Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-11
DEMOCRATS OF OHIO
MAKE DECL LARATION
Platform Agreed Upon by the
State Convention.
A DEMOCRATIC DOCUMENT

tton Made of Bryan-General Rever-
sal of Old Methods Was Followed.
COLUMBUS. O., July 10-The Demo.
cratic state convention started here to-
day under peculiar circumstances. All
the more conservative elements had
combined in the preliminaries against
the friends of Mayor Tom l. Johnson,
but the com bination was not maintained
after the committees were selected, and
during the all-night session of the COM
mittee on resolutions it was claimed
that Mclean and Kilbourne men were
no longer cooperating against the prop.
ositions of the Johnson men on the
platform and organization.
The contest was in the committee on
resolutions, on both national and state
issues.
HonOrs Were Even.
The Johnson men won on their favor
ite views on state matters and the 9TH
ers on national issues.
There is no reaffirmation of the Kan
sas City or any other platform. There
is no mention of previous platforms or
Of Bryan. The subcommittee of seven
that drafted the platform stood to in
favor Of the conservatives, but the full
committee rejected both the majority
and the minority reports and then
picked out such parts of each as were
voted in section by section. The full
committee did not stand the same on all
sections or planks.
The three planks of the Johnson men,
on the franchises, steam and electric
railroads and corporation taxation, were
adopted as amendments to the majority
report of the subcommittee, and then
the resolutions as amended were adopt.
ed, so that the minority report of the
subcommittee practically became the
majority report of the full committee,
and things were generally reversed from
what had previously been the course of
the convention.
Unusual Agitation.
Previous to the assembling of the
convention today there was unusual ag-
itation among the delegates.
O. 2. Sales, a member of Mayor John
sons cabinet at Cleveland, had been
continued as permanent chairman, and
the friends of Johnson had secured the
taxation resolutions that were wanted.
There was much talk about the Xii.
bourne and Mclean men having differ
ences, but it became evident later ON
that the johnson men had won on the
taxation issues without any other
changes.
The convention was not called to or.
der till about IL o'clock by Chairman
Ep4Y7,0
Rev. John Hewitt.
Hon. O. P. Sales was greeted with an
ovation, being introduced as temporary
chairman.
The report of the oommitte on resolu.
tions, adopted by the convention, was
as follows:
Principles and Policies.
The Democrats of Ohio reaffim their
belief in the equality of taxation and
other public burdens; their advocacy of
equal rights of all people with special
privileges TO none; their hostility to the
monopolization of industry, with it's
tendency on the one hand to crush out
individual enterprise and on the other
to promote a socialistic spirit among the
people as the only refuge from opposi-
tion; and their faith i'll that theory and
practice of constitutional government
which brought the nation into existence
and have preserved it to the present
generation. For the promotion of those
objects the Democratic party of Ohio
makes declaration of principles and pol
icies.
Municipal Governments.
The government of municipalities of
the state should be radically reformed
and wise general laws be enacted to COR
rect abuses and prevent their recur-
renee.
The Republican majority of the gen.
eral assembly deserves the condemna-
ton of the people for it's reckless ex-
travagances and the creation of useless
offices, while it enacted no legislation
for the benefit of the people. The pres.
ent Republican administration, in the
conduct of public affairs and in the
management of public institutions, has
been the most costly in the history of
the state Its benevolent and penal in
stitutions should be conducted upon
nonpartisan and business basis.
The acceptance of passes or favors
from railroads by public officers or EN-.
ployes shall be made adequate ground
for vacating the offices held by them.
az. IL kS,e1GfIms
Tariff reform, never more urgently
demanded than now, when the pxoduc-
ton of the company so far exceeds it's
power of consumption for the foreign
markets, is a prime condition of its con.
tinued property, and when the existence
and abuses of trusts have been brought
about by the policy of protection of
favored industries. The abolition of
the so called protective system and the
substitution in its place of the tradi-
tional Democratic policy of tariff for
revenue so levied as not to burden one
industry for the benefit of another.
Imperialism and Expansion.
The powers granted the federal gov
ernment were not meant to be used to
conquer and hold in subsection the peo.
pie of other countries. Their use for
such purposes not only bellies our de-
claration of the rights of men, but also
unbalances our system by its increasing
the centrallzation of power at Wash
ington, to the ultimate overthrow of
| home rule.
A Great Danger.
One great danger which now threat
| ems our free institutions is the wide.
spread corruption which menaces the
destruction of public virtue. Vast sums
of money are corruptly employed in
popular elections; official defalcations
are so frequent as TO scarcely excite at
| tention, ana political bosses rule and
rob the people, all Of which is a direct
result OF Republican polices and legisla-
ton.
We demand that all official miscon-