Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-26
Afternoon Session.

The convention reassembled. Mr.. Woodbury.,
chairman Of the committee on credentials
made the following report of delegates entitled
to seats;
Winona--H. G. Parrott II. W. Hill, Henry
Talbot, M. Sullivan w. S. Drew, G. F. Buck,
W. II. Dill, N. T. Hilbert, w. j. Whipple, John
A. Mathews II. W. Jackson, Jr., Geo. B. Dres
bach, Samuel Miller. j. M. Cole, II. w. Lam
berton.
Waseca-H. G. Woodbury. Hon J. o. Chand-
Ter, James Hayden, Hon. William Brisbane f.
A. Romer.
Blue Earth-W. W. Bragdon, j. G. Wise, Jas.
Shoemaker, James Cannon, James Brown, j.
G. Thompson, Daniel Buck d. 2. Davis, j. G.
Graham Q. l.. Francis, S. f. Barney.
Steele-Hugh Murray, Edward Donaldson,
Cord King, B. Il. Darby, B. s. Cook, 0. A. Buck
land.
Olmsted-L. E. Cowdrey, Jno. w. Ernestine,
II. T. Hanson, Il. Waldron, VIM. Brown, VIM.
OMullachey, G. Ell. Hebron.
Martin--H f. Shearman.
Dodge-A. B. Huntley, J. Andrews, A. La
Due.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Mr.. B. s. Cook chairman of the committee
on permanent organization, reported recon-
mending Hon. VIM. Brisbane, of Waseca, for
permanent president, and A. H. Lewis, of
Steele, for permanent secretary. The report
accepted.
In acknowledging the honor conferred upon
him, by calling upon him to preside, Mr.. Bris-
bane remarked that he came to America thirty
nino years ago, and from the first day be
breathed the free air of this glorious Republic
he had been Democrat. During that time
there had been many dark days for the party,
but he believed the clouds were breaking away,
showing the silver lining. The convention was
few in numbers, but, as they say in Scotland,
good gear is put up in small bundles He
trusted the convention would act wisely.
THE PLATFORM.
The report of the committee on resolutions
being called for, Hon. H. w. Hill, of Winona
read the following:
We, the Democracy # the First Congression-
al district of Minnesota, in convention assem-
bled, hereby reatfirm our fidelity to and faith
in the national union and onr devotion to the
constitution with all it's amendments, and the
laws.
While demanding the sacred preservation of
the nations credit and the nations faith, and
the faithful and honest maintenance of the
constitution as it is, and the inviolability of
the great truth that this is government of the
people. we congratulate the country upon the
restoration of these cardinal principles of our
government, upon which the perpetuity of
our institutions depend, through the ascenden-
cy to power of the Democratic party, and the
consequent final overthrow of the organized
rasoality and systematic mis-rule which, in
the name of Rehublicanism, has for the past
twelve years subverted these great principles to
the base purposes of personal and partisan
gains, and plundered ana Impoverished the
people of our common country, In this assur-
ed triumph of the Democratic principles of
constitutional government, through home rule
and the subOrdlnation of the military to the
civil power, We laid the promise Of. revived
prosperity to labor, and to our several indus
tries.
We condemn the Republican party for its
corruption in office, and it's apologies and Of
hclal protection extended to it's corrupt and
criminal officers it's unwise legislation; its dam
gerous and unprecedented usurpations OF
power In its wicked and reasonable perversion
OF the popular will as expressed at the ballot
box, whereby the people were defrauded of Il
lawfully elected President, and the perpetra-
tors of this great fraud first triumphant in
American history We're, by appointment to
offices OF honor and profit, rewarded for acts Of
bribery, forgery, and perjury, by which the
final completion Of the great crime was ac-
complished.
We condemn the Republican party tor So uan-
dering the public lands, wasting the public
funds, and inaugurating and maintaining an
corruption unparalleled in the history of
this government. 1t has swept our commerce
from the seas and legislated to favor and pro-
tect combined capital at the expense of labor,
by creating and substituting gi-
itself with rich corporations and
capitalists by exempting from taxation a large
portion of their veal tn, thus unnecessarily and
uniustly burdening TIE people with oppressive
taxation. 1t has used the army in times OF
peace for the purpose Of .intimidating voters at
the polls and dispensing State Legislatures, thus
tewarting the will of the eople in order to pre-.
serve its political ascenden,,y.
Instead of these policies, which for years
have been persistently pursr,ed by the Repub-
lican party, we hereby dec'ar, ourselves in
favor Of
First-Home rule; supremacy of the civil
over the military power; sepa, alton of church
and State; equality of ali citizens before the
law; the greatest liberty of individual action,
consistent with good government, unvexed by
sumptuary laws; absolute acquit,scence in the
lawfully expressed will of the majority in all
the States, undisturbed and unawed by federal
interference, civil or ulilitrry-free elections
and honest counts.
Second-We endorse the investigation of the
electoral frauds, to the end that the truth OF
history may be vindicated the repetition OF
such crimes prevented by holding to legal &C
countability all who hisd guilty connection
with them.
Third-We are in favor of free trade, believ
ing that the unrestricted privilege of GU
people to sell in the highest and buy in thu
lowest markets of the world, is founded upol
wisdom AMI Justice, and would benefit thu
r,anv " Invent Oh pressing the few