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applause, Bishop Marvin made prayer
tho a,.se,t, hIaue risinr

CONVENTION,
AZ this point the chair announced
that delegates from the national wo-
mans rights organization were present
and desired 10 address the convention.
No objection being made, Miss Cccrr1ins
then stepped forward and dcliverd an
address,
Accompanying this address was the
following plank for the Democratic plat
form, which was referred 10 Tho commit
tee on resolutions.
WHEREAS, The democratic party was the
brst to abolish the property qualification and
extend the right Of suffrage to all white men
Of the older states; and,
WHEREAS, IL was democratic Legislature
that extended the right Of suffrage to the wo-
men of Wyoming thetefofs,
Respt,vfi That we pledge ourselves to secure
the night of suffrage to the women of the
United States on equal terms with men.
APPOINTMENTS OF COMMITTEES.
The secretary then proceeded with the
call Of the roll for the appointment of
committees on credentials and PERMANENT
organization.
Tho secfetary then called the roll for
the appointment of committee on reso-
lutions, with the following result
| :. AAbama lerty ?. Walker; Arkansas l..
'. Mangum; California, John $. Hagar;
| Colorado, +. J: Marshall; Connecticut, Il. ID.
| Hubbard; Delaware, George Gray FLORIDA,
John Wescott; Georgia, c. p. Howell; illi-
| nois, John A. MClernsrd Indiana, u. W.
VoorheesI Iowa, II. II. Trmble Kansas
Thos. L. Davis; kentuckSy, Atyin ,Duyall;
Louisiana, r. II. Mann Maine, d. II. Hast
ings Maryland, George Freanor; Massachu.
Bancroft; Minnesota, Daniel bucks Misis-
sippi, A NJ. Clayton, Missouri, c. II. Harden;
Ne5iaska, George l.. Meler; Nevada, A. c.
Ellis; New Hampshire, f. c. Brsley; New
Jersey, James W. Gates; New York, VII.
liam Dorshimer; North Carolina, Thomas l..
Clergyman; Ohio, General Thomas Ewing;
Oregon, NJ, V Brown Pennsylvania, Malcon
Hay; Rhode Island, William b. Bead; South
Carolina, Samuel MGowap Tennessee,
mont iatiies II. Williams; Virginia, John A.
Meredith; West Virginia, John j. Davis
Wisconsin, Alexander Mitchell.
Resolutions wereofIercd by S. S Hayes,
of ILL.,, and Mr.. Miller, Of Nebraska, and
referred to The committee.
The secretary then, upon request, re-
announced the times and places Of meet
ing of the various committees, and the
convention took a recess until five clock
in the evening.
REAssEMBbED.
The convention reassembled at twenty
minutes past 1--WE O'Clock.
The first business before the conven-
ton being the report of the committee
on credentials, tine secretary read as fol-
lows;
yrur committee ON credentials would re-
spectfully report that there are no contested
seats Iapplausel that the states are fully rep
resented renewed applsusel, and that the
delegates Reported by the chairmen Of the re-
spective dele cations as delegates to the con-
vention are entitled to seats in this cenven-
ton as delegates from their respective states.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES LAWRENCE ENGLISH,
Chairman of the Committee.
Mr.. Hanna, of Missouri from the
committee on permanent organization,
made the following report:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN-ln behalf of the commit
tee on permanent organization ! have the
homer to submit the following report Of Off
GERS for this convention:
McClernard, Of Illinois
For vice-presidents aud secretaries, one
from each state.
The temporary secretaries, with Mr.. Prince,
of Boston, as chief, were continued as the
working secretaries, and sergeant-at-arms
Able was also reappointed.
Gen. M'Clernand was then escorted to
the platform amid loud applause, and
SPOKE as follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE NATIONAL DEMO
| CRATIC CoNvENTIoN-I thank you for the
| distinguished honor which you have done
me in directing me to preside over your de-
| iberat,ons You are the delegates of the
democracy of the whole union of thrty-seven
states, once unnaturally estranged but
now forever united in one indivish!e repub-
| lie, brethren OF one political family, with
| the same heritage of liberty, under equal
| laws, and heirs of one destiny. Shall we
preserve and transmit that great inheritage?
Shall We make that destiny the most glo
rious in the history of free peoples? II
your deliberations, fellow-democrats, to-day,
shall he wise; if your perception Of the
necessities of our time, our country and our
politics shall be Just and sagacious; If
your sympathy shall be quick with the
hearts of great people, then, beyond all
| peradventure, we will transmit to our chill
| dren and our chidren's children, unini-
paired, this priceless heritage. Yours will
be better renown than the renown most
priced by the Romans-the condttors imIer-
rioTum-for greater than the founders Of
| empires are the preservers of republics.
| There are no enemies Of the union on this
continent except that administrative cen
traism which is congesting at the capital OF
vital currents which ought TO flow through
every part, giving life to the farthest ex
tremities of the body polite and energy TO
all its members eXceut that corruption
which is the curse that centralism has never
failed in age or land to entail upon any
government Centralsm has imposed upon
ten states the rapacious tyrannies of carpet
bag rule, and since war have added two
hundred millions to their debts. They have
infected the governments of our northern
states and cities with the same disease of
extravaganza and fraud. They have de.
bauched the federal government ITSELF and
made the names of scores Of its high officers
and public men our public scandal and our
open shame. The record is horrible in in.
capacity, venality waste and fraud. The
republican party, which has been powerless
to head down and trample under foot its
corruptionists, with stupendous efrontery
pledges itself to reform Of which il has be-
come incapable That party pledged itself
TO restore specie payments, and every year
is taking MS further from specie payments.
Itpledged itself to civil service reform, and
then dropped and pocked its reformers. So
it pledged itself to protect American labor,
and with its monstrous customhouse taxa
ton on over three thousand articles it has
impoverished American labor. few score
monopolists, a few thousand corruptionists,
have been enriched, but capital in the hands
Of those that earned it by industry snd
saved it by frugality, is everywhere distrust-
| ful and ruste unusad uhifa bnnaet l.hox