The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-07-05
Democratic National Convention.

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Texas, was then elected Temporary Chair
man, and took the chair.
MR.. HUBBARD's SPEECH.
Mr.. Hubbard was received with vociferou'
applause, and spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Dem
ocratic Convention of the Union: I am pro
foundry grateful for the confidence which you
have reposed in mein ratifying the nomination
| of the national executive committee, who have
done your bidding for the last four years by
your authority. aD7i J .TIss 9-l 81 1Ia
81 can only say to you to-day in brief that
the Democratic party, in all the essential ele-
ments, is the same as it was when it was
founded by the .framers of the constitution
nearly three quarters of a century ago. Men
die as the leaves of autumn, but principles
| are undying, liberty and selfgovernment, the
right of representation and taxation going
hand in hand. Economy in the administra-
ton of the government, so that the government
shall make the burdens as small as they may
be upon the millions who constitute our coun-
trymen, these and other principles underlie
the Democratic party and cannot be effaced
from. the earth, though their authors may be
numbered with the dead
"The Democratic party, fellow. citizens,
since the war time, commencing reconstruc-
ton with our hands manacled, with our bal
lot-boxes surrounded by cleaning bayonets,
with carpet-bag rulers, with the voice of free
men who pay their taxes to the government
sti1ed-the Democratic party has lived to see
through all this misrule the day come when
in a great majority of our states the Demo-
cratic party has resumed its control, its power.
1t has your House of Representatives, and but
for treason stalking in the Senate Chamber we
would have that, too. Loud applause. ]
We have had the presidency, too. Renewed
applause. But with impious hands-the hands
of the robber-our rights were stricken down
at the ballot-bo and through perjury and
bribery and corruption, men uttering false
hood through pale lips and chattering teeth
in the very temples of liberty, stole the pres
idency from this country. Some of the men
who participated in it have passed beyond the
river, and stand to give account of their stew
ardship.
''But history will not lie when it records, as
it has, that that electoral commission an
nounced in the Senate chamber through the
House that it would consider the question and
evidence of fraud in the returning of the vote
of Louisiana. lrenemberit. tits the black
est page in our country's history, and all good
Republicans to-day are ashamed of it.
Il thank God that there is no statute of
limitation running in the favor of that party,
low Democrats, be it said to the credit of the
Democratic party that they exhibited none of
that spirit of the hotspur and of that spirit
which sought to engulf this country in war,
fresh as it was from great and fratricidal
struggle. But our great leaders, Iilden and
Hendricks, There the speaker was interrupted
by long continued applause, the delegates
rising to their feet and waving their hats. |
our great leaders, Tilden and Hendricks, with
the dignity of heroic statesmen, with the
courage of men who love their country better
than its pelf and its power, accepted the
wrong and injury of perjury and of fraud, and
they are grander to-day in their defeat than
the men who wear the power at the expense
ofjustice and of right. [Cheers.l Thus we
have succeeded in the face of federal power;
eral gold and federal greenbacks- and
uncut from Washington, money earned and
held by star route contractors and the loving
friends of venal administration. They
bought the presidency.
acknowledgements, we want reform-God
knows not only in the personnel of men, but
also in the measures of the government We
want men there whose very lives and whose
very names would be a platform to this peo-
pie; men in all the departments Of the gov
eminent to see that every cent that belongs to
the government shall remain with the govern
ment; that no tribute shall be demanded cX-
cept the tribute that is dine the government;
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get into power once more.
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deaVor 10 sur up the pad Dloou OF the past.
MY countrymeh' tne war Is over ior quarter
OF century, ana they know IL. why, our
boys have married the young maidens OF the
North, anu chiiuren nave peeh porn 10 tnem
SINCE those days. why, the boys IN the blue
and the gray have slept together Tor quarter
of n century upon thousand helds of CON-
mon glory. Let their bones alone. They are
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though differing in the days that should be
forgotten, the good men OF all parties in our
country to-day, ! thank God, have united in
the great common progress OF OUR race to for
get the war memories OF the war tines
Mr.. Smalley, of Vermont. offered a resolu-
ton adopting the rules of the last National
Convention, except that in voting for eandi-
dates no State should be allowed to change
its vote until the roll of States had been
called, and until every State had cast its
vote" Here Tammany Hall started the ball
against Cleveland. They supposed they had
tne majority o. deleg ga IN inc new o or
unit rule--that is that whole delegation
should vote as unit for whoever majority
should prefer. After the delegation to Chica.
go had been selected they found that two
thirds of the delegates were in favor of Gov.
Cleveland for President, and then they wanted
TO ignore instructions and vote us individuals
Mr.. Grady, of New York, on behalf of Tam
many Hall, offered the following amendment
(setting aside the unit rule): "And when the