The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-06
TRUSTS AND THE TARIFF
Legislation That Will Destroy the
Former is Favored.
TARIFF FOR REVENUE oNLYIs DEMANDED
The FLIP nos Should be Assured at Once That
We VIII Assist THIN in The Es:ab-
ishment Of an lndept ndant
Government
(By the Associated Prcss.)


(By the Associated Press.)
Indianapolis, Ind, June 4.-SecretarX
of State, Albert Scoonover, of Attica.
Attorney General. w. E. Stilwell of
Princeton.
State Auditor. James r. Riggs. of Sui
Ivan.
State Treasurer, Jerome Herff, of Peru.
The above ticket and number of can
didates for minor officers were nominated
at the Democratic State Convention,
which was held here today. The conven-
tion was remarkable for it's lack of dis
cord, candidates for all but three of the
offices being chosen by reclamation. The
only contest on the floor of the conven-
ton was for the office OF Secretary OF
State.
While there was no fight in the conven-
ticn proper, there was a battle royal in
the meeting of the Committee on Reso-
buttons. number of the friends of
William ]. Bryan, from the second dis
trict, were very earnestly in favor Of
the Insertion in the platform of plank
endorsing him and the Kansas City plat
form. The majority of the committee was
against any such endorsement, saying
they considered it out of place at the
present time to inject Mr.. Bryan's name
into the State campaign. The fight lasted
well into the night and it was nearly noon
today before the report CT the committee
was ready for presentation TO the con-
vention.
The Philippine plank also created
much discussion, the committee being
called upon to consider all sorts of prop
ositions in behalf of the Filipinos, some
of them being in favor of immediate and
complete independence 1t was only af-
ter hours of the argument that the plank
was agreed upon in the form In which it
appears in the platform.
The platform as read by Chairman
Shively, of the Committee on Resolu-
tions is as follows:
I'VE denounce the Republican party
for its surrender to and alliance with
the trusts and we favor such Legislation
as will suppress and destroy all trusts
or combinations to control tine produc-
ton and the price of commodities.
I'VE denounce the Dinghy tariff law
as the breeder of trusts and demand that
tariff duties shall be levied for the pur-
pose of revenue and demand that tariff
duties shall be levied for the purpose
of revenue only, ard limited by the
needs of )ine government honestly and
economically administered.
I'VE condemn the Republican party for
refusing to give the Interstate Com
merce Commission power to enforce its
decisions against determinations in rail-
road rates, which determinations have
been a potent cause of the creation and
maintenance of trusts and we demand
that the commission be given power to
suppress this evil"
Continuing the platform favors the
restoration and expansion of our mer-
chant marine and to this end demands
the reformation of our navigation and
tariff laws; denounces the Ship Subsidy
Bill recently passed by the United
States Senate, with the assistance OF
Senators from Indiana. as an iniquitous
appropriation of public funds for private
purposes and a wasteful illogical and
useless attempt to overcome by subsidy
the Instructions raised by Republican
legislation to the growth and develop
ment of American commerce on the
seas" opposes the Fowler Bank Bill,
proposed banking concentration, and the
formation of great banking trust;
recognizes as an economic fact the in
crease of standard money arising from
the vastly increased production of gold
from our own and foreign mines, as
demonstration of the truth of the guam
titive theory of money; condemns and
denounces 1.-The Philippine policy of the
present administration. 1t has embroilled
the Republican party in an unnecessary
war, sacrificed the lives of many of it's
noblest sons and placed the United
States. previously known and applauded
throughout the world as the champion of
freedom, in the false and un-American
position OF crushing with military force
the efforts of our former allies to
achieve liberty and self-government. The
Fiiipinos cannot be citizens without en-
dangering our civilization; they cannot
be subjects without imperilling our form
OF government; and as we are not willing
to surrender our civilization to convert
the republic into ar empire, we favor an
immediate declaration of the nations pur-
pose to assist the Filipinos to establish
for themselves an independent govern
ment. protecting them from outside in
reference and securing to this country
such commercial and naval rights and
advantages as would be Just and fully
and fairly protect American interests.
I'VE hold in reverence the valor.
patriotism and services of the soldiers
and sailors of the republic"
The platform further congratulates the
Republic of Cuba upon it's entering into
the family of nations and deplores the
cruel and wanton destruction of the re-
public of South Africa: favors the con-
struction and control of an Isthmian
canal; favors the election of United
States Senators by popular vote; favors
freedom of debate to the legislative
bodies of the State and nation; deplores
the death of President Mckinley; de-
nounces anarchy in all its forms and de-
clares that 1t should not be permitted
to ind an abiding place in this coun-