Connecticut western news., 1908-07-16
Second Place Goes to Kern of Indiana by ACCId-
 nation.

tlonS duu speCldIOTS rose en maSSe and joined in the reverberating chorus of tribute to the Nebraska candidate. The standards of the states were wrenehed from their places and borne through the hall to the platform, while banners bearing the portrait of the Commoner were waved aloft, and the
 multitude joined in long continued tribute. At times the intensity of the demonstration threatened a panic. One woman was borne out of the hall fainting.
 One of the banners borne aloft that aroused much enthusiasm was labeled 'Missouri-Nominate Bryan, and We Will Show You"
 Only six banners were missing from I the states ill the parade through the aisles after the grouping at the stage had broken into a procession. They were Maryland Minnesota, New York, Georgia, New Jersey and Delaware | Governor Johnson of Minnesota was placed in nomination by w. S. Ham, mOnd of Minnesota and Judge Gray of Delaware by Irving Handy of that state. Their names were cheered, but ! comparable to that which greeted the name of Mir Bryan. The cheers for Johnson lasted twenty-five minutes.
 The defeat of Colonel J. NJ. Guffey of Pittsburg, national committeeman from Pennsylvania. as a candidate for reelection was accomplished by the faction headed by James Kerr of Clear | field Pa, at q meeting held in the con- vention auditorium. Colonel Guffey and his followers left the hall and re- fused to participate in the caucus. James Kerr was elected national com mitteeman, 42h votes being cast for and none against him. D. c. Dewitt. a delegate, declined to vote, stating that he doubted the regularity of the proceedings. | There are nineteen new members on the national committee. New York's representative continues to be Norman E. Mack. New Jersey has chosen Rob- ert E. Hudspeth, to succeed William B. Gourley.
 I The platform preamble as adopted by the committee reads as follows: | ''We, the representatives of the Dem ocrats of the United States in national 1 convention assembled, reafRrn our be- lief in and pledge our loyalty to the principles of the party. | The Source of Graft.
 "We rejoice at the increasing signs of an awakening throughout the coun- try. The various Investigations have traced graft and political corruption | fo tof Nf wealth and laid bare the unscrupulous methods by which they have de, bauched elections and preyed upon | defenseless public through the sub- servient officials whom they have raised to place and power.
 '"The conscience of the nation Is now | aroused to free the government from | the grip of those who have made 1t a | business asset of the favor seeking cor porations. It must become again a peoples government and be admins tered in all its departments according l to the Jeffersonian maxim of equal l rights to all and special privileges to none.'
 "'Shall the people ruler is the over | shadowing issue which manifests It. l self in all the questions now under discussion"
 Other blanks of the platform as ap- proved are as follows:
 "The courts of justice are the bull wark of our liberties, and we yield | to none in our purpose to maintain | their dignity. Our party has given to 1 the bench long line of distinguished judges, who have added to the respect ] and confidence in which this depart
 ment must be jealously maintained.
 We resent the attempt of the RepulI- lican party to raise false issues re- specting the judiciary. It is an un- | just reflection upon q great body of our citizens to assume that they lack respect for the courts.
 Ut is the function of the courts to interpret the laws which the people create and if the laws appear to work economic, social or political injustice it is our duty to change them. The only basis upon which the integrity of our courts can stand is that of un- swerving justice and protection of life. personal liberty and property. If | judicial processes may be abused we | l Experience has proven the necessi- l ty of modification of the present
 law relating to injunctions, and we
 reiteFate the pledge of our national
 platform of 1896 and 1904 in favor of
 the measure which passed the United i States senate in 1896, but which i Republican congress has ever since re- | fused to enact relating to contempts | in federal courts and providing for
 trial hy jury in cases of indirect con- | tempt.
 "Questions of judicial practice have
 arisen, especially in connection with
 industrial disputes. We deem that the
 parties te all judicial proceedings
 should he treated with rigid impar-
 tiaity and that injunctions should not
 be issued in any cases in which in- i junctions would not issue if no indus trial dispute were involved.