Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1876-07-01
,,no;,..a Gov. Hardin representing bIis

,,ore anpointed. Gov. Hardin representing Mis-
souri, on the latter. q. I.u;s oIa,,,,
,nn conventnn on the subject Of Wonian ,sRights.
'S TSc Sc" conwc"ti"n then adjourned until O'Clock
EVENING SESSION
PERMANENT oRGANiZArIoS.
The convention was called 10 10 oruer at >: -:
Mr. Enflsh reporsd er that there
ted seats. [Applausel and that 'he states are all
Hr Hanna. of Indiana. from the Committee
on permanent Organization, reported for per
mauent president, John A: McCielnand, OF llii-
Cen Fiizhush Lee, ol Virginia. and Mr. Dor
sheimer, of New York. were sppointes a com
mittee to conduct Mr. McoisrnMunr Mr, 70 'he CHar:
YCrt. and Mr. Bocock, of virginia, We're sub
stituted Mr. McClernand. being conducted 10
the platform. addressed Tile convention Us
| follows:
M'cLERNAND's SPEECH.
l. cent,emen of the National Democratic Con-
| venIOn, l thank you for the uistln honor
| you have done me IN dlrectlng me 10 bresiue
| OF the Democracy OF the whole union of thirty
seven states. once ulnaturaily estranged. but
| hTethren of one political family. with tn. saline
heritage Of liberty .pder EQUAL laws: s.; and hrr,
Of one destiny sa' SNAIL M WE make that .iestnv
| the most glorious in the history of free p""nc?
| If your isliberatisns fellow Democrats tn.d'y.
ties of our time. ourcountry, our politics shall
he ssracious; if yoursympaihy shall beat quick
with The hearts Of great people. uhen, % DeyHn" yn
| dren and our chill irsn's children. uniInpaired,
TINS priccle heritag. and yours will be better
| enaeriO,uua For, greater than the founders
! of empires, the preserveTs oil repuolcs.
There are no enemrs OF the Union s1Iaay % On
| tralisn which is colgesting at the cap,,al Ihe
| vital currents which ought to How out through
every part, giving life to the farthe.t eNtreni-
| ties Of the body pOlIc, and energy to its mem
| bers Except that corruption, which Is the
curse that centralisn has never failed, in any
nent. Centralism and corruption have imposed
upon ten It ties The rpss ous tyranny Sarpetnas
| rule and since the Ieace have added SOU ,UUO,-
| OOO 10 their debts. they have infected the gov
ernments of our n,rtherh states and northern
Ses Win T,,sn ene he sa deSsached The Feera gov
ernEent itself, tnd NUDE the names Of scores of
| its highest ofj:ers aud public men, our public
record H. iorribIe in incapacity venality, waste,
| fraud and The party which has been powerless to
beat down anu trample under foot its corrup-
| ti0nists, With stupendOus efontry is pledgnS it.
| self to q rrOrm Of which it has become incapa-
BILE. 80 that party has pledged Itself to
| restore specie payments every year taking us
| farther rom specie payments. So 1t pledged IL,
| self to ivil service reform, and then dropped
| and mcked its refOrmers. So 1t pledged ltsei1
to protct American labor, and with It's mon
strous cusI0m-hou.e taxation on over three
thousai articles. it has impoverished Amsrl-
Gun lWor. few score mOnOpOllSt5, lew
| thou5Ad cOrruptiOnists have been enriched; Dut
| the cs,iIal in the hands OF those that earned i;
by inustry, and saved it by frugality, is every
| est EbOr goes about the streets begging bread.
| Isths, then, the final outcome OF y century OF
rep blcan self government? Forbid it, gracious
| Co.! But we have wandered lar from the right
pans. We must return to the constitutional
srnciplss the frugal enpend,tufes M ana tn, tne i. H.
pmlIc. This is the first, the most imperative
/ necessity of our day and nation. This IS the ap-.
| uAl We have to make to our fellOw-citIZcns of
eery former political aniliation. This is the
| oe supreme, Commanding issue, to which ali
ohers are Inferior al Others !rv,sl-nelorm
| i you shall guarantee, in your platform, the
| .uccessful achievement Of this arduous work Of
| National regeneration, if you shall select stan
lard bearers true to your pledge, victory IN the
November, victory in the October contest is al
ready yours. Inchrnate the vital issue of reform
lin = candidate and platform, and the states that
have hOnOred Douglass and Lincoln, the states
that to-day honor Hendricks and Thurman burma, liam
cock and Parker, Bayard and Iilden, these
states, with all their vast populations will rise
like the woods and the winds that followed the
fnting Orpheus, and follow you to victory.
Convention in eloquent sheeches. the former
concluding by ourring set OF resolutions for
reference to ths nI proper On pat
form Sat until one O'Clock this morning. anu
then adjourned without coming to any conclu
sion, the serious differences relating entirely to
The platform is substantially agreed upon.
except on the financial question, but has not
been put in form. No reliable synOpsis OF it can
be had because Of the danger OF changes in the
final draft.
to order ut five minutes after eleven O'Clock. in
Producing Father Brady. OF st. Louis, who Of
1ered prayer.
the Convention took q recess until y. III.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
THE PLATFORM.
The Convention was called to order at 2l5.
Judge Mel edeth, Of Virginia, Chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, presented his report.
He stated that great many resolutions were
presented, all of which had been carefully ex-
amined and discussed before coming to an
| agreement. He requested Mr.. DOrsheimer, OF
New York. to read 1t to the Convention, as fol-
| lows:
[This Is from the Associated Press dispatches
and may contain some errors, but We presume
We. the delegates OF the Democratic party of
semSiei, do hereby declare the administration
| of the Federal government to be III urgent nea.i
the nomnte 5 5Gfi9rm and 90 hereby e9JGun aml upo
ocratic party in each sts.e on-il.e - eaort and
cooperation to this end, and do hereby appeal
to oar fellow citizens OF every other former polit
icsl conviction to undertake with us this first
| and most pressing patriotic duty.
| For the Democracy of the whole country We
| do here reaftirm our faith In the permanence of
the Federal Union, our devotion to the Consti-
! universally adopted as a. final settlement Of the
| controversies that were enSendered by the civil
war, and do here record our stsadfast confidence
in the perpetuity Of republican self government;
| in The absolute acquiescence in the will of the
majority, the vital principle OF a republic; In
the supremacy of the civil over the military all-
| thOrlty; in the total separation of Church and
State. iOr this sake alike Of civil and religious
freed I'M; in the equality of all citizens before
liberty of individual conduct as unvexed by
sumptuary laws; in the faithful education 0f
the rising generation that they may preserve.
man happiness and hope. We behold in these
the nebicst products Of hundred years OF
bond of our union and great charter of these
also that eternal vigilance which is the price OIL
tablish the Union of eleven years ago. Happily
rescued from the danger Of . corrupt centrallsln III
which, after inhicting upon ten states the rapac
ity Of carpet bag " rannies, has hourly crowd Il
the Offices of the federal government itself with
incapacity. waet. and frauds, infected states
and municipalities with the contagion of mis-
rule. and locked fast the prosperity of an indus
trious people IN the paralysis OF "hard times +"
Reform is necessary to establish a sound cur
the national honor. We denounce the failure
through all these eleven years 10 make good the
changing standard value In the hands of the
people, and the non-paymeat of which is a dis
regard % OF the plishled faith Of the nation.
We denOunce the improvidcnce which in
eleven years Of peace has taken from the people
in Federal taxes thirteen time. the amount of
legal tender notes. and squandered four times
ing amy reserve for their redemption.
We denOunce the financial inbecility and i'm
morality OF that party which during eleven wears
of peace has made no a,lvanse toward resump-
. tiun-no preparation Tor rsumptOn-but i'll
stead has obs,ructed resumption by wasting our
resources and exhausting ali III plus While
annually processing an intended speedy return
to specie payments, it has annually enacted
!, fresh hnu, ances thereto.
We ,lenOuncu the resumption clause of the
act of 1875, and We here demand its repeal; we
demand Il JudicIOus system of preparation by
by wise finance, which shall enable the nation
soon to assure the whole world of Its perfect
ability and its perfect readiness to meet any of
its promises at the call of the creditor enttled
to payment: We believe such system, well
devised, and, above all, entrusted to competent
hands for execution, creating ut no time IN
tihciai scarcity Hf currency. aud at no time
alarming the public mind with withdrawal of
that vast machinery OF credit by which G5 per
cent Of all the business trInsacti0ls are per
formed - a system open to the public, and IN
spiring confidence, would from the day of its
adoption bring healing on its wings to all our
financial industries; set III notion the wheels of
commerce, manufactures, and the mechan ic 1
arts F.; restore employment to labor and prosperI-
ty to the people.
Reform Is necessary in tie sum and mode of
Federal taxation to the enI that ca pital may be
set Tree from distrust aud lEhor lightly burden
ed.
We denOunce the present tariff levied upon
nearly 800 articles NJ q Masterpiece of njiIs-
tice, inequality and false petense. 1t yielis :,
dwindiing, not yearly rising revenue. 1t has
impoverished many industries to subsidize a
the products of American commerce. 1t has
cut down the sales Of American manufactures
at home and abroad, and depleted the returns o /
American agriculture and Industry followed by