the creden-
tials committee the whole of yesterday to
untangle, were decided in five minutes
times by the prompt adoption of the COM
mittee's report. The report was victory
for the anti-machine element When the
resolutions committee presented its report
there was a fight to strike out the indorse-
ment of Governor Stephens. 1t lasted for
but a minute or two, and the report was
adopted amid much enthusiasm. The reso-
lutions reaffirm allegiance to the Chicago
platform of 1896. particularly specifying 16
to 1; indorses Bryan. denounces trusts. ami
declares against imperialism" The plat
form follows.
1--WE reaffirm and indorse the Democratic
national platform, adopted at Chicago in
1885, and declare our continued feaIty to
nffQrQnQaC or no
free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the established ratio of Is TO 1, and
We denounce as unwise and dangerous in
the extreme the single gold standard bank
act of the present session of Congress,
which places the control of the paper cir
culating medium in the hands of national
bank corporations.
I'VE denounce as one of the most trying
evils of the day the present tendency to-
ward monopoly and the destruction of
competition, particularly the industrial
combinations known as trusts. We arraign
the Republican party as guilty of the
grossest hypocrisy in the treatment of this
question in that, being in the ascendecy
in Congress, 1t has steadfastly refused to
pass any of the legislation which has pro-
posed to curb the power of trusts; has
failed to withdraw tariff protection from
trust-made goods: has constituted the lead
ers of trusts the leaders of its party in
the Nation, and accepted. from them con-
tributionS of millions of dollars to its
gigantic corruption fund, which fact in
itself is a menace TO the stability of our
free institutions"
The platform reiterates adhesion to the
Monroe doctrine, and ''deprecates the de-
parture from its principles which have
been made by the Republican administra-
ton in its war for conquest; insists that
the government restore Cuba to Cubans
at the earliest moment possible; favors
construction of the Nicaraguan canal; the
upbuilding of the merchant marine; ex-
tends ''our earnest sympathy to the people
of the Boer republics and continues:
with renewed faith In the ability. pa
triotism and courage of the Hon. William
J. Bryan, believing him TO be the greatest
exponent of the principles for which the
Democratic party stands, and satisfied that
power would not dazzle nor wealth blind
him to the duties which he owes to the
people. we instruct, as the wish or this con-
vention, that the delegates or Missouri TO
the national Democratic convention shall
cast their votes for him as the choice of
the Democratic party for President of the
United States"
Hon. William S. Cowherd was made per-
manent chairman, and later. in a speech
that set the convention wild with en-
thusiasm named Charles F. Dockery. rep
resentative from the Third congressional
district. for Governor Mr.: Dockery was
the only candidate for that office and he
was nominated by reclamation. 1t took
three ballots to select a Lieutenant Cover
nor There were six candidates-R. T. Love
and j. NJ. Lowe, jackson county w H.
McClintock Marion county; j. w. Farr1s,
e. A. Noonon and John A. Lee, OF st.
Louis. Lee led from the start. and on the
third ballot the other candidates withdrew,
Lees nomination being made by acclama-
ton. There were brisk contests for some of
the other Offices especially that of railway
and warehouse commissioner, over which
the convention spent three hours and a
half There were nine candidates for the
nomirfation The work of the convention
was concluded by the selection OF James
Seibert as state chairman, to succeed Sam
Il. Cook.