The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-07

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 grown so great and which, in unlawful
 restraint of legitimate trade, have
 crushed honest competition. must be
 stripped of the power which they have
 so abused" trN
 A general promise for the correction
 of abuses is made and under the head
 of executive dictation' is this para
 graph:
 We call public attention to the re-
 peated and unpardonable dictation of
 President Roosevelt to both branches
 Of congress. We denounce his fragrant
 encroachments upon their rightful
 powers and independence, and while
 amazed at the subserviency of a Re-
 publican Senate and Republican
 House of Representatives to his orders
 and usurpation, we declare that his
 autocratic invasion of their freedom deserves and should receive the in-
 dignant rebuke and condemnation of | the people,"
 The Committee on Resolutions con-
 vened at 2 o'clock and Senator Daniel
 immediately made the appointment of l Edwin Sefton and J. J. Sinnot as Sec
 retary and Sergeant at Arms, respect ively. He also announced the appoint
 ment of a subcommittee to prepare 2
 platform for submission to the full Committee, as follows:
 | The subcommittee. l Messrs. Daniel, Virginia; Hill, New
 York; Bryan, Nebraska; Williams. Mis-
 sissippi; Pattison, Pennsylvania; Du-
 Bois. Idaho; Hamlin. Massachusetts; 1 Cable, Illinois; Poe, Maryland; Shive-
 ly. Indiana, and Davis, West Virginia. 1 Senator Newlands made plea for n
 fuller representation of the Irrigation l interests, and by unanimous consent his name was added to the sub-com- l mittee list.
 A number of suggestions from per-
 sons not connected with the Commit
 tee were received. among them being l the following from Senator Bacon of
 Georgia:
 That, with the view of encouraging
 American shipping and the restoration | of the American flag upon the high | seas. We favor that upon all articles
 brought or imported into the United
 States from foreign countries, In
 American built ships and under Amer | required to be paid. classified rebates
 Of such duties shall be allowed of not
 less than or more than 10 per cent.
 of the same"
 The full Committee then entered up
 on the consideration of the following plank, presented by ex-Governor G. S.
 Thomas of Colorado: | ThOmuss HeeOHuu1Ons 1 "Constitutional guaranties are violat- ed wherever the humblest citizen is de- nied the right to labor. acquire and enjoy property or reside where inter- l est or inclination may determine. Any denial thereof by individuals. organi-
 zations or Government should be sum-
 marily rebuked and punished. | "Freedom of speech and of the press are essential safeguards of civil liber- | oata of al | be too severely reprehended. "we denounce the infiiction of pun | ishments without due process of law 1 and deny the right of any executive l to disregard or suspend any consttiu- l tional privilege or limitation. Obedi- l ence to the laws and respect for their requirements are alike the supreme | duty of the citizen and the ruler. "The military must always remaiR l subordinate to. the civil power and
 used only to support and maintain the | law.
 | "we unqualiiedly condemn Its em- ployment for the summary banishment | of citizens without trial or for the con- 1 trol of elections"
 McMahOn Answers Thomas. | Governor Thomas urged the adoption | of the plank in strong terms and In | doing so referred at length to the labor
 troubles in Colorado. saying that the | accordance of the proposition would do | much to render Colorado safely Demo-
 cratic. He was replied to by MT. Me | Mahon of Ohio. who said that while the | adoption of this plank might do much l to secure the labor vote. 1t would also
 probably have the effect of depriving | the party of the support of the employ
 CTS of labor.
 | The labor question was then tenn | porarily laid aside in order to listen | to a plea from Senator Tillman for
 strong plank in support of the princi- | pie of white supremacy in the South.
 He denounced the plank on this sub | ject in the platform submitted by MT. | Williams, and said:
 If we are to have a declaration at | all let us have one that means some thing and not weak kneed namby- pamby f1imsy thing like that in the so-called Williams platform" The committee then entered upon series of hearings of outsiders. includ- | ing representatives of the anti-impe-
 rialist league; the National Woman's Suffrage Association and organized labor.
 The anti-imperialists were repre- sented by Ira D. Howorth of the Chi l cago University. They asked for the | insertion of the following plank: Antf-ImperialfSt Plank. we accept the great truths of the declaration of independence as eter-
 nal principles of justice, limited to | no time or place, or race of men To
 hold foreign people in subjection is | unjust. un-Democratic un-American. subversive of our national ideals. and | a menace to our own rights and in- | stitutions The retention of the Phil | ippines in a relation of subjection to
 the United States is wrong in princi- pie. and an unnecessary burden and
 peril. We should treat the Filipinos | as we treated the Cubans. We there | fore demand an immediate and de-
 finite pledge of speedy independence for these islands, and insist that the
 United States government direct its
 best efforts to the earliest possible full | fllmcnt of such pledges" The equal suffragists were represent
 ed by Mrs. Priscilla Hackstaff, of New | York, Mrs. Kate M. Gordon of New
 Orleans. and Mrs. Louise NJ. Worth of
 St. Louis. They asked for a declara-
 tion in favor of recognition of their | sex.
 PendIeton's Shipping Plank. The committee was asked to con
 slider the question of a shipping plank | by Field s. PendIeton of New York