Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-21
EUening Session,

At 3 30 the convention was called TO order,
and awaited the report of the committee on
contested seats. The committee reported in
fovor of all sitting members as placed upon
the roll by the State committee and the previ-
Ous question on adoption of the report was
ordered.
Mr.. Brown, of Otsego, denounced as a gross
outrage any action which should deprive the
minority of the opportunity to report, and
asked that his report against this infamy should
be entered. (Applause) The committee re-
port was then adopted with few desserts.
(Applause and hisses.)
John @. Jacobs was chosen temporary chair
man.
A resolution that the delegates from each
Congressional district select member of the
State committee ard send the names to the
chairman was adopted.
Mr.. West moved to adoarn until tomor-
row morning. Lost by large vote.
MIR. Peckham moved that each Congressional
district shall proceed to name its members of
the committee to select delegates to the Gin
cinnati convention, and Presidential electors.
Adopted.
ANSWER To TAMMANY.
MIR. Morrison, from the committee on reso-
lutions, to which was referred the resolutions
received from the Tammany convention, re-
ported as follows
be requested to reply to the communication received
and the signers that this convention reciprO
Gates every expression Of desire for union of the
Democratic party and are persuaded that the delib-
erative wisdom of the national convention will result
in such action as will secure the triumph of the DEM
ocratic party in the State of New York and in the
union in the ensuing Presidential election. Adopted
unanimously.
THE TWO THIRDS RULE.
The following was adopted
ReSOlyed, That the delegates of this conven .
ton to the National Democratic convention, to
be held at Cincinnati, June 22d, 1880, are here
by instructed that it is the desire of the De-
mocracy of this State that the national con-
ventiOn continue in force, as heretofore, the
two-thirds rule in the nomination of a candi-
date for the Presidency.
The chair announced the State committee
would meet at the st. James hotel. New York,
May 5th. A motion that the State committee
shall have power to fill vacancies in the list of
Presidential electors was adopted.
Abram S. Hewitt was chosen eector at
large.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. Morris, from the committee on resolu-
tions, reported the following:
The Democratic party of New York renew
their fidelity to the principles set forth by the
national Democratic convention ut st. Louis,
and approved by decisive popular majoIities in
then won was in the name and for the sake of
reform. The people were defrauded of the
fruits of that victory by false count of elec-
toral votes. Reform throughout the federal
administration is still an imperative necessity.
1t yet remains for the truly national party to
restore the national government to the fraternal
spirit, the constitutional principles, the frugal
expenditure and administrative purity
of the fathers of the republic. But
the Democratic party of New York.
also declare their settled conviction that the
success of that conspiracy against the peoples
constitutional sovereignty which by perjuries
forgeries, bribes and violence in effect disfrsn-
chised 4,300,3l voting citizens, the large ma.
jority of all, and which by false count
of electoral votes reversed the re-
suit of the last Presidential
election compels the next to turn upon a sim
gle commanding issue. That issue preced es
and dwarfs every other. 1t imposes more sa-
cred duty upon the people Of this Union than
ever addressed the conscieEces of a nation cf
freenen. That duty is to vindicate the right
of the people to elective self-government
that is, whether this generation shall
condemn or sanction wrong doing of those Re.
publican party leaders who four years ago
frustrated the peoples deliberate will and
cheated them of their sovereignty; whether
we shallI pcs r. e and transmit TO coming
generations our own glorious political heritage
or paralyze the cause of popular sovereignty
here and throughout the world.
Despite 4 century of broadening precedents
despite the guarantees of the declaration of in.
dependence, of every bill OF rights of the fed
eral constitution and of every State constitu
tion establishing the right of the people to gov.