The Green Forest tribune., 1904-07-16
THE TICKET AND PLATFORM
Work of the Democratic Nation- al Convention at St. Louis.

Convention at St. Louis.
 Following is a brief sketch Of the democratic candidates for president and vice. president and the text of the platform upon which they stand:
 SKETCH OF A. B. PARKER.
 Alton Brooks Parker was born in Cortland, N. Y, May IA, 1852. From the public school of his na- tive town he passed to the Cort- land academy and graduated from the Cortland normal school. Afterwards he entered the Albany law school, from which he grad uated in 1872. He commenced the practice of law in Kingston and in 1877 became the surrogate of Ulster county, serving in that office until his election to the su preme court of New York in 1885. He was appointed a member of the court of appeals of New York in 1889, and chief justice of that court in 1898.
 SKETCH OF H. G. DAVIS.
 Henry Gassoway Davis of West Virginia, nominee for vice presi- dent, completed in 1883 his sec- ond full term in the United States Senate. He was born in Howard county, Md, on November 16, 1923. After getting a village edu- cation he went to work on d farm and stuck to that until he was 20 years old.
 Then he became a brakeman on the B. & o. railroad. He was promoted to be conductor and then division agent remaining i'll the railroad business as an en- ploye fourteen years.
 He was also until recently president of the West Virginia, Central and Pittsburg railroad, which he projected, and of tho Piedmont and Cumberland rail- road. His first entrance into pol itics was in 1865 when he was elected to the Virginia house of delegates. In 1868 he was elect ed to the state senate of West Virginia and he was re- elected in 1870. In the same year he Was elected United States Senator from West Virginia.ss He was re- elected in 1876.
 TEXT OF THE PLATFORM.
 Favors laws giving capital and labor their just rights; favors liberal appropriations for the waterways of the country; insists upon the strictest economy con- sistent with vigorous and efficient civil, military and naval admins tration; condemns the republican party for refusing to prohibit fed eral government from entering contracts with "convicted trusts or unlawful combinations in re- straint of interstate trade; favor5 independence for the Filipinos, denounces the protective tariff as robbery and favors tariff limi ted to the needs of the govern ment; favors laws regulating trusts and combinations; favors reclamation of arid lands and do- nestle development; favors com pletion of Isthmian canal; favors election of United States Senators by direct vote; favors statehood for Indian Territory and Oklaho- ma in separate states and territo- rial government for Alaska and Porto Rico; condemns polygany and favors complete separation of church and state: favors up- building of the merchant marine, condemns ship su bsidy bill as an iniquitous appropriation of pub- lie funds; favors reciprocity with Canada; favors maintenance of the Monroe doctrine; favors re- duction of army and navy expen- ditures; favors pensions for sur vining soldiers and sailors and their dependentsj stands commit ted to civil service reform; cons dems republican platform for seeking to kindle anew tue en- blems of ssracial and sectional strifei" condemns the republican administration as "spasmodio, cratic, sensational, spectacular and arbitrary"
 The platform makes no men,