The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-09
BRYAN A POWER
IN SHAPING 1T UP.
Continued from First page.

Mr.. Hill replied that he knew moth
ing as to Mr.. Parker's monetary views.
7Do YOU mean to say" demanded the
~-sbraskan, that you don't know Judge
loarker's financial views2"
Il mean just that" responded Mr..
You have no knowledge on that sub
ject?"
None"
Have never asked him."
II have not. l have never sought to
.ecl1re an expression of his views, and
he has never sought to convey them
10 me- 1 only know that he is a DEM
oeratic and a high-minded man, and
patriotic man, and l believe he can
be trusted implicitly on this, as upon
other matters of public policy.
Mr.. Bryan then demanded to know
when the gold plank had been decid-
ed upon, and why it had not been in
corporated in the New York platform.
Nfr Hill replied that the matter had
FIRST been discussed at the meeting of
the delegation about ten days ago, and
mat the declaration was the result of
jnsistence by other members of the
delegation than himself.
Two financial planks offered by Sena-
for Carmack were voted down.
subcommittee Got Bryan's Plank.
The currency Didllh OlleIGu ny NIL
Brvan was referred to a sub-commit-
tee. consisting of Williams, Bryan and
Hill, with authority to draft tinan-
fial plank for submission to the full
committee. The opinion was express
ed that these men might agree upon
something and if they should, 1t would
probably eliminate any fight on the
floor of the convention. When at $50
a m. the last plank, as drafted by
hn
members of the committee applauded.
Mir Bryan said that if his desired
amendment to the trust plank should
he adopted he would not press the
plank favoring the imposition of an
income tax. Senator Tillman, upon
noting a smile upon the faces of both
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Hill remarked to
MI Bryan that since you and Mr..
Hill seem to have become so chummy,
think we had better look further into
the trust plank
Discussion of it thereupon was re-
sumed
Mr. Bryan defended his position on
the trust question by saying that vic
tory" alone should not essentially be
the paramount issue, and that unless
d question was settled right it was
never settled at all
Senator Daniel called Mr. Shively to
the tIldtI anu Illdue d SptGCn support u
ing the principle of antitrust legisla-
ton. He took the position, however,
that if enforced the existing interstate
commerce law and antitrust statutes
are sufficient and he believed that a
Democratic administration could be de-
pended upon to enforce them. Hence
he considered it safe to omit the pro-
posed plank.
The discussion continued at length
nd Mr. Hill DraCpntnH a h
stitute for the trust plank which was
unanimously accepted and with APP
plause. The compromise antitrust
plank offered by Mr.. Hill and adopted
provides that whenever a trust or
combination effects monopoly in the
production or distribution of any arti-
cles of trade outside the state of its
origin it may be restricted by appro-
pirate legislation from continuing to
do business in such states.
The trust matter disposed of, the
race question was taken up, and after
a brief discussion plank deploring
the injection of this issue into the
campaign by the Chicago convention
was adopted. 1t was introduced by
Senator Daniel. q
Mr.. Bryan presented a suggestion, de-
claring it to be the sense of the Demo-
cratic party that the volume of cur
rency should not be diminished, but
Mr.. Hill complained that in view of
the action of the committee last night
IN voting down the gold plank, the in
serton of the proposed resolution would
be species of bad faith The COM
mittee accepted this view and voted
down the resolution
No further financial planks were sug-
gested. The PLATFORM being considered
complete was then adopted by ris-
ing vote and in the midst of general
applause
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:
Senator Daniel: The platform was
unanimously adopted and is reasonably
satisfactory"
Senator Tillman: 1--WE have accom-
pished miracle; we have succeeded
in getting a platform without any
poison in it,
Mr. Bryan: Il am fairly well salts
ned with the platform. | have had op-
portunity to present some matters as
desired and l have had to make con-
cessions in some instances in order to
get what 1 wanted in Others"
viii you support a ticket on this
PLATFORM was asked of him.
l viii certainly support the plat
form, was his reply, and this was said
IN way to convince his interrogation
that he fully expected to be able to
support both platform and ticket.
Senator Hill and William j. Bryan
came out together and both were
smiling. Mr.. Bryan said to the news
paper men: Now, be sure and get
Hill's platform right" and Hill re-
storted with a laugh, Il think that we
VIII have to share honors on that"
Mr.. Bryan said: I'VE are all salts
ned. We have all wanted some things
put in that the committee has rejected,
put on the whole the document is per-
tectly satisfactory. You know you can't
get everything you want"
senator Hill: Il am perfectly
satisfied. OF course there are things
lhat | wanted in and thought should
go. In, but in politics it is give and take
ana | am taking. / should have liked
10 nave seen an expression on finances
IN the platform. but the majority
thought otherwise and neither Mr.
Rryan's plank nor mine was adopted
fou will remember that the New York
STATE convention made no mention of
me financial question and so this plat
form Is similar. We did not put an in
come tax plank and we changed only
slightly the tariff plank"
Parker on the Platform.
VIII Judge Parker stand on the
platform as drawn" was asked.
l do not see why not. l am said to
be one of his friends" he answered
fed"