The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-01-18
THE INDIANA AsSEMBLAGE.
An Immense Gather ing-Hanna's Pic
ture of Morton.
Special Dispatch to the Mep York World.

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Special Dispatch TO the Netp York World.
INDIANAPOLIS, January 8.
The great event of this notable anni-
versary here has been the unprecedented
assemblage of Democrats from all parts
of the State to declare in mass conven-
ton the sentiment of Indiana upon the
Presidential complication. The conven-
ton assembled Immediately after the in
auguration exercises in the Academy of
Music, the largest hall in the city, which
was crowded to its utmost capacity.
Every county was represented, many of
the most distinguished men Of the State
being present. The private discussion
among the delegates was free, and the
conclusions reached were temperate but
firm. All rash measures were depre-
Gated, but an unwavering determination
was evinced to insist upon fair count
and the seating of the President and
Vice President fairly elected by the vote
of the people. The convention was
called to order about l o'clock by Gen
eral Mahlon D. Manson, of Crawfords-
vile, Chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee, who made a brief
speech, in which the most striking re-
mark was the advice to the convention to
knock down any hired Republican who
should hurrah for Jeff Davis in the con-
vention. The roll was called by Rufus
Magee, Secretary, and every county an
swered.
David S. Gooding, of Greenfield, was
then made permanent Chairman, and
made speech of half an hour, which
was frequently interrupted by applause,
notably so when he declared that should
the contemplated act of usurpation be
perpetrated by the President Of the
Senate, and il should be sustained by the
Republicans in the Senate, it would be
the duty Of the Democratic House of
Representatives to declare Tilden and
Hendricks elected, and it will then be
our duty to stand by our House of Rep
rcsentatives and Tilden and Hendricks,
if need be, with our property and CUR
lives. We want no war. We want
peace at every sacrifice, except that of
our Constitution, our Union, our honor,
our liberties and our lives. a''
A committee on resolutions was ap-
pointed, consisting of one from each dis
trict, with Bayless w. Hanna, of Terre
Haute, as Chairman. The formal organ
ization being completed, the speaker of
the day, George w. Julian, was intro
duced and spoke two full hours, while
the whole assembly listened with the
closest attention, only broken by ire
pressible cheers.
Mr.. Julian was followed by Bayless W..
Hanna, who in reporting the resolutions,
made extended remarks. The feature
received with the most applause was his
personal reference to Senator Morton, i'll
which he asked: "Why did Morton inn
mediately go to California after Indiana
was lost in October? A great battle was
then raging here for the Presidential as
cendancy. Why was not his familiar
voice heard above the din of the fray7
His mouth is full of excuses, 1know /;
but such excuses! He has said, / be-
lieve, that he went out there in the in
terest of some Mohgolian women who
were hanging on the ragged edge of a
great moral precipice. Think of it.,
Christian men of Indianal Oliver P.
Morton arrayed in the phylactery of a
reformer of strange women, his Janus
like face beaming with chastity How
noble he must have seemed thus robed in
the purity of his purient philanthropy |!
His plans have never been fully dis
closed, but he may have gone out there
as sort of moral phlebotomist, first per-
haps to deplete and then by some hyper.
.dermic art, re-establish the impoverished
blood of whole race of pagan female
castaways. Who can measure the length
and breadth and depth and heighth of
Morton's good shepherd mission out in
the Chinese purlieus of the metropolis of
California;" At the close of Mr..
Hanna's speech he read the resolutions,
which were received with applause and
unanimously adopted. 'i':
The resolutions call upon Congress 10
provide plan for counting the electoral
vote, declare that the two Houses alone
have the power to count and not the
President of the Senate, and if the Senate
shall claim such power for its presiding
officer, they then call on the House to
exert all its constitutional powers to de-
feat such action.
Mr.. Hanna was followed by Daniel w.
VOORHEES,, in his most eloquent and i'm
pressive vein. Referring to the duty of
the party, he said in conclusion: cat
the proper time we will hear the voice of
our leader, and as he finds his path of
duty before him, so we will most likely
find ours, and as he leads in the discharge
of his great duties Indiana will follow
him." Mr.. VOORHEES, read the following
resolution:
Resolved, That committee of FIVE be
appointed by the President of this con-
vention, to be known as Committee of
Correspondence and Public Safety. The
duties of said committee shall be to cor
respond with similar committees and the
leading men of other States for the pur-
pose Of bringing about harmony, of
opinion and concert of action in the pres
ent perilous condition of national affairs;
also, to consider the propriety of callinga
national convention of the Democratic
party and to correspond with the differ.
enC OlaLeS IN TeSaTu IHeTeto. IL siiaii
also be the duty Of said committee to con-
slider and devise the best method by
which the people may exercise the right
Of petition to the Congress of the United
States whether in writing or in person, in
order that the public peace may be pre-
served, popular liberty maintained and
the laws upheld.
The resolution was unanimously adop-
ted, without debate, and the following
gentlemen appointed Il committee Gen
eral M. D. Manson. Chairman; B. W.
Hanna General John Love, David Tur-
pie md G. N. Fitch. The meeting then
adjourned without date.
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