The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-16
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INSTRUCTED
FOR PARKER
Mississippi and Arkansas
Conventions.
THE MEETING AT JACKSON
All Done In Accord With
Wishes of Williams.
Platform Adopted Demands Revision
of Tariff by the Friends of the
Masses and Not by Its
THE MEETING AT JACKSON


Jackson. Miss, June 15.--The Demo-
ternoon instructed the delegates from
Mississippi to the National Convention
to vote for Judge Alton b. Parker, as
long as there was any chance for his
nomination.
Little or no work was done by the
convention this morning. most of the
time being taken up in speech MAX
ing. The permanent chairman of the
convention was former Congressman
A. F. Cox of West Point During the
morning hours, rousing speeches were
made by Congressman Williams, Sem
ators Money and McLaurin, and Gov
ernor Vardaman
After the speeches, the convention
adjourned until o'clock in order to
give the districts time in which to
bring in their nominations for dele
gates to the national convention and
for State committeeman.
The following is the delegation from
the State at large:
Congressman Williams, Senator's
Money and McI.aurin. Governor Varda
man, former Congressman T. C. Catch
ings and former Congressman Hooker.
The platform committee, through its
chairman, Congressman Williams, re-
ported a platform.
Substance of Platform.
1t calls for economy in the expendi-
ture of public money; honesty in the
public service; the nomination of a
citizen trained in the ways of the con-
stitution, wise. conservative and
business reduction of the tariff by the
friends of the masses and the com
monwealth and not by the friends of
it's abusers; the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine as conceived by JEFF
ferson and announced by Monroe In
this connection the platform says:
1--WE think 1t our duty to guard from
European oppression and colonization
and from European super-imposition
of monarchial intrusions, the coun-
tries of the Western Hemisphere; but
we do not think It our duty nor did
Jefferson. Madison, Monroe or Jack
son imagine 1t our duty, under the
Monroe doctrine, as the acting Pres
ident of the United States seems to
conceive it, to administer the affairs
of Central and South America
Referring to the preservation of
the open door in the Orient" the plat
form contains a strong plea for free
dom for the Filipinos, 1t says that the
white man has no right to go to the
brown mans country and set up his
civilization. but lays down the propo-
sition that it is the duty of the white
man to preserve his own civilization
in his own country Speaking OF the
Filipino freedom the platform says:
Freedom for philippines.
That tie Filiptnos can work out a
civilization of their own we have rea-
son to hope from the lesson which the
japanese have taught the world and
II is no matter of ours II their civili-
cation should not be like ours; that
which they evolve for themselves may
not be the best in the world. but II
will be the best for them and far
better than any veneering of ours, UNI
assimilablc by them as race and
alien to their traditions and aspira-
tions."
The platform also demands "a gem
eral reduction of the revenues of the
general government to an amount ad-
equate to the needs of constitutional
government"
The platform also favors statehood
for Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mex
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