The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-15

uetense or the JuuEe Dy eayln8 Lndt " was true that the judge had made a mistake in 1ss6. but that it should be overlooked. After considerable con- sultation over the method of voting, the first ballot was taken and it showed that William Saulsbury of Do- yer, a Bryan man, had received a ma jority of the votes. Three more bal lots were taken without result and then Caleb. F. Pennewell. of Dover. a Gray man. was nominated by accla- nation.
 unanimous. The national delegates selected by New Castle county are Peter J. Ford and l.. Irving Handy. Mir. Irwin nominated Judge Gray in the last national convention and he may again be elected for that agree able duty.
 The Sussex county national dele gates are Landreth Layton. of George town, and William T. Eicords. of Laurel.
 The convention was delayed on &C., count of the caucuses and was not called to order until after 1 o'clock. After naming the committees. a recess was taken.
 The convention reassembled shortly before 3 o'clock. The platform as re- ported by the resolutions committee was agreed to.
 The Platform.
 We declare our attachment to our dual system of government. consist ing of sovereign States, which are the surest bulwark against -Republi- can tendencies at home, indisoluby uni ted in general government which Is the sheet anchor of our safety abroad.
 The local self government, by which power to manage their own affairs is most efficiently retained in the hands of the people, can only be maintained in the future, as it has been in the past, by unfa1tering devotion to the rights of the States as reserved to them in the Federal Constitution.
 "The exertion of the just powers of the Federal government conferred by the Constitution, are amply suffi. cient to accomplish the ends for which they were intended. Any extension of these powers is only to be brought about by the consent of the States tn hemselves given in the manner pre- scribed in the Constitution.
 The suggestion that their extension can be accomplished by strained judi ctal construction or by executive usurpation to meet the purposes of those, who, for the time being, are in possession of governmental power AASA Aec cAl OACCrdtfOHy anu be rebuked at the polls by the votes of free people. Constitutions, State and national. were intended to stand the strain and stress of popular ex- citement and a strict observance of the constitutional limitations imposed on governmental power is essential to the preservation of our liberties.
 The Republican President has dic- tated to the Congress; and he has harshly criticised the decisions of the court; he has sought to enlarge the powers of the general government be- yond its constitutional grants and to curtail the constitutional rights Of the States to exercise exclusive power over their domestic affairs. We urge the election of a President who will superintend and defend the Constitu- ton as 1t has been written, and will himself observe and obey it's limita- tions by treating the Congress and the Supreme Court as coordinate and not subordinate departments of the government and who will recognize the Constitutional limitations on execu- tive power to the end that the execu- tive, the legislative and the judicial departments of our government as conL additionally defined, may be preserved unto the future as they have come to us from the past.
 "Ths present tariff law, enacted by the Republican party. has increased tn 6 cost of the necessities of life to the people; 1t has burdened many indus tries in order to subsidize a few; and has promoted the formation of giRan- tic industrial trusts and fostered the establishment of odious monopolies. We demand the immediate revision of the tariff by the friends of the peo- pie.
 We favor the enforcement of all laws enacted by the Congress, and the prosecution of all violators thereof to the full extent of the law, both civil and criminal. regardless of wheth CT the violators be rich or poor, and to this end, we demand especially that the Sherman antitrust act shall be enforced against all Illegal monopolies and not simply against selected few. f,
 Judge Gray Endorsed.
 Holding these views, we present to the Democrats of our sister States, the name of George Gray as our candi- date for the Presidential nomination Without Encouragement of other states men whose names have been suggested we believe that George Gray is the Democrat in whom the American peo- pie can most safely put their trust His devotion to the Constitution, his sympathetic union with the great masses of the people, his passionate devotion to justice and right and his modesty and moderation of character. mark him as the man best fitted to lead our government to the better and safer ways which made 1t glorious in the days of the fathers of the re- public. His personality and career H. lustrate the reform which the evils of our times demand. His rectitude is most pure and beyond the reach of any selfish motive. His judgment is sound, mature and fars1eing. and his patriotism and civic courage have been tested by many years of exalted pub lie service. In urging his nomination we are not inspired by any ambition on his part, nor animated by mere State pride; but we are impelled by a profound conviction that his nomina- ton will insure a victory for our party at the polls, and a great, wise and progressive Democratic administration of the general government.
 We. therefore. hereby direct and instruct the delegates this day elected to support, advocate and, vote for George Gray for the Presidential nom- ination at the Democratic National Convention"
 Mir. Bayard read the Gray letter to the delegates and the convention thereupon adopted a. resolution in- structing the delegates to the conven- tion to vote as unit on all matters.