Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-06
THE

The work of the representative body
OF Democrats in session at st. Louis has
begun. Temporary organization has
been effected, and the convention has ad-
journed until 10 o'clock this morning.
In the meanwhile the effective work of
the convention will be mapped out by the
COMMITTEES who went into session at 5
O'Clock in the afternoon and will have
their work ready for business as soon as
the convention meets. Ii is within the
bounds Of possibility for the convention
to get through with its work to-day. 1t
seems a foregone conclusion that the
ticket will be Cleveland and Thurman,
ard though the advocates of Gray are
devoted to their candidate, there does
not seem much prospect for them to de-
lay the nomination for Vice President.
The choice of the temporary chairman
from the Pacific coast was a graceful
compliment and a recognition of the
growing Importance Of the magnificent
States that lie west of the Rocky Noun
tains. As time rolls ON these States will
increase in population and be important
factors in the destiny of this nation. It
is fit, as Chairman White said in his
speech on taking the chair, that the first
convention held by the Democracy since
they last came into power should thus
pointedly recognize the State that was
admitted to the Union by that
party when in power before. His
speech was replete with felicitous
references to the circumstances under
which the Democratic party came into
power the pledges to reduce taxation
which it has %endeavored to carry out and
is now engaged in, to Tighten the peoples
burdens, and to stop the unnecessary ac-
emulation of the peoples money in the
National Treasury. He said if those re-
forms were not achieved it was because
of Republican obstruction. and the course
Of debates now going on in Congress is
evidence of the truth of his statements.
His reference to the depressing financial
effects of the withdrawal of a large por-
ton of the circulating medium. taken
from the current of trade by those war
taxes which Republicans refuse to abate
was most o%pportune. He recalled to his
hearers how the public domain has been
given away by millions of acres by the
Republican party to corporate and foreign
syndicates formed for the creation of
individual fortunes and how the Demo- |
cratic party on its advent to power de- |
clared a forfeiture of such abuses, thus |
restoring to the public domain as homes
for settlers more than forty millions
of those wrOngfully bartered away public |
lands. He referred to the protection of
the alien land law that the Democrats |
have introduced. He spoke of the Chinese
question and said that the Democracy, |
unlike its adversary, has always been
with the people on this question, and
that the treaty entered into by the Ad-
must result i'm excluding |
the Mongolian from these shores and |
checking the immigration frauds. He
concluded by urging on his hearers that
the reelection of Grover Cleveland is
by the patriotic sentiment of
the land. Chairman White has made a
national reputation for himself on his
clear exposition of the position in which
the party he belongs to stands before the
country to-day. The work of the conven-
ton has been well begun, and it will
pass into history as n of the most united
bodies of men ever called together with a
national purpose in view.