Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-06-28
TIE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
7Ee Erening Session Yesterday.

7He EreninG Session Yesterday.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION - SPEECHES
BY CHAIREAN NC CLkKSAND AND
MEssRs. cox AND NoRHEEs.
The St Louis convention reassembled yes
terday after recess
At 525 p. M. the committee on credentials
reported all the states represented AID no
with an amendment admitting delegates
from the District OF Columbia and tue terri
tories without votes.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The report OF the committee on perm anent
organization was read, accommodating Gen.
John A. McClernand, OF Illinois, for perma-
nent president, with vice president for
each state. The report was adopted, and the
committee escorted Gen. McClernand 70 the
chair, who addressed the convention.
SPEECH OF CHAIRMAN MCLERNAND.
Gentlemen OF the national democratic con-
yebtion, thank you for the distinguished
honor which you have done me In directing
me TO preside over your deliberations. You
are the delegates of the democracy OF the
whole union OF thirty seven states, once un-
naturally estranged, but now forever united
in one ipdivisible republic. 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
The most glorious in the history OF free peo-
Piles? II your deliberations, feilow-demo-
Gratis, TO day shall be wise; II your percep-
try, and our politics shall be just and saga
ciousi If your sympathy shall be quick with
the hearts OF great people-then, beyond
all peradventure, we shall transmit to our
children and our children's children, unim-
paired, this priceless heritage. Yours will
be a better renown than the renown most
priced by ADMINISTRATIONS inperiOrua-
lar greater than the founders OF empires are
the preservers OF republics. There are no en-
emies OF the Union to-day on this continent
except that administrative centralism
which is congesting at the capital the vital
currents which ought 70 Cow through every
part, giving life TO the farthest eXtremitieS
OF the body polite, and energy 10 all Its
members, except that corruption which is
the curse that centralism has never failed
in any age or land to entail upon any gov
eminent. Centralism and corruption have
imposed upon ten states the rapacious ty-
raDn1es OF carpetbag rule, and since the
peace have added 500 coo, 900 TO their debts.
They have infected the governments of our
northern states and northern cities with the
same disease OF extravaganza ana fraud.
They have debauched the federal govern
ment Itself, and made the names OF scores of
Its high officers and public men our puolic
scandal and our open shame; q record OF
horrible tncapacity, venality, waste and
fIaudi and the party which has been power
less 10 break down and trample under foot
Its corruptionists with stupendous eifrontery
pledged Itself TO reform OF which IL has
become incapable. So that party pledged
itself 10 restore specie payments and every
year taking US further from specie pay
ments. So II pledged itself 10 civil reform,
and then dropped and Knocked its reformers.
% IL lLScll 10 pTOJ6CI IA
Dor, and with its monstrous custOm-hOuse
taxation over three thousand articles IL has
Impoverished American labor. Anew score
OF monopolists, a few thousand corruption
lists have been enriched, but capital IN the
hands OF those who earned IL by industry
and saved II by frugality, is veryvhere dis
frustfpI, and rusts, unused, while honest
labor goes about the streets begging bread.
Is this. then, the final outcome of a CEN
tury OF republican self-goveroment? Goi
forbid IL, gracious God. Bat we have wan
ar from fha f0laf he Va NET
return TO the constitutional principles, the
frugal expenditures and the administrative
purity OF the founders OF the republic. This
Is The hrst, the most imperious necessity OF
our day and nation. This is the appeal we
have 10 make to our fellow citizens OF every
former political utilization. This is the one
supreme commanding issue 70 which all
others are inferior; all others trivial-reform!
reform! reform!
If you shall recognize theimperious neces-
silly; II you shall guaranty In your platform
the successful achievement OF this arduous
work OF national regeneration; If you select
standard bearers true TO your own high pur-
pose and faithful TO your pleCge, victory In
the November, victory In the october con-
tests are already yours.
Incarnate the vital issue OF reform to can
didates and platform and the states that
have honored Douglass and Lincoln, the
states that to day honor Hendricks and
Thurman, Hancock and Parker, Bayard and
ulations will rise like the woods and the
winds that followed the fleeing Orpheus
and follow You TO victory.
At the close OF the speech, Mr.. Belmont, or
New York, read a series OF resolutions ar
raigning the republican party and appeal
ing TO the American people 70 forget the
end to sectional strife. He accompanied
them with some earnest remarks. The reso-
lutions were referred, and the convention
adjourned until TO morrow.
DAN VOORHEES, AND s. s. cox CRATE.
After the adjournment Dan voorhees,, OF
Indiana, was vociferously cRllet upon, and
uttered an eloquent speech On the Issues OF
AFTER voorhees, concluded s. s. Cox was
called. He said the House OF Representa-
tives had passed twelve appropriation bills
down the republican estimates s6i ,O0O, 600.
IA voice, "Stick 10 it." Cox.-"We WILL
Let the thunders OF this convention follow
The electric fash OF the telegraph and exhort
the democratic House TO stand by their ac-
ton and they viii. Proceeding 10 consider
the asserted dangers of such acton, he said
he thought we could do without the army
until AFTER the November election. Why,
the navy could be spared from protecting a
commerce which bad legislation and intu-
dicious taxation bad destroyed. As TO the
Indian bureau, II the border men are
only turnhd loose, they win soon crush
out these contractors' Indian wsrfares.
the resumption act. The best business men
east and west concur that resumption In
1879 is utterly impossible. Touching upon
shall be your standard bearer He was
overwhelmed by cries OF "Ttlden!" "Tlldenp'
long continued. Mr.. Cox said when he asked
that question he intended TO answer IL him.
SELF ILaughter.l Referring In terms OF re-
spect TO Mr.. Tilden, he said he (Coxl also
knew the strength Of the objections TO him.
He also referred SUCCESSFULLY and ccnnpli-
mentarily TO Hancock, Hendricks, and the
gave Opportunity. ne sndiencs rsnexed is
cries OF Tilden, Tilden. In conclusion, he
said the democratic party had no common
contest in meeting the ticket OF Hayes and
Wheeler, and be appealed TO good hard CON-
mon sense to name the democratic leaders
In no haste, but carefully and discreetly,
Of the hour.