Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-23

SECOND D1SPATCH.l
NEW YORK, July 22d.-when the conference
the Secretary made a statement in
regard TO letters received by the New York
from citizens in various States, from
Maine to California.
The Committee on Permanent Organization
that Il National Committee be APP
and the Chair appointed the following
From New York, Carl Schurz, Theodore Bacon,
John H. Cowing, Charles B. Miller, R. p. Bow
ker George W. Folsom, Ethan Allen Doty,
George Walter Green and Horace +. Deming
from Massachusetts, William II Forbes, Joseph
Tucker, Joseph H. Walter, Samuel Hoar,
Phineas Pearse, George v Leverett and Wins
low Warren; from Connecticut, s. Z. Baldwin,
0. p Armstrong and II. W. Farnam: from New
Jersey, Daniel Drake Smith, Simon Huntington
and W. G. Peckham; from Pennsylvania, b. F.
Reeves, Stewart Wood and Joseph Parrish.
Chairman Goldman and Mr., Chafin of I'LL.
nois, were added to the Committee. Carl
Schurz, in behalf of the Committee on Resolu-
platform for new party, but only an appeal
for good government.
THE PLATFORM
George William Curtis read the address, which
is as follows:
The paramount issue of the Presidential cleo
ton of this year is moral rather than political.
1t concerns the national honor, and the char
acter and honesty of the administration, rather
than the general policies of the Government,
upon which the platforms of the two parties do
not essentially differ. No position taken by one
platform is seriously traversed by the
other. Both evidently contemplate a
general agreement of public opinion upon
subjects which have been long in contro-
verSy, and indicate an unwillingness to declare
upon other and cardinal questions views which
in the present condition of opinion might seri-
ously disturb the parties within themselves.
Parties, indeed, now cohere mainly by tradl-
ton, and since the great issues which have dl-
yided them have been largely settled the most
vital Dplitipal activity has been pnNpnyOr OF
good citizens in both parties to adjust
them to living issues, and to make them
the effective agencies of political progress
and reform. The indispensable necessity for
this course has long been apparent, for i'll time
of profound peace ut home and abroad the most
national peril is an insiduous polit-
ical corruption, Il mercenally and demoralZlng
spirit and tendency the result of which is well
by Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts.
The shameless doctrine that the true way by
which power should be gained III Republics is
to bride the people with offices created TOR their
service and for which ii should be used when
gained is promoting selfish ambition and the
qualification of personal revenge. But this doc
trine naturally has produced results which are
still more alarming. The spirit and tendency
have so rapidly developed that they seek polit.
ical power, not only to crafty ambition ana
revenge, but to promote gain.
The platform then says: The great parties
have habitually proclaimed 1t to be the duty OF
every citizen to support the party ut elections,
without regard 10 tle Vi llluSc NllOlll
it selects as its executive agents that the tend
ency of such policy is fatal to the public
welfare and that it is the duty of every patriotic
citizen, vital and imperative, to battle and de-
feat such demands. If the Republican Conven-
ton had presented a candidate whose character
and career were the pledge of Il resolute contest
with the tendencies above described, every Re
publican voter would have gladly supported the
but the candidate has shown by
his own words, and acts of official record, that
he is unworthy of respect and confidence that
he has traded upon his official trust for his pc
cuniary gain-a representative of men, methods
and conduct which the public conscience con-
demns.
The platform then eulogiZes Cleveland at
length, dwelling on his admins
trative ability and courage OF conviction in the
face of popular clamor, as exhibited while
Mayor and Governor and points out the fact
that he has sprung into prominence since the
war between the factions, and is not subject TO
the effect of the fierce animosities of that time,
and predicts that his administration would be
to the honor of American citizenship at nome
and abroad. 1t then proceeds to declare that 1t
is not the intention of its trainers to leave the
Republican party, or merge themselves into
any other party but that they propose to as
sist in defeating the Republican nominee as a
duty they owe the country as citizens, i'll the
interest of pure and wise administration.
They hold that the ballot is trust, Il response
bility, which no good citizen should seek to set
aside, and that he must answer to his private
lOT the VI tLul
trust.
The platform concludes by advising the indie
pendent voters to vote for electors who will vote
for Grover Cleveland for President.
Mr. Curtis, during the reading, was fire.
guently interrupted by applause, and when he
had finished the resolutions were adopted with
out dissenting voice.
The conference then adjourned.
Imitation Ostrich Plumes.
NEW YORK, July 22d. = Patterson, the silk
has taken out patent for a
process by which cotton and silk threads may
be twisted about wires so as to produce the eff
feet of ostrich feathers or plumes for ladies'
hats. He was stimulated to perfect his inven-
ton by the prospective demand for such mil
linery by the followers of the Plumed Knight.
he is Democrat, and his principal
hacker a wealthy and influential Democrat OF
Paterson.
Malone Addresses a Large Meeting.
NEW YORK, July 22d.-A special from Harris
onburg Va, dated the DIST says: A large and
Republican meeting to-day was adj
dressed by Malone and others Malone said:
- The planks of the Republican National plat
form are broad and strong enough to carry all
upon it. The Convention that nominated Blaine
and Logan was composed of the representative
men of this nation; not only capitalists, but me
chanics artisans and laborers The national de-
mand ofthe voters of Virginia is for a protective
tariff. The bowels of the State are overloaded
with coal and iron. only awaiting the magic
wand of the capitalists gold and the honest
laborers pick" He pictured'the- future of the
State under Republican rule, and declined to
show what might ensue under II change of Adj
deeming such a proposition not
only improbable, but impossible He paid a
glowing tribute 10 Blaine and Logan, and called
upon every Readjuster or Republican voter to be
present to vote for them.
The Morals of the Presidential Candi-
dates.
Irt1t- Tl,a Tn,
dependent Blaine paper, noticing the Erening
TSie1rdpHs three-column story about Cleveland S
alleged immoralities, denounces the growing
tendency of the low grade partisan journals to
aSSail the private character and morals of the
highest candidates. and says: However the
public acts of Cleveland and Blaine will be
in the contest, the people are well as
sured that both are men of stainless reputation
in social life, and that either would bring no re-
proach upon anyone rs its Chief Magistrate.
Blaine's ability and success make him shin
ing mark for the deadliest shaft of malignant
jealousies, but he has not suffered by it, nor can
any act of his public career be stained by the
social defamer
VIII He Do 1t?
NEwBURYPoRT Mass }, July 22d-Ex- Minister
Sargent has received dispatch asking him TO
run for Congress in one OF the California dis
tricts
David Davis supports Blaine.
NEW YORK, July 22d.-The Herald publishes a
special from Bloomington, H., saying that
David Davis has come down off the fence and
supports Blaine.
Democratic Assessments.
NEW YORK, July 22d-The Tribune accuses
the Democrats of violating the law by making
on Democratic office-holders at
Washington, and publishes the details.
Congratulation from the Queen.
WAsuISGToN July 22d.-The President has re-
ceived the following from Queen Victoria:
LONDON July 2l, 1884.
To The President Of the United States, Washing
ton: The Queen heartily congratulates the
President and the people of the United States on
the rescue of Lieutenant Greedy and the other
gallant survivors of the Arctic expedition. She
trusts favorable reports have been received OF
the sufferers (signed), THE QUEEN;
Windsor Castle.
The President sent reply, in which he again
the British nation for the gift of the
Alert.
Secretary Lincoln had conference with Gen
eral Hazen this morning as 10 the disposition OF
the bodies of the dead of the Greedy expedition.
Ii is probable that they will be taken to Gov.
errors Island, New York harbor, and placed in
charge of Major-General Hancock until de.
cision shall be reached as to their final dispose
ton.
The Northwestern States Swept by Hail
Rain and Wind.
LINCOLN (Neb.) July 22d-About midnight
last night the heaviest rain-storm of the season
began Many Easements were flooded and the
weakened. All the streams are
much swollen. The wind blew a gale, break.
ing trees and overturning chimneys. Small
grain was seriously damaged.
OMAHA (Neb), July 22d-A terrific wind and
rain storm prevailed here last night, and ex.
tended throughout the interior of the State.
Reports from Merrick, Ball and Hamilton
counties show much loss of property. The root