The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-28
E. f. Perry Nominated for Lieutenant
Governor and y. O. Donnell for
Secretary of State.
STRING OF RESOLUTIONS
MAINLY DEVOTED TO D~EN0UNCING
THE ADMINISTRATION.
Trusts Condemned, but Nothing Said
About the Ice "Combfne--
Stevenson Declines.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 27.-The Dem
ocratic state convention to-day completed
its work and adjourned. Following is the
full ticket nominated:
Governor-Samuel A~lschuler, Aurora.
Lieutenant Governor-Elmer Perry, Brown
county.
Secretary OF ~State-James O'Donnell.
Bloomington.
Auditor of State-George B. Parsons.
Shawneetown.
State Treasurer-M. +. Dunlap, Jackson
vile.
Attorney General-James Todd. Cook
county.
n~ois-Joseph Schwartz, of Marion county;
Charles Bliss. of Hillsboro, and Mrs. Julia
Holmes Smith, of Chicago.
Carter Harrison, chairman Of the COM
mittee on resolutions, presented the plat
form, which was unanimously adopted. 1t
reafirms the platform adopted by the DEM
ocratic national convention held in Chicago
in 1896; denounces the administration of
William Mckinley as the weakest in the
history Of the Nation, and condemns the
towering attitude of the President and his
advisers in refusing consolation and sym
pathy TO the Beers in their struggle for
the independence of the Transvaal N
Orange republics, and We invoke public con-
domination of an administrative policy
which denies to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippine islands the principle of home
rule and self-government, and seeks the
subjugation of a free and enlightened peo-
pie for the glory of an imperial policy re-
voting to our traditions and a defiance to
the principles of our federal Constitution
d~enounces the currency law passed by the
present Congress-, which proposes to per-
manently establish the gold standard in
this country in place of the bimetallic stand
ard of the Constitution, and which trans
fers TO the national banks the entire control
of the paper currency, thus laying the
foundation for a money trust which will
have power TO control the prices of all prop
erty and to stimulate or strange business;
expresses horror at the attempt of Eng
land TO reduce the South African republics
to subsection, and declares sympathy for
the Beers; d~enounces Imperialism under
any pretense as necessarily leading to
militarism and as wholly foreign to our
system of government; denounces the Porto
Rican tariff bill as a palpable violation
of the fundamental principles of our gov
ernment; regards with apprehension the
doctrine advocated by the Republican ad-
ministration that this Nation should in its
dealings or diplomacy show Partially to-
ward or enter into ~entangling alliances
with any European nations. Regarding
trusts the platform says:
Trusts and monopolies formed for the
| purpose of arbitrarily controlling products
| and prices in the interests of combined cap
| ital II allowed to go on can result only in
II ScIlQOIl " II VI P6OpIC.
| We therefore oppose such combinations and
| demand that not only existing laws against
| such combinations in restriction of trade be
rightly enforced, but, believing that pro-
tective tariffs and railway determinations
have been and still are the chief supporters
of monopolies, re favor the removal of du-
ties from all imports monopolized by trusts
! and also demand the enactment and en-
forcement of such legislation as will pre-
vent every species of discrimination, and,
believing that the courageous and honest
application of the Democratic maxim of
equal rights to all and special privileges
to none will be effective to destroy and
thereafter prevent any trust or combination
of capital that is prejudicial to the general
welfare, we demand the repeal of all such
laws giving special privileges to any person.
class. locality or interest.
I'VE declare for the greatest liberty to
the individual and our earnest opposition
to all sumptuary laws; and We believe in
the rigid restriction of government, both
state and national, to the legitimate do
main of political power b. the excluding
therefrom of all executive and legislative
intermeddling with the affairs Of society
whereby monopolies are fostered, privileged
classes a~ggrandized and individual freedom
unnecessarily and oppressively restrained"
The platform favors the immediate con-
struction, operation fertilization and de-
Tense of an American interoceanic canal by
the United States: declares opposition to
government by Injunction: is unalterably
opposed TO militariSm as exercised in the
United States arsenals by the commandants
towards the employees from civil life; re-
afirms devotion to the Monroe doctrine;
demands the protection of life and property
of American citizens at home and abroad
regardless of race, color or previous condi-
ton; favors the establishment of postal
savings banks by act of Congress-; favors
the general principle of the initiative and
referendum as conducive to securing an
expression and enforcement Of the peoples
will; favors the election of United States
senators by direct vote OF the people; ex-
presses unqualified admiration for Will
liam J. Bryan, and we pledge to him our
loyal and answering support, and the dele
gates from the State of Illinois to the Dem
ocratic national convention are hereby in
structed to vote as a unit for his renomina-
! tion." The Republican administration of
Governor Tanner is denounced.
A resolution was offered by Congress-
man Thomas M. Jet, Of Hillsboro. and
adopted, directing the delegates to the ma.
tional convention to vote as a unit on all
questions and to select Thomas Gahan OF
Cook county, for national committeeman
without opposition.
The state central committee met imme-
diately after adjournment and selected DIR
Walter Watson, of Mount Vernon, as one
of the alternate delegates at large to the
national convention, in place of Adlai +
j Stevenson, who declined.
ChicagO's New Water System.