The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-08
BRYAN VICTORY.
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The plank proposed by Ex-Governor
| Thomas of Colorado regarding labor
| was adopted by the committee The
committee after a lengthy debate on
| the plank relating to separate state
| hood plank offered by Delegate w. F.
| Timmons of Arizona, with respect to
1 Arizona and New Mexico, as follows:
! I'VE favor the admission of the
| territories of Arizona and New Mexico
as separate states.
| In dealing with the subject of state
hood for Oklahoma and Indian Terri
! tory the committee was less emphatic
/ in it's declaration combining the plank to
a general recommendation of statehood
i for these two territories as follows:
I'VE favor the admission of the terri
tories of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
otry."
The currency plank offered by Mr..
Bryan was referred. to a subcommittee,
consisting of Williams, Bryan and Hill,
with authority to draft financial plank
for submission to the full committee.
The opinion was expressed that these
men might agree upon something and
if they should. it would probably elm
mate any fight on the floor of the con-
vention.
When at $50 a. m. the last plank
as drafted by the subcommittee had
been read the members of the COM
mittee applauded. Mr. Bryan said
that his desired amendment to the
trust plank having been accepted he
would not press the plank favoring
the imposition of an income tax. SEN
ator Tillman upon noting a smile
upon the faces of both Mr.. Bryan and
Mr.. Hill, remarked to Mr.. Bryan that
''since you and Mr. Hill seem to have
become so chummy 1 think we had
better look further into the trust
plank" Discussion of it thereupon
was resumed and Mr.. Frank Cannon
of Utah took the floor.
81 followed Mr.. Bryan in 1896 and
1900" he said, ION the paramount
issues of those campaign, but now
ahan60nR6 those issues I
will vote against this proposition he
seems to want most"
Mr.. Cannon. in concluding, contend
ed that the paramount issue on this
campaign was victory and that the
issue should be ''RooseveItism." Mr..
Bryan defended his position on the
trust question by saying that victory
alone should not essentially be the par
amount issue and that unless a ques-
ton was settled right it was never set
tied at all Senator Daniel called Mr..
Shively to the chair and made a speech
supporting the principle of antitrust
legislation. He took the position, how
ever, that if enforced the existing in
terstate commerce law and antitrust
Democratic administration could be
depended upon to enforce them.
Hence he considered it safe to omit the
proposed plank
ancial plank was voted down and the
platform was adopted without a finan-
cial plank.
Carmack Defeated.
The Carmack proposition was voted
down without division and Mr.. Car
mack then offered the following which
the committee also failed to accept:
We recognize that the great and un-
looked for increase in the production of
gold amounting in the last few years
to four thousand million dollars has re-
Heved the stringency caused by the
scarcity of metallic money and that be-
cause of that fact the money question
as it was presented in the last two
presidential campaigns is not now
acute or pressing for legislative relief; !
but it has at the same time indicated
the demands of the Democratic party
for the past for an increased volume
of metallic money that demand not be- |
ing for silver as silver or for gold as
gold, but for a sufficient quantity of
standard money to maintain the level
of prices and transact the business of
the country
Mr.. Bryan presented suggestion de- |
claring it to be the sense of the Dem |
ocratic party that the volume of cur
rency should not be diminished, but Mr.. /
Hill complained that in view of the ac- |
ton of the committee last night in |
voting down the gold plank the inser-
ton of the proposed resolution would
be a species of bad faith. The commit |
tee accepted this view and voted down |
the resolution. No further financial
planks were suggested and the plat
then adopted by a rising vote and in
the midst of general applause.
Although the various planks had all
been agreed upon, there had been
such a number of changes in the |
original document as presented by the
subcommittee as to render it impos- |
sible to make a satisfactory report to
the convention before tonight As the
members emerged from the chamber
they generally expressed themselves
as satisfied with the work they had |
accomplished, some of the expressions |
heard being as follows:
Comments Heard.
Senator Daniel-"The platform was
unanimously adopted and is reason |
ably satisfactory"
Senator Tillman-"We have accom- |
plished a miracle; we have succeeded
in getting a platform without any
poison in it
Mr.. Bryan am fairly well salts |
fed with the platform. 1 have had
opportunity to present some matters
as I desired and have had to make |
concessions in some instances in order
to get what I wanted in others"
will you support a ticket on this
platform % was asked of him.
81 will certainly support the plat |
FORM" was his reply and this was
said in a way to convince his inter- |
rogator that he fully expected to be
able to support both platform and
Ex-senator Pettigrew-''We have
prepared a treatise rather than 1 plat |
form and have succeeded in producing |
a large volume without saying any
thing"
Senator Hill and w. J. Bryan came |
out together and both were smiling.
Mr.. Bryan said to the newspaper men: |!
Now boys, be sure and get Hills |
platform right" and Hill retorted |
with a laugh, 81 think we will have
to share honors on that"
Mr.. Bryan said: I'VE are satisfied:
we have all wanted some things put |
in that the committee has rejected.
But on the whole it is satisfactory.