The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-22


cratic state convention which was held
here today. refused to instruct the
national delegates from Pennsylvania
to vote for the nomination Of Judge
Alton B. Parker. of New York for
President. The delegates will go to St
Louis uninstructed and will be bound
by the unit rule.
An attempt was made at the meet
ing of the resolutions committee OF
the convention to amend the platform
by substituting for the unit rule plank.
a paragraph i~nstructing the delegates
for Judge Parker. 1t failed INT the
platform as adopted by the committee
was unanimously adopted by the con-
vention.
Philadelphia, was nominated by &C
damation for Supreme Court Justice
10 succeed himself for the full term
OF twenty-one years.
The delegates at large to the ma
tional convention are James M. Cuff
fey, state Chairman J.. K. P. Hall, ex-
Governor Robert E. Patterson and
Robert z. Wright.
The national delegation and electors,
chosen by the delegates from the nf-
zenith and twenty-second districts,
are contested. The contests were refer
red to a committee to be appointed by
Chairman Hall.
Chairman Hall will be reelected by
the State committee tomorrow at its
annual session.
The platform says the thoughtful
sentiment OF the country has become
distrustfuI to President R~oosevelt's
administration n decIdres that safe
dignified administration has given way
TO strenuous spectacular partisanship.
national and international and have
been fashioned and moulded as step
ping stones to the Presidents success
SION.
To-day the country finds in Theo-
dore Roosevelt a standing menace to
constitutional government, to interna-
Htonal peace and to business stability
.an6 prosperity. 1t turns to the Dem
4Ocratfc organizations for safety and
re1ef-to that party of conservatives.
which from it's birth and through SO
many years, was the bulwark against
which the spirit of s~ectionalism, fam
atheism, radicalism and the crude,
wild theories of the experimentalfsts
dashed in vain
On trusts and taxation the platform
says:
'SWhile we recognize the right OF
capital in all legitimate lines OF enter
prise to combine for the increase of
business, we believe that by wise leg
isIatfon. regidly enforced against such
combinations their evil tendencies can
be prevented without needless de-
struction to the capital upon which Ia
Dor must depend for employment and
~ No
jority Of the unlawful trusts now In
existence are the direct and natural
result of excessive E~-n"H~"n tHrT
duties which destroy competition, and
inevitably breed combinations for mo-
nopoly. To remedy this evil should be
one OF the first purposes OF tariff re-
vision. To such revision u party
stands pledged.
Federal taxation of all kinds should
be reduced. The enormo surplus ac-
cumulated by the government a not
only brought extravaganza. but has be-
come a standing menace to the hnan-
cial Stability OF the n Tho entire
currency conditions today. affecting all
business interests are made to depend
upon the mood and within Of h Sec
rotary Of the Treasury in his manipula-
ton of the government deposits. This
condition has become int-'7r~h bio and
should be remedied by reduction Of
taxation"
The platform comments McKinley's
declaration in favor of mutual ex-
change of commodities with foreign
nations and the expansion Of foreign
commerce.; recognizes n unlawfulness
OF labor unions and favor the speedy
conpIetftion of HI Panama canal
while regretting that this great pro-
ject was stained with evidence Of dis
honorable intrigue against the integ-
rity OF a friendly republic"