Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-07-08


lucky. North Dak9lb. IOWA. Missouri
and Montana took uD Tie cue and
catching up their state signs. Fastened
witif them to the NeI,raska delegation,
where the5 waved them in a circle
nroun1dhe Nebraska sign.
Daniel j.. Campau Of Michigan, a
gold Democrat. did bis best to lead the
1 enthusiasm by rushing up the steps
leading to the .chairman's platform and
waving his hat wildly.
The Parker men at once sought to
offset the Bryan demonstration By
theers on their side. The men of the
south came to the front in this effort,
and the Georgia delegation, who carry
a blue silk banner Inscribed Georgia
Parker Delegation every time they
march into the hall, at ono waved it
high and started toward the platform.
An enthusiastic delegate from South
Carolina caught the sign of his state
from its staff, tore up the strips and,
after brandishing the red and white
disk wildly, shook it at the Bryan and
Hearst men and then placed it fiat
against the blue banner, as though he
were mailing the flag of his country to
II masthead.
The Parker men came up swiftly
now, and before the South Carolina
man had lowered his hand the men
from Arkansas, Alabama and Pennsyl-
vania were turning over chairs and
pushing through the aisles on their
way to his side. After Pennsylvania
came Mississippi, New Jersey, Tennes-
see, Indiana, Louisiana, Texas, Con
necticut and Virginia. The ~demonstra-
ton had resolved itself into a Parker
outbreak more than a testimonial to
Bryan. and it so remained to the fin
lsh, which was eighteen minutes after
Mr.. Bryan entered the hall.
The Parker men claimed that they
had information before entering the
ball that the Bryan demonstration had
been arranged between the Hearst men
and. Tammany, and they were prepared
to meet it by a Parker counter out
burst of their own.
The subcommittee of the committee
on resolutions spent its entire session
in perfecting the details of the Demo-
cratic platform, concluding with the
adoption of a gold standard plank. The
plank was voted on during the absence
of Mr.. Bryan and Congressman Will
liams, and the ballot stood Z to 3, the
affirmative votes being cast by Messrs.
Daniel, Hill, Pattison, Hamlin, Gable,
Poe and Davis and the negative votes
by Messrs. Dubois, Shively and New
lands. The understanding was that if
| Messrs. Bryan and Williams had been
present they would have cast their
votes in the negative, thus bringing the
opposition vote to five.
The platform as declared is in part
as follows:
"We the delegates of the Democratic
lparty of the United States, in national
convention assembled, declare our de-
votion TO the essential principles of the
democratic faith which bring us to-
gether in party communion.
I Under them local self government
and national unity and prosperity We're
alike established. They underlaid our
Independence, the structure of our free
republic and every Democratic extern
sion from Louisiana to California and
Texas to Oregon which preserves faith
fully in all the states the tie between
taxation and representation. They yet
inspirit the masses of our people,
guarding jealousy their rights and lib
critics and cherlshing their fraternity.
peace and orderly development. They
remind us of our duties and RESPONSE
bilities as citizens and impress upon
lis, particularly at this time, the neces-
sity of reform and the rescue of the
administration of government from the
hcadstrong, arbitrary and spasmodic
methods which distract business by
uncertainty and pervade the public
mind with dread, distfust and pertur-
baton.
THE application of these fundamen-
tai principles to the living issues of
the day constitutes the first step to-
ward the assured peace, safety and
progress of our nation. Freedom of
the press, of conscience and of speech;
equality before the law of all citizens.
the right Of trial by jury, freedom of
the person defended by the writ of ha-
beas corpus, liberty of personal con-
tract untrammeled by sumptuary laws,
the supremacy of the civil over mill
tary authority, a well disciplined mill
m