Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-07-14
DEMOCRATIC
RESOLUTIONS
Declaration of Principles
Adopted at ST
Louis.
GRAD UAL REDUCTION OF TARIFF
Srycn Wins a Victory in That the
Gold Plank offered BY the Hill
Crowd Was Omitted and the Plat
orm Is Silent On Finance.


Convention Hall, St. Louis, July
9.-Overwhelmingly defeated at every
other turn in his fight in the cOnVen
ton William J. Bryan managed to Sc
cure a partial victory at least on the
resolutions committee. 1t was the
first purpose of Hill and his majority
to show no quarter whatever to Bry-
anism, and to repudiate in no mis-
taken terms the free silverism of the
past two platforms.
The Hill crowd had the power to do
it in a one sided majority in com
mittee and convention, and gold
standard resolution was agreed upon
by the Hill crowd. But Bryan fought
it bitterly in the committee room and
finally lie won to the extent that the
entire financial plank was dropped
and nothing said upon gold issue.
Numerous changes were made in
the platform presented by the sub
committee on resolutions to the +"
committee. Among the most import
ant were Bryan's tariff plank, an add
tiOnal statement on trusts and
mOnOpOlies, section on "constitu.
tiOnal guarantees" with special refer
enCe to the LABOR troubles in Colo
RADIO, "a declaration on the race Ques
ton and arraignment CT the republi.
can party.
Following is the platform:
We, the delegates of the democra tic
party of the United States, in national
convention assembled. declare our devotion
to the essential principles of the demo,
nS har in
party communion.
Under Them local self government and
national unity and prosperity were alike.
They underaid our indeDepdence the strur.
ture or our free republic, and every demo
cratic extension from Louisiana to Cali
fornia and Texas to Oregon. and preserved
faithfully in all the states the tie between
taxation and representation. They vet in
spirit animate the masses of our peopIe
guarding jealousy their rights and liberties
and chershng their fraternity, peace and
orderly development They remind lis of
our duties and responsibilities AS citizens
and impress upon us, particularly at This
time, the necessity of reform and the rescue
or the administration of government from
Ihe heaastFong, arbitrary and spasmodlc
methods which distract business. nv nm
certainty and pervade the public mind with
uread, mlStrust and perturbation The an
pHratlon Of those fundamental PRINCIPLES
10 lhe living is today constituting the first
step toward assured peace safprv md
progress OF our nation. Freedom of the
press, OF conscience. and of speech : equal
IH before the law of all citizens; the rirht
" ttial by jury freedom of person de-
1ehdeu by the writ of habeaS cOruus ,n-
cray OF personal contract untrammeIad hv
suhlptuary laws; the supremacy of the civil
over military authority; a we'll disciplined
niLtaFy economy in expenditures low
taxes, that labor may be lightly burdenad .
the prompt and sacred fultillment of pun.
Tic and private obligations fidelity 70
treaties peace and friendship with ali ma.
IONS entangling alliances with none ;
absolute acquiesence in the maiority-thrse
are doctrines which democracy has estab.
lShed as proverbs of the nation, and they
should be constantly invoked, preached, re-
sorted to and enforced
Large reductions can readily he mazda
In the annual expenditures of the govern.
ment without impairing the efficiency OF
any branch of the public service and we
snail insist upon the strictest economy ana
trugailty compatible with vigorous and
efficient civil military and naval admins
tratlon as right of the people, too clear
to be denied or withheld
Inc enforcement of honesty In the public
service, and to that end a thorough legts-
lative investigation of those executive de-
partments of the government already
known to TEEN with corruption, as well as
other departments suspected of narbor lng
corruption and the punishment of ascel
tanned corrUptionists without fear or favor
or regard to persons. The persistent and
deliberate refusal of both the senate and
house or representatives, to permit such in
VeStigatlOn to be made by either branch of
congress, demonstrates that only by a
change in the executive and in the house
or representatives. can complete exposure,
punishment and correction be obtained
In broader furthePanCe of that end the
FEDERAL government should not permit itself
to be robbed by entering into contracts
with convicted trusts or unlawful COmbI-
nations in restraint of interstate trade.
existing in violation of law. We believe
that of Thp hest methods of DrOCUrp
economy and honesty in the public service
IL to have public officials. from the occu-
pant of the white house down to the lowest
of them, return, as nearly as may be, TO
LefersQniGn simplicity of living.
wa favor the nomination and election
of a president trained in the ways ct the
constitution. who shall set his face sternly
against executive uSurpatiOn of legiSla tive
and judicial functions whether that usur-
patton be held under the guise OF executive
construction of existing laws, or whether
1t takes refuge in the tyrant's pleas OF ne
cesSty or superior wisdom.
The democratic party has been, and VIII
continue to be, the consistent opponent OF
that class of tariff legislation By which
certain interests have been permitted.
through congressional favor. to draw
heavy tribute from the American people,
This mOnstrous perverslOn of those equal
opportunities. which our political lnstltu-
tions were established to secure. has caused
what may once have been infant indus
tries to become the greatest combinations
OF capital that the world has ever known.
These peculiar favorites OF the government
have. drought trust methods, been CON
yerted into mOnopoles, thus bringing &c
an end domestic competition. which was
the only alleged check upon the extraVaSant
profits made possible by the protective sys-
TEN These industrial combinations. by the
financial assistance they can glve' now
control the policy of the republican party.
We denounce protection as robbery OF
the many to enrich the few, and we
favor a tariff limited to the needs OF the
government economically administered, and
SO levied as not to discriminate against
any industry. class or section. to the END
that the burdens Of taxation shall be dis
tributed as equally as possible.
We favor revision and gradual rednc'
ton of the tariff by the commonwealth
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A Labor Saver.
Mrs. Minks-"Have you filed the
parlor lamp"
Domestic guess it don't need
film, ma'am." - tra-t
"The parlor was in use last evea-
ing until nearly midnight"
Eyes, ma'am, but your daughters
young man was the only caller"
The first mention of shaving is In
Genesis XLI:14, when Joseph shaved
himself Just before setting forth to
interview King Pharaoh.
Some of the beauties of Persia dec
crate their faces Dy painting figures OF
animals and insects upon them.
Why the Japanese are Fighters.
Patron--"Wun Lung. is it true that
many of the Japanese have been
Chrstians?"
Chinese Laundryman-"Me sabe
thatee so. See how they fightee.
Knockee stuffee out of Russians" -