The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-05
INDIANA DEMOCRATS
HARMONIOUS CONVENTION HELD AT
INDIANAPOLIS.
Mr.. BRYAN'S NAME OMITTED.
No MENTION MADE OF KANSAS
CITY PLATFORM.

Place TO Inject His Name Into the
state Campaign-The Republican
Party Denounced for Its Surrender
to the Trusts, the DingleY Tariff
Condemned and the Governor OF
Indiana Attacked for Refusing the
RequisitiOn of the Governor OF
Kentucky.
Indianapolis, June 4.--For Secretary
of State Albert Schoonover of Attica.
For Attorney General-W. e. Still
well of Princeton.
For State Auditor-James r. Riggs
of Sullivan.
For State Treasurer-Jerome Herff
of Peru.
The above ticket. and a number of
candidates for minor offices were NOM
mated at the Democratic State Con-
vention, which was held here to-day.
The gathering was remarkable for its
lack of discord, candidates for all but
three of the offices being chosen by ac-
clamation. The E1ly contest on the
floor of the convention was for the Of
flee of Secretary of State.
While there was no fight in the con-
vention proper, there was a battle royal
in the meeting of the Committee on
Resolutions.
A number of friends of William ].
Bryan from the Second district, were
very earnestly in favor of the inser-
ton in the platform of a plank in
dorsing 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. Bry-
ans name into the state campaign.
The fight lasted well into the night,
and 1t was nearly noon to-day before
the report of the committee was ready
for presentation to the convention.
The Philippine plan also created
much discussion, the committee being
called upon to consider all sorts of
propositions in behalf of the Filipinos.
some of them being in favor of imme-
date and complete independence. 1t
was only after hours of argument that
the plank was agreed upon in the form
in which it appears in the platform.
A Trust Controlled Party.
The platform, as read by Chairman
Shively of the Committee on Resolu-
ton, is in part as follows
1--WE denounce the Republican party
for its surrender to and alliance with
the trusts, and we favor such legisla-
ton as will suppress and destroy all
trusts or combinations to control the
production and the price of commodi-
ties.
1--WE denounce the Dingley tariff law
as the breeder of trusts, and demand
that tariff duties shall be levied for the
purpose of revenue only and limited by
the needs of the government honestly
and economically administered
1--WE condemn the Republican party
for refusing to give the Interstate
Commerce Commission power to en-
force its decisions against discrimina
tions on the railroad rates, which dis
ordinations have been a potent cause
of the creation and maintenance of
trusts, and we demand that the COM
mission be given power to suppress
this evil''
Restoration of Merchant Marine.
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 sub
sidy bill recently passed by the Unit
ed States, with the assistance of SEN
ators from Indiana, as an Ubiquitous
appropriation of public funds for pri
waite purposes and a wasteful, illogi-.
cal and useless attempt to overcome
by subsidy the distractions raised by
Republican legislation to the growth
and development of American COM
merce on the seas; opposes the Fow-
Ter bank bills proposed bank concen-
tration and the formation of a great
banking trust; recognizes as an eco
nomic fact the increase of standard
money arising from the vast Increased
rro1tfrtfnn nf GOLD
and foreign mines, as demon
stratlon of the truth of the
cumulative theory of money;
condemns and denounces the Philippine
policy of the present administration.
1T has embroied the republic 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 eff
forts of our former allies to achieve
liberty and self7government. The Fill
pinos cannot be citizens without en-
dangering our form of government;
they cannot be subjects without imper-
ling our form of government; and, as
we are not willing to surrender our
civilization to convert the republic into
an empire we favor an imme-
date declaration of the nations
purpose to assist the Filipinos
to establish for themselves an indie
pendent government, protecting them
from outside interference and securing
to this country such commercial and
naval rights and advantages as would
be Just and fully and fairly protect
American interests"
1--WE hold in reverence the valor, pa
triotism and services of the soldiers and
sailors of the republic"
The platform further congratulates
the republic of Cuba upon its entering
into the family of nations, and deplores
the cruel and wanton destruction Of the
republics of South Africa; favors the
construction and control of an isthmian
canal; favors the election of United
States senators by popular vote: fav-
ors freedom of debate in the legislative
bodies of the state and nation; de-
plores the death of President Mckinley,
denounces anarchy in all its forms, and
declares that it should not be permit
ted to find an abiding place in this
country; indorses the course of Demo-
cratic representatives in Congress In
standing for economy In public expen-
diture. for just principles of govern
ment, and for the doctrines of the Dem
ocratic party.
Condemns Indinna's Governor.
The platform ends by condemning the
Governor OF Indiana for his violation
of the constitution, and the laws of the
United States, and the state of Indiana
in his refusal to honor the requisition
of the Governor of Kentucky upon req
ularly returned indictments for murder