The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-18
WISCONSIN FOR MR. WALL
Hearst Men Beaten in Mil-
 Waukee Convention.
Republicans of Illinois stsII Unable te Agree Upon a Candidate for Csov- nor--Deneen Gains sher-
 mans Votes.

Santa Cruz. Cal, May 17.--By a major ity of 19 votes, the Democratic State Con- vention tonight instructed the delegation D the National Convention at St. Louis b vote for Congressman w. R. Hearst for President The vote stood: For in- struction 365, against 346.
 The day was consumed in attempting to effect permanent organization, drafing resolutions, oratory and clearing the decks for vote.
 During the forenoon and a portion of tho afternoon, the headquarters of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions was the scene of contests. The forenoon was spent in reaching a decision on the declaration of principles.
 There was some unexpected delay on the tariff plank. The plank presented by tho subcommittee to the main committee was thought by some to savor too much of Republicanism and substitutes were proposed. The matter was finally settled by referring the plank to the sub-com- mittee who agreed upon g. plank satis- factory to the convention.
 Platform Adopted.
 The platform presented by the commit tee and adopted says:
 The primal purpose of the tariff must be the raising of sufficient revenue to  administered.
 The difference between parties is one of the degrees of protection to be afford ed. The abolition of the tariff on pro- ducts of foreign countries is not contem- plated by the Democratic Party.
 Continuance of the present rate of tar- If tax is neither necessary for the pro- v!ding of revenue nor the equalization Of tho difference between the cost of pro- auction at home and abroad, is unjus- tiEable, and it's sole effect Is to encour- age the formation in the United States of trusts and naonopolies.
 The Democratic Party pledges itseit to a a4carefufxa xand fair revision of tho existing tariff We favor the reduce ton of all uFAfAfr and excessive duties levied on artfctas similar to those pro- iticeA by trusts and industrial combi- nations, and which permit and encour- age the creation of monopolies.
 Continuing, the platform says:
 we demand a strict and impartial enforcement of all existing antitrust laws and the enactment of such addi- tional acts by Federal and State gov ernments as will prevent the formation of monopolistic combinations and trusts which control prices.
 The Evils of the Trusts.
 we believe that the Federal Govern ment must exert such control over ex- cessive combinations of capital, that the evils of the trust system be elim- hated without loss of advantages which accrue from a mor9 perfect or Kanization of industry aE.d trade
 On the labor question the platform says:
 we recognize the organization ot labor to be a distinct contribution tc our growing civilization, the logica and inevitable counterpart of organiza- ton in all other departments of busi- ness, and we believe In progressive legislation looking to shorter hours of labor and to the enforcement of better relations between employers and em- ployed, through some rational method of arbitration, acceptable to the popu- lar sentiment of the land"
 On the Panama Canal, the platform says:
 While recognizing that commercial interests in the United States and of the world be subserved and greatly promoted by the construction, control and operations of interoceanic ship ca nal across the Central American isth- mus, and while the Democratic Party |; California and the Union ever favored and advocated such canal, and does yet do so we do not approve the meth ods that have been employed by the ad- ministration in securing a right of way for such a canal. We condemn such methods as destructive of the integrity of a confederated republic"