Show NEBRASKATRUE To SILVER CAUSE I Three Conventions Agree On Holcomb For Judge BRYAN DICTATES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM 4 Silver Not Trusts Made the Paramount Para-mount Issue Democratic Presidential Candidate of 1896 Spoke to Democrats Silver Republicans and Popuiists In Turn and Aroused Great Enthusiasm Enthusi-asm Iii All Three Conventions Democratic Platform Denounces McKinleys Philippine Policy t Omaha Neb Aug 22Nebrasc Democrats Populist5 and Silver Repub licans met in this city today and fusei on nominatIons for judge of the su pnxno court antE two member of the board of regents of the state universfty Former Governor Silas A Holcorab was nomInatj for supreme justice by the Populists and endorsed by the other two Conventions thought not without a fight In the Democratic gathering j where there was strag opposition to bum emanatitar from TIflFIS This opposiuoj centeredFoa United States Senator W V Alien who could liae had a majority of the bal lots In the convention but he pushed the proffered honor aside and suppontetj his friend Holdomb Allen was chair man of the resolutions committee In the Populist convention and William J Bryan was a delegate to the Democratic Demo-cratic gathering Mr Bryan dictated the platform of the Democrafic CoavenUon This deco ment declared uncompromIsingly for freOt coinage 0 sIlver at the ratio of iC to I and endorsed bodily the Chicago platform of 1896 The platform of the Populist coaventlon endorsed the pInt form of the Populist national conven tion of 1596 and lit addition contained planks denouncing the policy of the administration In the Philippines The platform of the Silver Republicans was much the salne and contained In addi tion a strong plank declanIn against the use of railroad passes by public officials This pass resolution was adopted by the Populist convention j wlthqut disrent but tttirred up a great commotionam0n theDemocrats many of whom fought it tooth and nan Enthusiasm For Bryan Mr Bran addressed all three conventions con-ventions and was emphatic in his denunciation de-nunciation of the administrations pol 4 icy in the Philippines He also spoke vigorously in support of the free coinage coin-age of silver devbanlng it to be the main issue new before the public He dc nounced trusts In strong terms and mit Icised the administration lot doing nothing to regulate them He was in ceived with great epthusiam For regents Of the tate university the conventions nominated Edson Rich of Omaha and J L Teeters of Lincoln the names going through without any opposition There were 1029 delegates in the pem erratic convention W H Thompson of arand Island was temporary chairman chair-man W H Keiliher of Omaha county was named as permanent chairman chair-man and H D Logan of Fronfier county coun-ty secretary W J Bryan was chairman chair-man of the committee on resolutions Tnd evening session opened late anti did not close till after midnight The report of the resolutions committee aroused immense enthusIasm and was adopted with a rush Therm came the announcement that the Popuhists had nominated Holcomb and a scen of confusion followed ItS an attempt was made to nominate eSenator Allen The latter however sent in a disclaimer dis-claimer and Holcomb was finally named H D Sutherland was permanent chairman of the Populist convention and E 31 Husslng secretary The proceedings pro-ceedings of this body were harntonious in the extreme and here Holcombs nomination met with little opposttion In the silver Republican cowenflom twentyone out of ninety counties were represented IV 3r Maupin of Omaha was permanent chairmnn and W D Kelly secretary The proceedings were harmonious Platform For Silver The platform adopted by the Dento cratic convention endorses and emphasizes em-phasizes each and every plank uf the national platfoymn adopted at Chicago in ISiS The money plank Is as follows fol-lows Our confidence In the principles set forth is the Chicago platform has been increased as those principles have been vindicated by events The gold stand and is less defensible new than It was in 1896 since the president has confessed con-fessed its failure by sending a commission com-mission to Europe to secure international interna-tional bimetallism while the Inability of the commission to enlist foreign aid Is added proof that the people of the United States must act loxie if they expect relief The present legal ratio of 16 to 1 is the natural and necessary ratio and the opponents of that ratio have nothing to offer In its place but the evasive and ambiguous phraseology which for years furnished to the gold standard advocates a mask behind which to hide while they secretly ha bored to make gold monometallism permanent per-manent Any improvement In business conditions due to the increased production produc-tion of gold or to a fayorable balance of trade instead of supporting the gold standard doctrine shows that more money makes better times and poInts the way to bimetahlism as the means of securing a permanent Increase In the volume of standard money throughout the world The Republican scheme to lessen the value of standard money by making gold the only legal tender money has at last become apparent to all and must be resIsted by the debt paying and wealthproducing classes of the country The plan to retire the greenbacks In the Interest Of natIonal notes denounced by the Democrats its 1896 but thea defeated by the Repub Ilcans has boldly stalked forth frona Its hiding place and threatens the formation for-mation of a gigantic paper money trust 4 Republicsa Truckling to Trusts On the question of trusts the platform declares The industrial trusts spring up on every hanti testify to the adminlatra tiona indifference tomonopoly or its inability to cope with It We denounce the failure of the administration ad-ministration to enforce the pretreat law against trusts or to recommend s flaws If the irsent lar fs deerieI in I sfcient e Ve are opposed to the princIple of monopob wherever I manifests Itself W dcad the enforcement of the pr Sent federal law the enactment of such new legislation ama be necessary sary and a constitutional amendment if the present constitution Is cnstrued preent consttuton cnte to protet trust to the end that the monopolization Ot Industry by private corporton may be absolutely prevented pre-vented Ever trust rest upon a cr poratlon and cverycorporatlon Is a praton eer corporton I I creature of laws and the law state tnd national must place upon the cr I poraton such limitations and restrc I jur Uns a will jrotect the public from In I the Nebraska The platform praises i soldiers for theIr part In the war In the Phlflppines and goes on to say UBut hi we commend the soldiers I for obedience to all orders emanating r1 the hle executive we condemn the administrative policy which has converted a war for humanity Into a > wa for conquest We believe the Fill rpinos should have reeled the same treatment as the Cubans and that as I the Cubans were assured of ultimate In ependencC and protection s the Flplnos should have ben assured In the beginning of our nations intention to give them IndepeJdence as son a n stable government should be estab 151 and secure protection from outside out-side lnterfcccnee Such assurance should be given now I the Cubans as is stated In the resolutions of Inter enton are and of right ought to be free the same can be sid of the Fill pinos and this nation would suffer no humiliation in aoieglr adherence to the doctrine that government derive their just powers from the consent of the governed The reoluton delare In favor of ar bltaton favor the popular election of Unite States senators the InItIative referendum and declare against r and I any Increase In the standIng army and F against any foreign alliance I |