The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-13
SECOND DAY.

This was emphatically a day of waiting, this
committee on credentials not being ready to re
port,
Rev. Mr.. Barrows, pastor of the First Pres
byterian church Of Chicago, addressed the
Throne of Grace.
Mr.. Gary of Maryland presented a memorial
Of the Maryland State Temperance alliance on
behalf of prohibition. 1t was read and re.
ferrcd to the committee on resolutions.
Mr.. Mason, of Delaware, offered a resolution
in favor of a presidential term of six years,
and ineligibility thereafter. Referred.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, offered tho fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That American land should belong
alone to those willing to assume the duties and
responsibilities OF American citizenship. The
best interests of the republic are with those
who are bound to it by the tie Of ownership
and possession Of it. The system Of tenant
farming and absentee landlordism, which has
disturbed Ireland and destroyed the peace OF
Europe, is opposed to the doctrine OF the faith
ers, and has no place in the policy OF q repub.
lie.
Referred to committee.
Mr.. Hawkins, of Tennessee, offered the fol.
lowing resolution, and moved its immediate
passage:
Resolved, AS INC SeHSt Ol tllS cOufelltlOl,
that every member of II ~ bound in honor to
support its nominee, whoever that nominee
may be; that no man should hold a seat here
who is not ready to so agree.
The resolution was advocated by the mover
and ono or two others and severely denounced
by George William Curtis and Mr.. Pearce OF
Massachusetts. Curtis said: "a Republican
and a free man l came into this convention. BY
the grace Of God, a Republican and n free mar
will 90 out of this convention. The gentle
man who WAS last upon the floor dared any one
upon this floor to vote against that resolution.
l say to him in reply that the presentation
of such a resolution in such q
convention rs this is a stigma,
an insult upon every man who stands here.
This question is not q new question precisely;
the same motion was brought up at the last con-
%yention, and a man from West Virginia hon
| or his name-that man said in the face Of the
roaring galleries and nth in the y face Of a all thus 81 sa on,
= Republican who carries his sovereignty
| undor his own hat" Now, Mr.. Chairman, MI.
J CampbelIs position IN that convention, the wise
, reflection, the afterthought Of the Republican
| convention of 1850, confirmed.
Mr.. Hawkins finally withdrew the resolutions
Other resolutions were offered relaune 70 tenl-
perance. the elections of delegates, etc, to fu'
ture conventions which were referred.
The committee on permanent organization
Reported as permanent president of the con
%yention, Hon. John B. Henderson OF Missouri
and lists of honorary yice-presidents and sec,
~retaries. The chair appointed to conduct the
permanent president of the convention to thu
| stand, Hon. G. A. Grow of Pennsylvania
| Geoire L. Hoar of Massachusetts, and q. B
williams OF Indiana. The committee appointed
by the temporary chairman escorted MI. Hen
| derson to the platform, and he spoke as fol
lows:
Gentlemen of the Convention: We have as
sembIed to survey the pasthistory of the party
10 rejoice as we may because of tie good tha'
| done; to correct the errors there be; to dlscoN
er if possible the wants of the presentand witt
patriotic tirmncss to provide Tor the lntnre
our mast history is the Union preserved, SLAYER.
| abolished by its former victims arc equally AM
honcrably by orr sides in this convention
THE nlblic faith is maintained. We have I'm
hounded credit at home andabroad, a eurrenc.
convertible into coin andtile pulses OF ina'istr.
throbbing with renewed health and ''sor y
every section Of q prosperous and peace
/ FL, country. These are til
fruits of triumph. over ad
verse uolicies gained i'll the military and CIV
conflicts of the last twenty-fonr years. Out o
these conflicts has come n race OF heroes an
I statesmen challenging confidence and love a
I home and respect and admiration abroad; an
now when we came to select n standard beare
for the approaching conflict, orr chief embar
rassment il not in the want but III the aDuno
ance of presidential material, New York ha
/ her true and tried statesman, upon whose al
ministration and fierce and even unirienal
iiglt of public scrutiny has been turned, an
tTe universal verdict is, "Well done, thou goo
and faithful servant"
VERMONT HAS HER E STATESMAN
whose mind is as clear as the crystal spfinSse
his native state, and whose virtue Is us tirm a
ia Granite hills. Ohio can come with a nan,
whose history is the history of the kepublica
4 party itself. Illinois can come with one WI
never failed in the discharge of public dut,,
whether in the council chamber or on the fel