Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-08

Carolina caught the sigh of his state
from its staff, tore up the strips and,
after brandishing the red and white
disk wildly, shook it at the Bryan and
Hearst men and then placed it fat
against the blue banner, as though he
were mailing the flag Of his country to
masthead.
The Parker men came up swiftly
now, and before the South Carolina
man had lowered his hand the men
from Arkansas, Alabama and Pennsyl-
vania were turning over chairs and
pushing through the aisles on their
way to his side. After Pennsylvania
came Mississippi New Jersey, Tennes-
see. Indiana, Louisiana, Texas, Con-
necticut and Virginia. The demonstra-
ton had resolved itself into Parker
outbreak more than a testimonial to
Bryan, and it SO remained to the fin
ish, which was eighteen minutes after
Mr.. Bryan entered the hail.
The Parker men claimed that they
had information before entering the
hall that the Bryan demonstration had
been arranged between the Hearst men
and Tammany, and they were prepared
to meet it by Parker counter out
burst of their own.
The subcommittee of the committee
on resolutions spent it's entire session
In perfecting the details of the Demo
cratic platform, concluding with the
adoption of gold standard plank. The
plank was voted on during the absence
of Mr.. Bryan and Congressman Will
hams, and the ballot stood to 3, the
affirmative votes being cast by Messrs.
Daniel, Hill, Pattison, Hamlin, Gable,
Poe and Davis and the negative votes
by Messrs Dubois Shively and New
lands The understanding was that If
Messrs Bryan and Williams had been
present they would have cast their
votes in the negative, thus bringing the
opposition vote to five.
The platform as declared is in part
as follows:
I'VE the delegates of the Democratic
party of the United States, in national
convention assembled, declare our de-
votion to the essential principles Of the
Democratic faith which bring US to-
gether in party communion.
Under them local self government
and national unity and prosperity were
alike established. They undertake our
independence, the structure of our free
republic and every Democratic extern
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
inspIrit the masses of our people,
guarding jealousy their rights. and lib
critics and cherishing their fraternity,
peace and orderly development. They
remind us of our duties and RESPONSE
bilities as citizens and impress upon
us, particularly at this time, the neces-
sity Of reform and the rescue Of the
administra ton of government from the
headstrong, arbitrary and spasmodic
methods which distract business by
uncertainty and pervade the public
mind with dread, distrust and pertur-
| baton
1.-THE application of these fundamen-
! tai principles to the living issues of
the day constitutes the first step to-
| ward the assured peace, safety and
|. progress of our nation. Freedom of
| the press, Of conscience and of speech;
equality before the law OF all citizens.
the right OF trial by jury, freedom of
the person defended by the writ Of ha-
beas corpus, liberty Of personal con-
tract untrammeled by sumptuary laws.
the supremacy OF the civil over mill
tary authority, well disciplined mill