The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-11

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r Si,5 c.o, ttG '' mani iegsb;er lie
SnuN and TuC--t;rcCUbaykgrs Ul;n NiIam
u. thurman ilNughterI-and those mon wore
Wiling 80 come 10 the Democracy 10 erndi
v ,,'a,, vSoTtuptIon and wrong in the Govern
put now were they rcccvede With Il plank
IN me platform Sayiag that we are
n iaNor OF honest money" rs
were " e"' S @,Peho IT were not, who
money! II there was such "a "V nan
mere let him be put out. laughter As 10
clNll service reform, he vCntured 10 say there
MaS hot man IN the convention in favor Of
u unless ne was schoolmaster. TI4aughter
ex-senator Pendleton had been the au-
thor OF the original civil service law. and he
1au never been heard of since Laughter. /
G Het hov washington dng himself could
vice examination for $1,000 cierkship.
Laughter His early education had
been neglected, and in his will, written by his
own own hanJ, ahe spelled clothes "cloathes,"
liauShter.l For himself lie wanted frequent
changes in office in order to counteract the
great tendency to have aristocratic life
officers, If Office was good
,hinS then he wanted all the
bad thing then IL was too hard to put it on
70 a poor fellow. In conclusion he said that
If this convention told the worSingmen and
women OF the country that they were
protected, but 'fostered" and cherished tS S"S
the democratic party would sweep the coun-
Try, Otherwise tneY would remain I'm their.
WORKSHOPS on election day, and the Democ-
T I9hvS , STI%ld be again defeated,
der but practically when $500, 100000
al revenue had to be raised on imports there
could be no such thing as free trade.
ana so long as some industry must be fos-
! tered American men and women should be
taken care Of Applause He would call for n
! vote by states on his substitute for the tnrift
| plank In the platform.
Mr. Converse next spoke in favor of the
adoption of the platform AS reported by inc
majority of the committee. He said there
WIS Much IN Buffers platform to which all
/ could subscribe. There was much i'm
| ms iarih plank To which all could
subscribe. There was much of the pIanl,
embodied In the report of the committed The
majority report was made by representatives
! OF lhiriy-Cight States. The dissent was from
but a single state. The majority re-
port was harmonizing OF differences in
/ cciye the support of the Democracy
! In that platform the rights of labor were ully
recognized but the great central ana over
S Tas r ideS of in the platform platform
ernment from, department to department,
and when that should be done the
party would be prepared to take W
other and less important matters
.
seven out of the thirty-eight States. Th,
| party was sincere, earnest and determined In
| the work OF reform and who might be nom.
mated by the convention would
be elected President of the United
! Henry NJ. Watcrson, of Kentucky. next
addressed the convention. He said for his
own port he had never doubted that
If convention should adopt an honest and
| sound platform OF principles and should place
on that platform two representative states
men Of honorable reputation and spotlcs,
| lives, they would be the next President anC
Vice President of the United States Tn,
| committee had given to the convention tho
platform. 1t was for the convention to give
the ticket TO tine country, and it was an
honest platform, entirely so; 1t wa,
II sound platform. Members OF The
committee had found that the differ.
cnces between them We're not e
great rs the country Imagined, and as they
themselves had imagined. The commtte,
had given to the convention 1
o GT'en them p sdnIG afford n Which so al
Applause.l The committee denounced tn,
abuses Of the present war thrift, and de
clared that all Federal taxation shoul,
be exclusively for public purposes, and tina
no more tax should be collected than wa,
requisite TO support the Government
economically administered. The gentleman
nom Massachusetts had aVowcd himself m
theoretically frce-trader. lie tNNatterson
was MOI lFce-tflueT lie cOul,
imagine no system of taxation NOR
oppressive or unequal in its cxacton
than the distribute OF the cost Of Govern
ment among the States. lie believed
that n well regulated Gnl moderate
custom house taxation, yielding tn
necessary revenue for the expense
of the Government was the lightcst tax thu
could he imposed upon the people and IA
bud always believed in tariff lAppause.
There had been in the conmittc
q substantial argument on question thn
more than ID would over diVld
II again. iApplausc.l
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.hc iultuer publishing OF the proceedings G.
The cOnVcntion.-ED.l