The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-27
WERE INSTRUCTED
FOR W. ]. BRYAN
Illinois Selects Delegates
to Kansas CITY.
GOVERNOR CHOS EN-.
Samuel AIschuIer Was Nominated
Unanimously.
THE ARKANSAS CONVENTION
A Motion to Instruct for David B. II i'll
for yice-Presidcnt Created y Sem
sation-It Was Rcfcrrcd, But
the Hill Contingent Claim
That it Will be Easily
Adopted.
THE ARKANSAS CONVENTION.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, June 26.-The
Democratic State Convention tonight
nominated Samuel Alschuler, OF Aurora,
for Governor, and adjourned until to-lnor-
row, when the ticket will be completed
and the platform adopted
The following were elected as delegates
at-!arse to the Kansas City Convention:
Mayor Carter H Harrison, of Chicago;
Alfred S. Trude of Chicago; Benjamin T.
Cable. of Rock Island: Congressman
James r. Williams, of Carml
The first session Of the convention, heic
this morning, was brief. The temporary
chairman. EInlore w. Hurst. OF RocK
Island, delivered a stirring address. altef
which recess was taken until afternoon.
When the convention rcconVened AZ
o'clock, Chairman Hurst announced uia.
the Committee on Credentials was not
ready to report. and a recess was taken
to 5 O'Clock.
Es-Governor John P. Altgeld came
in and was loudly applauded In response
to calls. he said:
eve have got away from the basic pr'i'-
ciplu OF republican governments anu u"i
people do not fully understand II: IL mas
been misrepresented: the people are soiiie-
what dazed. but before the idas OF lNovem-
Der the American people VIII understands
II and then Democracy Will carry allu luie
this country for fifty years to come.
.I.e1 me say to you, my friends. there
;s no question Of expansion oetore the
American people: it is misnomer; II IS
representa- ton.
PARTY OF EXPANSION.
'1he Democratic party has peen sE. the
party OF expansion. We expanded III iouo .o
and got Louisiana; we expanded IN iels
and got Florida; we expanded In 1910 ana
got Texas: We expanded in 1s4S and .so1
New Mexico but in every instance the
treaty provided that the territory was 10 De
a part Of this Republic and that the IN
hsbitants were to be citizens OF this Re-
public.
..Rur tho course OF the administration
now looks to no such results. President
Mckinley over a year ago asked Congress
| 10 give us standing army; not volunteers,
hut q standing army OF itc,p" men. lh-
craasins it from 2.,o00 to l0s.Ga. why!
! Because we were going to embark in the
colonial policy with England, to govern
people by brute force. and having. there
fore a,neesl OF the same kind OF machinery
| tha. they used in Europe to crush the
| aspirations OF men,
When the convention reassembed at D
o'clock Adam Ortsefen, Of Chicago, Samuel
| Asctuie., OF Aurora. Nicholas e. Worth
ington, OF Peoria, and General Alfred Oren-
dori:, of Springfield, were presented as
candidates for Governor
before the SSCOllu Ddiiol "Co SSt1NlI's'>t'
it was evident that AschuIer would be
nominated, and the convention went wild
with enthusiasm. On motion of Mayor
Carter Harrison, the nomination was made
| unanimous.
The first ballot resulted: Aschuer, COS Il;
Ortsefen, III IL; Orendorff 1876; Worthins-
ton, 49,
THE PLATFORM.
The Committee on Resolutions has COM
pIeted its work and the platform is now
in the hands of the chairman OF the COM
lnittee. Mayor Carter H. Harrison.
1t reafflrms in its entirety the Chicago
platform Of 1895; strongly condemns trusts;
upholds the Monroe doctrine: denounces
the "cowardly acts OF President Mckinley
in dealing with the Philippines; denounces
the Porto Rican bill: expresses sympathy
with the Beers in their struggle for lib
erty, and instructs the delegates to the
National Convention to vote for Bryan for
President.
The platform makes no specific alluson
to Is to /. This subject was debated at
length in the Subcommittee of seven,
which by vote of to 2 decided merely
to reaftirm the Chicago platform.