Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06

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designated by banners, streamers Of bunting
foated from the ceiling and on the walls wert
many notices.
Harrison Allen, chairman of the territorial
central committee called the convention toor
der. After prayer by the Rev. Els. Updykc Of
q temporary chairman, and after consider
able balloting Mash Of Beadle county was
elected. The convention then adjourned till
Z O'clock in the evening.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session opened with q great
deal OF brass baud ard a larger deal Of un-
certainty. W. C. Arnold OF Beadle moved O
committee of nine on credentials and il was
carried, w~hereupon, after a decent amount OF
delay, Chairman Mash named the following,
taking the list out OF his vest pocketl:
W. c. Arnold, Beadle; Sidney Mann, Kings,
bury; o. L. Bassford. Sphinx; W. s. Dodge,
Cass; L. Lococque, Douglas; II. ID. Hanson,
Deuel.; j. w. LAWYER, Pennington; A. nj. Eli.
OF, Turner. c. A. Van Norman, Barnes.
The committee on permanent organizn-
ton was also made to consist of the follow
4. Huntington, Day, n. Buchanan, Mime.
haha; q. +. Goodwin, Ransom; George +.
Hopp Brookings; c.. L. Boyden, Codington;
Dan Yorkey, Walsh; +. Baldwin. Stutsman; j.
s. Kelly, Beadie; ]. Allen, Turner.
The nine on resolutions are these:
4. Thomas, kingsbury; Eugene Hunting
ton, Day; A. j. Edgerton, Dawson; 7. +.
Camburn, Brown; John H.. King, Penning-
ton; Alex Hughes, Burleigh; A. W. Jonson,
Hughes; M. Hankinson, Richland.
SECOND DAY.
The day was consumed in settling the
rights or supremacy in the Black Hills, and,
as usual, Judge Moody is u victor. The
fight before the convention on the contest
ing delegations lasted for four hours and a
u 1le -
states of the union could have equaled in
the ability displayed. But the majority OF
sixty-three for Moody does not mean that
Mr.. Clifford is u sure winner. The Moody
men had the equities clearly with
them, and the Others the tech
hicalities. and the convention
preferred equity to routine. Clifford says he
has 200 delegates and is confident. Allen
claims to bein better shape than ever before,
md Campbell, Palmer and Others say they
can see no change in the situation warrant
ing a prediction in favor OF any one Mat
thews Ia believed to DO weaker, OF account of
hostility Central Dakota has engendered,
and Grigsby is in about the status. The
resolutions are regarded with high favor and
the platform is undoubtedly calculated to
win votes from farmers, free traders, revenue
reformers, Probibitionists and all the rest Of
them. There is a possible chance now that "a
tl1al adjournment may come with the end of
4 tht. IT, = lut MINI Wy tht tVIl-
mittee lone remains to be decided.
The credentials committee concluded their
labors at . in the evening after a good deal
of hard and f~ruitless work. Judge Moody
spoke tor an hour in behalf of his delegation,
while Edwin Van else and Judge W. 4. Church
did the talking for the Bullock contingent.
After consideration, Messrs. Arnold of Beadle.
Mann Of Kingsbury, Fowler of Pennington,
Elliot of Turner and Leeaeque of Douglas,
o majority of the committee, decided upon
reporting In favor of tho Moody delegation
as having all the equities in their favor. The
minority, consisting of Messrs Bassford Of
Sphinx Dodge of Cass, Horson of Duel and
Van Wormer Of Barnes, decided to present a
report in favor of the Bullock men, and the
North Dakota hostility to Judge Moody had
much TO do with their action. Prior to tho
convention a large nanlber of S~cauiinayians
met and formed.
The platform was reported as follows, and
adopted:
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans of North and South Da-
| kota in convention assembled, hereby pub
ish and declare:
First-That the present Democratic admin
istration ut Washington, emulating the pres
ent Tory administration in the government
of Ireland, has maintained and exercised a
tyranny over this territory unjustified, un-
~wurreated and subseryient of the privileges
of the founders of the republic in denying us
admission into the Union OF states for tkS
solo and only reason that 9Ins,.-ytvo 81 our
people dlher with Abe administration upon
the STo.dical ISSUES of the cay.
1 Second-That we arraign the present gov
ernor of this territory tor prostituting his
high Office to personal and ambitious ends
and purposes that he maintains a perfect
indifference to the want of the people whom
he rules; that he encourages large and I'M
wise appropriations. that he threatens To
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suhservient to his will; that bis appointeee
In many cascs, are men who have nc qualifi
cations for office, but are his personal
retainers, supported OF the public expense
9hird-That we hail with joy and pride thu
action of the late national Republican con-
v~ention. and recognize in Gen. Harrison a
patriotic soldier. a wise and safe Statesman
and the Srfy and ca uestfr friend oil Dakota; ana
recognize the Hon. Levi 4. Morton an eminent
statesman and phiIanthropist, a true md
tried Republican.
Fourth-That by every precedent estab-
lished in the history of the admission OF new
states into the Union, Icy the rights guaran-
teed under the constitution and the laws OF
the United States, it 10 the duty OF congress
to admit North Dakota and South Dakota
into the sisterhood of states, and the refusal
by n Democratic house to so admit is a viola
ton of the duties and obligations of its mem
hers. and we hereby r~riterate our unalterable
opposition to admission as a whole.
Fdth-That we. as delegates in this con.
~yention, viii support no man for Office whose
position upon the question Of division and
admission is in the least equiyoeai or uncer.
tain.
Sixth-That the great agriculturalinterests
of Dakota demand that they should be pro-
tected, fostered and guarded with jealous
care, and such laws enacted rs will secure
equitable rates of transportation. allowing
10 discrimination against sections orindividu-
ais; that we favor the Improvement of the
great water ways of the Northwest, so as TO
bring close competitions in the carrying
trade; we favor a warehouse law which viii
give every farmer q better market, and which
will not leave him at the mercy of any eleya.
tor, mill or railroad combination; that no
trust should bo fostered or allowed, nor
monopoIies created which ave a tendency
to initiate prices.
Seyenth-We declare ourselves in favor OF
a thorough revision of the revenue laws oil
Dakota, whereby all property shall be equal.
~ taxed and taxed TO its owner. We declare
In favor of a usury law which viii be effect.
i've and which will not encourage reckless
and -extravagant speculation, but which will
provide sufficient money at a reasonable
rate Of interest for all honest and legitimate
pursuits.
Eichth-That we welcome, with the open
hand of fellowship and friendship, tho peo-
pie who have come from foreign lands to
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homein this, the country of their adoption
intending to render due obedience and re
spect to it's laws.
Ninth-That we favora revision of the tar,
IN and a reduction of the same upon sucf
articles as il can be made upon without sac.
rfeing the interests of American labor, and
that all necessaries of life upon which the
tariff is o tax should be admitted ut the low
est possible duty consistent with the preser
walton of American industries. We chargs
the national Democratic party with being
tho enemy of Northern soil and Northern Ia.
Dor, and arraign it tor the determination and
sectional provisions of the Mills bill. by
which Northern productions are deprived o.
protection, while those OF the south, the Int
confederacy, which declared explicitly against
any tariff for protection, are protected by Q
high tariff, which is, In l1any cases, nothing
more nor less than a tax.
Tenth-That we condemn the present Dom
ocratic administration for its persistent and
continued hostility TO the ex-Union soldiers
In vetoing pension bills upon the most f1v
olous pretext, without reference to the justict
Of the claim or tine merit of the applicant
thereby carrying out the theory of the pres
emit executive that the aims house is the
proper refuge of our brave veterans, us dem
onstrated by his willingness that Tho
man who stood as his substitute should b,
permitted TO die there; that the foreign ser
vice of the United States should not becom,
the asylum for ex-GonfedeTate soldiers. a,
the reward of treason, for opportunity giyer
them to demonstrate the victory of tn,
Union over rebellion to be more apparent
than real, but that such representation be
longs to the Union veteran, other thiBgs
being equal.
MISUNDERSTANDING the lead of our M
tional platform as enunciatcd at Chicago
and Of the will Of the people, of this terri
tory as expressed in n majority Of the coun
ties upon the question of local option, ",
heartily endorse all just measures for tht
Punishment OF the saloon from our borders
Joseph Allen Of Turner reported from th'
committee on permanent organization II
favor Of Col. L. c.. Geary Of Fargo. Cas-
county, for permanent chairman, with J. +
West of Bington, secretary, and w. q