Connecticut western news., 1900-06-21

caIIeo with the desire of ascertainIns how many contests would come befor, the committee, and it was found that 2 were to be heard. The most important contests are in the states of Texas. Lou isiana, Delaware and Tennessee. Nearly all of the other contests are confined tt district delegates.
 The Addicks delegation from Delaware was seated by the committee by a vote ol 3S to Q.
 The committee on resolutions had con siderable difficulty in agreeing upon s declaration of principles. All the mem bers practically agreed upon the senti meat to be expressed along the entir, line of subjects to be covered, but tn, difficulty was in finding common grounc of expression.
 The full committee placed the matte. in the hands of II of its members as s subcommittee. The subcommittee sal from o'clock until and then adjourned to meet at 12 o'clock.
 The Platform.
 The subcommittee resumed it's sitting at midnight and adjourned a few min utes after 2 o'clock. 1t concluded its draft of the financial plank, which is as follows:
 "We follow the path of safety. As VI. grow year by year more firmly estab lshed as a creditor nation the question concerns us less and other countries more.
 Through the policy of the Republic an party and the wisdom of a Republic an administration we have made stable and permanent our financial credit al home and abroad.
 We have left the Populistic Democra @haxv galvanize into life and compelled them tt seek to create new issues growing out ol a war which they were most eager te precipitate.
 '"We are unalterably opposed to tn. free coinage of silver unless by agree ment with the commercial nations of tho world.'
 The antitrust plank is in brief as fol lows:
 Whenever a Republican administra ton is in power there is constant talk O, trusts.
 "Aggregations and combinations of cap ital find their only encouragement il prosperous days and widening commerce
 Democratic administration in thi. country has invariably meant industria stagnation and commercial depression when capital seeks hiding place insteac of investment.
 'sThe Republican party has alway. maintained that any combination having for its purpose the cornering of a mar ket or the raising or controlling of the price of the necessaries of life was un lawful and should be punished.
 This intricate question we shall mee. in some efficient way and as party shal have the courage to protect every class O, our citizens"
 There was a declaration for a cana across the isthmus of Panama, but n, pronouncement for the Nicaragua or any other specific route.
 Following is the plank with referenc, to the Boers:
 "We sympathize with the people of tn, Transvaal Republic and approve the course of the president of the United States in rendering the mediation of this country in the struggle between the peo pie of that republic and the kingdom oi Great Britain, and we further express the hope that the contest may terminal. with honor to both the contending par ties"
 There is specific allusion to the acqui sition of the Philippine Islands and Por to Rico, and the course of the presiden, with reference to them as well as to oth CT incidents and results of the Spanish American war is approved.
 The present situation in China is re ferred to in paragraph suggesting 1t tc be the duty of the United States to pro tect the interests of its citizens wherev CT they may be-