Show i DISCUSS ROBERTS RESOLUTION i I I Majority Shy but Few aro Expressing Express-ing their Opinions The Democrats apparently realize that they made a fatal blunder in refusing re-fusing to strike out the objectionable Roberts resolution from the party platform but now that they have swallowed the dose concocted for them by Roberts and his friends they proi pose to keep It down and look as pleasant i i pleas-ant as possible I In view of this fact many men who sllll admit that they are members of the parly and confess that they expect to vote the ticket at the special election arc extremely shy when it I comes to expressing themselves upon the mailer mai-ler A few however consented when approached yesterday to discuss I the action of the majority with respect lo the resolution their comments being as follows Y II DaltI felt It to be the part of political wisdom and prudence that nothing should have been said upon the subject The result of the last election so far as Mr 1 Roberts is concerned Is a fact accomplished It Is a dead issue no amount of resolving will revive U I and il i had no place III our platform I lulievu had air Van Colt confined his motion alone to the elimination of the last sonlince of the resolution it would have prevailed If anything upon the subject was to be wild at all I do not sec how it could have been stated In I milder or loss 1 offensive language An unbiased reading of the resolution I think will convince any conservative man that no defiance of Congress or public sentiment was intended E W AVilson I promised myself when the convention adjourned that I wouldnt say a word for fortyeight hours P J Paly To have been logical the convention should have renoml nat 11 Roberts None of the delegales to the national convention should sUand upon Htieh a platform and neither should Judge 1 King It ls bad policy to fly into the face of the public opinion of the country II JI I I Henderson think It would have been just as well to have left It out li I I la useless to dig up dmul issues D I C IJunbar I would I havn regarded it UK the ill most pulitkal folly to havo stricken tho resolution out after It had been reported by the committee I There was nothing offensive in II and I would have been satisfied to havo run on the platform as It stands J U Tlmmony What 1 think of the resolution wouldnt look well In print Joseph S PNr1 I think the resolution resolu-tion should have been left out D O Rldeoul lrIf I could have had my way I would have left the resolution out The majority of Democrats seen absolutely ab-solutely declined to express themselves In any way with regard to the mallet 1 |