The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-08-25
and Lively, attempted al adjournment,
sine edn, before tho resolutions had appear.
ed, and then followed s's.l
A SCENE NlvALISG TIE MOST EXCITING ONE

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II Is no Use 10 attempt description.
1. Klarns suggested that principles, moi
men, were before the convention, but he
was grOaned down. Brother Wilson re.
marked TO tho Chairman TINT Kiarns was
condemned fool. Cheers, OF Harrison, a
delegate, announced that somebody was
afraid or ashamed Of the resolutions. Fl.
nally, ut 0 p. NJ, the committee reported
THE PLATFORM.
Mr.. Palmer, Of Brooke county, from the
Committee on Resolutions, presented the
following report, which WIS adopted:
We, the Democrats OF the First Con.
gressional District Of West Virginia, In con.
Vention assembled. affirm our adherence
TO tho following principals rs the cardinal
doctrines OF our party; Equafahd exact
justice 10 all men; the support Of the State
Governments In all their rights; the pre-.
seryalion OF the General Government In It's
whole constitutional vigor; q Jealous care
OF tho right Of election by the people; the
supremacy Of tho civil over the military
authority economy ~ public expenditure;
the honest payment Of our debts and the
sacred preservation OF the public. faith;
freedom Of religion and the freedom Of the
press.
.. We urc opposed to the practice Of the
Republican party OF levying political us.
sesstncnts upon office holders, and We favor
reform Of the civil service OF the Federal
Government 80 that NIL subordinate ofli.
GERS shall hold their Offices by fixed ten.
ura and promotions shall be on account OF
merit, and no removals shall be made ex-
cept for cause. .
8. We denounce the extravagant appio-
priations at the. late session OF Congress
increasing the expenditures Of the public
money more than $4,000, 900, over those
OF the last Democratic Congress-,
We declare that the Democratic party Is
now as il has ever been the friend OF the
people and the Joe OF all monopolies, and
we arc opposed to any system OF legislation
that tends TO foster the power Of rich mono
poles, and particularly TO that species Of
legislation that discriminatcs in favor OF
railroad corporations and against tho neo.
plel and we Rre ln favor OF the enforcement
Of the iorieitures Of the public lands
granted by Congress to railroad companies
and demand TINT all the public lands shall
hereafter be held by the Government for
actual settlers or for educational purposes.
Tho resolutions presented gn
CLEAR CASE or.LARcIyY.
They were reprinted from the Cnrksburg
Ntltt, and were the platform ad9pted by
Harrison county Democrats, with the
tariff resolutions left out, and other minor
changes i-+E = - ..
Mr.. Palmer was wrong in asserting that
the committee was unanimous. Turner, Of
Clarksburg, authorized the newspaper men
to say that lle bad minority report, but
that after the candidate was nominated,
decent respect to- himself and all decent
Democrats prevented him from again en-
teringi the convention. He goes home to
build n mansard over somebody's eye.
About one.third OF the delegates were
present when the resolutions were adopted,
and after the usual amount OF taly the
circus adjourned without day, but with
more sore.headed Democrats than were
ever seen before.
The Executive Committee is as follows:
.Withrow, Of Brooke county.
Cunningham, Of Braxton. - -
Hickman, OF Doddridge; u9ii E.!ll.i 4
Campbell, Of Gilmer.
Moore, Of Harrison.
Morrow Of Hancock,
Lively, OF Levin.
,McAIahon, Of Marshall. "a.
Alfred Caldwell, OF Ohio. !. t..i. e
Smith, Of Tyler.
Slender, Of Wetzel. .--.
Lively was made chairman.
In general, the Convention was orderly,
but that it was packed in the interests 81
the bosses candidate, and that it intended
to dodge every issue Of importance was
apparent