The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-29
THE HARD CASH CONVENTION.

THE HARD CASH CONVENTION.
} The proceedings of the state convention o
the Mccormick or hard money opposition
wing at Springfield on Wednesday are giver
in full in Thursdays dispatches. The convcn
ton seems to have BEEN pretty fully attended
by delegates from all the counties in the
state except -, and the Chicago platform
was adopted without material variation
though not without some opposition TO tho
financial plank.
The convention was called to order prompt
~ at Il o'clock on Wednesday and G. w
Armstrong, of La Sale county, made tempo
rary chairman. The usual committees on
credentials, permanent officers, resolutions
etc, were adopted, and recess was taken tc
half past two.
On re,assembling the committee on per
mancnt officers reported the name of eXGov
John NJ. Farmer for president, r. +. Goodell
of Chicago, for secretary, with a dozen of as
sistant secretaries and "A vce-prcsident from
each congressional district
Gov. Palmer, on taking the char, made a
- minutes speech strongly endorsing the OBJ
jects Of the convention.
The committee on platform reported the
following:
/. The restoration OF gold and silver AS the
basis of the currency of the country; the
speedy resumption Of specie payments, and
the payment of all national Indebtedness in
the money recognized by the civilized world.
! 2 Free commerce; no tariff for any pur-
pose but for revenue.
B. Individual liberty, and opposition to
Isumptuary laws.
4. Rigid restriction of the government, both
state and national, to the legitimate domain
of political power, by excluding theretrom all
executive and legislative intermedding with
the affairs of society, whereby monopolies
are tostered, privileged classes aggrandized,
add individual freedom unnecessarily and
oppressively restrained.
). The right and duty of the state to pro
tect its citizens from eXtortion and unjust
discrimination by chartered monopoiles.
Various attempts were made to amend sec
ton of this platform. Mr. Roberts, of the
minority of the platform committee, propos
ed the following in lieu of it:
The restoration of gold and silver rs the
basis OF the currency, and the resumption of
specie payments at the earliest moment prac-
ticable, without any injury to the business
and commercial interests of the country.
After a long and pretty hot debate, Judge
Green proposed the following substitute,
which was adopted:
/. The restoration of gold and silver as the
basis Of currency; the resumption of specie
payments as soon as possible, without disaS-
ter to the business interests of the county, by
steadily opposing initiation, and by the pay
ment of the national Indebtedness in the
money of the civilized world
And then the platform, thus amended, was
adopted without further opposition.
ON motion Of Gen. Licb the following reso,
lutions were also adopted:
Whereas, The republican party has ignored
the just claims nf our disabled soldiers, and
violated ITS pledge repeatedly made, whereby
thousands of these noble wards of the nation
are compelled TO live upon the cold charity
.of the word
RtS0lced That we now demand that all the
pensions OF our crippled soldiers shall be SO
increased as TO shield every one of them from
daily want, without compelling them to take
refuge in a Socalled Soldiers home
Rcsoiced, That the present system of pen
sion agencies Is vicious and detrimental TO
the interest of those it is pretending to pro.
,cct, and should be thoroughly Investigated
by congress.
The convention then proceeded to nomIn.
ate candidates for state officers Mr.. Gore,
the candidate on the farmers ticket was nam
cd among others, but was objected to as not
in sympathy with the platform of this con.
vcn,ion. His name was dropped, therefore,
and Hon. ChaS Carroll, of Gallatin, was
nominated. For superintendent of public
instruction Mr.. Ettcr, the nominee of the Far
mers' or Independent convention. was nomi-
mated, his sympathcS being understood as IN
favor OF the Chicago platform.
\ State Central committee was appointed
TO call future conventions, etc, upon which
The convention adjourned sine dc.