New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-08
FIGHT OVER GOLD PLANK.
STB-COMlIITTEE ADOPTS.
Money Issue Declared No Longer
Open to Question.

st. Louis July THE subcommittee of the
committee on resolutions adopted as it's financial
plank a declaration for the maintenance of the
present gold standard, the ground that the
increased supply of gold insures a sufficient vol
uTne for currency 1t is follows:
The discoveries of gold within the last few
years and the great increase in the produc-
tion thereof adding two thousand million
dollars to the worlds supply, of which seven
hundred millions falls to the share of the
United States, have contributed to the main
tenance of a money standard of value no
longer open to question, removing that issue
from the field of political contention.
This plank was voted on in the absence of Mr..
Bryan and Congressman Williams. and the bal
lot 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 Newlands. The
understanding that if Messrs. Bryan and
Williams had been present they would hava
cast their votes in the negative thus bringing
the opposition vote to five.
AS agreed upon by the subcommittee. the
text of the platform follows:
We the delegates OF the Democratic party OF
the United States, IN national convention assem-
bled, declare our devotion to the essential prlE-
ciples of the Democratic faith. which brings us
together in party communion.
Under them local elf-government and na-
tional unity and prosperity were alike estab-
lished They underlay our independence, the
structure of our free Republic and every demo-
cratic extension 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 jealously their rights
and liberties. and cherishing their fraternity.
peace and orderly development. They remind
US OF our duties and responsibilities citizens.
and impress upon US, particularly at this time,
the necessity Of reform and the rescue of the
administration OF government from the head
strong. arbitrary and spasmodic methods which
distract business by uncertainty, and pervade
the public mind with dread. distrust and per-
turbation.
The application of these fundamental princi-
pies to the living issues OF the day constitutes
the first step toward the assured peace. safety
and progress Of our nation. Freedom of the
press, Of conscience and OF speech; equality be-
fore the law Of all citizens; the right of trial
by jury; freedom of the person defended by the
writ Of habeas corpus; liberty of personal con-
tract untrammeled by sumptuary laws; the su-
premacy OF the civil over military authority; a.
well disciplined militia: the separation of Church
end state; economy in expenditures: low taxes
that labor may be lightly burdened the prompt
and sacred fufment of public and private OBJ
legations fidelity 10 treaties; peace and friend
ship with all nations; entangling alliances with
none; absolute acquiescence in the will OF the
majority, the vital principle of republcs-these
doctrines which Democracy has established
proverbs Of the nation and they should be
constantly invoked. preached. resorted to and
enforced:
THE PRINCIPLES SET FORTH.
First-Large reductions can readily be made
In the annual expenditures of the government
without impairing the efficiency of any branch
or the public service. and we shall insist upon
the strictest economy and frugality compatible
with vigorous and efficient civil. military and
naval administration a right of the people too
clear 10 be denied or withheld.
>. The enforcement of honesty in the public
service, and TO that end a thorough legislative
investigation of those executive departments Of
the government already known TO TEEN with
corruption. well other departments sus-
pected of haTboring corruption. and the punish
ment OF ascertained corruptiOniSts without fear
or favor or regard to persons The persistent
and deliberate refusal of both the Senate and
House of Representatives to permit such inveS-
tgation TO be made by either branch of Con-
gress demonstrates that only by a change in the
Executive and in the House OF Representatives
complete exposure. punishment and correc-
tion be obtained
In broader furtherance OF that end the fed
eral government should not permit itself to be
robbed by entering into contracts with convict
ed trusts or unlawful. combinations in restraint
OF interstate trade existing in violation of law.
We believe that one of the best methods OF pro-
curing economy and honesty in the public SER
vice is 10 have public officials. from the occu-
pant of the White House down 10 the lotest Of
them, return, as nearly may be, to Jeffer-
sonan simplicity OF living.
Thrd-We favor the nomination and election
OF a President trained in the ways of the Con-
stitution who shall set his face sternly against
executive usurpation of legislative and judicial
functions. whethor that usurpdtion be ruled uu-
der the guise of executive construction OF exist
tyrants pleas Of necessity or superior wisdom