Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-07
STRONG RESOLUTIONS
Adopted by the Democracy of Pleas
ants County, at st. Mary's, Satur-


day.
Special to the Register.
ST. MARYS, w. Va, May 6-The
following are the resolutions adopted
by the Democratic Convention of this
county, yesterday:
Your committee on resolutions beg
leave to submit the following:
Resolved, That we, the Democrats of
Peasants county, West Virginia, on
convention assembled, do hereby re-
affirm our faith and adherence to the
old time true principles of the Demo-
cratic government, as taught by Thos.
Jefferson and practiced by the Demo-
cratic party for the last one hundred
years, and do hereby reaffirm our adj
herence to those principles as enun-
ciated in the National Democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago in 1896.
We also declare ourselves in favor of
prompt and effective legislation against
the gigantic army. of trusts, which are
sapping the vitality of this republic
and changing our free democratic insti-
tutions into a plutocracy. We believe
that Our government is strong enough
to protect the weak from the rapaeity
of the strong, and when any govern
ment is unable to do so it ceases to be
free.
We condemn the imperialistic ten
denotes and policies of the Republican
party as exemplified and practiced by
the present national administration,
and now pledge ourselves to the sup
port and vindication of that principle
of our constitution and government
which declares that all governments
must derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed. We are OPP
posed to militarism and all of the
evils that inevitably grow out of the
policy of Imperialism, and believe that
the use of American soldiers fighting
under the stars and stripes to crush
the liberties out of a brave little people
struggling for independence, no matter
in what quarter of the globe, is sub
versive of the true principles of free
dom and equality upon which this gov
eminent is founded.
We denounce the weak, Vascillating
and subservient administration of Pres
ident Mckinley, and express our belief
that his policies are entirely controlled
by the powers of monopoly and money,
and that the only hope of the people of
this republic to be freed from such
domination is in the success of the
Democratic party.
We denounce the bill lately passed
by Congress creating a tariff on imports
from the island of Porto Rico as being
unconstitutional, dishonest and in vio-
lation of our plain agreement and COM
pact with the people Of that island.
We believe that wherever the American
flag goes, there the Constitution goes
hand in hand with it, and extends to
all people who find protection beneath
the folds of that flag the equal rights
guaranteed by that constitution.
We congratulate the Democracy of
the county, State and nation upon the
solidly united front which it presents
to the enemy in the coming campaign,
and we most heartily endorse the cam
didacy of that matchless leader of the
Democracy and exponent of the princi-
pies of free government, Col. William J.
Bryan, for the Presidency, and now in
struct the delegates here appointed to
represent Peasants county in the Point
Pleasant convention of May 16, 1900, to
cast their votes in said convention for
D. w. Reynolds, of Peasants county,
for a delegate to the National Demo-
cratic convention to be held in Kansas
City on July 4, 1900, and for only such
other persons for the other delegates
from this district as will pledge them
selves to cast their votes in the Kan
sas City convention for the renomina-
ton of Bryan and for the reaffirmation
of the Chicago platform in all of it's
parts, with needed additional planks
to meet new questions and conditions
which have arisen.
Resolved, That we endorse the can
didacy of our friend and neighbor,
Judge L. N. Tavenner, for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor OF
West Virginia, and now instruct our
delegates here selected to the State con-
vention to cast their votes for him.
We further demand that if nominated
for the said Office of Governor by the
Parkersburg convention, he do not re-
sign his office as judge of the Fifth
judicial circuit until after the Novem-
Der election.