The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1904, Page 2

(& THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1904. COMMITTEE RESULT A COMPROMISE ACCEPTABLE TO ALL AND "ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY Bryan Gains Several Points During Con- troversy and Succeeds in Having Gold Plank Withdrawn Completely. ST. LOUIS, July 8.—After a continu-jit would be unwise to insist upon the | n of sixteen hours the com- | income tax plank. ® resolutions perfected the| Senator Bailey then asked unani- mous consent to have both the income adjourned just beforel, ... ament and the gold standard instructing its sub-committee to plank dropped. but to this Hill ob- the draft for submission to the| jecteq and there was a prolonged dis- committee at 6 o'clock, to be| cussion, Hill taking a leading part in to the convention two hours | it. | Hill began by saying that he was in o SR .. ! this campaign not from personzl mo- compronuee 2° ltives, but because of his loyalty and enthusiasm for the Democratic party. He hoped the party would cease its | discussion and agree upon a platform |in harmony with the views of the party generally. He was opposed to the insertion of an income tax plank, because he saw i no necessity for making this new is- on rm and later The platform is a ceptable to all of the ingerests involved vas adopted unanimously by the It to have y be said in a general been a concession to the of the party without in way stifling the declarations of me‘ rvatives. The absence of any pro- the financial question | (P ' significant and discloses the | .y pejieve” he said, “it will hurt utier impossibility of finding any decla- | us, it will weaken our platform, but if ation upon this subject acceptable 10| the members of this committee think all | otherwise it should go in, but the The committee spent the entire night | gyestion of the gold standard is of far way Bryen w ment on is most on viatform, and at 8:30 o'clock | more importance. d the last resolutions which | Hill urged that if the gold plank had n made by the sub-com-!were omitted the party would be mittee. But this did not mean that the | placed in a false position. If the party | platfor was finished and ready fur|was in favor of the free and unlimited the convention. The struggie contin-| oinage of silver, that was another . and at 10 o’clock it was clear that | thing. But through no fault of the agreement on the document as a |party conditions had changed and it vhole could not be reached immediate- 1 During the watch of the long night | he committee there were many dra- | had been proven that the gold stand- ard was the solution of the question. Although the Republican platform de- in matic scenes, not the least striking of | clared in favor of gold he pointed out whic as the verbal encounter be-|that the Democrats, in their platform, s Hill and Bryan. It oc-|could show that the Republicans were Bryan was engaged in|pot responsible for the change in con- making one of his many attacks upon | ditions which made the gola standard | gold ndard plank framed by | desirabie, but the Almighty himself. he sub-committee. He was wrought HILL GROWS ELOQUENT. | uj a h tension when, approach- | ing the New Y. leader and shaking| Speaking directly to the Southern his finger dangerously close to the nose | members, Hill recalled the time of re- | of that Sak Bt erciaiued construction and said he had always You ought to have a gold platform | Worked for Democratic principl go with the gold candidate you are | 21ong Democratic lines, that he had : pon the country been the friend of the South in that Hill replied that he knew nothing as | tr¥ing period and since that time. Hill te Kker's monetary views | talked eloquentiy of the personality Do you mean to sz demanded the | Of Judge Parker. He said that in the | Nebraskan, “that you donm't know |Course of a conversation about ten | Judze Parker’s financial views?' days ago with the New York jurist “(hn- latter said in reply to a question | about the kind of platform the Dem- ocrats should adopt: *“I am entirely willing 1o leave that to the wisdom of the Democratic party.” But while Hill did not assume at | any time to speak for Judge Parker, the committee interpreted the infer- ence of his speech to be that Judge Parker favored the insertion of a gold plank. | Hill declared that the Democrats “I mean just that,” responded Hill. You have no knowledge on that sub- t None.” Have you never asked him?" NEVER ASKED PARKER. | “I have not. I have never sought Lo an expression of his views, and | :ever sought to convey them to me. sly know that he is a Democrat and & high-minded and patriotic man, and 1 believe that he can be trusted implic- | could not possibly nominate a better ity on this as upon other matters of {man that Judge Parker. He was in public policy.” no sense an active candidaté for the | Bryan then demanded to know when | nom: tion, and that he had not dic- the gold plank had been decided upon |tated anything regarding the plat- hy it had not been incorporated | form. Nvew York platform. { "I do not think it is improper for | Hill replied that the matter had first |us to say who we want to win,” con- ussed at the meeting of the|tinued Hill. “We have stood defeats Py about ten days ago and that |in the past and we can stand them the declaration was the result of insist- | again, it is true. This contest for me ence by other members of the delega- ‘ means that T shall devote myself from tion than himself. | now until November to the campaign. At 4:40 this morning the committee | I shall work hard for whomsoever the voted the gold standard plank out of | Democrats nominate, but I think the the Democratic platform by a vote of | platform is of the greatest importance 25 to This was the third #ictory |and especially the gold standard for William J. Bryan during the all- | plank.” night session of the committee. He| Hill was applauded at the conclu- had made two successful efforts early | sion of his speech. in the evening and secured modifica- | Bryan replied at length and insist- tions of the tariff plank on two separ- [ed t in the face of past declara- ate votes. tious, a gold plank would now alien- An effort was made to secure a re- |ate many thousands of Democratic cess after the vote on the gold plank, | voters. He said that when the cam- | but it was voted down and the com- | paign for Judge Parker was started it mittee continued with its work on | was never expected that the Demo- | features of the platform. est was one of the most in- ting features of the convention. The main fight was upon a proposed income tax providing for an amend- ment to the constitution to meet the adverse decision of the Supreme Court upon the Wilson law. It was upon this amendment and the gold plank, the two propositions having been brought | in conjunction, that Bryan made his strong fight. Willlams of Mississippi cratic party was to be brought to a |declaration for the gold standard. Thomas of Colorado also made a strong protest against the gold stand- ard plank. Senator Carmack of Tennessee made a plea especially for the South and said that Democratic success was necessary in the face of the Repub- lican policy of imperialism. He hoped some agreement ‘could be reached which would bring to the support of first offered the income tax amend- |the Democratic South the Democratic ment and it was immediately antag- | party of the East. ..s to the money onized by former Senator Hill, who question, that was for the time set- tled, and he urged that that matter be not injected into the coming cam- stz 1 that with such a plank in the | platform New York could not be car- | ried for the Democratic nominees. He | paign. urged the adoption of a platform | Shiveley of Indiana followed much which enable the Pemocrats to |in the same line as Carmack. win in doubtful States and elect their | cundidates. Williams withdrew his amendment, saying that he, with many | others, was seeking harmony and an | v CKS adjustment of all difficulties, with a RApINe At 2pray. view of succeeding upon a Democratic | Shortly before 4 o'elock Senator Dan- platform. Iiul created a sensation by an attack INCOME TAX AMENDMENT. upon Bryan, which soon evoked cries Fleming of Wisconsin was opposed to the gold plank and favored the dec- laration of Williams’ platform. DN RESOLUT o ION3 STRUGGLES SIXTEEN HOURS CONSTRUGTING PLATFORM TEXT OF THE PLATFORM ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRATS AT ST. LOUIS HE Democratic party of the United States, in national convention assembled, declares its devotion to the essential principles of the Democratic faith, which brings us together in pariy communion. Under them local self-government and national unity and prosperity were alike established. They underlaid our independence, the structure of our free republic and every Democratic extension from Louis- iana to California and Texas to Oregon, which pre- served faithfully in all the States the tie between the nation and representation. They yet inspire the masses of our people, guarding jealously their rights and liberties and cherishing their fraternity, peace and orderly development. They remind us of our duties and responsibilities as citizens and impress upon us, particularly at this time, the necessity of reform. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. 1. The application of these fundamental princi- ples to the living issues of the day is the first step toward the assured peace, safety and progress of our nation. Freedom of the press, of conscience and of speech—equality. The law of all citizens; right of trial by jury—free- dom of the person defended by the wril of habeas corpus; liberty of personal contract untrammeled by sumptuary laws; supremacy of the civil over the military authorit; a_ well disciplined militia; the separation of church and state; economy in expendi- tures; low taxes, that labor may be lightly burdened; prompt and sacred fulfiliment of public and private obligations; fidelity to treaties, peace and friendship with all nations; entangliing alliances with none; absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority, the vitzl principle of republics—these are doctrines which Democ; has established as proverbs of the nation and they should be constantly enforced. CAPITAL AND LABOR. We favor enactment and administration of laws giving labor and capital impartially their just rights. Capital and labor ought net to be enemies. BEach is necessary to the other. Each has its rights, but the rights of labor are certainly no less ‘vested,” no less “sacred” and no less “inalienable” than the rights of capital. CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE. Constitutional guarantees are violated whenever any citizen is denied the right to labor, acquire and enjoy preperty or reside where interest or inclination m determine. Any denial thereof by individuals or organizations of vernment should be summarily rebuked and punished. - We deny the right of any executive to disregard or suspend any constitutional privilege or limitation. Obedience to the laws and respect for their require- ments are alike the supreme duty of the citizen and the official. ‘The military should be used only to support and maintain the law. We unqualifiedly condemn its em- ployment for the summary banishment of citizens without trial, or for the control of elections. We approve the measure which passed the United States Senate in 1896, but which a Republican Con- gress has ever since refused to enact, relating to contempts in Federal courts and providing for trial by jury in cases of indirect contempt. WATERWAYS. ‘We favor liberal appropriations for the care and improvement of the waterways of the country. When any waterway like the Mississippi River is of suf- ficient importance to demand special aid of the Gov- ernment, such aid should be extended with a defin- ite plan of continuous work until permanent im- " provement is secured. We oppose the Republican policy of starving home development in order to feed the greed for conquest and the appetite for national “prestige” and display of strength. ECONOMY OF ADMINISTRATION. 1. Large reductions can easily be made in the an- nual expenditures of the Government without im- pairing the efficiency of any branch of the public service, and we shall insist upon the strictest econ- omy and frugality compatible with vigorous and ef- fective civil, military and naval administration for the people. 2. We favor honesty in the public service, the enforcement of honesty in the public service, and to that end a thorough legislative investigation of those departments of the Government already known to teem with corruptién, as well as other departments suspected of harboring corruption, and punishment of ascertained corruptionists withaut fear or favor or regard to persons. The persistent and deliberate refusal of both the Senate and House of Represent- atives to permit such investigation to be made dem- onstrates that only by a change in the executive and in the legislative departments can complete expo- ure, punishment and conviction be obtained. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS WITH TRUSTS. We condemn the action of the Republican party in Congress in refusing to prohibit the executive de- partments from entering into contracts ‘with con- victed trusts or unlawful combinations in restraint of interstate trade. We have one of the best meth- ods of procuring economy and honesty in the public service and that is to have public officials, from the occupant of the White House down to the lowest of them, return as nearly as may be to Jeffersonian simplicity of living. EXECUTIVE USURPATION. We favor the nomination and election of a Pres- ident imbued with the principles of the constitution. who will set his face sternly against executive usur- pation of legislative and judicial functions, whether that usurpation be veiled under the guise of execu- tive construction of existing laws or whether it takes refuge in the tyrant’s pleas of necessity or superior wisdom. IMPERIALISM. ‘We favor the preservation so far as we can of an open door for the world’s commerce in the Orient without an unnecessary entangiement in Oriental and European affairs and without arbitrary, unlim- ited, irresponsible and absolute government any- where within our jurisdiction. S We oppése fervently as did George Washington himself an indefinite, irresponsible, discretionary and vague absolutism and a policy of colonial exploita- tion, no matter where or by whom exercised; we be- lieve with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams that no government has o right to make one set of laws for those “at home” and another and a Aifferent set of laws, absolute in their character, for those “in the colonies.” All men under the American flag are entitled to for order. Senator Daniel, who some Bryan made an income tax amend- | time before called Senator Tillman to the chair, began by saying he ques- tioned the propriety of a man whom the Democrats had twice honored with the Presidential nomination and under whose leadership the party had twice been defeated ‘temnlh:( to force his leadership upon the party again. Grow- ing more impassioned, Daniel said: ment. He asserted that while votes might be lost among the very rich, the Lemocratic party ought to consider | he great mass of the people, who bear | the burdens of taxation and the ex- penses of the Government. Senator Daniel replied to Bryan and was very vigorous in his denunciation the protection of the institutions whose emblem the flag is. of the American body politic, or wherever there may exist a people incapable of being governed by Amer- fcan laws under the American constitution, the ter- ritory or people ought not to be a part of the Ameri- can domain. If they are inherently unfit to be members ‘We insist that we ought to do for the Filipinos what we have done already for the Cu- of the course the Nebraska man was pursuing. He said that he wanted to win, and desired a platform which |tleman from Nebraska discovered it; would bring to the Democratic party |but conditions have changed, and herol:: the voters who had left it when pur- | changes demand heroic remedies. We suing « course which Iryan had | must consider New England, New York shaped and advocated. He was tired | and that section of the country,” of being forever in the minority and “The silver question was a question in Virginia ten years before the gen- bans, and it is our duty to make that promise now and, upon suitable guarantees of protection to citi- zens of our own and other countries resident there at the time of our withdrawal, set the Filipino peo- ple upon their feet, free and independent to work out their own destiny. The endeavor of the Secretary of War, by pledg- ing the Government's 5 indorsement for “promoters” insisted that it would be absurd for Democrats, facing victorz, to take any action which would mean defeat. To Jose New York meant defeat. i Senator Bailey and Senator Tillman, Then, facing Bryan, Senator Daniel said: “He has reviled every man whom any State has recommended for the Presidency, and so far as I have been able to learn has yet presented no can- didate of his own.” while believing in an income tax, said that in view of the statement of the New York member of the committee, o ! At this point Senator Daniel Was in- terrupted with cries of order. Bryan asked that Senator Blnhl be / in the Philippine Islands, to make the United States a partner in speculative legislation of the archipe]- by the op- position of the Democratic Senators in the last ses- sion, will, if successful. lead to entanglements from ago, which was only temporarly held up which it will be difficult to escape, The Democratic party has*been and will continue to be the consistent opponent of that class of tariff sz + legislation by which certain interests have been.per- mitted, through Congressional favor, to draw a heavy tribute from the American people. This monstrous perversion of those equal opportunities which our political institutions were established to secure has caused what may once have been infant industries to become the greatest combinations of capital that the world has .ever known. These special favorites of the Government have, through trust methods, been converted into monopolies, thus bringing to an end domestic competition, which was the only alleged check upon the extravagant profits made possible by the protective system. These industrial combina- tions, by the financial assistance they can give, now control the policy of the Republican party. ‘We denounce protection as a robbery of the many to enrich the few, and we favor a tariff limited to the necessities of the Government economically ad- ministered and so levied as not to,discriminate against any industry, class or section, /lo the end that the burden of taxation shall be distributed as equally as possible. ‘We favor a revision and a gradual reduction of the tariff by the friends of the masses and for the com- mon weal and not by the friends of its abuses, its extortions and its diseriminations, keeping in view the ultimate ends of ‘“equality of burdens” and “equality of opportunities” and the sole purpose of raising a revenue by taxation, to wit, the support of the Federal Government in all its integrity and viril- ity, but in simplicity. TRUSTS AND UNLAWFUL COMBINATIONS. We recognize that the gigantic trusts and combinations de- signed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint products of capital and labor and which have been fostéred and promoted under Republican rule are a menace to beneficial competition and an obstacle to permanent business prosperity. A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable. Individual €quality of opportunity and free competition are essential to a healthy and permanent commercial prosperity, and any trust combination or monopoly tending to destroy these by controlling production, restricting competition or fixing prices should be prohibited and punished by law. We especially de- nounce rebates and discrimination by the transportation com- panies as the most potent agency in promoting and strengthening these unlawful conspiracies against trade. We demand an enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commiseion, to the end that the traveling public and shippers of this country may have prompt and adequate relief from the abuses to which they are subject In the matter of transportation. We demand a strict enforcement of existing civil and criminal statutes against all such trusts, combinations and monopolies, and we demand the enactment of such further legis- lation as may be necessary to effectually suppress them. Any trust or unlawful combination engaged In interstate com- merce which is monopolizing any branch of business or produc- tion should not be permitted to transact business outside of the State of its origin. Whenever it shall be establfshed in any court of competent jurisdiction that such monopolization exists such pro- hibition should be enforced through comprehensive laws to be enacted on the subject. RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS. We congratulate our Western citizens upon the passage of the law known as the Newlands irrigation act for the irrigation and reclamation of the arid lands of the West—a measure framcd by a Demoerat, passed in the Senate by a non-partisan vote and paseed In the House against the opposition of almost all the Re- publican leaders by a vote the majority of which was Demo cratic. We call attention to this great Democratic measure, broad and comprehensive as it I8, working automatically through- out all time without further action of Congress until the reclama- tion of all the lanls in the arid West capable of reclamation is accomplished, reserving the lands reclaimed for homeseekers in small tracts ‘and rigidly guarding against land monopoly, as an evidence of the poli:y of domestic development contemplated by the Democratic par.y, should it be placed in power. ISTHMIAN CANAL. The Democracy when entrusted with power will construct the Panama canal speedily, honestly and economically, thereby gIVIng to our people what Democrats have always contended for —a great inter-oceanic capal, furnishing shorter and cheaper lines of transportation and broader and less trammeled trade re- lations with the other peoples of the world. AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. We pledge ourscives to insist upon the just and lawful pro- tection of our citizens at home and abroad and to use all proper measures to securs for them. whether native born or naturalized. ~and without distinction of race or creed, the equal protection of laws and the enjoyment of all rights and privileges open to them under the covenanis of our treaties of friendship and com- merce; and if under existing treaties the right of travel and so- journ 'is denied to American citizens or recognition is withheld from American passports by any countries on the ground of race and creed we favor the beginning of negotlations with the Gov- ernments of such countries to secure by treaty the removal of these unjust diseriminations. We demand that all over the world a duly authenticated pass- port Issued by the Government of the United States to an Ameri- can citizen shall B> proof of the fact that he is an American citizen and ehall entitle him to the treatment due him as such. ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE. We tavor the el:ction of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people. STATEHOOD FOR THE TERRITORIES. We favor the admission of the Territery of Oklahoma and the Indlan Territory. We also favor the immediate admission of Arizona and New Mexico as separate Statés and the terri- torial government for Alaska and Porto Rico. We hold that the officlals appointed to administer the govern- ment of any Territory as well as with the District of Alaska should be bona fide residents at the time of their appointment of the Territory or the district in which their duties are to be per- formed. MERCHANT MARINE. We drnounce the ship subsidy bill recently passed by the United States Senat> as an Iniquitous appropriation of public funds for private purposes and a wasteful, illogical and useless at- tempt to overcome by subsidy obstructions raised by Republican legislation to the g:0wth and development of American commerce on the s : We favor the uobuilding of a merchant marine without new or additional burd ns upon the people and without bounties from the_public treasur ;. We demand th: extermination of polygamy within' the juris- diction of the Unit:d States and the complete church and state i1 political affairs, RECIPROCITY. We favor libera’ trade arrangements with Canada and with peoples of other c untries where they can be entered into with benefit to the American agriculture, manufactures, mining or commerce. . MONROE DOCTRINE. * We favor the maintenance of the Mon entirety NAVY AND APMY. We favopr the reduction of the army and navy expenditures to the point historically demonstrated to be safe and sufficient. The Democracy would secure to the surviving soldiers and saflors and their dependents generous pensions, not by arbitrary executive order, but by legislation which a grateful people stand ready to enact. Our soldiers and sailors who defend with their lives the con- stitution and the laws have a sacred interest in their just ad- ministration. They must, therefore, <hare with us the humilia- tion with which we “ave witneesed the exaltation of the court favorites, without distinzuished service, over the scarréd heroes of many battles or aggrandized by executive appropriations out of the treasures of a prostrate people in violation of the act of Cony which fixes the compensation and allowances of the military _officers. The Democratic party stands committed to the princinles of civil service reform and we demand their honest, just and impartial enforcement. We denounce the Republican party for its continuous encroachment upon the spirit and overation of eivil service rules. whereby it has arbitrarily dispensed with ex- aminations for office in the interests of favorites and emploved all manner of deviws to overreach and set aside the principles upon which the civil service was established. SCHOOL AND RACE QUESTION. *__The race question has brought countless woes to this country. The calm wisdom of the American people should see to it that it brings no more. To revive the d:ad and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our ccmmon country means confusion, distraction of business and the reopening of wounds now happily healed. North, South. Fas' and West have recently stood together in line of battle fron the walls of Peking to the hills of Santlago and as sharers of a common glory and a common destiny we should share fraternaily the common burdens. We therefore daprecate and condemn the Bourbon-like, selfish and narrow spirit of the recent Republican convention at Chicagn which sought to kindle anew racfal and factional strife and we appeal_to the sob r common sense and patriotic spirit of the American people. REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION. The existing Republican administration has been spasmodic. spectacular and arbitrary. It has made jtself a satire upon the Congress, the couria and ubon the settled practices and usages of national and in'cropationa! law. It summoned th> Congress into hasty and futile extra session and virtually adjorneq it leaving behind its flight from Wash- ington uncalled cal ndars and unaceomplis ke, It made war. which is the sole power of Congress, without its authority, therzby usurping its fundamental prerogatives. It violated a statute of the United States as well as plain treaty obligations, international usages and constitutional law, and has done so under pretense of executing a great public policy which could have been more easily effected lawfully, constitu- tionally and with honor. ¢ It forced etrained and unnatural constructions upon statutes, usurping judicial interpretation and substituting Congressional enactments, It withdrew from Congress the customary duties of investiga- tion which have heretofore made the representatives of the peo- ple_and States the terror of evil doers. It conducted a secretive {nvestigation of its own and boasted of a few cample convictions, while it threw a broad coverlet over the bureaus which had been their chosen field of operative abuses and Kept in power the superfor officers under whose administra- tion the crimes had heen committed. lies, but, paralyzed by its ‘monopol first victory, it flung out the flag of truce and declared that.it would not “‘run amuck,” leaving its future purposes beclouded jts vacillations. APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY. o ing_the upon this declaration of our princi- me;‘l.rme:rfpl'mm for our canaidates the support not only of our great and time-honored organization, but also the ac- tive assistance of ail our fellow-citizens rding past doctrine in its full differences upon 8 no longer in Issue, desire the perpetua- tion of our constitutional government as framed and established by the fathers of the republic, .| plank. separation of HILL -HAS HOT VERBAL allowed to proceed, and the latter re- sumed. Continuing the Senator said: “I am convinced that the country is on the verge of a great calamity. This is not the time for selfish interest, for personal likes or regards.” Senator Daniel favored plank. Poe of Maryland made a brief but vigorous appeal for the gold plank, de- claring that if the party in its platform refused to recognize an existing fact he feared that Maryland would be lost to the Democrats. He pointed out that the gold plank recommended by the sub- committee was one which the silver and gold elements in the party could easily stand upon. He said that this plank did not call on the free silver advocates to retract or repudiate their former beliefs. GOLD PLANK STRICKEN OUT. the gold of an existing fact.” Poe declared the Democratic ticket would have a forlorn hope if the plank were omitted. | After several other members had been heard briefly the question was demand- ed. The gold plank was stricken out by a vot of 35 to 15. Early in the night Bryan had with- drawn temporarily his income tax reso- lution. At this juncture an attempt was made to secure a recess, but it was as well go ahead.” gold plank and informally presented for the individual consideration of members a financial plank, which it is his intentfion later to present as a sub- stitute for the gold plank. The Panama canal plank brought out severe criticism from Senator Petti- be built in ten years, and when com- pleted it would be valueless. The plank was modified so as to promise to do what could be done when the Dem- ocrats got control of the Government. The comimittee took up the trust This was the subject of consid- erable discussion, Senator Bailey be- ing among the more important speak- ers in defense of the sub-committee’s | report. Bryan offered an amendment to this plank declaring in specific terms for the prosecution of the trusts, and re- | citing the manner in which it should | be done. This was voted in by 23 to 20. The majority of the votes came from ITowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Ne- braska, Wyoming, the Territories, Por- to Rico and Hawaii, while the negative votes were from the East and South. Severe comments were made by a number of representatives from these States to the effect that radical amend- ments were being forced into the plat- form by men from Republican States and Territories which could not con- tribute a single electoral vote to the Democratic candidate. Pettigrew of- fered an amendment providing for the Government ownership of railroads and telegraphs. “Oh, that’s silly,” said Senator Hill. The amendment was voted down and Pettigrew remarked: “The gentleman from New York called the amendment silly, but he put a plank in the plat- form two years ago not only for the Government ownership of the coal- carrying railroads, but for the coal mines as well, And the ticket got a larger majority in New York City than was ever before given a Demo- | cratic candidate.” NO MENTION OF NAVY. Reciprocity and the Monroe doc- trine as handled by the sub-committee met the approval of the full commit- tee. But not so with the navy plank, calling for a liberal annual increase of the navy. Senator Tillman said this plank would gain no votes and there was no necessity of mentioning the navy. The first part of the navy plank was stricken out. The plank proposed by ex-Governor Thomas of Colorado regarding labor was adopted by the committee. The committee after a lengthy de- bate adopted the plank relating to sep- | arate statehood, offered by Delegate W. F. Timmons of Arizona with re- | spect to Arizona and New Mexico, as | follows: “We favor the immediate admission of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico as separate States.” | In dealing with the success of state- | hood for Oklahoma and Indian Ter- | ritory the committee was less em- phatic in its declaration, conflning the plank to a general recommendation of statehood for these two Territories as follows: “We favor the admission of the Ter- ritory of Oklahoma and Indian Terri- tory.” The currency plank offered by Bryan was referred to a sub-committee, con- sisting of Willlams, Bryan and Hill, with authority to draft a financial plank for submission to the full com- mittee. The opinion was expressed that these men might agree upon some- thing, and if they should it would prob- | ably eliminate any fight on the floor of | the convention. One of the Western members said that he did not expect Bryan to make “It is simply,” he said, “a recognition | grew. He said that the canal could not | small conceptions of consistency, for| | | | a minority report in view of the mauy changes he had been able to procure in the platform. ‘When at 8:30 a. m. the last plank as drafted by the sub-committee had been read the members of the committee ap- Iphudd- ENCOUNTER WITH BRYAN, WHOM DANIEL ATTACKS New York Senator and Nebraskan Bury the Hatchet, However, and Leave the Conference Chamber Arm in Arm. Bryan said that if his desired amend- ment to the trust plank should be adopted he would not press the plank favoring the imposition of am income tax. Senator Tillman, noting a smile upon the faces of both Bryan and Hill, remarked to Bryan that “since you and Hill seem to have become so chummy, I think we had better look further into the trust plank.” WILL NOW OPPOSE BRYAN. Discussion of it thereupon was re- sumed, and Frank J. Cannon of Utah took the floor. “I fought for Bryan in 1396 and 1900, he said, “on the paramount issues of those campaigns, but now that he has abandoned those issues I will vole against this proposition which he seems | to want most.” Cannon in conclusion contended that the paramount issue in this campaign was ‘“victory,” and that the issue should be “Rooseveltism.” Bryan defended his position on the trust question, saying that ‘“victory” alone should not essentially be the para- mount issue, and that unless a ques- | tion was settled right it was never set- tled at all. Senator Daniel called Shive- ley to the chair and made a speech supporting the principles of anti-trust legislation. He took the position, how- ever, that if enforced the existing in- terstate commerce law and anti-trust unsuccessful, Senator Tillman remark- | statutes are sufficient, and he believed ing that “it was sun-up and we might| a Democratic administration could be pended on to enforce them. Hence Bryan got the floor soon after the|he cousidered it safe to omit the pro= adoption of the motion striking out the | posed plank. The committee resumed consideration the | of the financial question on the basis of the following plank, introduced by Carmack: *“The Secretary of the Treasury shall not melt the silver dollars that are now legal tender and convert them into sub- sidiary coin, thus reducing the volume of currency so fortunately increased by the recent remarkable increase of the gold production.” The Carmack suggestion for a finan- cial plank was voted down, and the platform was adopted without a fisfan- 1 plank. Although the various planks had all been agreed upon, there had been such a number of changes made in the draft of the document as presented by the sub-committee as to render it impossi- ble to make a satisfactory report to the convention before night. As the jmembers emerged from the chamber ' they genmerally expressed themselves as satisfied with the work they had accomplished, some of the exe pressions heard being as follows: SOME CRITICISMS. Senator Daniel—“The platform was unanimously adopted and is reasonably satisfactory.” Senator Tillman—"“We have accom- plished a miracle; we have succeeded in getting a platform without any poi- soning. Bryan—“1 am fairly well with the platform. I have had oppor- tunity to_present some matters as I desired, and have had to make conces- sions in some instances in order to get what I wanted in others.” “Will you support a ticket on this platform ?”" was asked of him. “I will certainly support the plat- form,” was his reply, and this was said in a way to convince his interrogator that he fully expected to be able to sup- port both platform and ticket. Ex-Senator Pettigrew—"“We have pre- pared a treatise rather than a platform and have succeeded in producing a large volume without saying anything.” Senator Hill and Bryan came out to- gether and both were smiling. Bryan said to the newspaper men: “Now, boys, be sure and get Hill's platform right,” and Hill retorted with a laugh, “Think we Will have to share honors on that.” Bryan said: “We are satisfled. We have all wanted some things put in that the committee has rejected. But, on the whole, the document is perfectly satisfactory. You know, we can't get everything we wan Senator Hill said: “T am perfectly satisfied. Of course, there are things that T wanted in and thought should go in, but politics is give and take, and I am taking. I should have liked to have seen an expression on finances in the platform, but the majority thought otherwise, and neither Bryan's plank ror mine was adopted. You will re- member that the New York State Con- vention made no mention of the finan- cial question, and so this platform is similar. We did not put in an income tax plank, and we changed only slight- 1y the tariff plank.” “Will Juige Parker stand on platform?” “I do not see why neot. T am said to be ‘his friend,” " he answered smiling, “and T am satisfied. AUGUST BELMONT SATISFIED. August Belmont said he was satisfled that the platform was ome on which Judge Parker could stand. He said: “i have always been quite"willing to have a platform without any financial plank in it. I belleve the people have finally settled the matter. and it is superfluous for any party to merely reiterate.” Governor Thomas of Colorado said: “T succeeded in securing the incorpora- tion of the greater part of my laber declaration, and, on the whole, I am satisfled with the platform.” John Sharp Williams, who made the original draft of the platform, said: “I am delighted with it.” The anti-Parker people were jubilant over theé matter when they heard of the disposition of the financial plank. satisfled the