The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-08
VIM. J. BRYAN sIS ENDORSED andiana Democrats in
 Convention. CHEER NAME OF NEBRAsKAN Platform Denouneing Republican
 Party's Record Adopted. Omcers Nominated nnd Great Enthusi- asm Is Manifested When Message
 is Sent Across Seas to Peer
 less Leader.

crats or Indiana in convention today adopted a platform strongly endorsing William Jennings Bryan for the presi- dency and selected a ctate ticket for all officers except Governor and re- porter for the Supreme Court.
 The platform was adopted unanf- mously The endorsement of William J. Bryan was received with an out burst that lasted a half minute. The following ticket was nominated:
 Secretary of State. James F. Cox. Co., lumbus.
 Auditor, Marion Bailey, Lizton.
 Treasurer, John Isenbarger, North Manchester.
 Attorney General. Walter J. Lotz. Muncia '
 Clerk of the Supreme Court. Bert New. North Vernon
 Superintendent of Public Instruction. Robert J. Haley. Monroe county.
 Benjamin F.. Shively, of South Bend former Representative in Congress from the Thirteenth District was perma- nent chairman.
 Benjamin E. Shively of South Bend, former representative in Congress from the Thirteenth Indiana District, was permanent chairman. and in his address said:
 The use of governmental power for private purposes is the beginning of what is today called graft. Such use of governmental power creates a dis tinct class in the country with inter ests, special and apart from the in terests common to their fellow citi- gems The beneficiaries of government tal power unconsciously come to re- gard their own peculiar privileges as of paramount public concern. They come to countenance and even support other abuses and mischiefs in govern ment so long as their own special ad- vantages are conserved The result of this old system of farming out the powers of government has been to bring Into the Republic ascenfcderacy of special privilege that is today con testing for supremacy with the Amer s I ican people.
 Tn exchange for the favors 1t has received and expects to receive 1t has l for many years capitalized the Repub- l lican organization, financed its, cam paigns, secured the election of It's can didates. and required them to stand pat after they were elected.
 The McCalls. McCurdys and Alexan- ders had witnessed, the trust proper ties of government turned over to pri- vate interest and its power farmed out for selfish gain. They had witnessed those functions which had been con- ferred for beneficent purposes trans formed into merchandise. They could not appropriate the great trust of funds in their charge for political purposes without crime. The chairman
 treasurer of the National Republican Committee could not receive those funds without crime. Yet because of the moral turpitude. bern of persistent and successful merchandising in power. these men. not only made this criminal use of trust funds, but openly and un blushingly justified it.
 Republicans Witness It.
 Republican United States Senator Mitchell had witnessed the wrongful appropriation of the public property to private individuals under the form of law and he and his associates attempt ed the wrongful appropriation without tbe form of law of three hundred thou sand acres of the public land and he died on his way to prison. A Repuhli- can United States Senator from Ne braska peddled out the post offices of his state for his own gain as a hawker peddles fish and only escaped convic- tion on a technicality.
 Republican United States Senator Burton of Kansas. employed the power of his Senatorial ofice to protect a get-rich-quick concern that was pick ing the pockets of his Kansas constit- uents. A Platt and Depew-men long in the public life of the country and who had been regarded as paragons of official and business integrity-are at last discovered to have been the com monest short of common grafters.
 The disease itself suggests the remedy. 1t began where public power was first diverted from public pur- poses. and made the source of private property Withdraw privilege and the temptation to the corruption which 1t engenders disappears. Let all men, all n all afa under the law and all men will then have a common interest in clean and just government"
 MT. Shively discussed the tariff. re- viewed the history of the Democratic party and emphasized the support giv- en by the Democrats in Congress in the interest of interstate commerce legis- lation. Referring to William J. Bryan he said:
 That which Is today eulogized and approved as broad statemanship and enlightened patriotism in Theodore Roosevelt was only a few years ago denounced as reactionary, revolution ary and unpatriotic In William Jen- nings Bryan. The after sight of the one Is almost equal to the foresight of the other"
 The resolution committee was at work on the platform until after 9 o'clock today and the report was not re1dY unlll Ine was m Se~- sion. It was read hv Samuel L Ral- ston, of Lebanon, chairman of the com mittee and besides a number of blanks on state issues said
 The Democracy of Indiana, In con- vention assembled renews It's alles- lance to the principles of constitutional government through laws enacted and in the interests of the whole people without favor to individual or class. IL pledges itself when returned to pow CT to correct the evils that have grown out of Republican official shortcom- ings. to an economical administration of public affairs, and to the consis- tent enforcement of the laws pertain ing to public welfare
 Greetings To Bryan.
 Tt sends greetings across the sec. to that wise and conservative states man. unfaltering patriot and superb leader, William Jennings Bryan, and pledges its vote In convention and the electoral vote of Indiana to him for president In 1908
 For nearly ten years the Republi- can party has been in absolute control of all departments of the national gov