Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-30
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
Gen. w. S. Hancock Nominated for the
~ %@ Office of President.
William H. English, Of Indiana, the Nominee
for Vice President.
First Day.

CINCINNATI june 22.-At 12:4O o'clock Sena-
tor Barnssn called the convention to order, and,
without preliminary remarks, announced that
prayer would be offered by Rev. c. W. Wendle,
of the Unitarian Church.
Senator Barnum then announced that he had
been unanimously requested by the national
committee to nominate Hon. George Hoadley,
of Ohio, for temporary chairman. This being
approved by the convention, the chair appointed
Vim. L. Scott and J. d. McEnery as commit
tee to conduct Mr.. Hoadley to the stand AS
Mr.. Hoadley assembled the platform he was
greeted with hearty applause. He spoke as fol-
! lows:
MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN GF THE NATION
AL EXECUTIVE CoNNITTEE:-I obey this call to the
chair of this convention with grateful acknowledge
ment of the confidence reposed in me. Il shall be
my sedulous care to prove worthy of your nomina-
tior Fellow delegates, fellow Democrats thanks for
spouse to which viii be, my only adequate response
be, the slrictest imparality in the exercise of
power during the brief period it is committed to me-
snail make mistakes. trust you will TO give Them
you will, soon as can satisfy you that,
although as delegate am the jealous friend, even
the partisan of my favorte candidate, your officer
shall know neither friend foe of any candidate
but discharge my duty with absolute fairness and
! fidelity of purpose. OF this you have my pledge.
Gentlemen of the convention, our fathers, distrus-
ing popular choice established in each state cleo
toral college, to whose unpledged action they sought
to entrust the election of the chief magistrates
of the republic. Their children, taught by expert
! scheme by unwritten amendment which
| combines the advantages of the electoral sys-
tenn with the direct popular vote, while it pre-
to each state its just weight of influence upon
the result. Conventions of delegates chosen by the
people of two or more parties have already presented
candidates for popular acceptance at the coming
election and another great college Of electors is
assembled in this hall. The office you thus fill
though not defined by Jaw is of transcendent legal
consequence need not say that in this assembly it
will not Oe doubted that you not delegates from
congressional districts but representatives of those
indestructible units Of indestructibe Unon-the
states Custom has defined your duties. They are
to construct platform and to nominate candidates.
You are not, however, called together to create
creed, but to apply known principle to present pub
lie affairs. The Democratic principle docs not date
its birth from our assembling and will not perish
with the success or defeat of the candidates you
nominate. 1t is eternal, divine fire burning in the
hearts of all men. 1t quickens the thought of the
statesman nerves the of the soldier and doubles
the energy of the toiler. 1t is found in the Roman
precept suum cuiQue tribune and in the sef-evident
truth of the American patriot that all created
equal. 1t is the nrelenting foe of despotism and of
Communism, whether open or sought to be hidden
under the disguise of paternal governments. Its
bencient office in political affairs is to secure to
every the utmost possible liberty of action
sstent with equal liberty to every other. Yours is
not, therefore, the office of invention but of pro-
mitigation, to discover but to declare and ap
ply the Democratic principle to the changing affairs
of human society and that this principle may have
living force in public concern you will nominate
didates whose election will ensure its full frliton
during the next presidential term. These duties
Democrat doubts that you will worthiy perform; but
you are called to their discharge this day under cir
Gums tances of no common moment, circumstances
which may God in His mercy grant shall in the his
tory of our Republic never occur. -Four years ago
the Democratic party, in convention assembled at
ST. Louis, announced to the country its platform and
nominated it's candidates two of the most foremost
statesmen of the nation; both then and now worthy
of the most enthusiastic political devotion and the
most ardent private friendship and Samuel j. Til
den and Thomas A. Hendricks were elected presi-
dent and vice president of the United StateC, elected
or
Monroe. That they not inaugurated,
that the chief magistrate of this nation has
for more than three years been whom
the people and electors regret that in the executive
department government by the people has ceased
since March 4th, 1877, is living monument to be
seen by all men, to be remembered in all generations.
Of the fraud of the Republican party, of its indety
to Republican principles of its willingness to sacri
fee the right of popular election that vital principle
of republics, rather than lax its hold upon power,
and of the loyalty of the Democratic party, even to
the forms of law of its confidence that the will of the
people must finally prevail, abiding in which it
patiently waits for the fruition of its hopes until
March 4tn, 1881, but no longer, there is doubt.
No longer, unless defeated at the polls. If beaten
fairly we shall submit. I repeat, we shall submit
and again wait, but if again successful,
ming device of dishonest arbitration shall deprive
of our rights. The Democratic party will never
again appear before tribunal falsely called of justice
tribunal deaf to the appeal Of testimony, but not
blind to the reckoning finger of favor. But though
we failed to inaugurate our candidate, our cause
not even for the moment wholly lost. Retributive
justice visited without delay the immediate author of
this infamy. The courts of Florida had thwarted
the consprators who proposed the theft of its state
government and the stern refusal of the Democratic
house of representatives to appropriate man
dollar to continue the subugation of South Carolina
and Louisiana forced the oppressor to relax his
grasp. No trace now remained Of the carpet-bag
government of the south, except the one hundred
and seventy million dollars increased public debt
they contrived in years of nlisgovernment to
heap upon It's impoverished people. Yes, another
trace remained: Louisiana, entitled by the cOnsttu
ton to two senator's is represented by one The seat
of the other is filed by delegate from band of
outlaws never recognized as government, long
since deposed, to fatten upon the federal treas
ury and some to eat the bread of exile The years
that have passed since the theft of the presidency
have been years of plenteous harvests The laborer
| the husbandman has reaped rich reward The earth
has been tickled with hoe and has laughed with
the harvest. The benson of the Most High has
been upon us, and the opportunities afforded by
His gracious favor wisely employed in the econo-
mics of two successive Democratic congresses, have
made possible partial measure OF resumed payment
of the national floating debt, and that equalization of
values called by the Republican party resumption
of specie payments" But the properties
domestic products were gifts to the American people
from higher source than Cny agency of the Repub-
ican party. No soldiers kept the peace Of the corn
fields, No swearing boards canvassed the wheat
/ sheaves. No supervisors deputy marshals
assisted at the gathering into the garners.
] No electoral commission gave it's blessing
to the harvest. They were the fruits of
labor, the gracious gifts to the laborer of Him who
the largest benefactor in society," the high priest Of
|
great danger since the 9Th day of June $780, It has
been made certain that the usurper will not be mme-
diately followed by the monarch but the third term
is postponed not averted and the real danger is not
! in the third term so much as in the Republican
party, which makes the third term possible.
Bonaparte did not crown himself emperor until Bona
partisan had corrupted France When more than
three-fths of any political party invoke ''savior of
society," that party is already poisoned with
imperialism that it has become itself to the
republic far more formidable than any mischief it
processes to fear or any danger it was organized
to repel. The remedy, gentlemen, for this
and for all other evils of state, is in eter-
nal vigilance. This is at once the price and
the protector of liberty This vigilance, already
newly quickened among the people from whom you
come continued here and hereafter, is to bring
victory to the Democratic principle and the Demo-
cratic candidates. victory full of hope for the
public that even the +" melancholy days" of Novem-
Der shall be radiant with joy and on the wings of the
stormy winds of March shall be waited blessings
Applause was generously distributed through
out the address as its points appealed to sympa-
thy and favor.
The temporary organization was completed
by the selection of Mayor Prince, of Boston, as
temporary secretary, and Nicholas NJ Bell, St.
Louis, Neill c. Brown, Tennessee, E. S. Dodd,
Ohio, and T. 0. Walker, Iowa, as reading clerks
Bidder IN. W offered 81 resolution that the