Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-06-26
During Wednesday night 1T was
evident that
A HANCOCK BOOM

A HANCOCK BOOM
was gathering all over Cincinnati.
Efforts were making by managers
to hold the big delegations solid,
such as New York, Ohio and Penn
sylvania, but the boom was too
strong, and, in the force of the cur
rent, delegates broke loose from
their moorings like fence rails in
freshet, and at the first ballot on
Thursday he appeared at the head
of the list with 316 votes as at first
stated, but before the rest of the
votes were recorded this had risen
to 354 by the transfer of votes, and
then took succession of leaps till
it rose to 6S5, and finally stood at
705. Then it was made unanimous
by reclamation.
Rapidly followed after this
FIRsT-A public and complete
reconciliation of the conflicting Gle
ments of the New York democracy.
SECoND-The report of the Com
mittee on Resolutions. They were
presented by Mr.. Watterson, of
Kentucky, and unanimously adopt
ed.
CHARACTERIZATION, by accla-
nation, of VIM. H. English, and
adjournment of the convention,
after doing a splendid piece of work
in most workmanlike manner.
The following are the resolutions
adopted by the convention
The democrats of the SUnited States, in
convention assembled, declare, first, that we
| pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional
| doctrines and traditions of the democratic
| party as illustrated by the teaching and ex
ample of "a long line of democratic states
men and patriots and embodied in the plat
form of the last national convention OF the
| party.
| dangerous spirit of encroachment which
/ tends to consolidate in one and thus to Gre
ate in whatever form of government real
despotism, no Sumptnafy laws, separation
| OF state and church for the good of each !;
| common schools, fostered and protected.
3. Home rule, honest money, consisting
| gold and silver, and paper convertible into
| coin on demand strict maintenance of
| public faith, state and national, and tariff
| for revenue only the subordination OF the
military to the civil power, and a genuine
| and thorough reform of the civil service.
The right to a free ballot is right preserv-
| alive of all rights, and must and shall be
maintained in every part of the United
| States.
The existing administration is the repre-
| sentative of conspiracy only, and its claim
of right to surround tine balIot-boxes with
| troops and deputy -lnarshaIs to 1ntlmldate
and obstruct the electors, and the unprece-
| dented use of the veto to maintain its cor
|
and imperils their institutions.
We execrate the course OF this administra-
ton in making places in the civil service
rewards for political crime, and demand a
| reform in the statute which shall make IL
forever impossible for defeated candidate
TO bride his way TO the seat of usurper by
| billeting villains upon the people.
The great fraud OF 1861, by which, upon
a false count of the electoral votes of TWO
states, the candidate defeated ut the polls
was declared to be the president, and for the
| first time in American history the will of
| the people was set aside under threat OF
military violence, struck deadly blow at
! our system of representative government.
The democratic party, to preserve the eoun-
| try from the horrors of civil war, submitted
| for the time In the firm and patriotic belief
| that the people would punish this crime in
| 1880. This duty shrinks and warps every
| other. 1t imposes a more sacred duty upon
| the people of the Union than ever was ad-
dressed to the consciences OF nation OF
| freemen.
The resolution of Samuel j. TiIden not
| again to be candidate for that exalted
| position to which he was elected by q ma
| jority of his cOuntrymen, and from which
| he was excluded by the leaders of the re-
| publican party, is received by the democrats
| of the United States with deep Sensibility,
| and they declare their confidence in his
wisdom, patriotism and integrity, unShak-
| en- by tie assaults of the common enemy.
| They further assure him that he is followed
| into the retirement he has chosen for him
self by the sympathy and respect OF his fell
| low-citizens, who regard him as one who,
| by elevating the standard of the public mo-
rality and adjoining the public service, mer-
| its the lasting gratitude OF his country and
/ his party.
Free ships and a living chance for Ameri-
/ can commerce upon the seas and upon the
land.
No discrimination In favor of transpOrta-
| ton lines, corporations or monOpOlies.
Amendments to the Burlingame treaty; no
| more Chinese emigration, except for travel,
| education and foreign commerce, and there
| in carefully guarded.
Public money and public credit for public
| purposes solely, and public land for actual
settlers.
The democratic party is the friend of Ia
| to protect him alike against the cOrmorants
and the commune.
We congratulate the country upon the
honesty and thrift of a democratic congress
which mas reduced the public expenditure
10000, 100 q year, upon the continuation of
prosperity at home and the national stand
ing abroad, and above all, upon the promise
of such a change in the administration of
the government as shall insure genuine
and lasting reform in every department of
the public service.