The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-03-23

Convention Thought of No Other
Candidate.

Lincoln, Neb., March 19.-The demo-
cratic state convention was called to
order at SIS by James Dahlman, chair
man of the state democratic committee.
He announced that Thomas J. Nolan
had been elected as temporary chairman.
MIR. Nolan took the chair, and after be
ing presented to the convention, made a
short address. The temporary organiz-
alton was made permanent. The com
mittee on resolutions presented the fol
lowing report, which was adopted amid
great enthusiasm:
eve, the democrats of Nebraska, in
convention assembled do hereby reaffirm
and endorse in whole and in part, in
letter and in spirit, the platform adopt
ed by the democratic national conven-
ton, held in Chicago in 1896.
"We favor amendments to the federal
constitution, specially authorizing an
income tax and providing for the cleo
tiOn OF United States senators by di-
rect vote OF the people.
I'VE oppose government by iDjunc-
tiOn and the blacklist, and favor arbi-
tratiOn as a means of settling disputes
between corporations and their employees
1--WE observe with approval the sup
port given by democrats throughout
the country to the movement looking
toward the municipal ownership of
municipal franchises.
1--WE favor the principal of the initia-
tive and referendum, wherever it can be
applied.
"We are in favor OF liberal pensions to
deserving soldiers and to their depend
I ho n hn
sion rolls should not be arbitrarily
last national platform, that the fact of
enlistment and service should be deemed
conclusive evidence against disease and
disability before enlistment.
"We are in favor of the immediate
construction and fOrtifcatiOn of the
Nicaraguan canal by the United States.
1--WE condemn the Dingley tariff law as
a trust-breeding and extOrtion-inviting
measure, skilfuIIy devised for the pur-
pose OF giving to a few favors which
they do not deserve, and of placing up
on the many burdens which they should
not bear
"We welcome the opportunity offered
this year to take the federal government
out of the hands of the republican party,
which has abandoned American ideas
and American ideals, and at the com
mand OF corporate wealth has plotted
against the financial independence OF the
nation, has menaced the industrial indie
pendence of the individual, and now con-
templates the notification OF the DecIar-
alton Of American Independence,
''We pledge ourselves to wage an un-
Ceasing Warefare against all the trusts
the money trust, the industrial trust,
and the international land-grabbing
trust. Instead of system which would
chain our nation to the gold standard,
apd compel it to participate in disturb
| ances which come to Europe, we demand
an American financial system, made by
Americans for themselves, to be secured
| by the immediate restoration of the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and silver
and the present legal ratio of 16 to 1
without waiting for the aid or consent
Of any other nation.
"The republican administration has
admitted the gold standard to be IN
satisfactory, by appointing a commits
sion to solicit foreign aid in restoring
| the double standard; and a republican
congress, even while trying to make the
| SOlu udb COultS5eI
| Judgment against the standard by at
tempting to revive the delusive hope 0
international bimetalism.
Instead of the system favored by tht
republican party, under which natiOna
banks are to be permitted to issue anC
control the volume OF paper money foI
their own profit, we reiterate our de
mand for that financial system which
recognizes the governments sovereign
right to issue all money, whether coli
or paper; and we demand the retention
OF the greenbacks as they now exist. anC
the retirement of national bank note
as rapidly as greenbacks can be substi
tuted for them.
1--WE believe that private monopOlie
are indefensble and intolerable, and VI
condemn the national administration TO
its failure to enforce the present Law
against the trusts, or to recommend /
more effective law. We favor a stat
, constitution which will prohibit the OF
ganization OF a monopoly within tn
state, and also prevent monopoly OF