The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-12
WISCONSIN DEMOCRATS
Meet in State Convention to Select
Delegates to Kansas City.


Milwaukee, Wis. June 12-The Dem
oeratic state convention TO elect four
delegates at large and to ratify the Sc
lection Of twenty district delegates to
the national convention at Kansas City
was called to order at the AIhambra
theater at IL o'clock today BY George
". Peck. chairman of the state central
committee The convention is made up
OF 662 delegates. Judge J. H MCCLELLAN
Of Green Bay was made temporary
chairman He spoke in part as fol-
lows.
we have assembled today for the
purpose Of choosing delegates to the na-
tlonal convention at Kansas City, when
a man will be chosen who will succeed
VIM. Mckinley as president of the
United States on March f. 1901.
The platform they adopt may not
be the same as that adopted by the
Democratic party in Chicago in 1885.
but the difference between the two will
be small. and am satisfied that stand
ing on that platform, fighting as Wig
oroUSly and earnestly as in 1896, VIM.
J. Bryan will be the man whom the
Democratic party will crown as the
leader Of men in the United States.
7 believe that the opportunity of
Democracy has arrived The RepubH
can party and the present administra-
ton have given this government four
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promises; they may talk TO you OF pros
perity, but we must admit that it is the
prosperity OF wealth and not the pros
perity of labor.
Look where we may, we see the Ia
boring man engaged in a life and death
struggle with capital for an existence.
Regarding trusts the Democratic ma
tiOnal convention at Kansas City viii,
I doubt not, adopt platform for the
regulation of trusts The cry of the
Ia has hoe h.5s7 RI
The formation Of these gigantic
trusts has resulted in the throwing out
OF employment of thousands and thou
sands Of deserving men, taking from
families and loved ones of these labor
ing men their only means of subsist-
cnce.
-.Under the Republican administra-
ton these trusts have been fOstered
from infancy and now have the Ieepub-
llgsn party by the throat by their cam
paiRn contributions and otherwise to
such ar extent that the Republican
party hnds it impossible to exist with
out them.
The greatest part of the Republican
party contributions come from the
trusts Of the country, who in turn cover
the amounts back into their own treas
Hries by the reduction of the wages of
laboring men they have coerced into
voting the Republican ticket"
He then attacked the national admin
iStraIion for the course pursued in the
enactment OF the Porto Rican tariff
bill The administration was also criti-
6ised on its Cuban policy in deluging
/ that island with "a horde of office
seeking carpetbaggers The speaker
| continuing said:
We are seeing the flower of Ameri-
! can manhood sacrificed again to thai
| spirit OF imperialism. Tt IS for the Re
/ publican party to proclaim for what
| purpose we are now waging war in tbs
! Philippine islands. If we are honest
/ in our purpose simply TO restore peace
/ and then to contribute a government fol
! these people the war could easily be
/ erded by publicly declaring our inteE-
/ ton to be such, but backed as it is by
/ the grasping money power and the Re
publican party. our government vii
! make TO declaration until that element
sees TT to allow it. The Democratic
national convention will declare agains
| these evils
He closed with a plea for harmony il
| carrying out the work of the conven
! ton.
At the conclusion of Temporary
/ Chairman AfcGiIlan's speech. commit
tees on credentials and permanent or
| ganization were appointed and a recess
| was taken