The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-15
BRYAN'S PUBLICITY
No Contribution Over $10,000 and None from Corpora
 tions to Be Accepted.
JOINS KERN IN STATEMENT
And All Amounts Over S100 Must Be Published Before Elcc-
 tion Day.

Fairvlew, Lincoln, Neb,, July l4,- Members of the democratic national committee. and a number of others, holding proxies, conferred with W, J. Bryan and ], w, Kern, the presidential and presidential nominees, respec- lively, at the Bryan home today, with reference to the selection of chair man of the committee. and other vital matters of campaign management.
 The democratic national committee in executive session today adopted q resolution, outlined as follows
 No contributions shall be accepted from corporations; no contribution over slO,O00 shall be accepted, All oontrlbu- tons over Sl0O will be made public october l5, Thereafter immediate pub licatlon will be given. Contributions un- der sl00 will not be published, no mon ey will be received after November l. !"
 The national committeeman present were: Messrs. Mack. -New York; Tag gart. Indiana: Sullivan, Illinois, Tuck CT, Arkansas: Tomlinson, Alabama; Coughln. Massachusetts; Wood, Mich igan; Daniels, North Carolina; Greene, Rhode Island; Brady. Oklahoma; Cum mlngs. Connecticut; Donnely, Idaho; Wade. Iowa, osborne, Wyoming; VII Hams. Mississippi; Talbot Maryland; Kerr. Pennsylvania; Johnson. Texas {; Nebeker, Utah; Jones. New Mexico.
 aIr. Bryan, on behalf of himself and Mr, Kern, after the luncheon today, read the following:
 Gentlemen of the Committee: The platform recently adopted by the na- tlonal committee of our party at Den yer contains the following pledge
 We pledge the democratic party to the enactment of law prohibiting any corporation from contributing to a campaign fund and any individual from contributing an amount above a reasonable amount. and providing for the publication before election of all contributions above a reasonable mini mum.
 MT. Kern and I are In hearty sym pathy with this pledge, and are gratl- fled at It's adoption. With its fulfill ment a new era In American politics will begin. Elections will then be reg ulated as public affairs and the in nuences which control them instead of being secret will be known to the voters
 As an earnest token that our party will make good its pledges we ask you to construe this plank, and put 1t into immediate operation. This can he done by the adoption of a resolution announcing that In pursuance of the policy outlined in that pledge, your committee will not accept any contri- button whatever from any corpora ton; that IL will not accept any con tribution from any individual above a reasonable amount. and that 1t will make publication before election .of all contributions above a reasonable minimum We suggest for your ap- proval maximum of $l0,000 and q minimum of slO0, no contribution tc be received above s10,000, and all contributions above 500 to be made public before the election.
 We suggest, also, that on or be. fore the fifteenth day of October publications shall be made of all con. trbuttons above sl00 received up tc that date; that after the fifteenth oi october publication shall be made oi such contributions on the day that the same are received and that nc contributions above s100 shall be ac. cepted within three days of the cleo. tion."
 The committee then adopted thC resolution outlined above. Its tex reads AS follows:
 Resolved, That tho democratic ma tional committee, in pursuance of tho pledge given In the national platform recently adopted at Denver, announces that 1t will accept no contributions whatever from corporations; that | will accept no individual contributions above S1O,000, and that 1t will makt publication before the election of al individual contributions above sl00 contributions received before october 15 being published on or before tha date, and contributions received afte that date being published upon dat, upon which the are received, and tha no contribution above $100 shall b, accepted within three days of th' | election