Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-07-01
DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL.
Proceedings of the National Demo
cratic Convention at Cincinnati.
Con " 6 Hancock Tor President, and VIM. H
roorsh. Of Indiana, for Vice President.
First Day.

' "ra,a would be offered by Rev. C. ". Wendle,
IF the Unitarian Church "
VI Sanstor Barnum then announced that he had
In unanimously requested by the national
p een M nominate Hon. George Hoadley,
~ Ohio for TEMPORARY chairman. This beng
ut,.nyad bvthe convention, the chair appointed
Nm Nm l. Scott and J. d. McEnery as commit
tae 10 conduct Mr.. Hoadley TO the stand. AS.
Mr. Huadley assembled the piauoIth ne was
,,neted with hearty applause He spoke as
follows:
A., Cu.,p,r.N AND GENTLEMEN OF THE NATION
Nh. NV Co,fMrrrEE:-I obey this call to the
- ~ ms convention with grateful acknowledge
nt If the confidence reposed in me. II shall DE
nv sedulous care to prove wortiS OF your nonlina-
co. vo,Ir welcome-your generous welcome, my best
es,,opse 20 which Will be, my only adequate
nnnsn can be, the strctest impartaity in the
5isc Of power during the brief period it is com-
mitted to me. l shall make mistakes. / trust
Won will forgive them. | am sure you Will, as
soon as | can satisfy you that although as a
delegate the Jealous friend, even the partisan of
my fayorite candidate, as your officer | shall know
neither friend foe of any candidate, but dis
CHARGE nv duty with absolute fairness and fidelity of
nurpose OF this you have my pledge. Gentlemen
nf the convention, fathers distrusting popular
choice established in each state an electoral college,
No whose unpedged action they sought to entrus the
election of the chief magistrates OF the re-
public Their children, taught by experience,
have wisely modified the constitutional scheme
by an unwriten amendment which combines
the advantages of the electoral system with
the direct popular vote, while it preserves
TO each state its just weight of influence upon
the result Conventions of delegates chosen by .he
people of two parties have already presented
candidates for popular acceptance at the coming
election and another great college Of electors is now
assembled in this hall. The Office you thus I'LL,
though not defined by law is of transcendent legal
consequence need not say that in this assembly 1t
will not be doubted shat you not delegates from
congressional districts, but representatives of those
indesructbe units of our indestructible Union-the
states. Custom has defined your duties. They
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 does 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. the of the soldier and doubles
the energy of the toiler. 1t is found in the Roman
precept cutqie tribune and in the sef-evident
truth of the American patriot that all created
equal 1t il the unrelcnting foe of despotsm and of
Communism, whether open or sought to be hidden
under the diguise of paternal governments. Its
benefcient office in political affairs Is to secure to
every man the utmost possible liberty of action con-
sstent with equal liberty to every other. Yours il
not therefore, the Office of invention, but of pro-
mitigation, not to discover but to declare and to ap
ply the Democratic principle to the changing affairs
of human society and that this principle may have
living force in public concern, yon will nominate
candidates whose election will ensure its full fruton
during the next presidential term. These duties no
Democrat doubts that you worthily 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 our Republic never recrr. -Four Years ago the
Democratic party in CONVEX ZION assembled ut ST.
Louis announced to the country its platform and
nominated as its candidates two of the foremost
statesmen of the nation, both then and worthy
of the most enthusiastic poll teal devotion and the
most ardent private friendship, and Samuel j. Til
den and Thomas A. Hendricks elected presi-
dent and vice president of the United States elected
as fairly George Washington
james Monroe That they not inaugu-
rated that the chief magistrate of this nation
has for 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
by all men, TO be remembered in all generations
OF the fraud of the Republican party, of its ndehty
TO Republican principles, of its Willingness to sacri-
nee 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 to
the forms of law, of its confidence that the will of the
people must finally prevail, abiding III which it
patiently waits for the full fruition of its hopes
until March ith, 1881, but no longer, there is no
doubt. No longer, unless defeated at the polls. If
beaten fairly we shall submit. repeat shall sub
nit and again wait but if again successful no cum
ming device Of dishonest arbitration shall deprive
Of our rights. The Democratic party will never
again appear before tribunal falsely called Of jusce
tribunal deaf to the appeal of testimony but not
blind to the reckoning finger of favor But though
we failed to inaugurate candidate, cause was
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 Demo-
cratic house of representatives to appropriate man
dollar to continue the subjugation of South Car
DINA and Louisiana soon forced the oppressor to
lax his grasp. No trace remained of the carpet
bag government of the south, except the hundred
and seventy million dollars increased public debt
they contrived III seven years of misgovernment to
heap upon its impoverished people Yes another
trace remained Louisiana, entitled by the constitu
ton to senator's is represented by The seat
of the other is filed by delegate from band OF out
laws never recognized as a government, long since
deposed some to faen upon the federal treasury and
some to the bread of exile The years that have
passed since the theft of the presidency have been
years of plenteous harvests. The laborer the hus-
bandman has reapcd rich reward. The earth has been
tckled with the 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 economies
II 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 awakened
by foreign demand and the abundant domestic
products were gifts to the American people from
higher source than any agency of the Republican
party. No soldiers kept the peace of the corn
fields. Nc swearing boards canyassed the wheat
sheayes No supervisors or deputy marshals
assisted at the gathering into the gar
ncfs. No electoral commission gave its bless
Ing to the harvest. They were the fruits of
labor, the gracious gifts to the laborer of Him. who
II the largest benefactor in society," the high priest Of
'AiC bIihvtTdllc we nave Dtcn sphItli ule
great danger since the sth day Of June, 1880 1t has
been made certain that the usurper viii not be imme-
dately followed by the monarch, but the third term
Is POSITION i, net averted, and the real danger Is not
in the third term so much 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-hfhs Of any political party invoke savior Of
society that party is already so poisoned with in-
pertalism that il has become itself menace to the
republic far more formidable than any mischief II
processes 70 fear any danger 1t was ORGANIZED 20
repel. The remedy gentlemen, for this
and an n.hn e Nrtatn is In etnrral