The state journal., 1884-07-12
THE BOURBON CONUNDRUM,
WHICH PEOPLE CALL BT COURTESY !
A PLATFORM. S;no,;,
as rally.
Its Adoption Followed bL ssIe Ballot
for President Uleya6 WoQads, with
Almost In""as " Mnjg Ma, Intro&ard ,f;1I1 .na nnd
Eanda,, 6y Rev- &C., Sc.
~ of the q
the iDEMoCKArIC CONVENTION.
The Work of the Evening Session-The
National Committee.


The work of the Evening session-The
National Committee.
CHICAGO, July 11.-Pursnant to ad-
iOurnment yesterday afternoon, the Dem
ocratic convention gathered into the hall
promptly, and was called to order at 800
O'Clock A resolution was offered by Mr..
Henry, of Mississippi expressing the re-
gret and intense admiration OF the con
vention at reading the statesmanlike, pa
triotic letter or Samuel J. TilGen, in
which he made known the overpowering
and providential necessity which con
strained him to decline the nomination to
the Presidency; condemning the fraud
and violence by which Tilden and Hen
bricks were cheated out Of their offices
in 1876; expressing the regret that the
Nation has been deprived of the lofty
patriotism and splendid executive and
administrative ability of Mr.. Tilden, and
appointing committee to convey these
sentiments to that gentleman. Adopted.
On motion Of Mr.. Cleveland, Of New
Jersey, it was ordered that the States and
Territories be now called for the names
of members of the National Democratic
Committee.
A report was made by the Committee
on Resolutions in favor of the proposition
to permit the National Committee to
choose a chairman outside of its own
members. The report was adopted.
A delegate from Arkansas offered a
resolution abrogating and dscontinuing
in future the two thirds rule in the nomi-
nation Of candidates for President and
Vice President.
Mr.. Albeit, of New Jersey, moved to
postpone the resolution indefinitely.
The Platform.
At 8 p. NJ. Mr.. Morrison, Of Illinois,
chairman Of the Committee on Resolu-
tions, stepped TO the platform to present
the report of that committee. His ap-
Dearance was greeted with cheers The
platform was read by one Of the reading
clerks. The full text of the document,
which consumed one hour in reading,
will be found on the second page Of to-
days TELEGRAPH, together with Buffers
tariff plank There was slight mani
festation of approval at the conclusion Of
the reading. The only paragraph which
ing was that referring to Tilden.
When the reading was concluded
Mr.. Morrison said he would yield to
port. He would then allow Gen. Butler
thirty minutes to discuss his report. He
would also allow fifteen minutes to Mr..
Converse, OF Ohio, and five minutes to
Mr.. Watterson, and then he would move
the previous question and call for vote.
Gen. Butler's Speech.
After General Butler sreport found on
the second page Of to-day's TELEGRAPH
had been read by the clerk its author took
the stand and delivered half hour
speech. lie said he appeared with great
diffidence. Most things in the platform
he agreed 10. Those which had just been
read were submitted and not agreed to.
There was one thing on which there was
most radical difference between the two
platforms. Both agreed that there was
no constitutional power to raise revenue
beyond the necessary wants OF the Coy
ernment: that it should be raised accord
ing 10 the doctrines of the fathers, and
that no tax should be laid on tho
necessares of life not produced in this
country He came here rs no mendicant,
no beggar. Tie came here representing
more than 1, 500, 600 labOring men. lie
had brought their condition before the
committee, and had demanded not that
it should give them anything but that
when taxing the people the tax should be
taken where it would hurt them least.
Was not that reasonable demand? Did
they think they could get along without
that? He thought not He objected to
the tariff plank in the platform in the
committee because it took the committee
thirty-six hours to frame it. And if it
took those able gentlemen so long to
frame it and to get it in form, there must
be some reason for that. If they could
not find out in thirty six hours what they
wanted, how were his labOring men TO
find ont what it meant2 Laughter.
There was radical difference between
the committee and himself, The very
able chairman of the committee, Mr..
Morrison, thought there should be no
such thing as protection to American
labor by taxation. He (Butler) believed
that there should be such protection, such
fostering, such cheering Mr.. Morrison
could not yield his convictions, and he
(Butler) could not yield his, and
therefore the committee mad to spend
all that time to say something that would
mean one thing one way and another
thing another way. Laughter. lie
asked the delegates to read that tariff
plank and see if they could find out ex-
actly what it did mean. 1t did not mean
protection. If ii did, Colonel Morrison
was too honest q man to bring it here,
and vet it was so twisted that it might
mean protection. Laughter, The De
mocracy had in its platform in 1880 q
plank Of 'tarif for revenue only, and 1t
broke the back of the most gallant soldier
in the country. Laughter. And now
they had q tariff plank 'for public pur-
poses exclusively" Where was the diff
ference? Exclusively meant 'fOnly,
and "only" meant exclusively.
Laughter.
Passing to the currency question, Gen
eral Butler said he affirmed the doctrine
of Andrew Jackson, that Government
alone could issue money; and he would
rather be wrong with Jackson than be
right with the committee. Laughter. ]
He represented many Greenback mep,
good and true Greenback men, like Allen
G. Thurman [laughterl and these men
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 eve
are in favor Of honest money. AS II the
Greenbackers were not. Who was not
in favor Of honest money? If there was
such man here, let him be put out.
[Laughter.l
AS to civil-service reform, Mr.. Butler
ventured to say there was not man in
the convention in favor of it unless he
was schoolmaster. Laughter. Ex.
Senator Pendleton had been the author oil
the original civil service law, and he has
never been heard of since. Laughter
George Washington himself could moi
have passed O civil-service examination
fora 1900 clerkship. Laughter ] Hi:
early education had been neglected
and in his will, written by hi