The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-23
join THE CROWD.
Democrats Gather to Select
Their Delegates
To National Convention at Kan
sas City in July.
THE SLATE FIXED UP.
Resolutions Favor Silver and
Oppose Imperialism.
Instructions For Bryan With
Joyful Harmony.
THE SLATE FIXED UP.

wichita, May 23.-The Democratic
convention to select delegates to the
national convention at Kansas City met
here this morning with Senator Hugh
Farrelly as chairman and W. h Pep
perel as secretary.
The slate agreed upon is:
At LARGE G. oJhnson, David over
myer, John II. Atwood. DR.. G. ". BsIl- Bran
denburg, Harry Stewart OF SeugWIch
and ]. n. Fike of Colby.
First district-Dr. s. f. Neely, LeaV-
enworth; w. w. LetsOn. Brown.
Second district-W- H.Dan1els, Wyan-
dotte; Ancil F. Hatton. Anderson; John
Davis, Bourbon; L. D. White, Miami; J.
J.. Pettijohn, Johnson; William Robin
son, Douglas
Third district-J. Park Jones. Wilson;
w. p. Eddy, Labette; A. Newton, Mont
gomery; J.. D. Hurbocker, Crawford
Fourth district-R. H. Hazlett, But
Ter: DR. A j. Eastman, COffey; William
Fashay, Usage; Charles Skene, Potta-
watomie; A. Urbanslzy, POttawatomie.
Firth district-JOhn F. PendergasT,
Dickinson; n. F. Graham, Washington.
Sixth district-John Schuyler, Ellis;
w. f. Saum, Ellis; J. Q. Adams, Rocks:
r. r. Harrison, Smith; NJ. w. MikeseL,
12awlins: S. c. Smith, Jewell.
Seventh district-F. J. Oyler, Ford;
Frank Gordon, Barber; r. Z. Steele,
Meade; Ed Finney, Finney; DR.. ]. G.
Wilson. Harper.
L ne QHte8aIES are instructed 10 sup
port Mr. Bryan and the following reso-
lutiOnS were passed:
THE PLATFORM.
We, the Democrats of Kansas, in del
egate convention assembled, hereby re-
new our allegiance to those immortal
principles of human rights enunciated
by jefferson, defended by Jackson and
in their latest and best form incor-
pOrated in the Democratic national
platform of 1896.
We announce our unqualified approval
of every principle embodied in that
platform and here reiterate the doctrine
therein announced, that the American
people should have a distinctively Am
erican system of finance, which, like our
other governmental functions, should
be forever free from foreign entangle-
ment, domination, or influence That
congress alone has the power to coin
end issue money and has no right to
surrender to the national banks the
peoples prerOgative to control the vol
ume Of the currency; that we are op-
posed to gold mOnOmetallism as a Brit
tsh policy, un-American and anti-Amer-
lean and that we favor the immediate
restoration of bimetallism as it existed
in our financial system prior to the
decentralization act Of 1878.
We believe in theory OfvOluntary self
government upon which this republic
was founded and as a shining example
of which it has Influenced the world
for a century. We want no mOdifica-
tiOn Of that theory by imperialistic con-
StructiOn- We want neither foreign sub
jects nor citizens, nor imperialistiC
colonial governments, knowing that nC
country can endure an empire abroad
and a republic at home. We adhere tC
the spirit Of the Monroe doctrine anC
the warnings of the fathers against en-
tangling foreign alliances and World
politics. We insist that we can not
make citizens of millions of Malays
without cOrrupting our citizenship, mol
can we hold them subjects without de
strOytng our form of government. We
are against militarism, with its costly
and corrupting standing armies, a bur
den to the tax payers, the fOreFunner o.
compulsory military service and con.
scriDtiOn and the unfailing instrument
in the overthrow of every republic il
history.
The continued ascendancy of the Re
publican party has secretly and stealth
lily aided every scheme by which Euro
pean bondholders and their American
allies have manipulated the financia
policy Of this country in their interest
and against the interests of the people
1t has allowed manufacturers to take
part of the earnings of consumer
through a protective tariff system, un
til they have grown into giant trust
that defy the law and organize by tn
hundreds without molestation, or pro
test from the present administration
We demand relief from this odious tarit
system by the enforcement of the fed
eral laws against trusts, by THROWN
open to foreign competition throug
the enlargement of the free list, ever
business managed by a trust and b
the enactment and rigid enfOrcemer
of drastic antitrust laws in Kansas.