The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-11

corruption and wrong In the government, if the
Democracy would have them. But how were
they received With plank in the platform. de-
efaFing that we are in favor of honest money y
favor OF honest money! If there was such 4
man here, let him be put out AS to
eTvIfservice trefoTm, he yentuPed to saw
There was not . man IN the convention
n favor of it unless he was a school-master
Elk Senator Pendleton had been the author of
the original civil service law, and be had never
bee heard OF since Laughter. George Wash
ington himself could mot have passed a civil
service examination for 81, 200 clerkship.
Laughter. His early education had been neg
leeted. and in his will, written by his own hand
he spelled clothes tcloathesn. Laughter For
himself, he wanted frequent changes in Office.
N order to eounteract the great tendency 10
have aristocratic life offices If Of
flee was a great thing, then
he wanted all the people to have chance at n
and if it was bad thing then it was too hard t.
put IT on to poor fellow for his whole life time
In conclusion, he said that If this convention
told the working men and weEren Of the country
that they were to be- he would not saw r,rotected
but fostered and cherished then the Democratic
party would sweep the country; otherwise they
would remain in tneir work shops on election
day and the Democracy would be
again defeated Theoretically he was !
free trader, but, practically, when 500 600 900
OF revenue had to be raised on imports, thera
could be no such thing as free trade and SO long
as some industry must be fostered, American
men and women should be taken care of Fam
plausel. He would call for a vote by States on
form.
CONVERSE AND wATTERsoN.
Mr. Converse, of Ohio, next spoke in favor Of
the adoption Of the platform as reported by the
majority Of the committee He said there was
much IN Buffers platform to which all
could subscribe; there was much in his tariff
WIFI oil a..
much of that plank embodied in the report Of
the committee. The majority report was made
by representatives of the thirty eight States; the
dissent was from but a single State. The ma
Jor1ty report was a harmonzIng Of differences in
the entire Union, and should receive the suppors
OF the Democracy, In that platform the Knights
OF Labor were fully recognized, but the great
central and overshadowing idea Of
the platform was a reform in the gov
efnnIent 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 cut of the thirty eight States The
party was sincere, earnest and determined in the
work Of reform. and whoever might be nonii
mated by this convention would be elected Presi
dent OF the United States
Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, next addressed
the convention. He said that for his own
part he had never doubted that if the convention
should adopt an honest and sound platform Of
principles and should place on that platform
two representative statesmen of honorable repu-
tati0n and spotless lives, they would be the next
President and Vice-president Of the
United States The committee Rad
given to the convention the platform;
it was for the convention to give the ticket to
the country. It was am honest DIaffornn-zers-
tireIY 50. It was sound platforrn-eminentiy
so The members Of the committee had found
that the differences between them were not SO
great as the country had imagined and as Their
themselves had imagined. The committee had
fho ak~v
on which all of them could afford
to stand The committee Denounced
the abuses of the present war tariff. and de-
clared that al federal taxation should be ex
tax should Be collected than was requisite Is 4
support the government, economically admin
istered The gentleman from Massachusetts
had avowed himself as, Theoretically, free
trader. he bME Wattersonl was not free
trader. He could imagine no system Of taxa
ton more oppressive or unequal in its exactions
than the distribution of the cost Of government
among the States He believed that we'll
regulated and moderate custom house taxation.
yielding the necessary revenue for the expenses
of the government was tie highest tax that
could be imposed on the people; and he had al
ways believed In a tariff. There had been in
the COMMITTEES substantial agreement on
question that had divided the party hitherto
much more than it would ever divide it again.
Fhe platform reported was one on which they
could unite. It was platform which they could
vote Itwas platform which could not be mis-
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.
Mr. Morrison moved the previous question en-
the report and substitute, and II was ordered
The vote was then taken by States on Buffers
substitute, and it was reJected-yeas 973; nays
T144.
When the vote Of Indiana was being an
nogEeed Senator Voorhees, stated that he
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