The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-28

tration and so change the policy of the coun-
try as to restore constitutional govern
ment
Let the delegates look beyond excl ted
crowds assembled at hotels here and TO
the people beyond, and to their views, ,senti-
ments and needs. 1t was among them
the battle was to be fought, and lost or
won, and this conventions action must be
addressed to the necessities of that field
and nothing else.
BRECKENRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, was
next called for ana took the platform amid
applause. He acknowledged the compli-
ment to himself and to Kentucky, and pro-
ceeded to urge the broad national unsec-
tional cooperation OF all sections of the
Democratic party to change the national
administration. They were here, not as
| eastern or western men, but as Democrats
and Americans. Applause. Let them
act only in that spirit and 60 to battle un-
der some great leader who should guide
them to great victory.
1t was no common foe they had to fight,
no enemy easy to overcome; it was party
controlling the sword and purse Of the
country, and no conscience to restrain it
from using them unscrupulously for the
retention of their power, In conclusion
he again counseled compromise, unity and
cordial co operation for the common cause.
EX-GOV. BROWN, OF MISSOURI.
Gratz Brown was called out, at the sug-
gcstion of Judge Doolittle, to give the
views of the Liberals in the present cam
paign. He said he sympathized entirely
and cordially in the efforts to adjust all
minor differences, and to agree upon win
ming ticket For the Liberals he promised
that they should be found in the front at
the coming fight. Applause They
want reform and relief, and he hoped this
convention would put up platform and
candidates that would Enthusiastically em-
brace these ideas.
SENATOR WALLACE, OF PENNSYLVANIA
Mr.. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, fallowed
with caustic criticisms Of the Republican
party, which, he said, had made ticket
born Of the defeat of the only strong can
didate, hated and denounced by the admin
istration Of Grant, men nominated for
their negative character alohe. He ex-
borted tolerance, forbearance and harmony
in the convention.
/ AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention was called to order at
I2:15.
Judge Meredith, of Virginia, chairman of
the committee on resolutions, presented a
report stating that great many resolu-
tons were presented. .all Of which had been
carefully examined and discussed before
coming to any agreement He then, re-
quested Gov. DorsEeimer, of New York, to
read the report to the convention, as fol-
, lows:
PLATFORM.
, We, the delegates of the Demo
} cratic party OF the United States
in national convention assembled
t do hereby declare the ADMINISTRATION of the
Federal government to be in urgent nGed
} of immediate reform; do hereby eDjoir
upon the nominees of this convention and
of the Democratic party in each state, 6
t jealous effort and cooperation to this end
, and do hereby appeal to our fellow citizen:
of every former political connection to un
dertake, with US, this first and most press
ing patriotic duty for the Democracy O
e the whole country.
We do here reahirm our faith in tn
4 permanence OF the Federal Union. ouI
devotion to the Constitution of the Unitet
: States. with its amendments UNIVERSAL,
+ accepted as final settlement of the con
troversy that engendered civil war, an,
l. we do here record our steadfast confdenc
in the perpetuity of republican self-goy
n ernment; in the absolute acquiesence i
the will Of the majority, the vital principl
n of the republic: the supremacy of tn
It civil over the military authorities; the tota
# separation of church and state for tn
d sake alike of civil and religious freedom
il IN the equality of ali citizens before jus
e laws of their own enactment in the libert
IS Of Individual conduct unvexed b
e sumptuary laws; III the iaithfu
D. education of the rising generatio
D. that they may preserve, enjoy an
transmit these best conditions of huma
a happiness and hope.
,e We behold tn, roblcst product
10 of hundred years of changefu
history, but while upholding the bond c
re our union and great charter of these ou
rights it behoves free people to practic
s also that eternal vigilance which is the pri,
ID of liberty.
at Reform is necessary to rebuild an
le establish in the hearts of the whole peop
De the union, eleven years ago happily rescue
fIom the danger of corrupt centrailsn
le which after inficting upon ten states th
rapacity of carpet bag tyrannies has hone.
N combed the offices and the federal go
d. ernment itself with incapacity, waste an
fraud; infected states and municipaiitit
n with the contageon of mlsrule, and locke
t, fast the prosperity of an industrious pc
as pie in the paralysis of hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish souu
b, currency, restore the public credit an
Il. maintain the national honor.
IS. We denounce the want of faith for a
e. these eleven years to make good the pr
K. mise of the legal tender notes which are
u. changing standard of value in the hands
the people, and the non-payment of whiC
is disregard of the plighted faith of tt
le nation.
or We denounce the improvidence whic
cd in eleven years of peace has taken fro
or the people in federal taxes thi
he teen times the whole amount of the leg
n tender notes, and squandered four timt
th this sum in useless expense without acc
mulating any reserve for their REDEEM
ton.
K We denounce the financial imbecili
It. and immortality of that party which, du
sn ing eleven years of peace, has made no al
'ol vance toward resumption, no preparatie
it for resumption, but instead, has obstruc
on ed resumption by wasting our resourc
I'd and exhausting all our surplus income, an
al while annually processing to insure spe
ed dy return to specie payments has annual
lis enacted fresh hindrances thereto, and
to such hirdrance we denounce the resum
es ton clause of the act of 1875, and we be-
.e- demand its repeal