The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-24
Things Omitted.
New York Times.

New Y0rk 1lneS.
 Massachusetts has not, chosen Demo- cratic Presidential electors within the memory of man. We do not concur therefore, in the opinion of our neigh- Dor The World, thatit was mistake to omit the Kansas City protest against the acquisition of the Philippines from the platform adopted by the Democrats at Albany on Monday. There are more anti imperialists in Massachusetts than in all the other States of the Union, probably. and yet there are not very many of them in Massachusetts. The acquisition of the Philippines Is not only not an issue m present occupying the minds of men out side the relatively small number who shut their eyes to new light and adhere firmly to opinions formed upon scant in- formation four or five years ago. Since Governor Taft made his calm, candid. convincing speech at the dinner of the Ohio Society it has not been possible even to make respectable argument on the anti-imperalist side. Duty, human ity, mercy, law, and honor constrain us to do the best that lies in our power to promote the welfare and elevate the con- dition of the people of the Philippines. as we are now doing; they equally com mand us to refrain from treating the Fflipinos as the anti-imperialists would have Us at once treat them. as a people already fit for self-government. That would be hideous crime. The New York Democrats were well-advised when they refrained from pledging their-5upport to such dreadful policy.
 Our ne1ghbor The World is also dis pleased at the omission from the plat form of "a declaration in favor of the historic Democratic principle of sound money" It fears that the failure to adopt such plank would be construed as "dodging," as an indication that the party Is still tainted with the heresies and the delusions of the two Bryan cam paigns We had thought, on the con- trary, that when the Democrats at AL H.KE.r AN1I oil s,P sNvv-r and the currency they demonstrated in the most conclusive manner that the 16 to l issue is buried a thousand fathoms deep. There was not a word said about been in the minds of the delegates at all surely some mention of it would have cropped out platform declaration that the Democracy Is TO longer a Bryan party would have been as gratuitous and as foolish as a resolution declaring that tks Democrats of New York regarded the yquestion of an indissoluble Union to have been forever settled by the civil war:
 The best evidence that the New York Democrats have acted wisely in sending a delegation instructed for Judge Par ker and in adopting a platform which has, as The World says, mot the slight est streak of Populism in it,'' is afforded by the fact that Mir. Bryan is openly and vocife.ously dissatisfied. He has hired a rink in Chicago for Saturday night and is going to make a speech on the suo- ject of "The New York Platform" He is opposed to it. he thinks it is an at- tempt at "bunco-steering," and in gen. eral talks like a man whose disgust and disappointment have put him In bolt ing humor. If MT. Bryan should bolt. the Democratic party would lose some support in Republican States like Ne braska and Kansas No political circum- stance or stroke of good fortune upon which the party could count would more surely increase its strength and confirm its title to public confidence in the great Democratic and doubtful States east Of the Mississippi river, which 1t must car ry to elect it's. candidate That would indeed be full proof that the party had sound principles