Show AND OUHOR BRYAN e AntiImperialists Are Compelled Com-pelled to Show Hand DELEGATE CALLS THEM DOWN Domands that They Cease Mnsqu lad inff and that TJicii Convention in f Indianapolis be Known for Want it isA Democratic Gathering i Resolutions Adopted Emphatically Indorse tho Candidacy ot the J Nebraskan long Heated Debate I I Preceded Adoption of Platform I I Icon I Indianapolis Aug 1GThe Liberty League c congreSs of the American AntlImnerlallsls today emphatically J I candidacy of William indorsed the Vllam Bryan for President The convention I did not adopt the platform as submitted i submit-ted unanimously by the resolutions committee el without a long and heated debate but when the previous question I wa ordered less than a score could bo marshaled to vote against tho Bryan I indorsement The vote was viva voce and its exact result will neer be known but the sentiment of the convention con-vention was clearly shown r bclnp In favor of tho Indorsement of Bryan us the most elective manner oE checking1 4tho alletfid Imperialistic policy of the Administration 1 THIRDTICKET ADVOCATES The most vigorous opponents of the Bryan pronouncement In the platform were conspicuous members of the national na-tional or thirdticket convention who were also admitted as delegates to the AntlImpcrlallstle confess They were led by Thomas Osborae of Auburn N Y and advocated the nomination of n third ticket on the theory that their followers while opposed to President McKlnloy were not prepared to accept Ir Bryan on the Kansas City platform t plat-form Every mention of Mr Bryans name In the convention called forth enl en-l applause Speakers who opposed op-posed the Bryan plank In the platform were received with Jeers and cries of time from the delegates and the chairman at times had dllllculty In obtaining ob-taining u hearIng for them PTTnT D Tfl nM trtnTPl nc After the adoption I oC resolutions Jndorslng Brjan the representatives of the third party met In the assembly room of ttlve Commerclal club and selected se-lected Thomas Osborne of Auburn N Y for permanent chairman and Everett t hot of New York for permanent per-manent secretary A motion was made and carried that a convention b held In New York qlty l September oth for the purpose of nominating a ticket It Is I saId thatAthe thlrd party men today offered the Presidential nomination to iMoorfleld Storey of Massachusetts but that Mr Sflu3J declined the honor I William I Palmer of Colorado a reported to be their choice for Vice I I President The leaders of the move meirtsald tonight that they expected a large representation at the convention ecprcsentJtcn conventon In JCeiv York on September 5th and that caifdldates for President and Vice Presldent would then surely be nominated nom-inated Secretary Mizo of the liberty congress J con-gress today received u letter from Wil liam Lloyd Garrison ot Boston pledging the writers Support to Bryan HABJ3llS < iM FOR BRYAN At the t luBnifnfe session pending the repoct of the committee on resolutions Dr L W Habercom of Washington ad I dressed thq convention He charged that the President had done that which he had himself solemnly declared to be a great crime and now attempts to shift the responsibility upon Divine Providence He said he appealed moro especially to those like himself who had ccme from a country over which n monarch reigns is It not an act of imperialism he asked that the Prcijtdent has entered upon this new t adventure In China without assembling Congress In extra session I The people who like myself have come from Germany know to their sor row what militarism means These are the last men who will wJ vote to convert their country Into an empire The President has said Who will haul wlhaul r down the flag Now 1 have always believed that the flag should be hauled I down where It has no business Is It the emblem of liberty In Manila and I Mania ad I Porto Rico There It floats over sub ject people not free people 1 have al I ways been a Republican butnow I feel I It my duty to fight the Republican party with all the RepUblcn wih al strength I posses because it has now become the Josess party of JJrty imperialist Mr Habercom concluded wth a declaration for Bryan Col Charles R Charlr Codman of Massachu setts read the report of the committee on resolutions which took the form of an address to the American people Hr Hald that twentylive members twcrlylve of the committee wcr unanimous In submit ting a report tQ the convention Tm platform follows WHAT PLATFORM SAYS This Liberty congress of the anti I I imperialists crlsiH which recognlzea a Eat national I menaces the Rfcpub He upon jvhpsc future depends in sudi large tncasUre the hope of Rlcli throughout thd world For tt the lfrsi dent lime lit has our countrys history the preLu r undortaknn to BubJugaJf foreign people and forulc RubjuJll l I potlc power lie has thrown the 10 tectlon of the teeton American Islands savagery He and Polygamy in I flag the Suit Ovr has ha arrogated to himself the power to Impose upon the nimbi tarns of the Philippines without their Phippines government and I consen taxation without wlhoul representation He Is sentalon wae n war them wnrlng upon for asserting the nsserlnK verv principles for the maintenance of whIch our forefathers pledged their lives I lves their I fortunes and their sacred honor alms for himself and Congress HG thorlty to govern the Jr the Territories Jocrn Terrtories of the i restraint States WUh 11 wn HutloS5 I i We believe In the bcJee Declaration DeclirUon of In dependence evident Its truths not leas Helf I efent today than when Hrst nounccd by our fathers frst Si abandoned whllo rl1her cannot be abandon government b the people endures s by Vc believe ln tho Constitution u the United Constiuton of Slates It gives iho PP I Presl lent and Congress cerlSn Si COrSr certaIniIthitj cerLalnIh1 o tedPw era and secures to secres every man ever wIthin the Jurisdiction of our Government tam coy tnln elthicr essential the President rli4its or Yd ConhS dny that t Ca enn govern any person anywhero the Consttuton Olllto OPPOSED TO MKINLEYS POLICY plcy 1Wo or are rcJlnley absolutely which OIDP8edo thc ocrn nilIiionu fOpoBis to > mltl0na of men without omen their consent which In r Po on wich PortQ Rico HBhes taxation without repreSSnSion t Ucl govornmnemit by tho rprc8cntaUon Inc EOVOilnent of a rxsrieJaturc arbitrary w1 i unfettered ot Lor UnfetterCdby tutlonal I restrain and in fffij PhIltppjn ionntj I p prore utes a Ph1pplea Iroeouls war of conquctt ana dc Tnards unconditional surrender from people wbo are of right frc and 7JUdo a per ent I Tho strURglo of men for freedom has om ovor been a struggle tional liberty There 18 no for const u the citizen has no right which liberty It I the Legislature may not invade So nrnS Legslaturo m it he bo mny taxed by lnxp u Legislature In which h C is not represented or If he rcprccnt < IB not pro Looted by fundamental law against 1h Q I J arbitrary action of executive power The policy of the President offers the inhabitants of Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines no hope of Independence Independ-ence no prospect of American citizenship citizen-ship no constitutional protection nn representation In the Congress which I taxes him This is the government of I men by arbitrary power without their consent this Js I Imperialism There Is no room under the free flag of America for subjects The President and Congress who derive all their powers from the Constitution can govern no man without regard to Us limitations WANT CENSORSHIP REMOVED Wo believe I that the greatest safeguard safe-guard of1 liberty isa f e press and we demand that the censorship in the Philippine Islands l which keeps from I the American pdoplc the knqledge of what is done in their name be abolished I abol-ished ishedWe I We are entitled to know the truth I nnd we Insist that tho powers which the President holds In trust for us shall be not used to suppress I Because we thus b lee we oppose the reelection of Mr McKlnley Tho supreme purpose of the people In this momentous campaign should be to stamp with their final disapproval his attempt to grasp Imperial power A selfgoverning people can have no more Imperative duty than to drive from public life a Chief Magistrate who whether In weakness or of wicked purpose has used his temporary authority au-thority to subvert the character of their Government and destroy their national ideals WHAT IS RECOMMENDED UYe therefore in the belief that It I Is essential at this crisis for the American i I Ameri-can people again to declare their faith In the universal application of the Declaration of Independence and to reassert their will and that their ser ants shall not have or exercise any powers whatever other than thosu conferred con-ferred by the Counstitutlon earnestly make the following recommendations to our countrymen First That without regard to their views on any questions of mestlq Tollcy > they withhold their voles f rom Mr McKinley In order to stamp with heir disapproval what he has done Second That they vote for those candidates for Congress in their respective re-spective districts who will oppose the policy of imperialism URGED TO SUPPORT BRYAN While we welcome any other method of opposing the reelection of Mr Mc Klnley we advise direct support of Mr Bryan as the most effective means of crushing Imperialism We are convinced con-vinced qf Mr Bryans sincerity and of his earnest purpose securetq the Filipinos their IndependendevThls po i sltlon and the declarations contained In the platforuu his party on the vital Issue i j e campaign hicec Our unqualified approval We recomriieMd that the executive committees ofthe American AntlEx panslonlsts league and its allied leagues continue to extend their organizations eases conlny enlug the Independence Independ-ence of the movement and that they take the most active possible part In the pending political campaign Until now lTj policy which has turned the Filipinos from warm friends to bitter enemies which has slaughtered slaugh-tered thousands of them and laid waste their country has been the policy of the President After the next election I becomes the policy of every man who votes to reelect him and who thus becomes with him responsible re-sponsible for every drop of blood thereafter there-after shed I RIGHT RESERVED Moorfleld StOIY of Massachusetts said he cordially Joined In the statement state-ment of principles contained in the resolutions but stated that he reserved the right to support 1 third candidate It on were nominated who satisfied him better than Mr Bryan Thomas 1 Osborne of New York leader l of the Nationalists was al I lowed to dpcak on the resolutions He said there were many who could support sup-port neither McKinley nor Bryan be having It not right to remedy one wrong by substituting another CANNOT TRUST DEMOCRATS uYe cannot trust the Democratic party as It stands today Cries of Bosh How much did Mark Hanna pay you to come here Mr Oshorno continued I believe a third ticket must arise to command the suffrage and conscience of the votera When you lie up a question of conFcieiicu with something which a large ma jority of your people do not believe In you destroy the force of your argument argu-ment He moved an amendment striking out that portion of the reso lutions which support Bryan A prolonged running debate for and against the amendment followed and recess was taken without action ANOTHER SUBSTITUTE At the afternoon session the dehate on the report of the resolutions com mittee wan resumed M E Brldgcmar BrldccmaQ of Massachusetts offered n substitute substtute striking out all reference to Bryan in the platform I Judge MOHCS Hallett of Colorado said that the Colorado delegation would delellon leave the city during the afternoon and 6n his motion all those delegates who were forced to leave the congress before the taking oC the vote were permitted to record their votes tin ponding questions before leaving or to instruct proxies to vole for them NO MORE MASQUERADING I ExCongressman John B White cf CC Kentucky took exception to the lan guage of the resolutions which eald whih add that Wo welcome all means of de I feating Mr McKinley He said it was language JtC that which caused tho aasasBlnation of Goebel in Kentucky Heaaldhe always has been a Republi can and objected to the apparent de Biro of tho convention to transform It self into t Democratic convention Mr i white enlarged that a portrait of Bran Was concealed under an Amerlcnn Hag over the platform i Take down that covering over i I Bryans picture he said Let us not masquerade any longer let your con ventlon be known for what I isa I Democratic convention I LONG DEBATE ENSUES I Tho following a running debate for and agalnot the amendment Mr Os I t borne to strike out the indorsement of Mr Bryan Those who opposed the amendment and favored pie Indorse meat be Bryan were William iPpfts abf New York Jacob Ingenthron of Chi cago Flslc Warren of Maauachuuetto D Bi Hasklns of Maaftachuuctta James JE Howard or Harrlsburg Pa AM I Ncff of Ohio DaVId Rothschild nf Hothschld Massachusetts N 13 Guyot of Cole ratio and TMlwIn btirrltt Smith of Chi cago Those who tnvored the amcnd mont and opposed Indorsement of Bryan ware Ralph E Emerson of Massachusetts a SOl of Ralph Waldo Vlldo Emerson Robert A Wlldcmann of New York a delegate to the Jndepend cnt Or third ticket convention and M E 11 Brlflgenmn B1lQgcmun of Massachusetts ONE SOLDIERS OPINION Mr Guyot of Colorado said he had served a year as a private soldier hal the Philippines To my own knowledge he said those operations earned on by the Administration In the Philippines constitute the most damn able crime In the history of the United Unl States The Filipinos assisted us to land they were In the trenches with us they desired us to fire upon the Spanish and yet It is said they wore not our allies They were our allies and the entire record of the Adminis tration In the Philippines has been one of treachery and deceit Could you have seen as I have seen the condl lions in the Philippines you would not r hesitate a moment to indorse W J I Bryan In closing the debate Edwin B Smith I antwered the charge of Mr White of Kentucky by saying that he had no t knowledge of any portrait of Bryan In Tomllnson hall He said the executive committee had directed that all pot traits of all living men should be removed re-moved from the hall before the meet lag of the congress Before a vote jvvas taken to the amendment Mr Osborno acopted the substitute of Mr Brldgeman which eliminated all reference to Mr Bryan nl 1 nL I i tr regard to views on minor I questions of Democratic policy we welcome and advise the use of all honorable hon-orable means of defeating o reelection reelec-tion of William McKinley In order lo stamp with our disapproval what he has done to establish Imperialism The substitute was lost by an overwhelming over-whelming majority only fifteen voting for It The resolutions as reported were then adopted less than a score of delegates voting against them ADDITION TO PLATFORM The following resolution proposed by W S golden of Chicago was added to the platform as reported Resolved That In declaring that the principles of the Declaration of Independence apply to all men this congress means to Include the negro race In America as well as the FUN pines We deprecate all efforts whether wheth-er in the South or In the North to deprive de-prive tho negro of his rIghts as a citizen citi-zen under the Declaration and Constl tulion of the United Slates H J Scolt of Cairo sppko strongly in favor of this resolution claiming that If ll was Ignored Bryan would lose thousands of negro votes By a rising vote the congress adopted adopt-ed a resolution expressing appreciation of the services of George S Boutwell In the cause of antiImperialism The congress concluded tonight with an address at Tomllnson hal by Charles A Towne of Minnesota Mr Towne waa greeted by a large and en Ihuslasllc audience At the close of the mass meeting tonight to-night the Liberty congress was declared de-clared adjourned sine die |