Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-06-11

cd IN the negative did not deserve seats ii
convention. This brought the boilers to
tleT leet, each one protesting that he intend
eu y suRport the nominee and protesting the
nost etalWart Republcanism. Still the feel.
mR .! me convention was against them; and
,et,a1 de5egates advocated Conklings reso
and turned the tide. he said those men had
nominee, and objected to sept the f. nm
G SHa Tone q the resolution. He urged
ConKlmg TO withdraw It. This idea seemed
70 taKe with the convention. Conkling said
he 9ant understand that he had made any
sucn point, but rather than run any risk or do
me majority and minority reports Of the com
mittee on recess were ready for presentation,
ana a1ter an informal credentials OF half an hour
the lengthy majority aud minority reports of
the committee on credentials were read.> These
reports showed SIX contests on which the COM
mlttee couldn't agree they were from Alabama
LIMOS, Kansas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
ana Mlcnigan: Logan objected to the report
delegates at large, declaring that there had
been no contest and it should not be SO recor.
ded. a sharp tut occurred between Logan and
California delegate which grew quite per.
sOnal. After debate of an hour the report
was amended, and the Illinois delegates at
large was not alluded to as contested. The
nncontested portion of the report was then
aaopted and the convention :took q recess i'm.
After the recess the convention assembled
for an all night session.
CHICAGO: Jnne 6.-1:90A M: Vote on First
Illinois district resulted in 987 for removing
sitting members and 1853 for retaining Grant
members. This gives Blaine two additional
CHICAGO, June So M-Talk about your
scenes, this midnight session beats them all
Emory storrs is Speaking for the regular dele
was nominated the Grant men would
support him. Then he paid tribute
to Grant, and the convention and gal
leries went wild. The Blain scene, earlier in
the evening, was az nothing In comparison.
Those who think Grant is out of the field
ought to have been here. Conkling mounted
on bench waving his pocket 'kerchief, Long
hands over his head, cane in one hand ker-
chief in the other. Delegates tore tho state
standards from their fastenidgs on the bench
es, and waved them high in the air,umbrellas
were raised and swung about, hats posted up
on top of canes. ~
. The convention met June 9Th at II As
=. M, the attendance being somewhat smaller
than at the opening of previous sessions,
caused undoubtedly by WEAKNESS from the
well offered the following:
RESOLVED, That the National Republican ex-
ecutive committee be requested to prepare
and present method for the election of dele
gates to the National Convention to be held
in 1884, and TO issue instructions in conformi-
ty Herewith.
Several objections being made the resou-
ton was laid over.
The Convention, by vote of 4T6 to 1874 un-
seated four of the sitting delegates from Kan
sas and gave their seats to the four Grant con-
testants.
Then by a vote of AT to $50 the two con-
testants from West virginia were seated, who
were understood to be one Grant and one
Sherman man
In the Utah contested case the two Grant
contestants were seated by vote of 426to 312
adopted the report of committee on rules.
The platform was then adopted and the con-
vention took recess until 1880 o'clock.
PLATFORM
Gen. Garfield move that the Committee
on Resolutions be now ordered to report for
the consideration of the Convention.
The motion was pat and carried unanimous
~.
The members of the Committee took the
platform, and the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont
was introduced as the Chairman, and greeted
with applause.
Mr.. Pierrepont-I hardly need to say that
in committee composed OF one from every
State in the Union, from every Territory, and
from the District of Columbia, there was a
great diversity of opinion about the questions
which in the resolutions should DO brought
before this convention, EARLY in this conven.
ton it became apparent that we would have a
sufficient number of exciting topics which
would keep us active and awake. We have
eudeavorod in the resolutions we present to
have nothing upon which we could not our
selves agree and nothing which would tend
to disturb the harmony of this convention
or awaken angry debate or long delay. l
have now the honor to present the reso-
lutions which the committee have agreed
upon.
MIR. Pierrepont set out to read the report
himself, but the galleries wanted to hear the
stentorian voices of the two reading clerks,
and the minister Of the Court of st. James,
appeared not in the least displeased. The re-
solutions as read
WERE AS FOLLOWS:
The Republican party, in National Conven-
tien assembled, at the end Of twenty years
since the Federal Government was first COM
mftted to its charge, submits to the people of
the United States this brief report Of its ad-
ministration:
It suppressed rebellion which had armed
nearly q million of men to subvert the Nation
States with freedom instead of slavery as its
cornerstone; it transformed 100000 human
beings from the likeness of things to the rank
of citizens; 1t relieved Congress from the infa-
nous work of hunting fugitive slaves, and
charged it to see that slavery does not exist; it
has raised the value of our paper currency
from SO per cent to the par Of gold; 1t has re-
all National obligations, and has given us a
currency absolutely good and equal in every
part Of our extended country; it has lifted the
credit of the Nation from the point where 6
per cent bonds sold at Sc, to that where 4 per
cent bonds are eagerly sought at premium.
Under the administration railways have in
creased from $1,000 miles in 1860 to more
than 50, 600 miles in 1879. Our foreign trade
increased from $7O0 O00 900 to ST. ,000, 600 in
100000 600 less than our imports In 1860, were
e265 008 600 more than our imports in 1879.
Without resorting to loans, it has since the
War closed, betrayed the ordinary expenses of
Government besides the accruing interest on
the public debt, and has disbursed annually
more than $50, 100000 for soldiers and sailors
pensions. It has paid $s80.0o0 900 of the pub
er rates, has reduced the annual interest
charge from nearly $lt0OOO,OOO to less than
$89, COX, 600. All the industries of the country
hare revived, labor is in demand, wages have
increased, and throughout the country there
is evidence of coming prosperity greater
than we have ever enjoyed.
UPON THIS RECORD.
the Republican party asks for the continued
confidence and support Of the people, and this
Convention submits for their approval the
following statement of the principles and pur-
poses which will continue to guide and inspire
It's efforts:
Fyrst-We affirm that the work Of the Re-
publican party for the last twenty years has
been such as to commend it to the favor of
the Nation; that the fruits of the costly vic
tories which we have achieved through i'm
mense difficulties should be preserved; that
the peace regained should be cherished; that
the Union should be perpctuated, and that
the liberty secured to this generation should
be transmitted undiminished to other genera
tons; that the order established and the cred
It acquired should never be impaired; that
the pensions promised should be paid /;
that the debt so much reduced should be ex.
tinguished by the full payment of every dol:
lar thereof; that the reviving industries should
be further promoted, and that the commerce
already increasing should be steadily encour-
aged.
Second-The Constitution OF the United States
is supreme law and not mere contract.
Out Of confederated States 1t made a sover-
eign Nation. Some powers are denied to
the Nation, while others are denied to the
States, but the boundary between the powers
delegated and those reserved is to be deter
mined by the National and not by the State
tribunal.
Third The work Unpopular education is one
left to the care of the several states, but it is
the duty OF the Nationals Government to aid