The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-18

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realized TINT the Butler faction had contro
ofAlechanics Hall, they appointed a com
mittee to'see what could be done towart
procuring a hall. They waited upoI
4 Mayor Pratt about 10 o'clock this morning
and informed him OF the state OF aflairs
after the Mayor went to the hall he wrOt,
TO the Convention as follows!
Mechanic Hall was taken possession O
this morning between 4 and o'clock by
somelisorderly persons, who broke dowr
the entrances, and at 1886 o'clock are nov
In possessson of said hall / demanded
1 thu: said persons leave said hall at the re
quest of the State Central Committee
which they refused TO do, and AIN Of the
opinion that said hall can't be cleared ex'
Cept by violence and bloodshed. I.u ur.
'Respectfully yours,
$500, ..,t &c. b. PRATT,
Mayor"
On receipt OF the above, the State Cen
trail Committee unanimously voted to nd.
journ the Convention till Wednesday oi
next week at Faneuil Hall, in Boston.
This action was rendered necessary from
the fact that Buffers friends have secured
all the available halls in Worcester, and
the leaders also take the ground that after
the mob proceedings, which have taken
place here to-day, they can go before the
people and lead the movement that will
crush Butler.
At the Bay State House Hon. A. F. Bird
addressed crowd in thcvcstibule at 1880,
and announced that in us much MS the
mob had taken possession OF Mechanics
Hall and the Worcester Mayorhad not the
authority 10 remove it, saying that for
chile attempt mightrcsulti in riot tand blood
shed, the speaker gave the decision OF the
State Committee that the Democratic State
Convention would be held in Faneuil
Hall, in Boston, on the 25th, where an
ample police force would be on hand to
protect the Conventions rights.
The announcement was received with
deaiening cheers. Tho crowd then dis.
pcrscd and at II: 40 all the accredited dele
gatcs were admitted to Mechanics Hall:
BuTLER NOMINATED. ,aL
The nomination Of General Butler was
enthusiastically received. The following
are the resolutions adopted:
The Democrats OF the Commonwealth
OF Massachusetts by their duly ap-
pointed delegates; in convention as
sembled, hereby affirm and rciterate
their adherence 10 the time hon
ored principles of the Democracy enun-
ciated and acted upon by Jefferson, Madi-
son and jackson and pledgestheir best ex-
ertions to make. them effective in the
guidance and government OF the nation
so that all the people OF the States may be
maintained in their Just rights, subordi-
mated only to the rights and powers Of the
Federal Government rs defined and linz
tied BY the constitution framed by our
fathers, and the amendments thereto,
which subsequent experience has found
necessary. r
Rrsolr4i, That We condemn and will
strenuously try to reform the extravaganza
in state expenditures; the unnecessary In
crease OF officers; the waste OF the public
domain, which should not have been CIV
en- away in large portions rs endowments
either to individuals or corporations, but
reserved for the use OF actual settlers only,
so that homes could easily have been OBJ.
tainahle By the industrial classes upon the
failure OF profitable employment in other
enterprises and whose production is the
only source OF wealth to the country.
ReSolred, That with exceeding shame
and sorrow We have seen Il. President,
elected by the votes OF majority OF the
people, at an election held in accordance
with the provisions OF the Constitution
set aside, and the people deprived OF his
services in that high Office bya series oil
most astounding forgerics and iperjuries,
the possibility OF successful existence oi
which weakcns the very foundation OF the
Republic. Our grief has not lesscned be-
cause this m0nstrous wrong was done by
the aid OF an unconstitutional Commls'
sion which fonnd il necessary, by party
majority, to refuse to receive evidence oi
patent iraudsin the electoral votes in order
TO cOnsummatc this act. We, therefore,
unhesitatingly declare that no man ought
to lie permitted to hold office who is taint'
ed with fraud and corruption; andif 1t can
be done without rebukc by the people
then, indeed, we fear for the perpetiityo
Republican institutions.
ReAoitrd, That the further continuance
OF one party in power in the Nation, and
especially in the commonwealth, tending
to corruption and atfording opportunity
and temptation to mal-administration and
peculation, multiplication OF salaried OIL
ces, manyo ofthem unknown to the eConstltu
ton, thus removing the responsibility FOL
mis.goyernment from the officers elected
directly by the votes OF the people, giving
In fact, the administration OF the common
wealth into the hands Of officers uncon
stitutionally appointed by the executive
80 NJ TO interpose u barrier between ]
aud the people for just accountability o
executive officers, for extravaganza and ac
cunulation OF unproductiye property u
, the hands Of the State, the purchase an!
care OF which has been paid for BY bond
cd debt OF many millionspurposely place.
in foreign countries so thatitmight be helt
. MS an investment FREQ from the taxation
which has 80 burdened the people viii
: debt, State and municipal, to be paid 10
: by the constant increase OF taxation an
exactions upon the people in q time whei
Inll enterprises are hindered, when indus
tries In business yield no adequate returl
and labor gets no Just equivalent for It
! toll. mike il permanent necessity tina
t the administration OF State and municlpa
I aiEairs shall be thoroughly aud etticientl
. reformed. Wo therefore reproduce th
platform for tho State government as SC
. forth by the Democratic party In ia Cor
yentioniD 1875, moro extended referenc
l to which is fonnd in an address Of our car
didate for Governor 10 the citizens ,wh
!. asked him TO bO q candidate, and in whiC
hc pledges himselito undertake to rciorI
q oil such abuses.
: Reaolred That We deprecate the tender
icy OF legislation, growing year by year, !
/. place impcdiments in the way oia free e'
y erclse Of the right Of suffrage by the poe
!. and laboring man. The Democracy hol
i the ballot as the Unborn and inalienabI
1 right Of free citizens; all legislation, Their
: fore, should tend 10 give them full enio!
n mont OF this right; all aCts passed to n
!. strict or hinder Its exercise under any pr
d tcnce whatever are unconstitutional an
d void, and should be repealed. The TO-
n that citizen is man gives him . pHgI
y iacie right 10 vote, and he should have u
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