The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-11
They Hang on all Night
at Chicago,
And Adjourn Sine Die at
Seven O'clock.
Weaver and Chambers for Presi-
dent and Vice President.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Rational Associated Press to the Star. -
CHICAGO, July 1.-THE Greenback Con-
vention devoted its energies to the acc M
plishment of two things, namely, the
adoption of the majority report OF the
Committee on Credentials and the admis-
sion of the Socialistic Labor and Union
Greenback delegates. 1t was O'Clock be-
fore this was accomplished and the dele
gates from the boiling convention entered
the hall. Their entrance was the signal
for scene of widest excitement, which
rivaled in originality Of demonstration, if
it did not in amount of noise, the greatest
tumult which the Republican Convention
INDUCED in.
The day had been very warm, the air OF
the Convention hall was almost intolerable,
half of the delegates were In their shirt
sleeves. and yet the heat seemed TO have
no depressing effect upon the enthusiasm
of the delegates. There was cheering and
shouting, and yelling until their lungs
were tired and voices lost. Men mounted
on mems shoulders in their efforts to raise
the banners of their States higher than
their neighhors, and to cap the climax.
Miss Spencer, of Washington, q tall thin.
angular woman, and leader in the delega-
tiOn of Woman Suffragists, mounted re-
porter's table and, supported on either side
by men, snatched her bonnet from er
! head placed it on top Of pole and waved
II frantically round and round high above
the heads of the audience. The effect was
electrical. The crowd shouted and howled
again like mad.
A delegate from Wyoming where women
have been granted suffrage, rushed for
ward with the banner Of that Territory,
and in q twinkling was beside Miss Spen-
Ger. waving it as com panion to the lady's
bonnet. The din continued for nearly half
an hour, and it was not until physical en-
durance was exhausted that the Convention
could be induced to take recess until 8
o'clock for supper.
The platform adopted at the night ses.
SION, contains the usual Greenback planks.
1t further declares:
That labor should be so protected BY
National and State authority as to equalize
its burdens and insure just distribution
of its results. The eight hour law of Con-
gress should be enforced; the sanitary con.
dition of industrial establishments placed
under rigid control; the competition of con.
tract convict labor abolished; bureau OF
labor statistics established, factories, mines
and workshops to be inspected, the EN-
pIoyment of children forbidden, and wages
paid in cash.
Slavery being simply cheap labor, and
cheap labor being simply slavery, the i'm
pOrtation and presence of Chinese serfs
necessarily tends to brutalze and degrade
American labor, therefore immediate steps
should be taken to abrogate the Burling-
anne treaty.
Railroad land grants forfeited by reason
of nonfultllment OF the contract should
be Immediately reclaimed by the govern
ment, and hencefOrlh the public domain
reserved exclusively as homes for actual
settlers.
All lines of communication and
transportati IN should be brought under
such legislative control as shall secure mod
crate; fair. ard uniform rates for passenger
.and freight traffic. 1t is the duty OF Con-
gress to regulate interstate commerce
We denounce, as destructive to prosper
ity and dangerous 10 liberty, the action of
the old parties in fostering and sustaining
gigantic land, railroad and M ney cnrpor-
atoms and monopolies, invested with, and
exercising powers belonging to the Govern
ment and yet not responsible to it for the
manner of their exercise.
The Constitution in giving Congress
the power to borrow money, to declare war,
to raise and support armies, to provide and
maintain nation, never intended that the
tnen who loaned their money for an inter
est consideration should be preferred to
the soldier and sailor who periled their
lives and shed their blood on land and sea
in defense Of their country.
We condemn the cruel class legislation
Of the Republican party, which. while
protesting great gratitude to the soldier,
has most uDjnstly Disseminated against
him and in favor Of the bondholder.
All property should bear its just proper.
tion OF taxation and we demand gradu'
ated income tax We denounce as most
dangerous the efforts everywhere manifest
10 restrict the right of suffrage
We are opposed to an increase of the
standing army in time Of peace and the
insidious scheme to establish an enormous
military power under the guise of militia
laws.
We demand absolute democratic rules
for the government of Congress, placing all
representatives OF the people upon an
equal footing and taking away from com.
n,}ttee veto power greater than that Of
the. President.
CHIcAeo June 11.-About o'clock this
morning, after several Intellectual attempts
10 adjourn the Greenback Labor Conyen-
tion proceeded to ballot, upon motion OF a
delegate who declared 1--WE want to get
through and 70 home. We have no money
for six days session." The first nomina.
tion was Alexander Campbell, of linois
BY O. F. Norton of the Illinois delegation.
4 Other nominations and seconds followed,