Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-15

PRESIDENT, THOMAS A. HENDRICKS OF
INDIANA.
The National Democratic Convention,
which was more numerously attended than
any Convention ever held in the country
before, met in Chicago last Tuesday, the
9Th inst, and was called to order at half
past 10 o'clock by the Hon. VIM. H. Bar
mum, of Connecticut, Chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Committee. Rev. DIR.
Marquis, of Chicago, and. formerly pastor
of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of
Baltimore, opened the deliberations of the
Convention with prayer
Mr.. Barnum then said:-
''Gentlemen of the Convention: Harmo-
ny seems to be the sense of this Conven-
ton; the very air seems saturated with the
desire as well as tN determination to nom
mate ticket for President and Vice Presi-
dent satisfactory to the North as veil as to
the South, to the East as well as to the
West-nay, more, a ticket which will har-
monizc the democracy of this nation and
insure victory in November. No effort has
| bOOAi AhoNO w IlOmlhdUC d tOupOIdIy CudIr-
man of this Convention in the interest of
any candidate, but, on the contrary, one
who will proceed with absolute impartial
ty. With this spirit and to that end have
been directed by the unanimous vote of the
National Committee to nominate the Hon.
Richard B. Hubbard, of Texas, temporary
chairman
Mr.. Hubbard was elected, and the chair
appointed Senator B. F. Jonas of Louisiana,
Hon. George B. Barnes of Georgia, and
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt of New York, to
conduct Mr.. Hubbard to the chair.
Mr.. HUBBARD's SPEECH.
Mr.. Hubbard was received with vocifer-
,ous applause, and spoke with much force
at considerable length. Among other
things, he said:-
ri can only say to you to-day in brief that
the democratic party, in all the essential
elements, is the same as it was when it was
founded by the trainers of the constitution
nearly three-quarters of century ago.
Men die as the leaves of autumn, but prin-
ciples are undying, liberty and self-govern-
ment, the right of representation and taxa
ton going hand in hand. Economy in the
administration of the government, SO that
the government shall make the burdens as
small as they may be upon the millions who
constitute our countrymen, 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-
tlOn with hands rnapa0ioJ rx,ith
ballot-boxes surrounded with cleaning bay
onets, with carpet-bag rulers, with the voice
OF freemen who pay their taxes to the gov
ernment stified-the Democratic party has
lived to see through all this misrule the day
! come when in great majority of our States
t the Democratic party has resumed its con-
troll, its power. 1t has your House of Rep
resentatives. and but for treason stalking
in the Senate Chamber we would have that.
too. Loud Applause ] We have had the
: Presidency, too. Renewed applause. l.
But with impious hands-the hands of the
rObber-ouf rights We're stricken down at
the ballot-box, 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
presidency from this country. Some of the
men who participated in it have passed be-
yond the river and stand to give account of
their stewardship.
But history will not lie when it records.
) as it has, that that electoral commission
f announced in the Senate chamber through
the House that 1t would consider the Ques-
tion and evidence of fraud In the returning
OF the vote of Louisiana | remember it
1t is the blacklist page in our country's MIS-
tory, and all good republicans to- day are
, ashamed of it.
In concluding his speech, he said:-
'sBut fellow citizens in conclusion let me
say that harmony and Cancellation should
rule your councils There never was a
time in the history of the Democratic party
when the enemy invited the victory as now
The Democratic party is loyal to the Union
The bloody shirt, Sin the vulgar parlance of
the times, has at each recurring election
been Haunted in the face of Southern demo-
Gratis and in your own faces. With Logan
ON the ticket presume it will be again.
Blaine could hardly afford it, as he did not
indulge much in that unpleasantness. They
VIII endeavor to stir up the bad blood of
the past. My count, ymen, the war is over
lor quarter OF century, and they know
It, Why, our boys have married the young
maidens of the North, and children have
been born to them since those days. Why
the boys in the blue and the gray have slept
together fer a. quarter of d century upon
a thousand fields of common glory Let
their bones alone. They are representing
the best blood of the land and though differ
ing in the days that should be forgotten, tho
good men of all parties in our country to-
day, thank God, have united in the great
common progress of our race to forget the
war memories of the war times"
DEBATE ON THE UNIT RULE.
Mr.. Smalley, of Vermont, reported the
following resolution from the National
Committee
"Resotced, That the rules of the last
Democratic Convention govern this body
until otherwise ordered, subject to the fol-
lowing notifications: That in voting for
candidates for President and Vice-Presi-
dent no State shall be allowed to change
Its vote until the roll Of the States has baen
called and every State has cast it's vote'
Mr.. Grady, of New York, offered the
following amendment to the resolution -
"When the vote of a State, as announced
by the chairman Of the delegation from
such State, is challenged by any member Of
the delegation, then the secretary shall calf
the names of the individual delegates from
the State, and their individual preferences
as expressed shall be recorded as the vote
of such State.''
After spirited debate by Fellows and
Jacobs Of New York against, and by Grady
and Kelly of New York in favor of Grady's
amendment, it was put to the vote and de-
feated by the following vote: Total vote
cast, 795; foramendment 1872; against, 1853;
not voting, :.
The vote was then taken on the original
resolution offered by Smalley, of Vermont.
and it was adopted.
resolution was offered and adopted for
the appointment of committee on creden.
tials and permanent organization A COM
mittee on platform was also ordered,
1t was also ordered that all resolutions in
regard to the platform be referred to that
committee without discussion.
The Convention then adjourned to II A.