Show AG THE DECISION OF dehil CRATIC STATE convention the th chicago defecation raso rable to cleveland but kaarl IlBo troy for time ex harlon aral atly OMAHA april IS the democratic tte state convention elected the following ta as the dele delegates ates at large to the national convention james jamea E eboyd boyd tobias cas tor milton doolittle Doolittl a anil and W W H the committee on platform then reported aa follows fo lowa it the Demo democracy Dei noracy racy of nebraska in convention assembled do reaffirm our faith I 1 in principles and alid doctrines of Der Domo noracy racy as a first promulgated by thomas Jeffer jefferson sox ii and od expounded by jackson and samuel X 7 tilden we declare our steadfast adherence to the declarations and principles plus laid down in tho national democratic platform of 14 and in that sterling to congress by that fearless democrat grover groter cleveland in which this antion was aroused as aa never before to the sense of the great injustice to the ameri can people by the high protection war tariff laid upon them we denounce that most infamous lavy lavi known as a the mckinley bill passed b by y a republican congress tor for the purpose of perpetuating a system of taxation whose direct and immediate object is to robther rob the many tor for the benefit of the few t we believe that all special legislation whereby one class Is to be built up by the oppre oppression ion of another is pernicious unjust an un american recognizing the lofty patriot patrio ln of the soldiers and sailors who pe perilea periled their lives f th inu the llie democratic party i if f NII oai ka I 1 iiii fw far r of fit liberal L li their de pendent and needy widows andolph ans we favor the regulation of railroads and railroad by the state and invite all who are in sympathy with the foregoing platform to join us ua in electing a democratic president mr bryan then presented a minority report which consists simply imply of the fa following silver plank we declare ourselves in favor of the free coinage of silver after heated discussion the roll call was waa ordered on bryans motion to make the aelter plank a part of tha platform the confusion was something terrific most of the western counties were in favor of free silver douglas gage gaga and some other counties casting heavy votes totes went solid against free silver some of the delegates had bad taken their de departure arture but those who remained were deeply deeply inter ested in tile the vote two secretaries kept tally and one got tho th columns footed up tip first fint he gave it 09 out to those near the platform that free silver had carried mr bryan and several free silver men rushed to the platform and in a twinkling the free silver men were yelling and flinging their hats in the air chairman batty ra rapped aped vigorously and finally recurred si silence ence lie he then read the result as being 2 ta in favor of the silver plok and against the scene that followed beggars description A resolution expressing the preference of 0 the convention for cleveland was pawed passed but tho the effort to instruct for him was lost |