Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-09-18
NO. 45.

ResOEUed, That the interests of labor ant
capital should not be permit ed to conflict
but should be harmonized by judicious legis
lation; while such conflict continues, labor
which is the parent of wealth, is entitled tt
paramount consideration.
ReSOtUed, That we proclaim to the world thai
| principle is to be preferred to power; that the
! Democratic party is held together by the
| cohesion of time -honOred principles which they
! will never surrender in exchange for all of The
offices which the president can confer; the
/ pangs of minorities are doubtless excruciat-
ing, but welcome on eternal minority under
| the banner inscribed with our principles,
rather than an almighty and everlasting ma
| jority purchashed by their abandonment.
Res0tced, That having been betrayed at
Baltimore into false creed and false leader
ship by the Convention we repudiate both
and appeal to the people to approve our plat
form and candidates who embody it.
The report was adopted with great
unamity.
Candidates for Vice President were
then placed for nomination, being
John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts,,
A. Z. Edgerton, of Indiana, and Judge
James Lyons and Henry A. Wise, OF
Virginia.
Here Blanton Duncan asked permis-
sion to read apart of private letter he
had received from John Quincy Adams.
The communication is as follows
BURLINGTON, Iowa. Aug. 81.
! Btd1ttOT Duncan, Esq;
| DEAR SIR Il have not the least hesitation
| in saying that in case you nominate Mr.. O..
Conor. | shall support your nomination cor
daily. [ do not mean to say | should supper
| any other.that may be selected, but can give
my heart as well as my hand to him; and my
observations have convinced me that his name
would recall most of our beWildered soldiers
to the ranks, and secure by no means insie
nificant accession from the Republican camp
You perhaps realize the widespread disgust
with Grant which pervades the intelligent men
of the Republican party; but 7 never felt its
! whole force and vigor until my experience in
! Michigan. Wisconsin, Nebraska, &c. Indeed
| there were men down on both candidates. and
willing to accept choice of evils as an admitted
necessity.
AS to your hint about the Vice Presidency, |
confess do not covet that thing indeed, |
should decline it outright, if in this case it
might not seem to most to be fianking a for
lern hope That | don't like to appear to do,
but at the same time [ hope you will find bet
ter man. In case there should be real and
general inclination to couple my name with
| O'Conor's, it would strain my sense of honor
to refuse it. In such fight, for Gods sake,
don't push or pull or force it.
Truly, &C., J. @. ADAMS.
The result of the first ballot stood ::
Edgerton, 222; Adams, 213; Lyons,
154; Wise, II.
On motion, the two-thirds rule was
adopted, and another ballot had, with
the following result: Edgerton, 249 :;
Adams, 1876; Lyons, 162.
Upon the third ballot Mr.. Adams 1e-
ceived the entire vote cast, except
3 for Edgerton and 50 for Adams from
Arkansas, and 2 for Lyons, and Il for
Adams from Mississippi
An address to the Democracy of the
United States was referred to the Ma
tional Executive Committee.
The Committee on Credentials re-
ported 1862 delegates present, and re-
commend that each delegate cast the
full vote of the state
communication was read from the
President of the National Labor Re
form Convention at Philadelphia, en-
dorsing the action of the Convention
A communication from the Chicago
Times, endorsing the Convention and
it's objects, was received with cheers
The convention took recess until
P. NJ, and upon reassembling, dis
patch was read from Mr.. O'Conor,
positively declining the nomination.
This threw the convention into confu-
sion, several gentlemen made speeches
denunciatory of the course of Mr..
O'Conor. The chairman was for time
unable to preserve order. So soon as
one speaker took his seat or made any
perceptible pause in his remarks, varl-
GUS delegates would Instantly endeavo1
to obtain the floor. Points of order,
questions of privilege, amendments
and substitute motions to adjourn,
either sine die or to It fixed hour, fol
lowed each other in rapid succession,
and amid several disorders the delega-
tions became lntermingled, loud con-
versation and shouted suggestions be-
!. ing..almost constant, majority of the
delegates being on their feet.
Mr.. Moreau, of Indiana, final
ly succeeded in pouring oil
upon the troubled waters by moving
the nomination of Judge Lyons, of Vir-
ginia, Chairman of the Convention, fo1
President, which was carried by accla-
nation. The Chairman gracefully ac-
knowledged the compliment, but de-
clared the whole proceeding out OF or
der. An adjournment was then had un-
til Thursday morning at nine o'clock.
The convention was not called to order
until half-past ten, however. Shortly
after the opening the following telegram
was received from Mr.. Adams:
Quincy, Mass, September 5.
Col. BJant0e Duncan, LOussUa1e -,
will olaGly serve as Vlce-Presldent With
O'Conor, but will accept nothing else
O'Conor must positively stand.
The Alabama delegation asked leave
to withdraw, assigning as reason the
hopelessness of the cause of Demo
cratic principles. The Louisiana dele
cation did not attend this meeting
sending an explanatory communication
giving in similar reasons for their &C
ton.
Mr.. Goodlett offered the following
resolution, which was adopted:
ResOUed That it is the sense OF thus con
yention that Chas. OCOnor, OF New YORK, nav
ing fully aud heartily approved OF the obJec
and purposes of the convention, ana havln;
been unanimously nominated for President
and .Tohn O0incev Adams, of Massachusetts
for Vice-President that the delegates OF tn
Democratic party here assembled, are unwi
ling to make any her nominations IN thel
stead. and that the De nocratlc party Will CIV
them in any event our undivided support.
The Committee on platform reporte
some additional planks, after whlc
the convention adjourned sine die.
The Mississippi.
The Mississippi River is 2,6l6 mile
in length, and Is /, $50 feet above th
level of the Gulf at its utmost source
At St Paul it is 600 feet above th
Gulf level; at the head Of the Roc
: Island Rapids, sos feet; at st. Louis
: 4O7 feet; at Cairo, 322 feet; at Men
, phis, 221 feet; at Natchez, 66 feet; {
New Orleans, Is feet; and at the hea
: of the passes, 2 feet 9 inches. The A.
kansas River rises l ,514 miles from II
t entrance into the Mississippi, an
: 10000 feet above the Gulf level
Fort Smith it is 41S feet above tn
Gulf: at Little Rock, 252 feet, ana
it's mouth 162 feet The Missouri hive
2 rises 2, 9O8 miles from its entIace INT INT
the Mississippi, and $500 feet aReT p :
; the Gulf level; at Fort Benson 1t
9 915 feet above the Gulf, at OlOu