Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-07-09
THE CONVENTION.
GREAT OPENING spEsuB.
Tho Preliminary skirmisn on the Unit Rule
shows Ulevelsnd's stronghold Dead.
lock In the Platform Committee.

speech with which Temporary Chairman
Richard Il. Hubbard opened the conven.
tiou
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen Of the
Democratic Convention of the Union
loheersl-l am profoundly grateful for the
confidence which you have reposed IN me
in ratifyiug the nomination of the national
executive committee, who have done your
bidding for the last four years by your
authority. | accept 1t. my fellow-Demo'
Gratis, not as u tribute To the humble ciu'
zen and your fellow Democrat who speaks
to you to-day, but rather as q compliment
to the great state from whence | come.
Applause. state which, more
than any other American state, is
absolutely cosmopolitan in every
fibre OF its being. Applause J ln its
early days and struggles, thither came to
our relief, as the winds sweep across the
sea men of Illinois aud New York, men
of Name and New England, men of
Georgia and along the coast, ana gave
their lives at the Alamo aud san Jaclnto
for the freedom OF Texas. Applause.
| can only recall to you in the brief
moments which | shall detain yon the
fact that our neighboring sister states, her
women--her glorious Spartan women
sent to us the twin cannon that belched
into glorious victory at san Jaclnto; but
above all VIC accept il as q tribute 10 the
fact my fellow Democrats, that Texas with
her ,, QUO, 900 people gladly at cash recurr-
ing election place in the ballot box over
100, 600 Democratic majority. Applause.
Fellow Democrats, We have met upon
au occasion of great and absorbing interest
TO our party as well as to our common
country. The OCCASION would not justify
me, nor demand that should attempt TO
speak TO you of its great history and its
distinctive principles through twO-thirds
of the most glorious history Of our country.
could not stopto discuss, II | would, its
muuihcent policy OF progress the part
which she has taken in building up our
country, its progress, its territory and its
wealth. ! can only say to you to-day, IN
briei, that the Democratic party in Gil the
essential elements is the same as 1t was
when it was founded by the trainers Of the
constitution, nearly three quarters OF q
century ago. Applause.
Men Die. But Principles Never.
Men die as the leaves of autumn, but
principles are underlying liberty and self
government--the right of representation
and taxation going hand In hand; econ
omy in the administration Of the govern
ment, so that tho government shall make
the burdens as snail as they may be upon
the millions who constitute our country
men. These and other principles underlie
the Democratic party and cannot be ef
faced from the earth, though their authors
may be numbered with the dead &.
Cheers.
thank God, fellow. citizens, that though
we have been out Of power for a quarter
OF century, we are to day in all that
| makes adherence and confidence and zeal
as much party organized for aggressive
! war as when the banners of victory waved
over our heads.
The Democratic party, fellow citizens,
since the war time commencing with re,
construction, with our hands mauac!ed,
with our ballot boxes surrounded by ths
cleaning bayouet, with carpet-bag rulers
with the voice Of freemen who pay their
taxes to the government stihed-thC
Democratic party has lived 10 see through
all this misrule the day come when in a
great majority Of our states the Demo
cratic party has resumed its control, III
power, 1t has your House Of Represen-
tatves, and but for treason stalking in the
Senate chamber 40 would have that, tCo
| Loud applause.
:
| newed applause. But with implOus
hands-the hands of the robber-our
rights we're stricken down at the ballot,
and, through perjury and bribery and
corruption men uttering ialsehOod through
pale lips aud chatteriDg teeth, in the very
| temples Of liberty, stole the presidency
from this country. Applause, Some OF
the men who participated in ii have passed
| beyond the river, and stand to give account
| OF their stewardship But history will not
! lie when IL records, as 1t has, that thai
| electoral commission announced in The
Senate chamber through the House that il
would consider the question and the evi
dence of fraud in the returns Of the vote
OF Louisiana. / remember It, l. is tht
| OaCkest page in our cOuntry's history
| tapplausel, and all good Republicans TO
day are ashamed of it. Loud applause.
Tue THEFT OF the fresiGeEoy.
Ihey turned their faces, as well as their
consciences, upon the promise Of tho past
and refused u consider the evidence, all
reeking with ignOminy and bribery and
shame, and counted in a man who had not
received under the constitution aud the
laws the sutirages Of his countrymen
That is wrong that We have met here tC
right. Applause. Eight years have
|
law has given the verdict TO them that
IL true. When jury is in its box under
the statute Of your state and a judge upon
the bench who holds the scales of justice
uneVenly, holds with guilty hands parch
ment from the executive OF your state, and
| allows the jury sitting in the box TO con
denim man to death under the Dgis oil
law, he does what all the law writer's oI
civilization for hundreds of years have
cursed and damned as legal murder. Ap
plause J Oh, the great sin Of that elec
tOral commission remains to-day unpun
lshed, aud will ever be unayenged so long
as the Republican party Is in power IL
this country. Applause. thank Goo
that there is no statute of lin ltatiOns run
ming in favor Of that party, applause
and IN that connection, my fellow Demo
Gratis, be 1t said TO the credit of the Demo
cratic party that it exhibited uons OF tha
spirit OF the Hotspur, and of that spirit
which sought TO cngulf this country Ia war
fresh as 1t was from great and fratrcida
struggle.
But our great leaders, Tilden anC
hendricks here the speaker was inter.
rupted by long continued applause, tn,
delegates rising to their feet and wavinG
their bats Our great leaders, THden anC
Hendricks, with the dignity of heroic
statesmen, with the courage OF men VIII
love their country better than its pelf ant
It's power, accepted the wrong and injury
OF perjury and OF haud and they arr
grander to day in their defeat than th
men who wear the power at tue expens