The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-28


IL 10 tnougnt that II the Committee on
Resolutions is .Sdi Is ready to report this morn.
my, tnat paiiot Wlli Dc reacned cary
iournment to.night the disnosition so
far heino to burry thinoa nm
Last Nights Session.
ST. LOUIS, June 2S.-The Convent on
reassemn,ed at 6.oo o,o,ocL for Tho r,oht
.,s
sessioh' Oominit'ee on OreoehuaiS re'
ported "no contests" and all States
!ully represented. Tho Territories and
District OF Columbia were allowed repre-
sentatiVes but without the right to
vote.
mr.. Hanna, OF Missouri, from the Com
mlttee on Permanent Organization,
made the following report:
Mr.. Chairman: In behalf OF the Com
mittee on Permanent Organization,
have the honor TO submit the following
report OF officers for this Convention:
For permanent President-General
Jonn A. McClernand, oi Illinois.
For Vice Presidents and ecretaries--
One from each State.
& Inc temporary Secretaries, with Mr.
sinued as the working Secretaries, and
oergeant-atArms Able was also reap
Polhteu.
Gen. McClernand being conducted to
the chair, said: s.r.
GENTLEMEN OF THE NATIONAL. DEM.
OCRATIC CONVENTIONAL thank YOU TOR
the distinguished honor which YOU have
done me In directing me to preside over
your deliberations, You are the dele
gates OF the Democracy OF the whole
Union OF thirty-seyen States. once nm
naturally estrapged. but now forever
united In one indiyisible RennhIic--
brethren of one political family. with the
same heritage or liberty. under euuai
laws. and heirs of one desLinv. Shall
we preserve and transmit that HERITAGE
shafl we mako that dastinv tba MAJ
yIorlous in the history of fraa neon,ea II
your daliheratioms faliow. .Remnora,s R,
to.dav anal he wIsa ~ vonr nsrnont;n,
of Tie Necessities of onr time. onr conn.
trv our noiitics sha,i ha inst ma 900.
cioi,s ifynur symnathv sSaii ha on;nL
with ihe bear,a nf araot naonia a,hon
havond ali neradvantnre 10 vii irana-
nit to our children ana o,,r chi,dran;.
children unim naired this nricaIaea hari-
taos. ~ '-'-' H-0''
sYours will, be a hetter ranovr than
the renown most nrized hv Raman,s
ConJ;toree ,n,ne,jo,,,,,, or 1rootor tha y
t]ha ] I",InGers pI' " sm,,,ras sU % nr ,ha nraoarn
ers of Renublics, Thera ore M enamiee a
of the Union to-day on this Continent
except that Administrative centraIis M
which is congestine at the Canital the
vital currents which ought to fiow out
through every part. giving life 10 the
lurthest extremities OF the body nolitic-
and energy to ali its members except
that corruption which is the curse that
centralism has never failed In any
age or land to entail upon any
Government, Centralism and cor.
ruption have imposed upon ten
States the rapacious tyrannies of car.
pet-bag rule, and since the peace have
added two hundred million to theiI
debts. They have infected the Govern.
ments OF our Northern States and North.
ern cities with the same disease oil ex'
travaganee and fraud. They have de-
bauched the Feueral Government itself,
anu made the names OF scores OF It's high
I Ulcers ana public men our public scan.
dal, our open shame. The record Is
horrible. 1ncapacity, venality, waste,
fraud, anu the party which has been
poWerless to head down and tramplC
under foot It's corruptionists with
stulendOus enfontery pledglng itseli
10 u reform OF which 1T has become
incapable. SO that party pledged
itself TO restore specie payments
every year taking us further from specie
payments. 30 1t pledged itself to civil
service reform, and then dropped and
mockeG Its relormers. So 1t pledged
Itself TO protect American labor, and
WIN us moastrous .h Custom-nouse Taxa
s lion Gn W,e e sMouSana ero Articles y
"s ras scare mnnnno,ists and a faw ,ho,a
ana corruntinnipts nave hean anri,.Hed
ana ,,;,al ~, ,hs hand. ,,e ,Sa .,' -
~. - hv ,nI,,e,rv anS oa~aT ~ %.
.su.itu 10 avara wharo nistr,st,I,I ~ ~! y!
'o"1"3 uv3pseS wn,,a honss, IN b"r a"a. n.
,n"mt 80, tha s,reetS haSoinu hrsad sUo' n;a
49, tho All ontc"ma or nantnru .
onH"' Sn,"'oyernmant5 EnrbiS il uroo,on ~. y
Snai
oo ..nut we baya wanderad far from tho
r,rit natbs Wa must raturn - thS
Sut imt,nna, nr;nc,njes tho fruso, er sr,
usn IL, nres and The administrative nnri, ,
i,S tha founders nr the r .nuhIic trhis 4
.ho HrsI tho mast imnsr,nms necass;t,
~ onr day and nation. and this is tn.
anneai we have TO make to onr tellnw
citfizans of every tormur noliticnl afiIia
ton. This is the one supreme, com
manding issue, to whiea all others are
INFERIOR a. o'neIs iai. helorm
niz, this imperious necessity
you shall guarantee in your plat
form tne suroessl9i acn.evement o