The leader., 1900-06-13
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Democratic
State convention june
> 1900

I'VE, the Democrats of Mississippi,
! in convention assembled, called to-
| gether because Of the refusal of the
! State executive committee to order
! State convention. in accordance with
party custom. to select delegates to
the national Democratic convention,
nominate presidential electors, pro
mulgate platform of principles and
to elect new executive committee,
adopt the following resolutions as eX-
pressing our views on public and pc
litical questions of the day:
"Resolyed, first, That we deplore and
condemn the action of the Democratic
State executive committee for refusing
TO call State convention for the pur-
/ pose above set forth, and in lieu
| thereof providing for the holding of
| plurality primary election to select
national delegates and presidential
electors, which we cannot but regard
as yiolatve Of the unwrtten law of
and contrary to Democratic practice
and usage in this State, and in the
face of the wishes and sentiments of
the great masses of the Democracy of
Mississippi We condemn that feat
ure OF the committees action which
tends to embarrass or deprive the
Democracy Of the State of opportunity
to assemble and express itself upon
public issues and instruct its delegates
to the national Democratic convention
upon public questions, as well as for
president. We condemn the action
of the committee in that it violates
immemOrial Democratic custom by
refusing to provide for the selection
of its successors, thus tending to IA per
petuation of itself. The democracy Of
the State will not consent that any set
of men shall deprive it of the right to
select its own agents and servants,
however exalted in character such
men may be. We refuSe to surrender
such rights or permit them to be EN-
barrassed, hence the assembling of
this convention, representing the De
mOcracy of the State. We especially
condemn the action of the ma iority of
the executive committee in refusing to
recOnvene the committee to recon
slider their warranted, unprecedent
ed, unnecessary and undemocratic act
time favoring fair and legal primary
elections for the nomination of party
candidates for election to State, district
and county offices This stubborn re
fusal of the committee to pay the least
regard to the wish of the people can
not be too severely condemned by the
Democracy of the State; therefore, to
save the harmony of the party be it
"Resolyed, second, That this con
vention proceed 70 the nomination of
candidates for presid entail electors
and delegates and alternate delegates
to the national Democratic convention,
to be voted for at the primary election
called by the State committee, June
p, and to that end the chairman of
this convention is authorized to APP
point such committees as he may deem
necessary to carry out the purposes
of this resolution.
"Resolved, third, That we reafiirm
and pledge our support and allegiance
to the national Democratic platform
adopted at Chicago in 1896, and we in
struct the delegates to be named by
this convention to the national Demo
cratic convention, to be held in Kansas
City, to cast the vote of this State for
that peerless leader of Democracy,
that able, pure and incorruptibie
statesman, the great tribune of the
people, Hon. William Jennings Bryan,
as the Democratic candidate for presi
dent of the United States.
Resolved, fourth, That we denounce
the Republican administration for