Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-03
THE DEMOCRACY.
THIRD DAY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
STATE CONVENTION.
Choice Yet for
Governor-A Lengthy Plat
form Adopted.

assembled at 1890 to-day. The galleries
were crowded. The Chair declared that
he would keep the aisles within the bar Of
the Convention clear, and the order was exc
cuted. At one time an obstreporous indi-
vidual refused to leave the floor and some
excitement ensued Finally the Sergeants-
alarms pitched the man out bodily, to the
great amusement of the Convention.
BALLoTING FOR JUSTICES.
Balloting for Justices was in order The
name of Mr.. Corcoran was withdrawn by
MI Goucher and that of Judge Armstrong
by Mr.. Hinkson.
The balloting then began, Mckee re-
ceiving 10Y, Waters 279 and Searls 90.
Byron Waters was declared the nominee
for Justice of the Supreme Court for a long
term The nomination was maids unan-
imous on motion of White of Alameda
San Francisco cast 100 for Waters, Sacra-
mento gave him 9 and Mckee 8.
At this point the sum of 81 a head was
collected of the delegates for the privilege
of being delegates and the purpose ofmeet-
| ing Convention expenses. The sum of
1894 was collected and the time consumed
was half an hour.
| THE PLATFORM.
Barclay Henley, from the Committee on
| Resolutions, reported the platform and
read it. l give it below, noting those
planks added by the Convention in its
work of patching up the report
INDoRsING CLEVELAND.
l. Rcsolred, That with becoming pride we
cordially indorse the Administration of
President Grover Cleveland for the hon
| esty, frugality and success with which it is
conducting the affairs of Government car
rying out the principles of Democracy in
administering public trusts and keeping
faith with the people. A respect for consti-
tutional law, the protection of the rights of
| our fellow citizens at home and abroad a
desire to reform the unjust inequalities of
| customs, to reduce taxation, to limit eX-
penditures to actual necessities the revival
of trade, the Increase of commerce, the re-
storation of the unearned public lands to
| the peoples heritage, the peace that happily
extends throughout our whole land, and
the extinction of sectional auimOsitieS are
the salient marks which signalize the resto-
| ration of the Democratic party to power
and the response it has given to the trust
reposed in it.
2. We commend the discrimination
which the President has made in favor of
the honest soldier, and call attention to the
fact that while he has vetoed spurious and
unworthy claims. he has signed more
pension bills than any of his predeces-
sOrs.
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION.
5. This Convention proudly invites at
tention to the fact that the last Democratic
House of Representatives past bills forfeit
ing and restoring to the public domain
is,,
100000 acres, and also the further fact that
in the Forty-eighth Congress the Demo-
cratic Lower House passed the Reagan in
terstate commerce bill. which failed OF
passage in the Republican Senate; also,
that in the last session of Congress the
Reagan bill was again passed by the Dem
ocratie Lower House.
SILVER.
4. Resolred, That this Convention recon-
mend the passage of an Act of Congress
providing for the free coinage of both gold
and silver, by the terms of which Act ell
gold and silver bullion offered at the sew
eral MINIS of the United States shall be re-
ceiyed in exchange for money or gold or
silver certificates at the rate now fixed by
law for standard dollars of gold or silver
Certificates shall be receivable for all public
purposes and interchangeable for gold or
silver, as the case may be.
WINE AND WOOL.
s. Rcsolred That the present tariff on
wool prepared by Republican Commits
sion appointed by a Republican President
is an unjust discrimination against great
industry. and we denounce the same, and
demand the restoration of the tariff of 1867.
That in view of the brilliant future that
awaits California in the Development of its
vine interests, We most heartily favor the
bills now pending in Congress for the re-
lease from taxation of spirits used in the
fertilization of sweet wines, and the pro-
lection of our wine industries from the in-
furious effects of fraud and the unrestricted
sale of spurious wines.
6. And we also favor legislation provid-
ing for the protection of the raisin industry.
THE last paragraph was added by the Con-
ventionl
ABOUT LABOR.
I. We are in favor Of liberal wages and
free labor.
! S. All Associations formed for the pur-
| pose of developing the intelligence, pro-
noting the welfare and protecting the in
| terests OF the laborer and mechanic, and to
enable them successfully to contend for
and maintain their rights by peaceful and
| efficient means against powerful and OPP
| pressive com binations, should be encour-
| aged and expressly sanctioned by law.
g. We regard the contract convict labor
system as detrimental to the interests of
| free labor and ruinous to certain lines of
| legitimate business with which it comes in
conflict. We commend the present State
administration for its late efforts to abolish
| this system, and pledge our candidates, if
elected, to do all within theirpower to carry
out the spirit of the Constitution upon this
question.
10. But in no way shall this be construed
| TO prohibit the manufacture of grain bags
and lutte goods within the walls of the State
| Prison. This paragraph was added by the
Conventionl.
| CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
II. We are unalterably opposed to Chi
nese immigration, and demand the abroga-
ton of the Burlingame-Swift treaty-a
treaty through whose loopholes slave labor
sweeps upon our shores. We pledge the
| best efforts of the Democratic party of this
| State TO the enforcement of laws which
| shall permanently prohibit and prevent
such immigration. We regard Chinese
| labor as an unmixed evil Therefore we
favor legislation providing for the deporta-
| ton of the Chinese from this country and
| their exclusion forever. In the meantime,
aud pending proper legislation upon this
subject, the Democratic party of this State
as friend of free labor, and in the interest
of the people, recognizes the legal right of
anv citizen to employ whom he pleases,
vet we hold that it is the right and duty OF
the people of this State to withhold their
patronage from the Chinese that such labor
should not be resorted to when any other
character of labor is available.
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
Il. Resolred, That we reaffirm the prin-
| ciples contained in the National Democratic
| platform declaring that the Democratic
party is unalterably opposed to all sump-
tuary legislation.
| TAXATION OF RAILROADS.
| IS. We condemn the great railroad cor
porations of the State for their defiance of
State power, their corrupt practices and
their persistent refusal to contribute their
| Just and lawful proportion of the revenue.
The contempt and disgrace they thus
throw upon free government IS first and
long step to encourage communism and
anarchy. If the rich may, with impunity,
defy the laws, upon what principle, in a
government which is based upon the
! cornerstone of equality, shall the poor be
compelled to yield obedience? All law
abiding citizens should unite with the
Democracy in their efforts to exact from
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