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the close. when he mentioned the name Of
William ]. Bryan. The delegates shouted
and cheered again and again.
Chairman Rnfnes, Addrcxs

William j. Bryan. The delegates shouted
and cheered again and again.
Chairman Rnines' Address.
Mr. Raines said in part:
This assembly represents the ideal of
popular deliberate bodies in our system of
government. The acts of the convention
of our opponents were heralded several
months before it's session and were per-
functory assent to the DEGREES of a chief
whose malign influence in State politics
is the paramount issue OF the local can
vass in our State. The martial voice of
Roosevelt, the rhetoric OF Black. the
CHEEKY and dulcet tones of the witty De-
pew. simulated we'll the voice of Jacob but
it was the hairy hand of the hunter of
spoils, Esau Piatt, which was outstretch-
ed for the birthright of sovereignty. Here
has been controversy which BELTS free
men. Here is the wisdom OF conference
and concession for harmony.
The chief financial issue of the hour is
the sitting of competitive conditions Of
business by aggregations of corporate capi-
tai in trusts. Producers and consumers are
alike robbed and markets, mo-
nopolized, vary from hour to
hour as the pendulum swings.
Today an infant industry of which the ma
tion is too tender is strangled by a reduc-
tion Of prices II cannot endure. Tomorrow
the trust recoups its loss from the people
by lifting prices beyond the former level.
'All business that can be monopoiized is
learning the trick, and the evil eats like a
cancer into the vitals of labor and honest
industry. Like the department store, the
trust sweeps out of trade small dealers
and robs the general public with a free
hand. Trusts smile upon the politicians
and purchase them. They reach for legis-
lative bodies and the silent machine de-
livers laws. They ask security against
penal laws and their judges are nomi-
mated. They ask their reward in a national
election for their campaign contributions;
their candidate for Governor is chosen and
their good friend. Mr.. Mckinley. is again
placed between them and the popular
wrath"
The remainder Of Mr.. Raines' address
was devoted to Imperialism. OF this he
said in part:
I'VE are told by our opponents that after
1oQ~years We have now become a world
power with responsibilities and duties as
such, that we have now become a civilizing
force and must assimiliate the Philippines
to our system by force IL need be.
Our attention perforce is drawn to the
discovery by this Administration of the
wonderful fact that We are suddenly. by
hiring our guns, world power and on trial
before the nations as such and to be rele-
gated to Oblivion if We do not subjugate
the Philippines.
The Glory of America.
Have we been, then. no world power in
the past hundred years, in the wild
est use of the term? Did not the nations
respect cur definition OF their rights in
South America as declared by Monroe?
Did we not vindicate our seamens rights
in 1872? Did not our flag foat above the
City of Mexico in triumph Has any dun
geon in Europe held an American citizen
after his release was demanded by cur
Government? Did our Government ever
fail to secure the rights of its citizens to
reparation or wrongs. whether of prop
erty or person2 Did we show the world
the vastness of our military reserves in
the blazing camp fires of two millions of
soldiery scattered from the James along
the Cumberland and down the Mississippi?
I'VE have been faithful for leo years TO
a propaganda of our idea OF self-govern-
ment by peaceful means and thereby it has
been powerful and successful 1t rocked
Europe in the arms of revolutions for halt
a century until parliamentary government
became more than a name
TO this land, as world power, where
the right of seif-government was then be-
1ieyed to be the gospel of civil right,
Rossuth came and he was welcomed fet-
on his lips he would be stoned in the Capt.
tol as an emisssry of Aguinaido.
Into the twentieth century under the
Administration which renews the traditions
of our past with free hearts and undirnmed
hope the nation viii advance blessing
the rane Of William J. Bryan, who with
US is the heir of the Republic and shares
its hopes and promises
At the conclusion of Chairman Raines'
address the platform was read and
adopted. 1t is as follows:
The Democratic party of the State of/New
York, in convention assembled, declares as fol-
lows:
We pledge ourselves anew to the principles AID
policies of Jefersonian Democracy and endorse
the platform adopted by the last Democratic Ma
tionai Convention.
We recognize the truth of the declaration of
that convention that the burning issue OF i'm
perislisIn, growing out OF the Spanish war in
wolves the very eNis-eRce OF the Republic and
the destruction OF CIR free institutions We re-
gard ii as the paramount issue Of the campaign
Upon this issue, therefore, We invite all cit-
izens OF our State TO promote the election OF a
Democratic President. however they may differ
upon national issues which at this time are in
ferior in rank In the prrssnce OF this nlomen-
tous peril 10 land and to the cause Of dem
ocrstic and industrial seli-goyernmenr we are |
confident that the patriotic citizens Of this STATE
faithful to the principles OF the Declaration Of
Independence, Will not permit themselves TO be
divided upon any difference of belief iudg-
ment as TO any other question Of governmental
policy. The issue now paramount includes the
question of the perversion of the power OF GOV
ernnent the exclusive benefit Of favored classes
Of the substitution OF government by syndicate
for government Of. by, and for the people And
in this connection we wish TO impress uuon all
the following declaration of last State con-
vention:
The ImperiaIistic Policy.
eve are opposed to that foreign policy Of the
present National Administration commonly known
as imperialism. =Aich contemplstes schemes
of conquest and the establishment Of colonial GOV
eminent in accordance with British theories and
practices; demands large standing armies for the
purposes OF Eubiugstion: impoverishes the people
with vast public expenditures, creates hordes al
officials 70 rule people who shouid he per
Initted to rule themselves; dsregaTds the princ-
pies of the Declaration OF Independence and ma |
terislly changes the nature Of our republican
form of government We maintain that the Con
stitution follows the flag every integral part
of the United States, sfording TO its inhabitants
the protection and benefits Of its guarantees of
life. liberty. habess corpus, freedom OF speech
freedom Of the press. trial by jury, and uniform
tariff laws. Congress has no more right TO estab-
lish govern territorial colonial sFstem out
side OF the Constitutiou than il has to create a
king, We demand that every part Of our posses
siens ss1il be governed according to American
preceoeBts and American principles"
We r2tify and endorse TIE nomination for the
Presidency Of William j. Bryan, Statesman Of
undoubted patriotism and independence enioyiny
IN marked degree the confidence of his fellow
citizens, honest, able. and fearless champion
Of popular rights and aspirations. in whose hands
the business interests OF the country and The in
dlIstriAl clements Of our citizenship would Rnd |
equal and ample protection.
The lee Trust.
We condemn the corporate combination known !
as the Ice Trust and denounce all combinations
Of capital known trusts, inevitably and |