Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-02
MR.. BRYAN CENTRAL FIGURE

ing hgure IN the uen'OcIa'iC S'"'e |on
vpntlon which met at Omfha, Neb.,
Yesterday. He will be one Of the dele
gates-at-large to the national conyen-
ton. The platform adopted nnani-
mously by The convention was drai,Cd
by him, was read to the convention by
him, and represents his views on pal
policies. The main features of the
platform follow:
With au increasing love for the prin-
ciples of democracy and an increasing
confidence in their final triumph, we
look upon the present tune as oppOr-
tune for their earnest and courageous
promulgation, with chief executive
who has disregarded constitutional lin
itations. stirred up antagOnism between
the races, employed all the powers OF
his office to secure denomination and
purchased political support by turning
the Treasury Department over to the
fnanciers and putting the law depart
ment into the hands of the trusts-with
such a chief executive and with re-
publican leaders openly and arrogantly
in alliance with organized wealth, the
country imperatively needs retu.l OF
the government to positive and clearly
defined democratic principles. Democ-
racy as taught by Jefferson, and exem-
plifed by Jackson, IS the hope of the
republic, and offers the only relief from
the plutocracy which now dominates
the republican party, and through that
part the country.
Democracy would oppose as inimlcal
to the welfare of the people I'll private
monopolies, and would exterminate them
by the enforcement of the remedies sug-
gested in the Kansas City platform.
The failure of the present administration
to enforce existing laws, or to suggest
more effective laws, is conclusive proof
that it lacks the desire, the intelligence
or the moral courage to attack the con-
scienceless combinations of capital that
have furnished during recent years.
Democracy would relieve the country
of the menace of militarism andimperlal-
ism by following the example set by this
country in its dealings with Cuba, and
giving the Filipinos an immediate prom
ise of ultimate independence. The ad-
miuistration of colonial system accord
ing to monarchical principles is repug-
nant to our theory of government, and
cannot be depended upon without the as
sertion of doctrines which, if carried out,
will undermine free government in the
United States.
Democracy would restore the tariff to
a revenue basis and administer it for
revenue only, thus demolishing the legal
bulwarks behind which the predatory
trusts have found refuge. Protection for
projections sake is an ingenious device
for the exploitation of the masses by the
privileged classes; it has brought great
Injustice to the consumers and has been
the fruitful source of widespread politi-
cal corruption.
d ,mocracy would administer the
Treasury Department in behalf OF the
public. not, as now, in the interest ol
Wall street; it would prevent the re-
coinage of legal-tender silver dollars in'
to limited legal-tender subsidiary coin
it would secure to the people a volume
of standard money sufficient to keep pace
with the demand for money; 1t would
favor paper money issued by the govern.
ment without theintervention OF nationa
banks it would resist the attempt tC
establish an asset currency and branch
banks, and it would oppose the loanine
of government money to favored b' 'ES,
a scheme by which the peoples money
is employed to lay foundation for
campaign fund and to bribe the financial
inter, st to oppose any reduction OF tTXa'
lion. The present administration o.
the Treasury Departments progressively
beneficial to tie capitalistic class and
progressively harmful to the producers
of wealth.
.mocracy would make taxation more
equally bv collecting part OF the reve
nues from au income tax, secured by q
consti ltional amendment. and would
bring the government nearer to the
people by the popular election OF United
States senators and direct legislation.
Democracy would safeguard the in
terests of the wage-earner and the ard
san by providing for an eight-hour day
by substituting arbitration for strike
and lockOuts, and by restoring the rlgh
of trial by jury. now suspended through
government by injunction.
Democracy would secure to the surviv
ing soldiers and sailors and their de
pendeuts generous pensions, not by al
arbitrary executive order, but by legis
lation which grateful people slan'
ready to enact
Democracy would construct an 18th
mian canal without violation Of treat
obligations and without exciting sus
nicion among our sister republics of Cen
trail and South America.
The delegates chosed by this conven
tion to the democratic national conven
tiou are hereby instructed to vote as
nnit on all questions, provided that IN
unit rule may be suspended by a mayor
ity vote of the delegation.
Edgar Howard, member OF the resC
lutions committee, later introduced ID
J. following resolution, which was uaan
mously adopted: :,
The democracy of Nebraska heralds
the democracy OF the nation Its steao
last respect for, confidence in and loyalt
70 Neoraska's great champion of PuI
democrallc principles. and bids hil