The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-15
BEDLAM REIGNS AMONG THE
 DEMOCRATS OF ILLINOIS
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lowed by the cheers of the Hearst dele gates.
 William C. Crolus of Joliet made brief speech endorsing the stand taken by Mr. i'rentiss and also withdrew ms name from the convention.
 Then can another long wait during which the widest confusion prevailed on the floor and several fist fights took p,ace between the delegates. None or them amounted to more than an inciden- tai diversion from the routine
 Clayton r. Crafts of Chicago then came f, rward with the platform. He read: we, the democrats of Illinois-who are demo- crats--''
 You're no democrat" came from the Hearst people, and the hoots and Jeers that greeted Crafts compelled him to sus- pend for time.
 He fad a similar experience when he announced we believe in the rule or the majority'-pungent questions reeking with sarcasm were hurled at him In profusion and the hooters were again strongly in evidence The resolution providing for the endorsement of MT. Hearst was not made a part of the report of the committee on Iesolutions, but was submitted to the convention as a separate matter. The original resolution provided practically that the Illinois delegation should vote for Hearst until 1t will be convenient to vote for somebody else. A substitute, of fered by Clarence S. Darrow, pedsing the delegates to Hearst as long as his name Is before the convention. was then adopted by vote of 9S6 to S95-
 The nomination of candidates was then taken up
 The platform follows
 Platform Is Adopted. 'We, the delegates of the democratic party of the state of Illinois, in con vention assembled, do hereby declare that the democratic party of the state of llli- nois will zealously cooperate with the democratic party of the United States in it's efforts to restore the national gov ernment to the American people, freed from the spirit of greed with which it has been defiled during the last eight years of republican riot of corruption, extravaganza, favoritism and misrule. We point to the recent revelations of corruption in the postoffice of Washing ton.
 ITO a depleted treasury, shown by the last treasury statement at Washington.
 ITO the failure of the attorney general to prosecute illegal trusts and comblna- lions, and the promoters thereof by criminal action.
 ITO the refusal of congress to reduce the tariff tax on those articles which enable the illegal trusts and combinations to plunder the people; and
 ITO the fact that the attorney general left 1t to a private citizen for the large expense to uncover the coal trust as prov ing the truth of the above charge against the republican party.
 50 far as government is concerned, It's laws and the enforcement thereof, the right of labor must be protected as vigil lantly as our life. liberty and property, for free labor is the basis of all these, and upon their preservation depends the permancy of our free institutions.
 The Plank on Labor.
 'The compensation for labor must be just and fair So far as government is concerned and its law and the enforce ment thereof they should not enable any one, either openly or by subterfuge, or de- vice to keep, or take from the laborer a just and fair wage. All laws, whether state or national. that afford such op- portunity for wronging some for the bene-