Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-28

The pla torn aud, furthermore, that mn
rner Jus o f1ces created on account of the EN-
! ergeDcy OF the war; be abolished, and all sal
| aries be regulated in accordance with the re
| duction In money circulation, the sbr rim kagJ
! In values and the inevitable finahcial disss
ter mat Is upon the entire country.
| Signed by Lorin Miller L. Wakely Emo
| Lowe, and thirty Others
The secretary then, upon request, re-.
announced the times and places Of meet
ing Of the various committees, and the
convention took arecess until five O'Clock
10 the evening. - rs
REAsSEMBLED.
The convention resssembled at TWEEN
| ty minutes past five O'Clock.
Chairman - The first business be-
fore the convention will be the report of
the committee on credentials. Tue gen.
tleman from California Mr.. English
has the floor.
Mr.. E9glish-I will send the report to
the secretary's desk. the secretary read
SIS follows:
Your committee on credentials would re-.
spectfully report that there are no contested
seats Iapplausel, that the States are fully
delegates re ported by ths chairmen of the re-
spective delegations as delegates to the con-
yention are entitled to seats in this conven-
ton as delegates from their respective States.
JAMES LAWRENCE ENGLISH,
Chairman of the Committee.
Mr.. Finch [IowsJ offered a resolution
TO give the Territories representation In
the convention as States.
A delegate from Maryland moved to
TO amend the report go as to give the
d riet Of Columb'a represention 10 the
convention, without right to vote; this
WAS made to inc'uie the Territories, and
the report was then adopted.
An incident occurred pending the DIS
cussion on the admission Of Territorial
delegates to seats: General Williams,
Of Indiana, known as "Blue Jeans"
came upon the platform, and being re-
ccgnized, the delegate was ssluted with
q cneer, and an enthusiastic Kansas del
egate rose In his seat, and said: 81 pro.
pose three hearty cheers for 'Blus Jears'
Williams, the next governor Of Indi-
aus.n The convention failed to respond,
but laughed good nsturedly at the dis
appointment of the Kansas delegate.
Mr.. Hanna, Of Missouri, from the
committee on permanent organization,
made the following reI ort:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN-In behalf of the
committee on -peImaSeLt organization
I have the honor to submit the follow.
For permanent president, Gen. John
A. McClernard, OF Illinois.
For vice-presidents and secretaries,
one from each State.
The Temporary secretaries, with Mr..
Prince, of B )ston, as chief, were
continued as the working secreta-
ries, and Sergeant-at- Arms Able was
also reappointed.
An effort was made by a dele.
gate from Indiana to have E,
O. PerTine, OF New York, the we'll
known reading secretary Of five other
national conventions, added to the read
ing secretaries. The question was put
and lost by decided maj srity. -
This was test between Tilden aad
Anti Tilden, Mr.. PerriEe having heen
left off by the committee on orgspi8 r.
ton bsc auss Of his opposition to Tilden.
The vote, under the lead Of Indiana, was
stronger than the opposition to Tilden
bad supposed Weuid be the case. The
committee on organization, also, recom-
mended that the rules and res ula atiOns OF
the National Democratic convention of
1872 be adopted by this CT vention for
the government OF its proceedings. This
was agreed to, and the report adopted.
Chsirman-The chairman will sp-
point FOn. Dan. w. VOORHEES,, OF Indi-
ana CsppIauseJ. General Fiizhugh Lee,
of Virginia applaUs.l and Governor
William Dorsheimer, of New York, to
escort General M'CIernand to the chair.
Afier waiting for few NOM ents, it sp-
peared that the gentlem IN named were
not present. The chairman said: Gen.
eral Fitzhugh Lee being out of the hall,
Hon. Thomas 8. Bocock will please act
Ia his place. The chair would ask the
New York delegation if Governor
DorsheimeE IS ia his place.
A delegate-He is not here.
Chairman-The chair will ask Mr..
Msnton Marble, of New York, to take
the place Of G JvernOr DoTsheimer. IAp-
plauss
General NJ CIernand was then escorted
to the platform amid lCu1 applause, and
spoke as folloWsi
GENTLEMEN OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRAT
&c CONVENTION L thank you for the distin-
directing me to preside over your delibera-
tions. You are the de e:egates of the Demoera-
cy of the whole Union of thirty seven States,
once unuaturslly estIanged, but now forever
united in one indivisible republic, brethren
OF one political family, with the same herf-
tsge Of liberty, under equal laws, and heirs of
one destiny. Shall we preserve and transmit
tn at great heritage2 Shall we make that des-
tiny The most glorious in the history of free
peoples? II your deliberations, felloW.Dem-
ton of the necessities OF our tiIoe, our coun-
try and our politics shall be just and saga
the hearts of q great people, then, beyond all
peradven' ure, we will transmit to our chill
dren and our childrens children, ,unimpaired
this priceless heritage. Yours will be better
by the Romans-the esndttoreS tBaperIOrNnI-
for greater than the founders Of
empires are the preservers of republics. There
are no enemies of the Z Union on this eonti-
nent except that administrative centralism
which is congesting at the capital the vital
currents which ought TO How through every
part, giving life to the farJhest extremities of
the body polite and energy to all its mem
bers, except that corruption which is the
curse that centralism has never failed In age
or land to entail upon any government. Cen.
tralism has imposed upon ten states the ra-
pacious tyrannies of carpetbag rule, and since
war have added two hundred miUiOns to the
debts. They have infected the governments
OF our northern States and cities with the
same disease of extrayaganee and fraud. They
have debauched the Federal government It.
Sc If, and made the names of scores of its high
officers and public men our public scandal
and our open shame: TDe record Is horrible
publican party, which has been pOWerless
TO head down and trample under foot its coz
ruptionists, with stupendous effrontery
pledges itself to reform of Wh CD it has be.
come incapable. That party pledged itself to
restore specie payments, and every year is
taxing us lFOn specie pay
ments: It pledged pggS Its itself to c1viI
mocked its reform srs. So it pledged itself
to protect American labor, and Wit6 its mon
strous cusLomhouse taxation on over three
thousand articles it has impoverished Ameri-
can labor. A few score monopOlists, few
Thousand corruption lists, have been enriched
but capital in the hands of those that earned
il by industry and saved 1t by frugality, is
eyerywhere distrustful and rusts unused,
while honest labor goes about the streets beg
ging bread. Is this the final outcome of a CEN
tenary of republican selEgovernnenL? God
forbid it! But we have waEdefed ar from the
tionai principles, the frugal expenditures and
the administrative purify of the (, unders Of
the republic. This is the first, the most impe.
rious necessity of our day and nation. This is
the appeal we have to make to our fellow
citizens OF every former political afiHa ton.
which all others are inferior, su others trivial.
RefOrInl reform reform! II you shall recog-
piZe this impeTious necessity; II you snail
guarantee in your platform the successful
Reinforcement OF this arduod US woIk of national
regeneration; if you shall select standard
and faithful to your pledge, victory in the
November and victory In tie October contest
is already yours. Incarnate the vital issue of
reform in The candidates and platform, and
the states that nave hoDoTed Douglass and
Lincoln, the States that to-day honor Ben
Bayard and ilden, these states, with all their
vast populations, will rise ike the woods and
the winds that followed the heeting Orpheus,
and follow you TO victory
Mr.. Williams Qnd.)-I understand
the committee on resolutions are not
ready to report, that they have only in