The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-24
BUT KANSAS DEMOCRATS HISTEn
AT SELECTION OF MIR. TowNE
AT KANSAS CITY
FAVORED CHICAGO PLATFORM
URGED THAT MIR. BRYAN's RIM
MING MATE BE A sTEADFAsT
ADVOCATE OF 1T
GOLD DEMOCRATS CONFER
Action of the Democrats at KaDsns
City VIII Decide whether They
Will Place n Ticket In
the Field.

WICHITA, Kan, May 23.-The Kansas
Democrats, in state convention here to-
day, selected delegates to the Kansas
City convention, and instructed them for
Bryan. The resolutions bid the delegates
not only to support Bryan for president.
but also to support for vice president a
man who is not only now, but was in
1885, in full sympathy with the Chicago
platform. Six delegates were selected at
large: J. II. Jones, OF Marion county;
David Overmeyer, Of Shawnee; James y.
Fike OF Thomas; John O. Atwood, OF
Leavenworth; DR.. c. w. Brandenburg. OF
Marshall, and H. w Stewart, Of sedge-
wick. John F. Rowe, of Neosho; A. II.
Rogers, of Mitchell; e. T. Hackney. Of
Sumner; j. NJ. Davis, Of Bourbon; Early
Blackshere, of Chase and Harry McAIiI-
Ian, of Ottawa, were elected aIternates
at large. Resolutions were adopted in
part, as follows:
I'VE, the Democrats Of Kansas I'm
delegate convention assembled, hereby re-
new our allegiance to the immoral princI-
pies of human rights enunciated bv Jef-
IerSOn, defended by jackson, and, in their
latest ana best form, Incorporated in the
Democratic national platform of 1886. We
announce unqualified approval Of every
principle embodied in that platform and
here reiterate the doctrine therein an
nounced that the American people should
nave a disttnctively American system OF
finance, which, like our other government
tai functions, should be forever free from
foreign entauglements, domination or In
nuence; that congress alone has the pow
er to coin and issue money, and has no
right to surrender to the national banks
the people prerogatiYe TO control the
Nolume OF the currency; that we are Op-
posed TO gold monometallism, as a British
poIcy, uh-Ameflcdn and anti-Americau,
and that we favor the immediate restora-
tion of bimetallism as it existed In our
financial system prior TO the demonetiza-
tion act Of 1873.
we believe in the theory of voluntary
sell-government, upon which this republic
is founded, and as a shining example OF
which IL has influenced the world for 4
century. We want no mOdiftcatiO Of that
theory by imperialistio construction. We
want neither foreign subjects nor citizens
nor lmperialistic colonial government,
knowing that no country can endure am
empire abroad and a republic at home
We adhere to the spirit Of the Monroe
doctrine and the warnings Of the fathers
against entangling foreign alliances and
world politics. We insist that we cannot
make citizens Of Malays without corrupt
ing our citizenship, nor can we hold them
subjects without destroying our form Of
government We are against militariSm,
with It's costly and cOrrupung standing
armies, a burden to the taxpayers the
forerunners OF compulsory military serV-
ice and conscriptiOn, and the unfailing in
strument in the overthrow Of every cUun-
try in history.
The Republican party has secretly and
stealthily aided every scheme by which
European bOndhOlders and their Ameri-
can allies have manipulated the financial
interest Of this country I'm their interest
and against the interests of the people. 1t
has allowed manufacturers to take part
of the earnings Of consumers through a
protective tariff system, until they have
grown into giant trusts that defy the
law and organize by the hundreds with
out mo!estation or protest from the pres
ent administration. We demand relief
from this odious tariff system by the en-
forcement OF the federal laws against
trusts, by throwing open to foreign COM
free list, every business managed by a
trust, and by the enactment and rigid en-
forcement Of drastic antitrust laws in
kansas