Show MUST BE NO DODGNG One of Bryans Close Friends Talks About Platform SAYS IT MUST BE EXPLICIT n Editor of Omaha WorldHerald Speaks Out Plainly After Holding a Conference With Col Bryan He Will be the Nebraska Member of the ResolutiOns Commit Probably Proba-bly He Voices the View of the Man Wlio Will be nominated for President Presi-dent Sixteen to One Goes I Omaha Neb July 1 Richard Met ealfc editor of the WorldHerald who will be the Nebraska member of the resolutions committee at the Kansas City convention left for that city to I light Mr Metcalfc had a conference I with Mr Bryan at Lincoln before his departure and on his return to Omaha was asked what position he would lake relative to the money plank or the platform He said hr am in favor of the reaffirmation pC the Chicago platform in general also the adoption of plank explicitly renewing the pledge of free and unlimited unlim-ited coinage or silver and gold at the ratIo of 16 to 1 Independent of what I any other nation may do Some urge that an explicit plank Delating to bimetallism be omitted Why not then omit an explicit plank relating to trusts The Chicago platform plat-form contained an antitrust plank Why should the convention of 1900 be content with a mere rcafllrmnton of the Chicago platform so a l as bimet allsm Is concerned and yet adopt a epecillc plank relating to trusts Some will say that because a growth I of trusts under this Administration a pftcclllc antitrust plank IS necessary That Is true It Is equally true in the opinion of Democrats whom I Jiave the honor in part to represent that because be-cause of the increased power under this Administration the money trust the greatest of them all an explicit plank on the money questionIs of the highest Importance The Chicago platform favored arbitration ar-bitration and denounced government J > 3r injunction and yet gentlemen who urge that the money question be dealt < jxvltli only by way of general reatllrma tlon do not think of objecting to an ex pliclt pledge on these points We do not agree that it I practical politics to avoid the great principle to which Mr Bryans efforts have largely been devoted I we are to have 1 dodge for a platform then let us have D dodger for a candidate But If we arc to nominate a man who be1 vein ve-in being explicit in his pledges to the people then let us adopt a platform p that wH be consistent with the character char-acter and record of the candidate Some gentlemen speak of the seriousness seri-ousness involved in tho explicit renO re-nO of free and unlimited coinage coin-age at the ratio of 1C to 1 They forget that the Democracy regarded that as so important a principle that It turned its back upon a national administration administra-tion thatsought to sacrifice that principle prin-ciple They forget that ever sIn e their candidate for the Presidency entered en-tered public life he has championed that principle and that during all that time the most powerful influences have been brought to bear upon him to induce him to abandon that principle prin-ciple cipleThere I There has been no sign of weakness weak-ness on Mr Bryans part and yet in nplte of the fact that he stands where he has always stood in favor of bImet nlism at the ratio of 36 to 1 men who opposed him in 1S06 have been Hocking to his support Thee have had no reason to believe that In order to win p their votes Mr Bryan would abandon his convictions I And yet we are now told that It is important for the convention of 1300 to trim while the Democratic candidate refuses to trim The very fact that It r I has been persistently urged that the platform shall not be explicit on the money question makes It imperative that the platform be explicit I think i safe to say that any platform that omits the specific pledge of Independent bhnetalism at the ratio of 16 tel will not be adopted without a struggle |