The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-05-13

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| 10Th o. j. Swaney, BeIment.
| 18th A. Pontius, Stark.
18th j. j. Hall, Summit.
18th :" G. d. Adams, Lake.
Goth g Alex Mcintosh, Cuyahoga.
Secretary-Wm. J. Gleason, Cuya.
hOga.
Assistant Secretsries--C. N. Allen
r. j. Caffey, Samuel Mcmillan, E. S
Dodds and j. X. Newcomer.
The committee also reported thai
the proceedings Of the Convention be
governed by the rules OF the United
States House of Representatives, tha
the delegates at large be voted for by
fours and that all resolutions be refer
red without debate to the Committe,
on Resolutions. The report was adopt
ed.
On motion,t the chair appointed Hon
George E. Seney, of Seneca. Hon
Henry Boil, of Washington, and S
W., Hoffman, of Cincinnati, a commit
tee to wait upon Hon. George L. Con
yerse aud iuform him of his election
as permanent President of the Con
vention. Mr.. Converse shortly ap,
peared and, being presented by the
chairman pro tenn. in q brief and com
plimentary speech, aeloquently ad
dressed the convention as follows:
/ HON. GEORGE L. CONVERSE.
On stepping TO the front Of the
platform, Chairman Converse wa:
greeted with considerable applause
on the subsistence of which he spoke
as follows: ,
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE CONVENTION l am obliged to
our friend who has just retired for the
pressed himself in relation to myself
and which, l admit is unde.
seryed. I mihgt very we'll on this
occasion and think it would be more
proper if I were simply to say to
you thatI adopt The eloquent language
used by your temporary Chairman
this morning in relation to our Ma
tional affairs and the issue that is be.
fore US. 1t would be quite as eloquent
and quite as we'll to say simply,
Us
Laughter and applanse.J But yet
duty requires that l should express
my acknowledgements to the gentle.
men Of the Committee and of the Con-
ventiOn by whose preferment have
been called upon to preside over your
deliberations to-day.
We are, gentlemen, upon the eve of
the most important political contest
that this country has ever known. We
are on the eye Of unparalleled excite
ment, in which, as your temporary
Chairman said this morning, the very
life of this nation is involved. Never,
until now, in the historyxpf this Gov
ernment, has any party, in any consid-
erable numbers, talked of overriding
that unwritten law of the land
that no man shall be President
for more than two terms. (Applause.
Every body knows, Republicans as we'll
as Democrats, that tho present lncum.
bent of the White House was never
elected by an honest vote [Cheers and
applause], and everybody knows that
the Republican. party will not be able
to elect by an honest vote the next
President of the United States re-
newed applause]; and hence it is that
sgentleman is to be elected on their
side as standard-bearer who, though
he may not be elected, it is believed
will have the courage and the power
to force himself into the White House
by the aid of arms, il need be, Voice
-"Never," mo, no!"l Mark we'll
gentlemen, the indications of the pres
ent heur. On the opposite side it is
revolutionary in its character. Who
was it that four years ago surrounded
Washington with q Gordon of military
camps and trained his cannon, upon
the White House as your representa-
tives sat there to count the votes for
President and Vice-President? The
man who had the nerve to do it then,
it is believed, will have the nerve to
take that other step if occasion re-
quires it in their view.
But, gentlemen, our opponents have
still another gentleman who is can.
didate for President. l may perhaps
sllude to him; to say that he does not
expect to enter into the White House
any more than the first gentleman
named does, by the door, but expects
TO climb ia some other way. He ex-
poets to. get athere by the vigorous
of the bloody shirt. He ex-
poets to get there by hii ed Marshals
to electioneer for HIM. He expects to
get there by manipalation of the re-
turns, as has been done heretofore.
There is still another in their ranks, |
and he, no more than the other two, |
expects to get into the White House
BY the door, but he expects to climb |
up some other way, also. refer to |
The gentleman who is Ohio's honored |
son and who is expected to have tho |
vote of Ohio In the National Conven.
ion, and who cares for the money
bags the man who is charged by his |
own friends in the State of Ohio with |
having bought the delegation here. l
admit, and it is right that should ad-
nit it, that these charges do not come |
rom a very reputable source; but it is
|. quarrel in their own family-let them
10 with it as they please.
But there is a fact to which / want
o call your attention. Senator Davis,
who is charged with the investigation
II the books of the United States
Treasury, recently reported that he
lad found discrepancies within the
ast ten years in those books that he
lad-found erasures therein; that he
lad found leaves of the same torn out,
md that these involved no less than
$780, 100000 Of ihe Treasury Of the
United States. These vast sums have
,een used for some purpose. There
8 another fact that he records: That
Iince the close Of the war more than
,5, 600, 900 ! 900 have been collected from
he people with which to run the Gov
'rnment and pay a debt of about half
hat sum, but the debt to-day is more
nan twehty-one hundred millions of
l0llars. What has become of that
7ast sum2 Without erasure, without