The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-02
NEBRASKA is BRYAN's
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with the Lancaster delegation while
he was on the floor of the convention.
The proceedings were characterized
by harmony and the delegates at all
times appeared anxious to outdo each
other in their support of the leaders
and the principles they represented.
H. H. Hawks was chairman of the
convention.
Several speeches were delivered.
among them being addresses by Mr.
Bryan in support of the platform; by
Congressman Cochran and the dele
gates selected to the national conven-
ton. The delegates at large are w. J..
Bryan, Lancaster; G. J. Smyth, Oma-
ha, former secretary of state; w. H.
Thompson, Grand Island, candidate for
governor in 1902, and Walter Phillips,
of Columbus.
James c. Dahlman, of Omaha, was
unanimously elected national commit
teeman from Nebraska.
Text of the Resolutions.
Following is the platform
We reaff1rm our faith in Democratic
principles as those principles were set
AOA tA III tie last 1ldllOIldI pldIIOrm or tile
party, adopted at Kansas City, in 1900
Democracy means the rule of the people,
a government resting upon the consent of
the governed and administered accord
Ing to the will and in the interest of the
people.
With an increasing love for the princi-
pies of Democracy and an increasing
confidence in their final triumph, we look
upon the present time as opportune for
their earnest and courageous promulga-
| tton with a chief executive who has dis
| regarded constitutional limitations stirred
| up antagontsm between the races, en-
ployed all the powers of his Office to Sc
| cure a denomination and purchased po-
| 1itical support by turning the treasury
department over to the financiers and
putting the law department into the hands
of the trusts. With such a chief eXecu-
tive and with Republican leaders openly
| and arrogantly in league with organized
wealth, the country imperatively needs a
return of the government to positive and
clearly defined Democratic principles.
| Democracy as taught by Jefferson and ex-
emplified by Jackson is the support Of the
| republic and offers the only relief from
the plutocracy which now dominates the
Republican party and through that party
the country.
Would Root Out MonopoIies.
Democracy would oppose as inimicaI to
| the welfare of the people all private
monopolies and would exterminate them
by the enforcement of the remedies Sug-
geSted in the Kansas City platform. The
failure of the present administration to
enforce existing laws or to suggest more
effective laws is conclusive proof that it
lacks the desire, the intelligence or the
moral courage to attack the conscience
less combinations Of capital that have
fiourished during recent years.
Democracy would relieve the country
Of nf for
the example set by this country in its
dealing with Cuba and giving the Fill
pinos an immediate promise of ultimate
independence. The adminiStra tion of a
colonial system, according to monarchiai
principles, is repugnant to our theory OF
government and cannot be depended upon
without the assertion of doctrines which,
if carried out, will undermine free gov
ernment in the United States.
Tariff on Revenue Basis.
Democracy would restore the tariff to
a revenue basis and administer it for
revenue only. thus demolishing the legal
bulwarks behind which the predatory
trusts have found refuge: Protection for
protectors sake is an ingenious device
for the exploitation Of the masses by the
privileged classes; it has brought great
injustice to the consumers and has been
the fruitful source of widespread political
corruption.
Democracy would administer the treas
ury department on behalf of the public,
not as now in the interest of Wall street
1t would prevent the recoinage of legal
tender silver dollars into limited legal
tender subsidiary coin 1t would secure
to the people a volume Of standard money
sufficient to keep pace with the demand
for money. 1t would favor paper money
issued by the government without the
intervention OF national banks. 1t would
resist the attempt to establish an asset
currency and branch banks, and il would
oppose the loaning of government money
to private banks, a scheme by which the
people money is employed to lay foun-
dation for campaign fund and to bribe
the financial interests to oppose any re-
duction of taxation. The present admin
iStration of the treasury department is
oppressively beneficial to the capitalistic
class and progressively harmful to the
producers Of wealth.
Income Tax Proposed.
Democracy would make taxation more
equitable by collecting a part of the rev
constitutional amendment. and would
bring the government nearer to the people
by the popular election of United States
senators and direct legislation.
Democracy would strictly regulate the
railroads, thus protecting farmers and
merchants from excessive rates and dis
ordinations.
Democracy would safeguard the inter-
ests of the wage Garner and the artisan by
providing for an eight-hour day; by sub
stituting arbitration for strikes and lock-
outs, and by restoring the right of trial
by jury, now suspended by government
Injunction.
Democracy would secure to the sur
viving soldiers and sailors and their de-
pendents generous pensions, not by an
arbitrary order, but by legislation, which
grateful people stand ready to enact.
Democracy would construct an isthmian
canal without a violation OF treaty OBJ
legations and without exciting suspicion
among our sister republics of Central and
South America.
punish Betrayal