The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-07
DEMOCRATS NAME DoCKERY.
MISSOURI CONVENTION PUTS OUT
FULL. STATE TICKET.

Anti-Machine Element Won in the
Contests From ST. Louis and Kan
sas City-ChicagO Platform In
dorsed and the Delegation TO
Kansas City Instructed for Bryan.
Platform Denounces Trusts and
Imperialism.
Kansas City. June 6,-The Democrats
of Missouri to-day nominated the follow
ing ticket:
For OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NJ. Dockery of
Calm.
Lieutenant Governor--John A Lee, of
st. Louis.
Secretary of States. B. Cook of Mex
leo. -
State Auditor-Albert o. Allen of New
Madrid.
Attorney General-E. C. Crow of Webb
City.
State Treasurer-R. P. Williams of
Fayette.
Railway and Warehouse Commissioners
Joseph Harrington of jefferson City.
Presidential Electors at Large-James A.
Reed of Kansas City, and William A.
Rothwell of Moberley.
The Democrats of Missouri, in State
Convention. adopted platform, and
named full state ticket. They were in
session continuously from $50 in the morn
ing. until $50 in the evening" declining
to take a recess until their work had been
completed,
The report of the Credentials Commit
Tee on the contests in the St Louis and
Kansas for
the anti-machine element. When the Res
buttons Committee presented it's report,
there was fight 20 strike out the in
dorsement of Gov. Stephens. 1t lasted for
put minute or two and the report was
adopted amid much enthusiasm.
The platform reaffirms allegiance TO the
Chicago platform of 1896, particularly
specifying "16 to l." indorses Bryan, de-
nounces trusts and declares emphatically
against imperialism"
Hon. William S. Cowherd was made
permanent chairman and later nominat-
ed A. M. Dockery, ex-congressman of the
Third district for Governor.
Mr.. Dockery was the only candidate
for that office, and he was nominated by
reclamation.
The Missouri Platform.
The platform. unanimously adopted. re-
afffrms and indorses the Democratic ma
tional platform adopted at Chicago in 1895
declaring for the free and unlimited coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 4; de-
nounces as unwise and dangerous in the
extreme the single gold standard bank act
of the present session of Congress. which
places the control of paper circulating
medium in the hands of the national bank
corporations; denounces as one of the most
trying evils of the day the present ten
dency toward monopoly and trusts and
arraigns the Republican party as guilty
of the grossest hypocrisy in
the treatment of this question,
in that, being in f-'ascendency in
Congress, it has steadfastly,a refused TO
pass any of the legislation which has
been proposed to curb the power of trusts;
reiterates adhesion to the Monroe doc
trfne; insists hhat the government restore
Cuba to the Cubans at the earliest mo-
ment possible; favors the construction of
the Nicaragua canal; the zupbuilding of
the merchant marlne extends earnest
sympathy to the people of the Boer re-
publics, and continues:
with renewed faith in the ability pa
triotism and courage of the Hon. W. j.
Bryan, believing him TO be the greatest
exponent of the principles for which the
Democratic party stands, and satisfied
that power would not dazzle nor wealth
blind him to the duties which he owes the
people" instructs delegates for Bryan.