The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-15


William Prentiss of Chicago. who was
a candidSte for governor, advanced to
the front Of the platform. His face was
white with wrath and his eyes blazing.
He declared passionately that he desir-
ed nothing from the convention; it did
not, in his opinion, represent the De-
mocraey of Illinois, and ne wished for
nothing at its hands
4 decline to have my name submit
tide to this convention in any manner,
he shouted, and walked off the plat
4 form, followed by the sneerS of the
Hearst delegates.
William c. Crolius of Joliet followed
in brief speech, indorsing the stand
| taken by Mr.. Prentiss and also WITH
drew his name from the convention.
i Then came another long wait, dur
ing which much confusion prevailed on
the floor, and several fist fights took
place between the delegates. None of
them amounted to more than an incl
dental diversion from the routine.
Clayton z. Crafts of Chicago then
| came forward with the platform. He
read:
| I'VE, the Democrats of Illinois"
who are Democrats You're noDem-
ocrats," came from the Hearst people,
and the boots and jeers that greeted
Mr.. Crafts compelled him to suspend
He had a similar experience when he
announced: I'VE believe in the rule or
the majority" Pungent questions reek-
ing with sarcasm We're put 10 MN IN
| profusion and the hooters were again
strongly in evidence.
The resolution providing for the in
dorsement of Mr.. Hearst was not mace
a part of the report of the committee
on resolutions, but was submitted to
/ the convention as a separate matter
/ The original resolution provided prac-
tically that the I lnOis delegation
should vote for Hearst until it was
convenient to vote for somebody else
A substitute offered by Clarence s.
barrow, pledging the delegates TO
| y before
the convention was then adopted by
a vote of 936 to 1896. The nomination of
candidates was then taken up, Law
renee B. Stringer of Lincoln and Clar-
ence s. barrow of Chicago being
named. Mr.. barrow declined to run
and Mr. Stringer was nominated by &C
clamation.
The Platform.
The platform points to the recent
revelations of corruption in the post
Office of Washington.
ITO a depleted treasury, shown by
the last treasury statement at WASH
7.To the failure of the attorney gen.
eral to prosecute Illegal trusts and
com binatious and the promoters
thereof by criminal action.
ITO the refusal of congress to re-
duce the tariff tax on these articles
which enabled the illegal trusts and
combines to plumber the people.
ITO the fact that the attorney gen
/
large expense, to uncover the coal
trust as proving the truth of the
above charge against the Republican
4 party"
| following plank:
| Observation-Disclosures Illinois women
/ are an important part of the citizen
/ shin of the state bearing and rearing
| its children, obeying it's laws and pay
ling its taxes, we believe that not only
| these duties of citizenship but the
! privileges as we'll should be exercised
/ by them, and recommend that our
next legislature extend to women fur
Their suffrage rights.
Other declarations of the platform
| follow:
$50 far as government is concerned,
land its laws and the enforcement
thereof, the right TO labor must be
protected as vigilantly as our life, lib
basis of all these, and upon their pres
terVation depends the permanency Of
Iour free institutions. 4a= G
I'VE demand that all departments
/ of government recognize and act
upon the doctrine that the constitu-
ton follow the flag in Porto Rico and
the Philippine islands, or else that
I they are free and Independent, 50 that
/ the true glory of our country shall
not be furnished by the exercise of
the despotic power of denying to a
helpless people republican form of
government.
I'VE favor the election of United
States senators by a direct vote of the
people.
I'VE point to the growth of trusts
and monopolies as one of the evil
results of the ascendancy of the Re
publican party at Washington.
by the present tariff law and in
numerous ways special privileges and
undue favors have been extended by
a Republican congress and Repub-
licap president to favored classes and
huge corporations. The older trusts
2 L, L.
trusts, too numerous to mention, have
been created since the government
passed into the hands of the Repub-
ican party in 1896.
These trusts deVOur the prosperitv
which appears in the land as a result
of industry of the people, and conse-
quently the masses have had little
taste of the fruit of their own labor
IF the people do not speedily dom
mate, regulate and control these
| trusts, the trusts viii permanently
dominate and control the government
and continue indefinitely to levy exac-
tons upon the people
I'VE submit that the Republican
party, itself controlled by the trusts
cannot safely be relied on to curb
the trusts, and we demand that the
government be taken out of the
hands of the friends of monopoly and
restored to the untrammeled repre-
sentatives of the people,
The delegates to the national con-
yention are instructed to vote as a
unit
RETURNED THE MONEY.