The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-28
NEBRASKA SPEAKS.
The Platform Adopted By the
Democrats Of that State.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT,
An Income Tax AND the Free Coin
age Of Silver Demanded.
Porto Rican Tariff
Opposed

oPpOSSO
The platform adopted by the Nebrasks
Democrstic Convention, which was
read and endorsed by Bryan before its
adoption, was as follows
We, the Democrats Of Nebraska, in
convention assembled, do hereby reaf-
firm and endorse, in whole, and in part,
in letter and in spirit, the platform
adopted by the Democratic National
convention hel,i in Chicago, 1896.
We favor amendments to the Federal
constitution specially authorizing an
income tax aud providing for the elec.
ton OF Uaitcd States senators by a
direct vote OF the people. We oppose
government By injunction and the
blacklist, and favor arbitration as a
means of settling disputes between cor
poratioas and their employees.
We observe with approval the sup.
port given by Democrats throughout
the country to the movements looking
towards the municipal ownership Of
municipal franchises.
VIC favor the principle Of the initia-
tive on6 referendum wherever 1t can be
applied.
We arc in favor Of liberal pensions to
deserving soldiers and to their depcn-
Gaots; we believe that names upon the
pensions rolls should not be arbitrarily
dropped, and We believe, as stated in
the last national platform, that the fast
Of enlistment and service should be
deemed conclusive evidence against
disease and disability before enlistment.
We are in favor Of the immediate
construction and fertilization Of the
Nicaraguan canal by the United States.
We condemn the DiDgley Tariff law
as trust breeding and extortion in
viting measure, skillfuliy devised for
the purpose of giving to, few the
favors which they do not deserve and
of placing upon the many burdens
which they should not bear.
We welcome the opportunity offered
this year to take the Federal govern
| ment out Of the hands of the Republi-
can party, which has abandoned Amer
lean ideas and American IDEAS and, at
| the command of corporate wealth, mas
plotted against the financial indepen
dence of the individual and now con-
templates the nulliication of The decla-
ration of the American independence.
We pledge ourselves to wage an un-
ceasing warfare against all the trust
the money trust, the industrial trust
and the international land-grabbing
trust.
Instead of a system which would
chain our patton to the gold standard
aud compel it to participate in all the
disturbances which come to European
nations, We demand an American
financial system, made by the Ameri-
can people for themselves, to be secur-
ed by the immediate restoration Of the
free and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver at the present legal ratio of l6 to
/ without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation.
The Republican administration has
admitted the gold standard to be un-
satisfactory by appointing conmls-
sion to solicit foreign aid in restoring
the double standard. and Repu5 u5lican
congress, even while trying to make the
gold standard permanent, has confess
ed judgement against the standard by
attempting to revive the dciusive hope
of International bimetallism.
Instead Of the system favored by the
Republican party, under which ma
tionsl banks are to be permitted to is
sue and control the volume of paper
money for their own profit, we reitler-
ate our demand for that financial sys-
TEN which recognizes the govern
ment's sovereign right. to issue all
money. We demand the retention Of
the greenbscks as they DOW exist and
the retirement Of national bank notes
as rapidly as greenbacks can be sub
s,ituted for them.
We believe that private monopolies
ere ipGefensible and intolerable, and
we condemn the national admluistra-
ton for its failurcto enforce the pres
ent law against the trusts Or to recon-
mend more effective law.
We favor State constitution which
will prohibit the organization Of a mo-
nopoly within the State and also pre-
vent aomnopoly organized elsewhere
from doing business within the State;
but We further believe that congress
should supplement the efforts Of the
State by legislation which will require
every corporation, before engaging in
interstate commerce, to show that 1t
has no water in its stock and that it
has neither attempted in the past nor
is attempting to monopolize any branch
Of business or the production Of and
articles Of merchandise.
In its platform oflS60 the Republican
party declared that the maintenance Of
the principles p.omu'' gated in the dec
laration Of independence and embodied
in the federal constitution viz: That
all men are created equal; that they
are endowed with inaIienable rights;
that governments are Instituted to
secure these rights, and that govern
ments derive their just powers from
the consent Of the goverred), is essen
tial to the preservation Of our repub-
licsn institutions, but the Republican
party, under its present leadership, is
endao gering the preservation Of re-
publican institutions by placing the
dollar above the man in the construc-
ton Of government, and by Violating
the principles that it once declared to
be essential.
We condemn the Puerto Rican tariG
bill recently passed By Republican
house Of representatives as bold and
open violation Of the nations organic
| Law and fragrant breach af good faith.
We assert that the constitution fol-
lows the flag and denounce the doc