Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-06
The Democratic Convention.


The democrats of the county met
at the school house on Tuesday last
and nominated county ticket with
the same candidates as those nomIn-
ated by the peoples party The at
tendance was good and for the first
time in years the peoples party and
democrats go into the fight absolute
ly united. The platform adopted is
as follows:
We the democrats of Phillips county
in convention assem- b1ed, most heartily
endorse the action of the Kansas City
convention and also the action of the
Fort Scott convention.
We call special attention to that por-
| ton of our national platform which
says. We declare that all govern
meuts instituted among men derive
their power from the consent of the
| governed
end We hold that the constitution
follows the flag.
3rd. We are opposed to the prin-
ciple of the Porto Rican tariff law; we
demand the prompt and honest fulfil
ment of all pledges to the Cuban peo-
| pie.
4th. We favor an immediate declar-
alton of the nations purpose to give
| the Filipinos-frst, stable form of
government; second, independence,
and third, protection from outside in
| terrence.
5th We favor territorial expansion,
| when by so doing we take in desirable
| territory which can be erected into
states in the Union, and whose people
are willing and fit to become American
citizens We favor trade expansion by
every peaceful and legitimate means,
but are opposed to the seizure or pur-
chase of distant islands to be governed
outside of the constitution. and whose
people can never become citizens of our
republic.
9th. We are opposed to militarism.
It means conquest abroad and intimi-
dation and oppression at home.
7th. The tariff laws should be
amended by putting products of trust
upon the free list to prevent monopoly
under the plea of protection.
Sth. Corporations should be pro-
tected in all their rights, and leg1ti-
mate interests should be respected;
but any attempt of corporations to in
terfere with the public affairs of the
people, or to control the sovereignty |
which creates them, should be forbid |
den under such penalties as will make |
such attempt impossible.
We favor liberal pensions for deserv |
ing soldiers, and declare that the fact
of enlistment should be held conclusive
as to disa bility or disease prior thereto.
9th. We favor the immediate con-
struction and fortifcation of the Mica
ragua canal by the United States.
10th. We glory in the achievements
of our soldiers and sailors in the war
with Spain, but deplore the fact that
the splendor of their fame be dimmed
by their enforced service in the war of
and criminal aggression.
18th. We sympathize with the
repu blics in South Africa in their
heroic struggle for liberty, and declare
it to be our conviction that England
would not have dared to prosecute such
an inexcusable war but for the secret
alliance with the Mckinley admin
stration.
18th. We are proud of our sailors
and soldiers in their recent efforts to
rescue and relieve the Christian men
and women who were shut up as pris-
oners in Pekin by the Chinese.
18th. We declare in favor of the
restoration of carload rates on stock
14th. We promise an administration
of economy in county, state and ma
tional affairs in the event of the sue
cess of the democratic party at the
polls next November.
We earnestly request the co-opera-
alton of all who are opposed to militar-
ism, trusts, large standing army and
the evils necessarily following in the
wake of colonial policy, such as Hanna
and his wing of the republican party
would fasten upon the taxpayers OF the
United States.