The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-05

; mia, were chosen assistant secretaries
q to serve during the pendancy of the
temporary organization.
y The chairmen of each delegation then
e announced the names of persons
n selected to serve on the various COM
f mittees of the convention.
e RESOLUTIONS.
t Henry L.. Pearce, of Massachusetts,,
: presented the following resolution:
e RESOLVED, That the subject of a
e revised apportionment of delegates to
l future national conventions, and of a
revised appOrtionment of members of
! the national committee be referred to
the committee on rules and order of
: business, to report before the ballot
: for president.
: After some discussion the resolu-
5 tion was adopted.
, wOMANS TEMPERANCE UNION.
r Hon. W. G. Donnan, of Iowa, pre-
5 santed memorial and petition of the
/. National Woman's Christian Temper
5 ance union. 1t bears the sigma
tu-eS of the officers of the Woman's
l Christian temperance union in As states
and territories, and reads as follows:
: "To the national convention of the
republican pa:ty: The members of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, of the states herein represent
ed, by the signatures of its officers,
believe that while the personal habits
of the nation can be largely restrained
: by an appeal to the intellect through
argument to the heart, through SYM
, pathy, and to the conscience through
the motives to religion, the traffic in
these personal habits will be best con-
trolled by prohibitory law. We be-
lieve the teachings of science, expert
ence, and the golden rule combine to
testify against the traffic in
alcoholic liquors as drink
and the homes of America
which are the citadels Of patriotism,
purity and happiness, have no enemy
so relentless as the American saloon. |
Therefore, as citizens of the United |
States, irrespective of sect or section,
but having deeply at heart the pyotec-
tion Of our homes, we do hereby re-
spectfully and earnestly petition you |
to advocate and adopt such measures
the prohibition of the importation
manufacture and sale of alcohlic bev-
erages may become an integral part
of the national constitution, and that
your party candidate shall be by char
acter and public pledge committed to
a national prohib1tory constitutional
amendment.
Francis E. Willard, presi-
dent; Caroline B. Buell.,
corresponding secretary; Mary Wood
leigh, recording secretary; l.. NJ. N.
Stevens, assistant secretary; Esther
Pugh, treasurer.
The petition was read, and referred
to the committee on rules.
! Leslie w. Bissell, of New York,
| presented the following, which
was referred to the committee on res
olutions:
Resolved, That the committee on
resolutions be, and they are hereby
directed, to give hearing to COM
mittee appointed by the Irish national
league of America, to present me-
mortal to this convention on the sub
ject of ownership of realty in the
United States by foreigners.
| ADJOURNED TO ELEVEN O'CLOCK To-
DAY.
The convention then adjourned to
IL o'clock tomorrow.
After careful studying, the vote on
the question Of temporary chairman,
it does not appear to have
been really test of strength, as some {
delegates voted with a view to sus-
tanning the action Of the national
committee, leaving other questions to
be decided later; while others voted
for Lynch with view to the effect
on the colored vote. Blaine and Logan
men. after the vote, estimated that
they held greater strength in the con-
Yention than they had before sUppos-
ed, while the adherents Of independ-
TO- Nd 1nv- -lr H. faHn al
with the position which they held be-
tween the main contending forces.
BLAINEs OPINION.
BOSTON, June 3.-Blaine took the
noon train for Portland. He talked
politics with no one. He is reported
as having said to personal friends he
did not expect the nomination and
the candidate would be q
dark horse. There Is good authority
that the Blaine men will, at his re-
quest, support Sherman If the nomi-
nation Of Blaine appears impractical
BILE.
CHICAGO, June 3.-After the ap-
pointment of the subcommittee, of
the platform committee, in the con-
vention to-day, Mr.. Alex Sullivan ap-
peared before the committee on be-
udll VI OuO lIlSu udGlOld1 |
delivered long and interesting ad-
dre IS on the subject of the ownership
Of American lands by foreigners. A
resolution requesting the committee
on resolutions to consider the subject
was adopted at to-day's session Of the
convention.
The address, which Mr.. Sullivan
read, after renearsing that it was the
int IF M 81 ka
ernMent that the principles that
American citizenship shall be indi-
spensible of ownership of land in the
| United States, and that it is distinct,
and so indicated in the explicit
terms upon which the 13 states sur
rendered their lands to the nation
al government for the use and benefit
OF the entire people, goes on to say
that the founders the republic
have been thwarted by events
which they could not for
see in '76. and again in go.
The national democratic conven-
tion approved of resolution recon-
mending the national government to
aid it the construction of the Pacific |
railway. The national congress fol-
lowed that example, and the result is !
that quantity of the public domain |
nearly equal to the entire area of the |
thirteen original states has been pre-
sented to the monopolies, by which it |
has been disposed of in a manner di-
rectly hostile to the spirit and terms |
upon which those states surrendered |
the land trust to the national govern
ment.
1t is chiefly thought OF these land
grants to corpo rations which have
proved themselves superior to popu-
lar control, that a danger which
would have been averted by constitu-
tional prohibition has steadily and
silently fastened itself upon our
ceuntry-namely, the creation
of an immense absentee
Iandlordism, by which the riches of
your soil and the results Of the hardy
labor of our ci tizens are to
be drained out of the country
J to swell the fortunes of
hereditary monopolies who hate
our institution, and despise our
laws, and who, by the connivance of
the benefciaries of our mistaken gen.
crosby, ARE in legal posR ssion of at least
100000 acres of our soil. We have
seen the effect of the system of great
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