The daily gazette., 1876-06-28

in the history of free peoples? If your
deliberations, fellow. Democrats, ! to-
day shall be wise; if your perceptions
of the necessities are sagacious, if
your sympathy shall be quick with the
hearts OF great people, then beyond
all peradventure we shall transmit to
our children and to our children's
children unimpaired, this priceless heri.
tage. Yours will be a better renown
than the renown most priced by Ro-
mons Conditores Imperiorum - far
grester than the founders of empires
are the preservers of republics. There
are no enemies of the Union to-day on
this contineHt except that administers
tive centralism which is congesting at
The capital the vital currents which
ought to flow out through every part,
giving life to the farthest extremitles of
the body polite and energy to all is
members except that corruption which
Is the curse-that certralism has never
failed in any age or land to entail upon
any government. Centralism and cor
ruption have imposed upon States the
rapacious tyrannies of carpet-b bag rule
since the peace and have added $780,
O.0O0 to their debt. They have in.
fected the governments of our Northern
States and Northern cities with the
same disease of extravaganza and
fraud. They have debauched the Fe-
| deral government itself and made the
names of scores of its high officers and
public men our public scandal, our
open shame. A record of horrible in,
capacity, venality, waste, fraud, and
| the party which had been powerless to
dreak down and trample under foot its
corruptionists with stupendous affron>
terry pledged itself to reform Of
which it has become incapable. So
that party pledged itself to restore
specie payment. So it pledged itself
to civil service reform and then drop.
ped and Knocked its reformers. So it
pledged itself to protect American la
Dor and with its monstrous custom
house taxation on over three thousand
articles it has impoverished American
labor.
Mr.. Belmont, of New York, read a
series Of resolutions, arraigning the
Republican party and appealing to the
American people to forget the civil
war after eleven years of peace and put
an end to sectional strife. He accom-
l PohANA thCih Win bOluC CdIuCSb It~
marks. The resolutions were referred.
Adjourned until IL Tomorrow
After the adjournment Dan Voor.
hees. of Indiana, was vociferously
called upon, and uttered an eloquent
speech on the issues of the campaign.
After voorhees, concluded s. S. Cox
was called out. He said the House of
Representatives had passed twelve ap-
preparation bills and sent them to the
Senate, having cut down the Republic
can estimate $64 ,000,000 A voice ::
"stick to it !" Cox replied 1--WE
will."1 Let the thunders of this con-
vention follow the electric flash of the
telegraph, and exhort the Democratic
House to stand by their action and
they will. Proceeding to consider the
asserted dangers of such action, he
said he thought we could do without
the army until after the November
election. The navy could be spared
from protecting commerce which
bad legislation and ipjudicious taxa.
tion had destroyed. AS to the Indian
Bureau, if the border men are only
turned loose they will soon crush out
these contractors. Indian warfare he
touched upon, and favored the repeal
of the resumption act. The best bust
ness men East and West concur that
resumption in 1879 is utterly impossi
Bile. Commenting upon the issues of
the campaign he asked "Who shall
be your standard bearer =" He was
overwhelmed by cries of "Tilden !.
Tilaen !" long continued.
Mr. Cox said that when he asked
that question he intended to answer it
himself. Laughter. Referring in
terms of respect to 1Ilden, he said he
(Cox) also knew the strength of the OBJ
jections to him. He also referred sue
cessiyely and complimentary to Han.
cock, Hendricks and the great un-
known. Every time his phrase gave
opportunity the audience renewed its
cries of "rildsn Tilden I" In con-
clusion he said the Democratic party
had no common contest in meeting
the ticket of Hayes and Wheeler, and
he appealed to good, hard, common
sense to name the Democratic leaders
in no haste, but carefully and discreet
ly, after full consideration of all the
necessities of the hour.