Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-23
dance" "Victory," Commerce" En-
terprise on the other.
ON THE PLATFORM.

terprise on the other.
ON THE PLATFORM.
Among the prominent men on the plat
form are to be seen Representatives Rea-
gan of Texas, Atkins of Tennessee, Forney
of Alabama, Harris of Virginia, Blackburn
of Kentucky, Hill of Ohio, Springer of Hi
nois. Also ex-Representatives Banning and
Rice of Ohio, and John G. Thompson, Ser
geant-at-Arms of the House of Representa-
tives.
At noon the organ is plsying a medley of
national airs with excellent effect, eliciting
much applause, and two.thirds of the dele
gates are in their seats. The platform and
galleries are well filed.
CALLED TO oRDER-PRAYER.
CINCINNATI, June 22d.-Ex-Senator Bar
mum of Connecticut, Chairman of the National
Committee, called the Convention to order at
12:45, and presented Rev. Charles W. Wendle
of the Unitarian Church, who invoked the
throne of grace. He spoke of the young de-
mocracy of America having become refuge
and asylum for the distressed and down-trod-
den throughout the world and the light and
hope of the nations, and prayed that with an
unfaltering hand every unjust law on the
statute book might be erased, and our politi-
cal life purged from every evil that keeps
back the people from the highest measure of
virtue and happiness. Above all, he contin-
ued, let there be an end of all sectional divi-
sions and strifes; let every root of bitterness,
every occasion of estrangement, be removed,
and let our whole people, forgetting the
things that are behind, and pressing
forward to the things that are be-
fore, with united heart and hand, in the
bonds of mutual confidence and good will.
the approaching and honorable struggle men
of large wisdom and experience, of lofty char
ac.er and irreproachabie life, true and fear
less in the hour of trial, yet ardent lovers of
justice and peace. Enable the members of
this Convention to rise above all self-seeking
and personal preferences, and indiscreet zeal,
into the larger sentiment of public good, of
American nationality and human brother
his party best who serves his God. We ask
that our action to-day may be we'll l-pleasing
in the sight OF God.
TEMPORARY oRGANIzATIoN-sPEECH OF THE
CHAIRMAN.
Barnum then, by direction of the National
Committee, presented the name of Hon.
George Hoadley of Ohio for temporary Chair
man. Agreed to- William l.. Scott and H l..
D. McHenry were appointed to conduct him
to the chair. Hoadley's approach to the
platform was greeted with applause. He
proceeded to address the committee and Con-
vention, thanked them for their compliment
ary action in putting him in the chair, and
pledged himself to the strictest impartiality
in the administration of the duties assigned
him. This was the only adequate
method by which he could testify his
gratitude as Chairman. He should be neither
friend nor foe of any candidate, though be
had his favorite, in whose behalf he might be
both earnest and partisan. He took the
ground that the representatives. here were not
delegates of congressional districts, but as
representatives of indestructible States. [Sub-
dued applause.l He proceeded with some
laudation of the Democratic party, for which
this Convention would make 20 new creed,
which had its own vitality, and which would
not depend for its future on the success of its
ticket or be crushed out by its defeat. Their
duties here were simply to declare the party
will. The occasion was one of great interest
and Importance. At st. Louis, four years
ago. they placed in nomination two of the
foremost men of the nation Great ap.
plause. The subsequent repetition of the
name of Samuel J. Tilden was the occasion
for another outburst, delegates rising in their
seats and cheering and waving fans He as
serted that they were as certainly elected as was
WASHINGTON or Monroe. [Subdued applause |
He denounced the Republican party as
one of frasd, which cheated the people
out of their choice, thus proving their inf
deity to republican principles But if the
Democratic party should again be successful,
no cunning device or dishonest arbitration
should rob them of the fruits OF their victory,
tApplause. Although the Democrats failed
to inaugurate their candidates, their cause
was not wholly lost. They defeated the at
tempt to steal the State government of
Florida. and no trace remained of the carpet
baggers in the South, except one hundred
and seventy millions of State debts accumu-
lated by them as a burden upon the people,
and the fact that Louisiana has only one
rightful Senator in Congress. Applause |
ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY OFFICERS.
The following were nominated and ac-
cepted as the remaining temporary officers :
Hon. 7. o. Prince of Massachusetts,, Tem-
porary Secretary. Assistant Secretaries
Geo. W. Guthrie, of Pennsylvania Charles
Ridley, of Tennessee; C. S. Dodd, of Ohio ;
o. NJ. Hall. of Minnesota Major A. Oren-
dorf of Illinois; VIM. n. Gill, of New Jer-
sey; A G. Parkinson, of Wisconsin.
Reading Clerls-Neal S. Brown, Jr., Read
ing Clerk of the United States House of
Representatives Mark A. Hardin, of Geor-
gia; G. o. Walker, of. Iowa; Thomas S.
Petit, of the House of Representatives ;
Nicholas M. Bell, of Missouri; James E.
Morrison, of New York HI. L. Bryan, of
Delaware. Sergeant-atarm Isaac l.. Mil
Ter, of Ohio. Official stenographer, Edwin
3. Dickinson. of New York
RULEs-RoLL OF STATES.
Beebe of New York offered resolution
adopting the rules of the last National Con-
vention, for the government of this until
otherwise ordered. Adopted.
Martin of Delaware offered resolution
that the roll of States be called for Com
mittees of Permanent Organization, on Gre
dentials and on Resolutions.
Weld of New York moved call of the roll
for the presentation of credentials.
Martin objected. The best way was to
send the credentials directly to the Commit
tee on Credentials.
Martins motion was adopted, and the roll
was called accordingly.
COMMITTEE on CREDENTIALS.
The following were appointed as the Con-
mittee on Credentials: Alabama, Jos. NJ.
johnson Arkansas, j. NJ. Hudson Califor-
mia, W. P. Frost Colorado, c. Billars ;
Connecticut, Ralph Wheeler; delaware.
A. H. Robinson; Florida, f. NJ. L. Eneie ;
Georgia, H. NJ. B. Young: Illinois, Perry
II. Smith; Indiana, VIM. E. Niblock Iowa,
Thor 7 Potter. Eapsoz T. n f,..1I