Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-08-14
r.. TAYLOR
Nominated for Governor on the Sixteenth
Ballot.

An unusually large convention as
sembled in Nashville last Wednesday
morning, for the purpose of nominal
ing Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. Hon. III. P. Fowlkes, of Will
Hanson county was made temporary
chairman, and the various COM
mittees appointed. The committee
on permanent organization re-
ported for chairman Hon. Chas.
B. Simonton, and for secretaries,
Neill s. Brown, Flournoy Rivers and
James S. Houston. The two-thirds
rule was adopted, and nominating
speeches were sat upon. The follow
ing nominations were made: G. G.
Dibrell, r. F. Looney, t. N. Mcconnell
and r. L. Taylor, when the conyen-
ton adjourned until s p. m. X
In the evening session the first work
was to receive the report of the COM
mittee on platform, which reported as
follows:
To the State Democratic Convention of
Tennessee: Your committee on platform
and resolutions beg leave to submit the fol-
towing report:
|. The Democracy of Tennessee, by its rep
resentatives in convention assembled, con-
graduate the country at large on the restora-
ton of the Democratic party to power in the
administration of the general government.
1t endorses the administration OF President
Cleveland and upholds him in his efforts to
purify the government from corruption, to
restore economy, to revive respect fol. the
constitution, to reduce taxation, to reform
the existing tariff, to allay sectional animos-
ties, to guard the treasury against unwar-
ranted appropriations of the public money
and to restore the government to the simple
and honest methods of administration.
known and practiced by its founders II en-
dorses the administration of Gov. Bate as
honest, intelligent and patriotic; and it par
ticularly approves the settlementof the State
debt, which has been so happily effected dur
ing his administration, ON terms alike salts
factory to the public creditors and the people
2. 1t indorses the platform adopted by the
Democratic national convention at Chicago
in 1884.
g. 1t endorses the action Of our representa-
tives in Congress in their efforts to redeem
the pledges OF the party, made at Chicago, by
attempting to secure a reformation of the
tariff laws and reduction of taxes.
4. Holding fast to the teachings of Wash
ington, Jefferson, Jackson and Polk, the
Democracy of Tennessee regards it a national
curse and declares 1t crime against the peo-
ple to hoard money raised by taxation In the
treasury rather than pay it on the matured
Understanding Indebtedness of the govern
ment. 1t demands that the surplus revenue
now or hereafter in the treasury, whether
gold or silver, be applied to the eXtinguish-
ment of the public debt, and IL denounces
any effort of Congress to appropriate the
revenue of the government for any purpose
not authorized by the constitution or sub
versive OF the rights of the States and the
people thereof.
B. The Democracy, while recognizing the
supremacy of the general government in the
exercise of the power relocated to ii by the
constitution, has ever upheld and defended
the reserved rights of the State; therefore,
believing local self-government to be the
only method by which a free people can
maintain their institutions and secure sys-
tenn of laws adapted to their wants and ne
cessities, 1t cordially Joins American citizens
of Irish nationality or extraction in their
sympathy for Ireland in her struggle for
home rule.
g. We favor the maintenance and improve
ment of our system of public schools and the
education of all classes of our citizens.
Z. We oppose the farming out of convicts
so as to bring them in competition with the
honest labor of our State, and favor the en-
actment of such laws as viii terminate as
| early as practicable such competition.
8 Recognizing the sovereignty of the
people, in response TO their demand made
| through their representatives in the last gen.
! eral assembly, we favor submitting to them
/ for their adoption or rejection the proposed
constitutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating Liquors
/ as a beverage in Tennessee.
II. II. INGERsOLI., Chairman.
| w. L. GRIGsBY, Secretary.
| Hon. Josiah Patterson submitted the fol-
| lowing minority report, and made a strong
/ speech favoring its adoption:
/ The undersigned members of the commit
I les on platform and resolutions dissent
| from the action of the majority in refusing
I to adopt the following resolution as a part of
| the platform reported 10 the convention, to-
/ wit:
/ .Resolved, That the right of the State 10
regulate transportation by railroads so as to
| prevent extortion ana unjust discrimination