Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-28
MISSOURIS BIG
FOUR Ito DENVER
BRYAN ENDORSED TO THE END
BY THE STATE DEMO-
GRATIS.
HAD HARMONIOUS SESSION
C~rittenden's Resolution D~isfranchis'
ing Ignorant and Vicious Ne
qroes is Voted Down After
Heated Argument.

jefferson City, Mo.-In the most
harmonious State Convention ever
held in Missouri in thirty years,
United States Senator William j.
Stone, Governor Joseph w. Folk,
former Governor D. R. Francis, of st.
Louis, and former Mayor James A.
Reed, of Kansas City, were named as
delegates at large here Wednesday to
the Democratic National Convention
at Denver, July Z.
viii A. Rothwell, of Moberly, was
reelected National Committeeman
from Missouri without opposition, and
former Governors Alexander N. Dock
cry, of Gallatin; Lon VNStephens, OF
st. Louis, and Thomas 7. C~rittenden,
ST., of Kansas City, and Colonel Moses
G. Wetmore, of st. Louis, were chosen
by reclamation as ~alternates at large.
The presidential electors at large
are: Samuel N. Dickey, Of Webster
county, and former Congressman M.
z. Benton, of Newton county.
Speeches were made before the con-
vention by Senator Stone, Governor
Folk, Mr.. Reed and former Governor
Dockery.
Harmony Keynote Is cheered.
The keynote of eacn was harmony,
q suggestion that met with the entire
approval of the 998 delegates and was
cheered to the echo by the hundreds
of spectators that filled the galleries
and boxes and swarmed out IN the
convention floor.
Mayor T. T. Crittenden, Jr, of Kan
sas City, offered for the second time
his resolution to disfranchise ignorant
and vicious negroes, but after heated
argument it was defeated.
The convention was held in the
large hall {" the House of Represent
atives in the Capitol building. Spa
cious as it is, it was almost unequal
to the throng that clamored for admis-
sion.
John M. Atkinson, of Doniphan,
Ripley county, speaker of the last
House of Representatives, presided as
temporary chairman. Ovid Bell, editor
of the Fulton Gazette, was temporary
secretary.
These officers gave way at the sug-
gestion of the Committee on Organiza-
ton to State Senator Frank M. Media
vid, Of Springfield, who was named
permanent chairman, and M. T. Jen-
kins, editor of the Platte City Land
mark, who was chosen permanent &C.
rotary.
The Platform.
The convention adjourned after adopt
ing the following platform:
The Democracy of Missouri, in conven-
tion assembled, sends greeting to the
Democracy of the nation and gives them
assurance that in November, Missouri.
setting an example of party unity, will
take her proper place in the front rank
of Democratic states, and in view of the
universally admitted fact that national
conventions are exceptionally suspicious
for the Democracy, we appeal to our
brethren throughout the Union to join
with us in the supreme struggle to win
O memorable victory and place the gov
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party of the constitution and the people.
With renewed zeal we reaffirm our al
legiance to the principles of Democracy
as declared by Jefferson, Jackson and
Bryan; and our delegates to the national
convention are hereby instructed to cast
the vote of this state as a unit for the
nomination to the presidency of that in
trepid champion of the people, William J.
Bryan, and to support his candidacy to
the end. .
We indorse the administrations of all
our Democratic governors, from that Of
Woodson to and including that of Gov.
Joseph w. Folk; and we commend the
members of the general assembly in both
senate and house for the many wise avs
passed from time to time in the interest
of the people.
We indorse the official records of Will
liam ]. Stone, United States senator, INC
Of the Democratic members from Mis-
souri, In the national hous of representa-
lives.
In as much as the national convention
Is soon to formulate a declaration of
principles, we refrain from any attempt
to present the views of the Missouri
Democracy upon national questions at
this time; but in advance of the Den
yer convention, we appeal to the patriotic
Democracy of Missouri, under whose con-
troll she has grown to be one of the
most powerful c~ommonwealths of the ma
ton, to rally as one mar at the Novem-
Der election and fully restore her to her
Dld-time prestige as a Democratic state.
We call attention to the fact that prior
to the election of 1904 the Republican
press and partisans again and again
charged the officials Of Missouri with hav-
ing squandered and looted the school
and other public funds Of the state and
promised the people that if they were
given an opportunity to see the books
they would demonstrate that those ma
icious and libelous charges upon the good
name of this state were true; and we
now point with pride to the fact that
after they have for almost four years
been in sole charge of the books they
have found everything in excellent condi-
ton. not one dollar missing. and they
have been compelled to confess by their
very silence that they, by their unwar-
ranted and false charges, libeled and
slandered their own state simply for par
tisan purposes.
Development of Waterways.
The Democratic party has always stood
+ Tor internal Improvement and especially
Tor the development of the waterways Of
the country into such complete naviga-
bility that they would act as checks on
the rates of the railways and secure
1 better service by competition. River reg
! llation naturally, and is better than regu-
, Iation by legislative enactment, as 1t
works automatically. The St. Louis plat
.orm of the national Democratic conven-
ton OF 1904 declared: I'VE favor liberal
appropriations for the care and inn
$ provement of the waterways Of the coun-
try. When any waterway like the Mis-
sissippi river is Of sufficient importance
+ to demand special aid of the govern
ment. such aid should be extended with
, definite plan of continuous work until
permanent Improvement is secured