The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-09

the Democracy. The Republicans
had gagged them long enough. Nc
Fadden, of Cass, emitted a gaseous
speech in the same vein, Let the
Committee report, and if we don't
like them we will vote them down
and adopt such a platform and such
other resolutions as we please"
9 Others offered sundry explanations.
The Pendleton, men struck for the
right to present any resolution they
pleased, fearing the Committee might
not indorse their candidate. An in
effectual effort was made to secure the
printing OF all resolutions and their
reference to the delegates from the
several Districts before they should
be acted upon.
Colonel Cy. Durham here put in a
hefty squirt" in favor Of the Consti-
tuition. He gushed with diarrhetic elo-
quence.
The Committee on Resolutions is
as follows:
First Distribution. Ham Smith
of Perry County, and Calvin Jones,
Spencer County.
Second District. A. Cravens.
Third District-Hon. w. S. Hole
man.
Fourth District-Dr. Gee. Berry,
Fifth District-Hon. A NJ Puett.
Sixth Distribution. Tom. Daw-
ling.
Seventh District-Archer johnson.
Eighth District-Hon. David Moss
Ninth District-Edmund johnson
Tenth District. B. Coffroth.
Eleventh Distribution. Charles
III. Reeve.
Great confusion arose as to the
First District. Ham. Smith. of Perry,
wanted to represent that District on
the Committee, but as he had recently
been taken in, some of the old stagers
fought against him, and he was
squelched, and a compromise effected
by putting in Calvin Jones.
The Committee on Permanent Or
ganzation reported as follows: -...
For President-Hon. Joseph E
Mcdonald. v r
Vice Presidents-First District
Ham Smith, of Perry.
Second District-James A. Cra-
vens, of Washington Ak 1850
Third DistricE-B. F. Jones, of
DdTtiOibu1EWa ffEf ~ft aef- y
Fourth District-James Elder, of
Fifth Il Distrficdt@D. R. EokIees5, : Of Of
Putnam. .TEzHTLl0 AIS
Sixth District-G F. Cookery, of
Vigo.
Seventh District-A. j. Booze, of
B0Onee .hs-h tausr. -tsero.lf F.
Eighth District-N. A. Ross, of
Ninth. Distriict-J. W. Barden, Of
Teuth District Capt. 4. Barney,
Eleventh District-P. NJ. Kent, Of
White.308@ 2#gE@A G&eg 81
q Secretaries. Bingham, of
Marion; VI. B. Bower, of Alariohl A.
T. Whittlesey, of Vanderburgh; Otto
BetGeher Of Marions cdiEAJ5Hio
The report sof the Committee was
adopted. a no 5a;e 5i.a q
On takingsthe Chair, HonaJoseph
E. Mcdonald made roaring speech,
in which he9 denounceeIT the RSbubo
lican, party IN the Interest invectiyes,
He styled the. Reconstruction, Policy
ofCongress3 as the fell purpose Of bad
mon to .Afrieanize the country, and to
perpetuate the power of the Govern
mentbin the hands of the Radical
party. The negroes, he said, were a
race of barbarians, as wild, savage and
untutored as their brothers who
roam the g wilds Of their native
country The party in power would
force negro suffrage on the South at
the poiutso Of the bayOnet. a.
He roared Justify for " the Consti-
tuition for several minutes, in a
pathetic strain, and then switched off
on to the financial que. on. The Ma
ticnai debt was not a National bless
ing. We will not pass this burden
down to our children. We will pay
the 5-20s In lawful money" He de-
nounced the funding Of the debt in
long bonds; we wilistop the interest !;
we will have one currency for all.
Tremendous applause. Where gold
IS stipulated, we will pay it, but we
will not pay the 5-20s in anything but
greenbacks. We will pay ali the debt
In the life time Of the generation that
contracted it.
He denounced the present system
Of Collect Internal Revenue. It
nlled the lanQ with SPIES. ana cor
-rupted the people. : Better collect no
money than to collect it by such
dirty means" ....k
On the question Of protact'ny the
lights Of citizens OF he Unitc4 Sites
in foreign countries he said, Ne
must bring European tsoVera tif.uss up
toyan ackn acknowledgements 0fail The rights
guaranteed to a citizen by our Com
stitution. .5F-
He eulogized Andy johnson as the
great defender of the Constitution,
and said his moral courage was equal