The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-07-20

| ator Bayard. of Delaware, who, when he rose, i,
was greeted with applause. when the chair
| ked that this was not mass meeting
Mr.. Bayard said if ever the country need
| ed men to rise above the mere trammels Of
| party it was now. How was reform to be
made in the government if the best and
| purest instincts Of the people were not to be
| aroused 2 The democratic party was the
| organization through which the salvation of
! the country was to come.
He asked if this great organization shall
not be allowed to have independent ex>
preston of its own opinions. TCries of yes
What shall be said of adopting, without
crossing or dOtting i, the platform of
men who have never been in our councils.
He wanted the democrats to have an oppor-
tunity for a straightforward expression of
their own opinions without having the words
of other men forced down their throats.-
TApplause and Kisses If the convention
was ready for this he was not. He did not
wish to see a great maj rity bow to the will
If small minority. Cries of trus. aud
some faint hsses, which were drowned in
applause
Mr. Burr said he would give ten minutes
more to Mr.. Bayard. when
Mr.. Gallagher, of Connecticut, said he OBJ
c'ed to Mr.. Bayard or any other man going
Oh.
The chair said Mr. Gallagher was not in
order. and he was compelled to sit down,
cries and shouts coming from all parts Ct the
house for him to sit down.
A delegate asked Dir. Bayard to state any
resolution of the Cincinnati platform that
was not essentially democratic.
Mr. Bayard said he did not mean to be
catechised. but to proceed in his own way.
He continued to argue that the proceeds
ing was contrary to democratic usage. He
sntered his protest against the adoption in
this manner of the platform of men not of
the democratic patty.
SPEECH FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
Mr.. O'Connor, of South Carolina. regretted
there should be any difference of opinion as
to men or platform in this solemn juncture
of our national affairs. He then went on to
speak of the issues before the country, as
sertng that the reconstruction acts and all
the amendments to the constitution had been
now accepted by the democratic party in the
south and elsew here. Great app lause.
Now. at this perilous juucture, is 1t right
for the democratic party to stop for mere
words. This convention is not here to de-
liberate with view to the politics of one
state but to the salvation of the whole re-
public.
He then depicted in eloquent patbos the
down troddeu condition of poor South Caro-
lima, crushed almost to the dust, criticised
the administration, aud painted the evils
which afflicted the whole country, and urged
all good men to unite to put down the evils.
(The loudest aud most enthusiastic applau e
and cheering here broke in, and although
| Mr.. O'Cunner's time was cut, he was urged
! from al parts of the house togo on.) South
| Carolina stretched cut her hand to her broth
rem in the north she asked them to hel p her
| to elect man who will give US peace. man
who is the embodiment Of peace aud benevo-
lence. [Cheering
South Carolina was the Ireland OF Amer
! ica. He said no party in this country
| would ever attempt to deprive the negro of
the suffrage which had been given to him.
| Great applause. Mr.. O'Conner concluded
amidst the wildes: applause.
The question was then taken on the adop~
ton of the platform. When Delaware was
! reached aud her vote was received in the
negative. hisses came from all parts OF the
house, mixed with faint applause.
delegate desired it to be understood that
no member of the convention was partici>
pating in the hisses, and the chair again APP
.pealed to the galleries TO preserve order.
ADOPTION OF THE PLATFORM.
As various states voted in the affirmative
the announcement was received with app
pause, particularly when Maryland cast her
six votes on that side, aud New York her
seventy. Virginia her twenty-five and South
Carolina her sixteen When the final vote was
announced. the applause broke forth urre-
strained, and continued for some minutes.
THE VOTE ON THE PLATFORM IN FULL.