Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-13

wish should not be tolerated Can such fidelity to his pledges plead for more ex- tended trust in his honesty2 Quite in harmony with the candidate is the platform upon which he stands. Upon the important question of the tariff it is general ly acceptable to MT Morrison of Illinois, MT. Converse of Ohio MT. Watterson of Ken lucky and Mr. Randall of Pennsylvania. Like the candidates letter of accept anee, it is inoffensiVe, and might be summarized in just eight words, With malice towards none, with charity towards all. In relation to the public lands it's declarations are the very opposite from what would accord with the convention's treatment of Judge Thurman, the chief if not the only Democratic martyr to the peo- ple's side of the question, and raises violent presumption that at the time of the adoption of the platform the Standard Oil company's men had not assumed the complete control of the convention they subsequently mani fested. Such is the feast to which we are invited. For my part decline the invitation. Reserving to myself the supreme right of citizen I decline to prostitute my prerogative to the purposes of the party will not be lost to the Democracy. It will be cast for candidate whose followers will be numbered by hundreds of thousands, whose motives cannot be impugned, for their action can be inspired by no selfish hopes of reward. It will be registered for the princi- ples which the Democratic party professed when it held the popular support. It will be given for candidate who has no hope of election, but who braves fatigue, abuse and pecuniary loss that true Democrats may find his candidacy channel through which they may express their sentiments. I delib- erately join the minority, but history teaches us that all great movements have been first begun by minorities. I will exhaust my energies to swell the vote for that giant of civil warfare, whose fingers are now at the will stiffen and tighten under the unselfs6 till he throws it prostrate and submissive at the feet of justice. I turn my back upon the Democratic party captured and betrayed by the Knownothing dema- gogues hungry for places and spells to join the pure Democracy which struggles for the principles which the party organization has abandoned. I renounce candidate whose only merit is his obscurity, that I may fol low statesman whose life has made glorious the history of his country. decline to bow down before graven image because I prefer to follow the teachings of an apostle of the true political faith. Preferring shining ability to dull mediocrity, true re- former to sham reformer, a statesman to 8 hangman, an i1Iustrious citizen to political adventurer, I decline to support Grover Cleveland for the Presidency, and here and now, in the presence of the leader, my po- htical sponsor, in the midst of the brethren and comrades with whom have shared many hard fought political field, and before the eyes of the country to which have this night laid bare my motives and purposes, declare myself in favor of Benjamin F. But Ter, the soldier, the jurist, the statesman and the patriot, and I appeal to time for my vim dication."
 William Bourke Cochrane, on rising to second the resolution, was received with loud cheers. He said there was 8 stern duty to be performed by the organization before election day. No one had protested more strongly against Cleveland's nomination than he did, but it Vas essential to the prosperity of the country that change in the admins tration should take place. The labor vote was being threatened by sale. He heard but the cry of distress throughout the country and that cry urged him to work for the Democratic ticket. He felt convinced that there was no power on the face of the earth that could drive this organization from the fold of the Democratic party. There were perhaps strong reasons, he said, for voting for third candidate, but if they did the enemy would climb the ramparts and secure the victory and he could not sit still and see party elected whose only object and aim public plunder. Mir. Cochrane concluded by saying that it would go forth to the country that this organization had de clared itself not for man but for party.
 The calling of the roll on the address and resolution was then proceeded with and re- suited in their adoption by an overwhelming majority, the vote standing 810 ayes to ST noes. On motion the vote. was made unan- imous. After some routine business the committee adjourned.