Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-07-10
WORK AT CHICAGO.
rur CANDIDATES IN NOMINATION.
ablc speeches OF rrssents,ion-Tns pro-
ceeGipgs OF tho second Dsy In the
convention Ia Detail

abio speeches OF rrssents,ion-Tns pro-
| ceeuipgs OF tho second Dsy In the
| convention Ia Detail.
The roll OF states was called Wednesday
| afternoon for the presentation OF candi
dates. Alabama and Arkansas remained
silent California asked To be passed for
tho present. When the state Of Delaware
was called, there was an immediate out 4.
break ot cheers. After the uproar had
subsidized, Attorney General George Gray,
| of Delaware, came to the platform.
| Addressing the convention, he said he had
been appointed To present the name OF
i mau worthy to receive the nomna ion.
He did 50 under realizing sense OF the
| great responsibility resting on the con.
| vention to act 80 that the great oppor-
tuuity which God Himself Che rev
erently believed) had given them
should not pass away unim.
| proved, The Republican nomination had
| Hang defiance into the facs OF American
manhood aud shocked the conscience OF
the best men in the Republican party.
| Such nomination was q sign OF decadence
| OF that great organic alton, not sign Of
increasing strength. The Democracy
called for a candidate who had been tried
in tho balance aud had never been found
| wanting. The Democracy demanded q
statesman whose wisdom aud experience
| were known. IL demanded leader whose
| chivaric courage would never falter aud
| who could and would bring To the dust
the " Plumed Knight Ut false pretenoe
and Of personal dishonor. 1t demanded
q man with a private character which
would defy the malignant tongue Of sian
der. 1t demanded a man who should be
in his public aud private character the
very autithssis aud opposite Of the nomi-
| e -. III,
The mau who was all this, and moce,
aud whose name was now leapiug from
their hearts to their mouths, was Thomas
| Francis Bayard. Loud cheers. Mr..
| Bayard, as a candidate, would make no
mistake. His name would still the voice
of faction ho would carry every doubtful
| state and would make some Republican
states doubtful. Applause Enthusiasm
| would take the place Of apathy aud wonld
grow and still grow, as the leaves were
| falling, until the dreary November was
made ripe aud glorious by the poaus Of
Democratic victory. Loud cheers
nendrioks fresents MoUo Isid.
When the state Of Indiana was called
Mr. Hendricks, Of that state, came ~ the
platform amid loud applause. H. said
tho people demanded change in tho
management Of federal affairs and that, il
the convention would give them half an
opportunity, they would execute that
purpose in the election Of a president at
the coming fall. Cheers He believed
that the nOmincc of this convention would
become the chosen president of the United
States, the hrst iuiugurated DamO3ra:ic
president ia twenty four years. Cheers J
lie spoke o! the oti,ial corruptions
of the Republican party, aud re
terrcd TO secretary Chambers recent
testimony before S3nate CJm
mittee, in which he said that d5fI'CltiOus
in one of bis bureaus would not exceed
$65, 900; aud yet forty years ago au admin.
istratiou had gone down because OF de-
falcation Of ESQ 1000, and that the ouly
one Ia regard TO civil SERVICE he said
that there were men of ability IN tn, plb.
lie service, and he would not ask that they
should be driven out of office nouo but
such should be continued none but the
4 tittest should survive. Referring to tn,
!, foreign policy of the government, he SAC
it would be a beautiful spectacle If thI
ID republic, 50 stiOng, 80 secure, should leal
;. the nations 10 movement for perm iuen
@ peace and for the relief of the peDpl,
everywhere from standing armies auC
wasteful war. He then came down TO thu
n main subject Of his speech and suggested
for the consideration of tho convention
citizen of the state of Indiana, Joseph E
q Mcdonald Cheers. He sketched Mr
1 McDonald's career aud declared that il
? he were in the White House no man who
would 60 TO see him there would tind fault
; with the candid and frank manner of hi.
reception. He did not speak for himself
{ alone or for Mr- Mcdonald alone, but
for the great state of Indiana,
which had instructed her dele .
| fn IN -
name u this great convention. No matter
where the Democratic candidate for the
presidency lived Indiana had been Away,
: found true but that fact should not comt
= in Judgment against her. They shsulC
4 not say from election 70 election and hOm
| convention TO convention that yAey neeC
: not trouble about Indiana, as her vote wa!
sure, but that they must take care (hC
3 would say by way of illustration) of New
5 York. Laughter aud applause Mr.
4 Mcdonald was man of good judgmen
aud high character, aud his name was pre-
sented by great state. lie, therefore
presented that name, and all that he asked
; was justice.
General Black, of Illinois, seconded tn
t nomination of Mcdonald. They woul,
q present, he said, a platform which woulC
4 appeal to the sober Judgment of the people
| AhVy alop hctaCu - lllhu W hOst
i (kDown of all men) constituted a satisfac
J. tory answer to all reasonable objections
g They needed q man whose views on al
n public questions could be found without
a search warrant and determined without a,
" inquisition. Applause Mr.. Mcdonald
s was such man he had favored tn
z monetizAtiOn of silver and the saving O
ir the Pacific coast from coolie servile labor
A wise legislator, a true hnancier, bray
statesman, his record glittered with tn
stars of truth, and all might see its glory
Every star in it was Democratic star an
- all its glores were those of tho people
Cheers
y Tnurman's Name Presented
J. John w. Breckenridge, of Callfornia
introduced by the chairman as the sou q
Of the last Democratic vice president VIII
a- was not unjustly deprived of his ofiic,
next came to the platform. He said tha
m the delegates from California had beeI
"A Instructed to present for the consideration
OF the convention man who needed n
=; enlogy, whose name was in the hearts {
20 the whole American people-a man whC
- IT nominated, would be the next presder
of the United States. That man wa
Allen &. Thurman, of Ohio. [Cheers
o' For more than twenty years Mr.. Thurma
- had been the boldest aud ablest adyocat
~ Of Democratic doctrines aud Democrat
principles. The only objection urge
a against him was that Ohio was an OctobC