St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-11

should be such protection, such
fosterings, such cherishings. Mr.. Nor
rison could not yield his convictions
and he (Butler) could not yield his, and therefore
the committee had to spend all that time to
say something that would mean one thing one
way and another thing another way. laughter.
He asked delegates to read that tariff plank and
see If they could find out exactly what 1T did
mean. 1t did not mean protection. III it did,
Col. Morrison was too honest man to bring it
here, and yet it was twssted that it might
mean protection. Laughter. The Democracy
had in its platform in 1880 plank of ''tarif for
revenue only" and it broke the back of the most
gallant soldier in the country [laughterl, and now
they had tariff platform ''for public purposes
exclusively" Where was the difference? Eek
clusiyely'' means ''only'' and sonly' meant
Exclusively [laughterl Passing to the cur
rency question, he said he affirmed the doctrine
of Andrew jackson that the government alone
could issue money, and he would rather be
wrong with jackson than be right with the COM
mittee Laughter. He represents many
Greenback men-good and tr1e Greenback men
like Allen G. Thurman laughter and these meTs
were willing to come to the Democracy to root
out corruption and wrong in the government if
the Democracy would have them. But how were
they received, with plank in the platform that
''we are in favor of honest money and if the
Greenbackers were not, who was in favor of
honest money? If there was such man here,
let him be put out laughter As to the
civil service reform he ventured to say there
wassnot man in the convention in favor of it
unless he was a school master. Laughter
Ex-Secretary Pehdleton had been the author of
the civil service law ;and he had never been heard
of since. Laughter. George Wash
ington himself could not have passed
a civil service examination for ST 200 clerkshp.
Laughter. His early education had been neg
lected,and in his will written by his own hand he
h sole
he wanted frequent changes in office in order to
counteract the great tendency to have aristocratc
life offices. If Office was good thing then he
wanted all people to have chance at it, and if it
was bad thing then it was too hard to put it
out to poor fellow for his whole life time.
Qaughter.) In conclusion he said that if this
convention told the working men and women Of
the country that they were to be- Che would not
say protected but fostered, chershed,) then the
Democratic party would sweep the
country. Otherwise they would remain
in their workshops ON election
day and the Democracy would be again defeated.
Theoretically he was free trader, but practically
when 5000, 600 900 of revenue had to be raised
on imports there could be no such thing as free
trade, and so long some industry must be
fostered American men and women should be
taken care Of Applause. He would call for
a vote by states on his substitute for the tariff
plank in the platform.
Mr.. Converse, of Ohio, spoke in favor of the
adoption of the platform as reported by the ma
jority of the committee. He said there was
much i'll Buffers platform to which all could
subscribe. There was much of that plank en-
bodied in the report of the committee. The ma
jOrty report was made by repre-
sentatives of the thirty eight states
The dissent was from but single
state. The majority report was harmoniZing of
differences in the entire union and should le-
ceive the support of the Democracy. In that
platform the knights of Labor was recognized
but the great central and over shadowing idea of
the platform was reform in the government
from department to department and when that
should be done the party would be prepared to
take up other and less important matters. This
was the concurrent judgment of thirty-seven out
of the thirty eight states. The party was sim
cere, earnest and determined in the work of re-
form, and who ever might be nominated by this
convention would be elected president of the
United States. (Applause.)
Henry NJ. Watterson, of Kentucky, next ad-
dressed the convention. He said that for his
own part he had never doubted that if the con-
vention should adopt an honest and sound plat
form of principles and should place on that plat
form two representative statesmen of honor
able reputation and spotless lives, they would be
the next president and vice president of the
United States The committee has given to the
convention the platform. 1t was for the conven-
ton to give the ticket to the country. 1t was an
honest platform, entirely SO. 1t was a sound
platform, eminently So The members of the
committee had found that the differences be-
tween them were not so great as the country had
imagined and as they themselves had imagined.
1 he committee had given to the conven-
ton revenue platform on which all
of them could afford to stand Applause The
committee denounced the abuses of the present
war tariff, and declared that all federal taxations
should be exclusively for public purposes, and
that no more tax should be collected than was
requisite to support the government economical
ly administered The gentleman from Massachu-
sets had avowed him theoretically a free
trader. He (Watterson) was not free trader.
He could imagine no system of taxation more op-
pressive unequal in its exactions than the dis
tribution of the cost of government among the
states. He believed that well regulated and
moderate custom house taxation, yielding the
necessary revenue for the expenses of
the government, was the ightest
tax that could be imposed on
the people and he had always believed in tariff.
/ Applause. There had been in the committee
a substantial agreement on question that had
divided the party hitherto much more than it
would ever divide it again. Applause. The
platform reported was one on which they could
vote. 1t was platform which could not be mis-
represented by their enemies, platform which
(when the Democracy had elected its candidates)
would constitute noble programme and policy
as the purpose of the national democracy. APP
plause.
Morrison moved the previous question on the
report and substitute and it was ordered.
The vote was then taken by states Buffers
substitute and 1t was rejected, ayes 97%, noes
714H. When vote of Indiana was being an
nounced Senator Voorhees, stated that he wished
specially to have his vote recorded in the afirma
tive
The question required on the adoption Of the
majority report. A delegate from Georgia in
qured whether there was not an error in the
print of the paragraph relating to internal rev.
enuc. He had been informed by member of
the committee that in the original the sentence
commenced as follows: 'sThe system of direct
taxation known as the internal revenue is war
tax and should be abolished. The last four
words being omitted in the print The chairman
after inquiry stated that there was no variation
between the manuscript and print. The vote was
then taken and the platform was adopted.
The convention then at II 40 p. m, proceeded
to ballot for candidates for the presidency.
Before the state of Alabama had responded to
the call motion for recess till tomorrow morn
ing was proposed and the vote upon it taken by
states. The vote, on taking a recess, resulted in
the negative, ayes 1856, nays 6f6.
The convention then proceeded at 12 :05 to
axe the first ballot, with the following result:
FIRST BALLOT.
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