The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-06-30
The National Democratic Convention.

The National Democratic Convention as.
scmbled on Tuesday at noon in the hall Of
the Chamber of Commerce at St. Louis
The Hon. Augustus Schell, of New York,
called the convention to order. He then
proceeded TO state that its purpose was 10
nominate candidates for the presidency and
presidency, whose election shall change
the government, overthrow corruption, aud
produce the administrative reforms demand
ed by the people. He spoke of the Demo-
cratic party as the party of hard money from
the beginning, and said that the acts author
izing paper money and making il legal tender
were the work of Republican Congresses
The remedy for our financial troubles, he
commended, was neither rapid contraction nor
increased currency. He held THAT the repeal
of the resumption act and the assumption of
the rcns of government by the Democratic
party, with its policy of economy and sound
finance, would bring about specie payments
speedily. In closing he nominated Henry
Wattcrson, of Kentucky, editor of the Lou.
isyille Courier J0urnal0 for temporary chair.
man, which was unanimously agreed to. On
taking the chair Mr. Wattcrson addressed
the convention. In the course of his re-
marks he II ferrcd TO the stagnalion of bust
ness, ascribed it to raGtsan misrulc and
sectional instruction, which huve kept
asundcr the people Of North and South, SUP.
Piled sustcnnnce to corruption, disturbed
values, unsettled prices, and made our " hole
financial system cheat and a snare.
The delegates from the National Womans'
Suffrage Association asking hearing were
admitted, and Miss Phoebe Cozzcns made an
address, and the resolutions she presented in
regard to suffrage at The close were referred
10 the appropriate committee for respectful
consideration.
Gen. John A. McClernand IA Tildcn man
was chosen permanent chairman, and in his
address to the convention arraigned the Re.
publican party for maladministralion. He
said that there were no enemies Of the Union
to day on this continent except the admins
trative centralism and corruption which have
imposed upon ten States The rapacious ty.
rannics of carpet.bag rule, and infected the
governments of the Northern States and
cities with the same disease ofexlrayapance
and fraud. The rules of the national Demo.
cratic Convention which met in Baltimore
in 1872, including the two-thirds rule, were
formally adopted without elciting any Cd.
position from the friends of Mr Tilden.
On Tuesday the Convention assembled
and adopted the following platform by q
vote Of 651 to 49, The opposition to the
platform came from the advocates of infa.
ton, but the position of the Democratic
party upon the subject may be judged by The
vote:
THE PLATFORM.
We, the delegates of the Democratic part,
of the United States in national convention
assembled, do hereby declare the adminstra
tion of the federal government to be in urgent
need of immediate reform +; do hereby eDioir
upon the nominees of this convention and O
the Democratic party in each State a zealou.
effort and cooperation TO this end, and dc
hereby appeal TO our felow-citizens of every
former political connection to undertake with