The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-13
TENNESSEE REPUBLICANS
Delegates Eeiecied To the Chi
cagO Convention.
EX-supreme Judge Hawkins
nominated for Governor.

y Dillin. w. II. Young, of Davidson
{ was made Temporary Chairman. Tn,
y usual committees on credentials anC
y permanent organizations were appoin.
+, ted, aud made their reports. j. r.
Dillin was elected chairman over 4. ii.
Z Reeves, by Il vote of 265 TO 255.
{ The committee Of credentials repor-
t ted counties represented amounting "a
! 535 votes-delegates present, about 800.
> The convention was addressed by
Z Hon. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio.
The committee of platform reported
the following which was unanimously
adopted, viz:
II PLATFORM.
, Mr.. Gibson, from the Committee on
Resolutions, then submitted the follow
ing:
The Republican party of Tennessee
in convention assembled, at Nashville,
May G, 1880, do declare as follows:
Resolved, That we, hereby, reafirm
our devotion to the National Republi-
can party, and its principles as hereto
fore declared, believing those principles
TO be founded in political wisdom, and
essential to the prosperity and cquali-
~ OF every citizen, and to The mainten-
ance of the Union of the States under
the Constitution.
Resolved, that the bonds ofTennessee
heretofore deliberately recognized by
b. tn the Republican and Democratic
PARTIES as legally issued, are II valid in
d~eh,edness, binding in law and in NOR
ais upon the property and conscience
of the State; and that any attempt to
impair the obligations of that indebted
ness, or to readjust it, or scale it, or in
any other manner to change the letter
and spirit OF the contract, without the
voluntary consent of the bondholders
previously, fairly and understandingly
Obtained, is downright reputation and
an act Of h%igh-handed dishonesty. [yo-
ciferOus applause.
Resolved, that any voluntary propo-
sitiOn from our creditors to take less
than the face value of their bonds, in
consequence of losses incurred by our
citizens during the war of the rebellion
should be thankfully and unhesitating-
" accepted and The new contract faith
fully and promptly complied with and
we denOunce the refusal Of the Deplo-
cratic party to accept the go and 6 prop
ositiOn as the refusal Of Il liberal and
voluntary reduction {: and we recognize
in said refusal, over whelming evidence
that Il large majority Of the Democratic
party intends to ~repudiate the bonded
debt of the State, and thereby to sub
ject our State to the %opprobrium of all
people who regard the contracts Of a
State with her creditors as of sacred in
volatility. Long continued cheering
Resolved, that the reasons prompting
the Democratic party Of Tennessee and
other States of the South TO Tepudiate
the debts of their respective States will
when logically carried out, prompt
them also to repndiate the entire war
debt Of the United States; and we here
by declare Our solemn judgment to be,
that, rs soon as the repudiating element
Of the Democratic party has wiped out
the debts Of their respective states, they
will declare in fayOF or regulating the
debt incurred by the Nation in preserv-
ing the Union. Applause and cries of
That's so."
Resolved, that we renew u deCla-
rations in favor to free common schools
for the education Of all the children of
the State, we believing that school
houses are cheaper than Court houses
and that intelligence is the mother of
morality and liberty.
Resolved, that we recognize the
rights of the laboring men and women
Of Tennessee as deserving of our most
tender parental solicitude, and we de-
noupce all legislation that discriminates
against the poor and in favor of the
rich believing thatthe poor should be
protected, that labor is the creator of
all our wealth, and that there can be
no permanent public or private proper
ty except it be based upon perfect har-
mony between labor ard capital. loud
cheering.l
Resolved, that we are opposed to
bringing convict labor into unnecessary
competition with free labor, and, as
one means of preventing this, we favor
the employment Of penitentiary con-
victs, below a certain grade, on public
works and improving the public roads
throughout the State. [Applause.l
Resolved, that we are in favor of law
and order and opposed to mob violence;
that we demand the impartial enforce
ment Of the laws everywhere and at all
times; that we denOunCe social ostra-
cism because of political opinion as a
standing reproach to a free government
as calculated to discourage the incom-
ing of capital and labor, and as dcstruc-
tive to the business prosperity of the
people; that we advocate all measures
that promote peace, protect industry
encourage temperance, and advance
morality and we pledge the voices and
votes Of the Republican party to every
good work that will benefit the indi-
vidual, build up the State and strength
en- the Nation.
THE DELEGATES TO CHICAGO.
II. r. Butler, of Carter, from the
committee, appointed delegates from
the State ot large to the Chicago Con-
vention, reported the following list, in
Guiding the delegates and alternates APP
pointed by the respective districts:
For the State at large-From East
Tennessee-L. c. Houk, j. NJ. Thorn
burg; a%lternates, +, NJ, Henry and DR..
G. W. Laviere. From Middle Tennes-
sec-Hon. Horace II. Harrison; alter
nate, j. II, Burres. From West Ten
nessee-D. A Mum; alternate, A, A.
Freeman.
First district-R. r. Butler Of John
son, Jesse Il. Rogers, Of Claiborne, del
egatcs; w. T Brownlow, Of Washing
ton and John Brown, of Hawkins, al
ternates.
Second district-E. j. Sanford, of Knox
and J.. N. Cordell, of Scott, delegates;
j. G. Davis, Of Jefferson, and j. NJ,
Green, of Bloupt, a%lternates.
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