Evening star., 1902-09-03
GIVESolHB REASONS
KANSAS arY' PLATFORM THE
PARTIES POLICY.
Also Declares That the Money Cues
ton Has Not Been Definite
ly Settled.

this summer resort shortly after 10 o'clock.
The decorations we're elaborate and the
attendance was large. The pavilion stands
directly on the beach of Sandusky bay, one
side of 1t overlooking the water. so that
the audience was famed by the lake
breezes. ~..-
The weather was, ideal and no large
crowd could have been more comfortably
situated. ,,!
Previous to the convention assembling
the first congressional district delegation
settled its contest by making Lewis G. Ber-
nard state committeeman instead of Pres
colt Smith.
There was another fight today in the
meeting of the twelfth district, where the
vote for state committeeman resulted in 20
for Fred J. Heer and 20 for c. c. Philbrick,
and the vote contest was left to be settled
by the state committee and later 1t decided
in favor of Heer.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson was escorted
across the bay from Sandusky to Cedar
Point by large party of friends and re-
ceived a great ovation on landing at the
beach and as he proceeded up the great
board walk to the pavilion, where ms ap-
pearance caused a great demonstration.
Tom L. Johnson's Speech.
The principles of democracy. always old,
but never obsolete, confront us today, both
One of these national questions relates
10 trusts. For this evil our adversaries ad-
wise publicity as the remedy. Publicity!
That might protect investors against fraud:
but how could it protect the public against
monopoly, which Is the basis of trusts?
Men whose incomes have Increased but lit
tie. or not at all. but whose living expenses
have increased enormously-why should
they care for publicity? What is needed is
not examinations of the account books Of
the trusts; it is the sweeping of monopolies
from the statute books Of the people.
The money question also Is national. And
let me tell you this Is no dead issue. as some
would have us believe Dead though it may
be in one form. 1t is alive in other and more
radical forms. So long Wall street in-
terests dictate our financial policies the
money question cannot die. You know that
l have never accepted the doctrine COM
monty known as '16 to L. I have worked
with those who doiaccept it because 1 have
believed, as believe yet, that the free sill
yer fight was, thesf1rst great protest Of the
American people, against monopoly-the
first great struggle here of the masses
against the privileged classes. 1t was not
free silver that frightened the plutocratic
leaders. What they feared was free men.
Question of Self lf-Government.
We have in national politics also the vital
question of self-government. Shall we
continue to govern distant colonies from
Washington, as distant provinces were gov
erned by imherial Rome before her fall.
and as crown scolonies are governed by the
British empire totRiy? That question also
is at bottom monopoly question. There
would be NO subject colonies if colonies
could give no morIopoly franchises.
But national questions are not for us to
deal with in this state convention. Great
as is Ohio in territory and population and
wealth, important as she is il tie sister
hood of states, influential as her democracy
is capable of being in the counsels of the
national party, she is not great enough. nor
important enough, nor is her democracy
influential enough, to warrant this conven-
ton debating national policies or remod-
cling national platforms. We have not been
elected for that purpose. The function of
revising national platforms belongs with
conventions chosen for national purposes.
Our function so far as national questions
are concerned, begins and ends with an
unmistakable identification of the democrat
ic party of Ohio, with the democratic party
OF the republic. That can be done in good
faith only by acknowledging the authority
OF the latest national expression Of party
doctrine or national questions. In my tudg-
ment, therefore, this convention ought to
recognize the Kansas city platform. 1t
ought also to pay the tribute of its respect
to the great democrat who has in two ma
tional campaigns brilliantly led us against
the republican party and it's allied hosts Of
non-partisan mOnopolists.
Following is the platform which was
adopted:
Bryan Platform Adopted.
In state convention assembled we, the
democrats Of Ohio, hereby acknowledge and
declare our continued allegiance to the
democratic parry Of the nation and on ma
tional issues reaffirrn and indorse the prin-
a{,>Io
form adopted at Kansas City and faith
fully and ably represented in the presI-
Dental campaign of 1900 by William Jen-
nings Bryan. Regarding those principles
as opposed to Imperialism and colonialism,
as opposed to government by injunction, as
opposed to trusts and trust-fostering tariffs
as opposed to financial me nopoly and as
opposed to all other legalized monopolies
and privileges, we condemn every effort to
repudiate or ignore them.
In state and municipal affairs we pledge
our party to faithful application of those
democratic principles. to the end that the
burdens of taxation may be equalized and
home rule and local self-government be es-
tablished and preserved.
Poor Bear the Burdens.
Under the long-continued control of the
republican party in this state monopoly
has been fostered and protected; the farmer
and the small home owner have been
burdened with excessive taxes that the
benefciaries and favorites of that party
might be permitted to escape their just
share of the public burdens: our public In
stitutions haye been wastefuly and in
efficiently managed and in them scanda-
lous and cruea wrongs have been practiced
upon the defenseftss wards Of the state:
the farmerF andlssman shippers continue
to suffer from uruast discrimination at the
hands of urteguIated monopoly: the entire
system of Municipal government has been
wrecked and the credit of cities destroyed,
thereby producing a spirit. of Insecurity and
unrest in alhsublc affairs
The people can no longer trust the ad-
ministration iof their affairs to a party thus
recklessly devoteH to interests adverse to
the public Bteifane AS more specific
statement Of our principles upon these and
other public questions we declare:
Statement Of Principles.
1. That ali taMabe property should be
1v eSSeSsipp hoards 1,,b;ot,