The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-06
|State Convention Adopts Document Drawn Up by
 "the Ideal Democrat" and Instructs Dele- gates for Him.
LITTLE NEW IS ADVANCED
No Government Ownership
 Currency Bills and Asiatic Immigration Condemned Stand Patters Ridiculed.

Omaha, Neb., March 5.-This was "Bryan day" in Omaha and through out Nebraska. With the democratic state convention as a nucleus, party leaders from every county and prac- tically every primary district in the Commonwealth, gathered here to pledge allegiance to the presidential Inspirations of MT, Bryan and to con sider means for furthering his inter ests before the democratic national uonvention at Denver next July. En- fhusiasm characterized the day. It began early in the afternoon session of the convention, and gradually gathering volume, was vociferous ana tumultuous when at the beginning of the evening session the platform com mittee presented this resolutions:
 "The democratic party of Nebraska again declares confidence in, and ad- miration for, William Jennings Bryan. In him we behold the ideal American citizen-the ideal democrat We re- joice that the principles which he has so ably advocated have been gladly received and are now generally ac cepted by the American people.
 Resolved, That the delegates or this convention chosen be and are hereby instructed to vote as unit for the nomination of Mir Bryan for the presidency"
 Brief as this official endorsement of MT. Bryan's candidacy is, 1t met the full approval of the delegates. SIX teen men were selected during the afternoon to represent the state at Denver.
 The platform as whole was large ly Mir. Bryan's own work That It reflected the leaders views as to what should form the issues upon which the party should go before the coun- try next fall was not denied.
 Mir. Bryan however, said that the declarations of the platform were necessarily incomplete; that some subjects subsequently, will be in cluded in the national platform, were omitted. while others were treated in the Nebraska document in a purpose lv brief manner so as to allow ampli- fication at Denver,
 The platform advanced little that was new. The Fowler and Aldrich cur rencv bills were condemned. Emer- rencv currency, it was declared "should be issued and controlled by the federal government
 Immediate revision of the tariff was emphasized as a necessity, the stand bat" policy being ridiculed in terms that made the delegates shout with Laughter.
 A flat declaration opposing AsiatiC Immigration and & clause favoring tho eight hour working day were decided ly popular. So, too, were the para graphs favoring extension of irriga- tion and reclamation projects.
 An endorsement of the Drago doc trine. is so far as that doctrine ap plies to the United States navy, ant declaration that jury trials should be granted defendants in contemp cases, where the alleged offense wa committed outside the presence of thu court caused some notice. One of thu welI applauded clauses was tha dealing with anarchy. There was n' Inference to government ownership il the platform, neither was there { r'personal liberty" clause therein. Tn platform in full follows:
 The Platform.
 We, the representatives of the dem ocracy of Nebraska, in delegate con vention assembled, reaffirm our falt lin, and pledge our loyalty to the prin ciples of our party We rejoice at tn increasing signs of an awakening i the United States. The various inves tigations have traced graft and politi cal corruption to the representative of predatory wealth and laid bare tn interruptions methods by which the have debauched elections and preye upon a defnseless public through tn subservient officials whom they hay raised to place and power.
 The conscience of the nation is no' aroused and will, if honestly appeale to, free the government from the gri of those who have made it bushes asset of the favor-seeking corpora tions: it must become again "a gov ornment of the people by the peop and for the people" and be admins tered in all its departments accordin to the Jeffersonian maxim "equi rights to all and special privileges none
 This is the overshadowing issue 1; this time: it manifests itself in all Il ouestions not under discussion and d. mands immediate consideration.
 We heartily approve of the laws pr hibiting the pass and the rebate. ar insist upon further legislation, sta and national. making it unlawful f any corporation to contribute to can paign funds and providing for put lication. before the election, of all il dividual contributions above a reasoi able minimum
 Opposed to Generalization.
 Believing. with Jefferson, in ''tl support of the state governments all their rights as the most compete Administrations for our domestic co cerns and the su-est bulwark again