The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-28

Columbus, Neb., August 25-The DEM
ocratic state convention was called to
order tonight by Chairman P. L. Hall.
of the state Central Committee, who
after a brief address, introduced Geo.
l.. LOOMS, of the Fremont, as tenn
porary chairman. LOOMS was enthus-
iastically received, n at once an
bounced the nomination bv the popu-
lists at Grand Island of Judge IN L.
Sullivan for supreme judge. Chairman
LOOMS then addressed the convention
as follows:
In democracy the individual man
stands first n foremost, and his rights
and interests are the matter of supreme
consideration. No n must think from
this, however. that there is any de-
sign or urpos in democracy inimical
to capital. for such is not the case. The
true spirit of democracy urges every
one to save and accumulate by all hon.
orable means. and r~ejoiceS in the sue
cess and prosperity of all men. 1t is
only when capital seeks to evade it's
just share of the burdens of govern
ment or when its owners undertake TO
use the power it gives them to in1ure
and Cypress others, or to stif1e compe-
tition, or to gain by illegal or question
able means, some inequitable advan-
tage over the less fortunate thai the
voice of democracy is raised in protest.
No one can regret more han we the
almost ceaSeleSS conflict going on be-
tween capital and labor. for we recog-
nige the fact that each is dependent on
the other for its highest prosperity and
good. Capital. without labor to use it.
is unproductive, n all but useless;
while labor without capital to employ
it is idle. hungry and clothed in rags.
Neither can be to any extent profitable
Or productive without the other. To in
lure either is to do an injustice to the
other, to ATTEMPT to seriously cripple
either would be objectionable folly. The
two should be the staunchest of friends,
and would be if the right spirit always
prevailed on both Sides. But while hui
man nature is so constituted that men
will disagree, and are unable many
times to settle their differences between
themselves, and the diSagreementS be-
tween capital n labor are fraught
with much hardship and injury to both.
Inc often to the eople of the whole
Ountr some means of adjusting such
| differences is not vital Importance. We,
therefore, favor voluntary arbitration
as the means best intended to bring
about a fair settlement of all differ
ences between the two without injustice
to either.
I'VE are now on the eve of another
national campaign. Within a year the
conventions will be held, and the par
ties will place in nomination their can
didates for the offices of president and
vice-president Of the United States. He
who has been our leader. in the last
two campaigns, II has borne aloft the
| standard Of democracy with an energy
| and ability that has no parallel in the
| annals of this or any oOther ountry
and of whom it a be truthfully said.
as of Hannibal defeated, but not con-
| quered.' is not again to be our candi-
( date. Let us see to it then. as loyal
democrats. that his mantle falls lot
| on one unworthy to wear it. There are
many able and consistent democrats
who have shown themselves entitled &c
| the confidence OF the party and the peo-
| pie. and under the leadership of one of
! them tho mex battle will be fought.
May it 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
goyernmen will be safe from all man
ner of assault. whether open or inSid-
ious.
conditions are fast ripening for a
grand national victory. The party in
power. evidently mistaking its success
in the past few elections to mean an ir-
reyocabIe vote of confidence on the part
of the people, has become arrogant and
corrupt. utterlv regardless of persona
rights, openly defiant of all law that
stands in the wav of party purposes,
and shown itself unworthy to be longer
entrusted with power. In its govern
ment of the Philippines. it has refused
to extend to that people, the protection
of the constitution. has denied h mos
sacred truths of the Declaration Of In
dependence. suppressed the Bill OF
Rights, and founded a government
based on the un-American idea that
the people have no natural rights. anc
only such civil rights as are granted by
act of CONGRESS-. or bestowed by a
of republican officials.
Its open and shameless alliance, of
fensive and defensive, with trusts ano
monopolies from which it receives and
expects to receive. large financial con-
tributions: its determination not &c
permit the modification of a single pro
vision of the peresent iniquitous tariff
law that would bring relief to the peo-
pie at the expense of some favored truS'
or monopoly: its now apparent design
to faSten Upon the Ountry an dSSe'
currency for the benefit of the nation
al banks. and the encouragement OF
wild-cat speculation, and its many 9TH
er sins of commission and omission
have set the people to thinking. and
they are thinking pretty hard: and
they are getting ready, when the tim
comes. to administer a rebuke that Wi.
be as efficient as it is deserved"
The tonight re-aflrmed
| the Kansas City platform.