Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-26
STILL TRUE TO POLL
Nebraska Reaffirms Kansas
City Platform.
FUSION STILL GOES
DEMOCRAT FOR JUDGE; TWO
PoPULIsTs FOR REGENTS.
Chairman Says Bryan Will Not Be
Candidate and Convention De-
nounces A1drich Bill.
FUSION STILL GOES


nounces Aldrich Bill.
COLUMBUS. Neb.. August 26-The dem
ocratic state convention closed Its labors at
q late hour last night It reaffrmed the
Chicago platform and named a ticket iden-
teal with that Of the populists.
Temporary Chairman's Speech.
In his opening address George L. Loomis.
temporary chairman, said: I'm democracy
the Individual man stands first and fore
most. and his rights and interests are the
matter Of supreme consideration. No one
must think from this, however, that there
Is any design or purpose in democracy In
imical to capital, for such Is not the case.
The true spirit Of democracy urges every
one to save and accumulate by all honor
able means. and rejoices in the success and
prosperity of all men. 1t Is only when CAPT.
tai seeks to evade its just share Of the bur-
dens Of government, or when its owners
undertake to use the power it gives them
to injure and Cypress others, or to stife
competition. or to gain by illegal or ques-
tionable means some ineQuitable advantage
over the less fortunate. that the voice Of
democracy Is raised in protest.
Capital and Labor Co-Dependent.
mo one can regret more than we the al
most ceaseless conflict going on between
capital and labor. for we recognize the fact
that each is dependent on the other for its
highest prosperity and good. Capital with
out labor to use 1t Is unproductive and all
but useless: while labor without capital to
employ 1t Is idle. hungry and clothed in
rags. Neither can be to any extent profit
able or productive without the other. To
an }Y,1yv OF 10 he
other: to attempt to seriously cripple either
would be an objectionable folly. The two
should be the stanchest Of friends. and
would be If the right spirit prevailed on
both sides.
Voluntary Arbitration.
But, while human nature is so consti-
tuted that men will disagree. and are I'M
able many times to settle their differences
between themselves, and the disagreements
between capital and labor are fraught with
much hardship and injury to BOTH and
often to the people of the whole country,
some means of adjusting such differences
Is of vital Importance. We. therefore, favor
voluntary arbitration as the means best
intended to bring about fair settlement
Of all differences between the two without
injustice to either.
"Bryan Defeated, but Not Conquered"
1--WE are now on the eve of another
national campaign. Within year the con-
ventions will be held and the parties will
place in nomination their candidates for
the offices of President and Vice President
of the United States He who has been our
leader In the last two campaigns and has
borne aloft the standard of democracy with
an energy and ability that has no parallel
In the annals of this or any other country
and Of whom it can be truthfully said as
Of Hannibal, Defeated, but not conquered
Ia not again to he candidate al 11S
see to 1t then, as loyal democrats, that his
mantle falls not on one unworthy to wear
It
Want Consistent Candidate.
There are many able and consistent
democrats who have shown themselves en-.
titled to the confidence of the party and
the people, and under the leadership Of
one of them the next battle will be fought
May 1t be one in whose election the true
principles of democracy will triumph. and
in whose keeping the rights Of the people
and the great principles Of our government
will be safe from all manner of assault,
whether open or insidious.
Predicts Victory.
Conditions are fast ripening for grand
national victory. The party in power. evil
IDENTIFY mistaking its success in the past
few elections to mean an irreyecable. vote
of confidence on the part of the people,
has become arrogant and corrupt, utterly
regardless of personal rights, openly ae-
fiant Of all law that stands In the way Of
party purposes. and shown itself unworthy
to be longer entrusted with power. In its
government of the Philippines 1t has re-
fused to extend to that people the protec-
ton of the Constitution. has denied the
most sacred truths of the Declaration of
Independence, suppressed the bill Of rights
and founded q government based on the
un-American idea that the people have no
natural rights, and only such civil rights
as are granted by acts of Congress or be-
slowed by grace of republican officials.
Republicans Shameless Allies Of Trusts
Its open and shameless alliance, Of
fensive and defensive, with trusts and
monopolies, from which 1t receives and ex-
poets to receive large financial contribu-
lions; it's determination not to permit the
modification Of a single provision of the
present Ubiquitous tariff law that would
bring relief to the people at the expense of
some favorted trust or monopoly; its now
apparent design to fasten upon the country
an asset currency for the benefit Of the ma
tional banks, and the encouragement of
wildcat speculation, and its many other
sins of commission and omission. have set
the people to thinking, and they are think
ing pretty hard; and they are getting ready,
when the time comes. to administer re-
buke that will be as efficient as 1t is de-
served"
Candidates Nominated.
John J. Sullivan (democrat) was renomi-
mated for supreme Judge and w. o. Jones
and E. o. Weber populfsts) for regents OF
the state university.
The platform is as follows:
1--WE, the democrats Of Nebraska, in con-
vention assembled. reaffrm our faith In the
principles Of the party as enunciated In the
last national platform adopted at Kansas
City.
I'VE denounce the national republican adj
ministration for its failure to carry out its
promises heretofore made and It's sub
servience to special interest at the expense
of and detriment to the interests Of the
public at large.
Opposed to Aldrich Bill.
I'VE are unalterably opposed to any form
of asset currency legislation and to any
legislation Of the character of the Aldrich
BILL
I'VE demand that the attorney general
of our state shall make application to the
Supreme Court Of the United States for
permission to put the Nebraska maximum
freight rate law into immediate effect In
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