The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-03
HEARST was NOMINATED.
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS SELECT
NEWSPAPER MAN GOVERNOR.
He Wins on the First Ballot With
Votes to Spare--Abstract of Plat
form.

O'Clock tonight the Democratic State
convention had perfected its organ
ization, adoptd the platform, in
cluding resolution felicitating Bryan
and adopted the majority report OF
the committee on contested seats.
protection, which enables a few to
substantial lead, for Hearst. The NOM
ination Of candidates for governor
was then begun, an Albany county
delegates leading off for Hearst
Sulzer was placed in nomination
by George Rains of Monroe, amid
wild cheering.
the cheering for sulzer continues
after three minutes, many Of the de-
legates standing on the chairs and
calling loudly "Sulzer."
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Buffalo, n. Y, Sept. 26.-The fol-
lowing is an abstract of the platform
adopted by the Democratic, conven-
ton:
"At this, time when the authority of
Democracy is invoked to defend
plunder of the masses by few rich
men, through partial laws on one
hand and on the other to justify
many extravagant and revolutionary
proposals which if adopted must in
evitably produce worse disasters than
the abuses they seek to cure, we deem
it eminently fitting to declare that
the whole Democratic principles is
embraced in the injunction laid on
the first m hat in the sweat Of
their brow ne and all his posterity
must eat their bread.
eve denounce Republican high
protection, which enable a few to
plumber the whole body Of their fell
low citizens, by charging extortionate
prices for the necessaries Of life and
the essentials of industry.
eve do deplore as the most sinis-
ter consequence Of the corrurtion,
and graft which degrade our political
and industrial life the widespread
distrust and discredit Of Republican
government which they have pro-
duced and which have led many men
Of undoubted probity and ardent
patriotism to listen patiently, if not
approvingly to proposals distinctly
socialistic, which if adopted, must in
evitably wreck the foundation Of
Republican government and endanger
the entire fabric of Christian civiliza-
ton.
eve hold that the cure for these
abuses is not in socialism, which by
enormously extending the power of
government must aggravate, but in
Democracy, which by excluding gov
ernment from any interference
whatever with private industry, must
cure them.
eft is the duty Of the government
to ascertain the actual cost of oper-
ating al public service corporations
and to fix from time to time reason
able rates for the service they per-
form.
owe ask the federal government to
exercise its influence to bring about
speedy cessation Of the atrocities now
being committed against the Jews in
Russia.
''In common with the Democrats Of
all the States and expressing the SEN
timent of the high-minded citizen
ship Of the republic without refer
ence to party, We view with pride and
satisfaction the hospitality and ac-
claim which have been accorded, at
home and abroad, to the great Demo-
cratic leader and typical American,
William Jennings Bryan, to whom the
delegates Of New York extend most
cordian and sincere fluctuations.
'Where the law not only permits
but empowers great trusts to exact
for their products from the people of
this country prices vastly, exceeding
those asked in foreign countries and
this power to plunder our citizens is
treated as the property Of certain
private corporations. openly capita
lized for billions of dollars the vast
volume of tribute drawn from the
masses of the community is the least
pernicious of its results. The wide
emulation in plunder which it evokes
as its worst result.
eve denounce the socialism which
seeks to make government the sole
agent of production as nothing less
than PROPOSAL to re-estaplish the in
stitution OF tyranny and industrial
slavery which perished before the ad-
vance of Christian civilization