The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-08
Stand Against Enrichment of
 Trusts by the Tariff.
keglslRti0n by Executive order Round- ly Condemned.-Declara Against Polygamy. DenunciatiOn of RoOsevelt's Action as to Rec. ognition of Panama, Hill
 Accepting 't ns His
 tory.

St. Louis. July 1.-The. sub commit tee of the committee on resolution spent the entire day until five o'clock, in perfcting the deta1ls of the Demo- cratic platform. concluding at ...at hour with the adoption of a gold stan dard plank. The plank was voted in during the absence of MT. Bryan and Congressman Williams and the ballot stood seven to three, the affirmative votes being cast by Messrs. Daniel. Hill. Pattison, Hanlin, Cable, Poe and Davis. and the negative votes by Messrs. Dubois. Shively and Newlands. The understanding was that if Messrs. Bryan and Williams lad been present they would have cast their votes in the negative. thus bringing the oppo- sition vote seven to five. As agreed up- on by the sub committee, the text of the platform follows:
 We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the United States. in National votion to the essential principles of the Democratic faith which bring us to- gether in party communion.
 Under them local self government and national unity and prosperity were alike established. They underlaid our inde pendence, the structure of our free republic and every Democratic exten- sion from Louisiana to California and Texas to Oregon, which preserves faithfully in all the states the tie be- tween taxation and representation. They inspire the masses of our people. guarding jealously their rights and liberties and cherishing their fraterni- ty. peace and orderly development They remind us of our duties and re- responsibilities as citizens and impress upon us particularly at this time the necessity of reform and the rescue of the administration of government from tho headstrong, arbitrary and spas fnodic methods which detract business and uncertainty, and pervade the pub. lie mind with dread, distrust and per- turbation.
 The application of these fundamental day constitutes the first step towards assured peace, safety and progress of our nation. Freedom of the press, of conscience and of speech: equality be- fore the law of all citizens: the right of trial by jury; freedom of the person defended by the writ of habeas corpus; liberty of personal contract untram- meled by sumptuary laws; the suprem- acy of the civil over military law;
 
 lion of church and State; economy in expenditures; low taxes that labor may he lightly burdened; the prompt and sa- cred fulfillment of public and private obligations; fidelity to treaties; peace and friendship with all nations; en- tangling alliances. with none; abso- lute acquiescence in the will of the ma jority, the vital principle of republics these are doctrines which Democracy aG nrnVarha Of the na- ton. and they should be constantly in- voked. preached, resorted to and en- forced:
 First-Large reductions can readily he made in the annual expenditures or the Government without impairins the ef1ciency of any branch of the public service, and we shall insist upon the strictest economy and fruganty com nattbIe with vigorous and efficient clvli' military and naval administration as right of the people. too clear to deny or withhold. l.,
 9 The enforcement of honesty in The public service and to that end thorough legislative investigation or those executive departments of the government already known to teem with corruption as well as other de- partments suspected of harboring cor ruption, and the punishment of as-
 
 favor or regard to persons. The per sistent and deliberate refusal of both the Senate and House of Representa- lives to permit such investigation to he made by either branch of Congress demonstrates that only by a change in the executive and in the House of Representatives can complete expos ure, punishment and conviction be ob- tained. In broader furtherance of that
 oh not permit itself to be robbed by en- terina into contracts with convicted trusts or unlawful combinations in re- straint of interstate trade. existing in violation of law. We believe that one of the best methods of procuring econ omy and honesty in the public service Is to have public officials, from the occupant of the White House down to the lowest of them, return as nearly as may be to JeG"rsonlan rplieity of living.
 q We favor the nomination and election of a President trained in the ways of the constitution. who shall set his face sternly against active usurpation of legislative and judicial functions whether tt:t usurrauon be rule under the guise of executive con- struction of existing laws or whether it take refuge in the tyrant's pleas of necessity or superior wlsoom'
 4. The Democratic party has been and will continue to be the consistent opponent of that class of tariff legisla- tion by which certain interests nave been permitted. through congressional favor, to draw a heavy tribute from the American people This monstrous perversion of those equal opportuni- ties which our political institutions were established to secure has caused what may have once been infant in- dustries to become the greatest com binations of capital that the world has ever known. These publicly favored enterprises have through trust meth- ods, been converted into monopolies, thus bringing to an end domestic com petition which was the only check upon the extravagant profits made possible by the protective systeu-. These in- dustrial cnrnhina tinns the fina nclal 1