Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-07

scented the report of the Committee
on Credentials and Basis of Repre-
sentatien. He stated that the only
contest was on the delegation from
Wayne and the committee favored the
seating of the Frye delegates. He
added that Mr.. Frye magnanimously
asked that the contesting delegates
be seated in the interest of party har-
mony. The committee further re-
ported that several delegations failed
to present their proper credentials.
The committee recommended adverse
ly on the recognition of proxies. The
report was unanimously adop,ed.
In the absence of Chairman Daily,
mfr. Cornwall, of Hampshire, present
ed the report of the Committee on
RESOLUTIONS, as follows:
The Democracy of the State of West
Virginia, in convention assembled at
Parkersburg, renews its devotion to
and its unfaltering faith in the teach
dngs of Thomas Jefferson, the founder
of the party, as expressed in his first
inaugural message, in these words:
Equal and exact justice to men of
whatever state or persuasion, religious
or political; peace, commerce and hon.
est friendship with all nations, en-
tangling alliances with none; the sup
port of the State governments in all
their rights as the most competent
administration for our domestic con-
Germs and the surest bulwark against
Republican tendencies; the per-
servation of the general government
in Its whole constitutional vigor as the
sheet anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad; jealous care of the
right of election by the people as a
mild and safe corrective of abuses
which are Topped by the sword Of rev.
olution where peaceable remedies are
unprovided; absolute acquiescence in
the decision of the majority, the vital
principle of republics, from which
there is no appeal but to force, the
vital principle and immediate parent
of despotism; a well disciplined mill
tia, our best reliance in peace and for
the first moments of war till regulars
may relieve them, that supremacy of
the civil over the military authority,
a wise and frugal government, which
shall restrain men from injuring one
another and shall leave them free to
regulate their own pursuits Of industry
and Improvement, and which shall not
take from the mouth of labor the bread
Ut has earned; economy in the public
expenses, that labor may be lightly
burdened; the honest payment of cur
debts and sacred preservation of the
public faith; encouragement Of agri-
culture and of commerce as its hand
maid; the diffusion OF information and
arrangement of all abuses at the bar
of public reason; freedom of religion,
freedom of the press and freedom of
the person under the protection of the
habeas corpus, and trial by juries i'm
partially selected.
Second-We reaffirm the exposition
OF these principles as contained in the
chicago platform of 1896, and find in
William j. Bryan their ablest and
most courageous and incorruptible
champion and defender And we de-
s,Tse him to be our choice for President
S4he United States. And we pledge
ourselves to abide by and to support
the candidates and platform that may
be adopted by the national convention
which is to assemble at Kansas City on
July 4th next.
"Third-We denounce imperialism al
the foe of liberty and repudiate the
doctrine that the constitution does not
follow the flag wherever the sovereign
power OF the government of the United
States extends, and therefore denounce
as un-American, unconstitutional and
revolutionary the act of Congress levy
ing a tariff upon the imports from
Porto Rico, and the assertion of the
right to hold as subjects and not citi-
zens, peoples residing within territory
over which the United States claim
jurisdiction.
"Fourth-We hold that all just gov
ernments derive their powers from the
consent of the governed, and we de-
hounce the attempt to conquer a peo-
pie struggling to achieve their indie
pendence and establish a government
for themselves and suited, in their
opinion, to promote their welfare and
happiness, as an act of criminal ag-
erosion ard wicked exercise of des-
potic power. subversive of the funda-
mental principles upon which our own
and all other free governments are
founded. We denounce the prosecu-
ton of war of conquest by the Presl-
dent of the United States, waged with
out the consent and authority of Con-
gress, as an act of usurpation deserv-
ing of condemnation and rebuke at the
hands of the American people.
'Fifth-We denounce the Republican
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