The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-19

tumoutous cheers Resolutions condoling
| the deaths of the Democratic statesmen
were adopted by rising vote, that endors-
| ing home rule for Ireland also received i'm
| mense applause as also did the concluding
| plank endorsing Senator Payne
A tribute to Durham Ward was then pre-
sented by ten. Thomas Powell
Nominations for secretary of state were
made as follows: Henry Apthrop, of Ashta-
| bula; William Bell, Of Licking; Boston G.
Young, of Marion; John Mcbride of
Stark
The first tballot resulted as follows:
Young, 22914 Bell, l5ois; Apthorp, OF;
| Mcbride, 219+4 Votes necessary to nomi-
nate, 333
John Mcbride was nominated by ac,la.
nation on the second ballot
The other nominations were For su.
preme court Judge, Nj d. Toilet of Wash
| ington; for supreme court clerk, j. w
| Cruikshank of Miami; Leroy Brown of But
| Ter for school commissioner, and Edward
Meals for board of public works, all by &C
clamation
The platform is: The Democracy of
| Ohio in convention assembled congratu-
| lates the country upon the fact that the
party of the people has been restored to
power, and with it the promises of its lead
ers and hopes of its followers are being
| fully realized.
| We cordially indorse the administration
of President Cleveland, as we believe the
people of all parties are convinced that his
official conduct has been marked 10y great
courage and honesty.
| The Democrats of Ohio express their sin
csre sorrow, and acknowledge their great
loss by the recent death of that dlstiu-
gHished orator and statesman, Gen. Dur
bin Ward. We bear testimony to his
courage, integrity and patriotism, and re-
alIze that We are indebted TO him for wise
counsel and fearless advocacy of our cause
i'll all our campaigns for many years.
| We Join with the Democrats of tho ma
ton in mourning over the still more recent
loss OF That illustrious man. Samuel J. I'll
den, who by common consent was the leader
| of the Democracy of America for many
years, and who was honestly and fairly
elected the nineteenth president of tho
| United States We also deeply lament the
death, within a short period of time of those
other distinguished Democrats, Thomas A.
| Hendricks, the ideal and trusted leader for
many years of the Democrats of Indiana,
and at the time of his death vice president
| of the United States; also of George B. Nc
Clellan, Horatio Seymour and Winfield
| Scott Hancock, who have all been our lead
ers in contest for the highest office within
| the gift of our people, and whose courage,
wisdom and patriotism have made them
dear to every true American.
The names and the career of these men
remind us that as long as we follow their
example and initiate their virtues, so long
shall we have brilliant leadership and our
cause and party be preserved
| Taxes should not be collected beyond the
needs of government economically admin
istered.
| We hereby reaffirm the principles laid
down in our last state and national plat
forms upon the tariff question and demand
a thorough and just revision of existing
| tariff laws in accordance with these princi-
pies
We heartily approve the policy of paying
out surplus revenues heretofore accumu
| lated i'll the treasury on the interest bearing
| debt. Every dollar of unnecessary taxa
ton, state or national is robbery, and i'll
derogation of the rights of the people: an
unnecessary surplus in the treasury is an
incentive TO corruption and congressional
Iobbery and an oppression on the peoLl lie,
whose money is there locked up beyond
their control We denounce the attempt
to change the measure of values, in the face
of the worlds vast debts, from gold and
! silver to gold alone, as an act of monstrous
in Justice, and demand that both gold and
| silver, as established by the constitution,
shall be maintained as the basis of our
| money system.
We approve the Democratic house of CON
gress in forfeiting and restoring to the pub
lie domain, for homesteads for actual set
| tiers, nearly 100, UOU co. acres of unearned
lands heretofore granted by Republican
congresses to railroad corporations; and we
also approve the act preventing alien own
ership on large tracts of public lands in the
United States.
We approve the prompt, firm and vigOr-
Gus action of the state department and the
present democratic administration in the
protection of American citizens IN foreign
countries In common with the Democracy
of the country We express our sympathy
with Ireland anu her great struggle for
horne rule The friends of liberty through
out the world are deeply interested III this
effort which the supporters of Gladstone
and Parnell are now making to give the
right to govern themselves to long suffering
and greatly wronged Irish people; and we
sincerely hope the struggle CT ireland for
her Just rights shall be crowned with com
plete success.
We denounce the usurpations of the Re-
publican lieutenant governor, and less than
quorum of Republican senators of the
state senate, as an act of revolution and a
grave crime against the constitution of
Ohio, and precedent too dangerous to per-
nit to pass uncondeuined by the people Of
the state. We demand that every safe.
guard of the ballot shall be maintained,
that the votes Of the people shall be hon
estly cast and honestly counted, and thai
every crime against the purity of the ballot
box shall be promptly and vigorously pun
ished by whomsoever committed.
We denounce and condemn the partisan
reorganization of the penal and benevolent
institutions of the state, not made with the
view to increase the efficiency of their man
agement, but for the purpose of controlling
their revenues and incidental powers fol
partisan purposes, thus dragging down Il
tine basest uses the willing gifts Of the pesi
pie for the amelioration of the unfortunate
We hereby express our unbounded cont
dence in the integrity and Democracy OF
the Democratic members OF the senate of
the Sixty seventh general assembly OF
Ohio
believing that the evil growing C 1t Of
the traffic in Intoxicating liquors can best
be provided against by well-regulated
license system, we renew our declaration in
favor OF an amendment to the constitution
that will permit iudicious regulation of the
traffic and repress the abuses growing out oil
it, without destroying the principles of per
sonal liberty or the right of private iIdg
ment
We heartily endorse TIE course Of the
Hon. Ii. B. Payne as tho representative Of
this state in the senate of the United States
The purity and integrity of his character
are well known to the people of Ohio, and
we rejoice that the Republican senate OF
the United States refused to become tht
medium through which the bafiled and
malicious Republican politicians sought to
injnre the fair fame of the man whose life
is honestly interviewer with the history Of