The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-08
FOR | GOLD STANDARD Recommendation of Sub Committee on Resolu-
 tions at St. Louis.
VOTE WAS SEVEN TO THREE
BRYAN AND WILLIAMS ABSENT
 WHEN IT WAS TAKEN.


 Have Affected the Result-Wise, Con- servative and Business-liIxe Revision of the Tariff Fayored-Trusts Men ace to Beneficial Competition--POIyg- amy Denounced-Against ship sub- sidy BiII-Pensions-Civi Service Government Ownership of Railroads Favored--Army and Navy.
 St. Louis, July 7-The subcommittee of the committee on resolutions spent the entire day until o'clock in per- fecting the details of the democratic platform, concluding at that hour with the adoption of a gold standard plank. The plank was voted on during the ab- sence of MT. Bryan and Congressman Williams, and the ballot stood to 8, the affirmative votes being cast by Messrs Daniel, Hill, Pattison, Hamlin, Cable, Poe and Davis and the negative votes by Messrs. Dubois, Shively and Newlands. The understanding was that if Messrs. Bryan and Williams had been present they would have cast their votes in the negative, thus bring ing the opposition vote to five.
 AS agreed upon, the text of the plat form follows:
 The Platform.
 We, the delegates of the democratic party of the United States, in national convention assembled. declare our de- votion to the assembled principles of the democratic faith, which brings us together in party communion.
 Under them, local self government and national unity and prosperity were alike established They underlaid our Independence, the structure of our free republic, and every democratic exten- sion, from Louisiana to California, and Texas to Oregon, which preserves faith fully in all the states the tie between taxation and representation They yet inspire the masses of our people, guard ing jealously their rights and liberties, and cherishing their fraternity, peace and orderly development. They re- mind us of our duties and responsibili- ties as citizens and impress upon us. particularly at this time, the necessity os reform and the rescue of the admin istration of government from the head strong, arbitrary and spasmodic meth dds which distract business by uncer- tainty, and pervade the public mind with dread, distrust and perturbation.
 The application of these fundamental principles to the living issues of the day constitutes the first step. toward the as sured peace, safety and progress of our nation. Freedom of the press of con- science and of speech; equality before the law of all citizens; the right of : trial by jury; freedom of the person de- tended by the write of habeas corpus; liberty of personal contract untram- meled by sumptuary laws; the suprem- acy of the civil over the military au- thority; we'll disciplined militia; the separation of church and state; econ orny in expenditures; low taxes; that labor may be lightly burdened; the pIompt and sacred fulfilment of public and private obligations; fidelity to treat 4 ies peace and friendship with all na- tions, entangling alliances with none; absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority, the vital principle of republics these are the doctrines which democ- racy has established as proverbs of the nation and they should be consistently invoked. preached, resorted to and en- forced.
 | Large reductions can readily be made in the annual expenditures of the government without impairing the eff ficiency of the public service, and we shall insist upon the strictest economy and frugality compatible with vigorous and efficient civil, military and naval administration as right of the people too clear to be denied or withheld
 2 The enforcement of honesty in the public service. and to that end thor ough legislative Investigation of those executive departments of the govern ment, already known to teem with cor ruption, and the punishment of ascer- tained corruptionists without fear or favor or reward to persons The per- sistent and deliberate refusal of both the senate and house of representa- tives to permit such investigation to be made by either branch of congress demonstrates that only by change in the executive and in the house of rep resentatives can complete exposure, punishment and correction be obtained
 Tn broader furtherance of that end, the federal government should not per- init itself to be robbed by entering in- to contracts with convicted trusts or unlawful combinations in restraint of Interstate trade, existing in violation of law. We believe that one of the best methods of procuring economy and honesty in the public service is to have public officials, from the occupant of the White House down to the lowest of them, return, as nearly as may be, to Jeffersonian simplicity of living
 3. We favor the nomination and cleo tion of a president trained in the ways of the Constitution, who shall set his face sternly against executive usurpa- tion of legislative and judicial func- tions, whether that usurpation be ruled under the guise of executive construc- ton of existing laws, or whether it take refuge in the tyrant's pleas of necessity or superior wisdom.