The Clifton clarion., 1888-06-13
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN To Lead the Democratic Hosts to
 Victory.

CLEVELAND AND THURMAN To Lead the Democratic Hosts to
 Victory.
 The Democratic National Con- vention met at St. Louis last Tues day.
 Temporary organization was effected by the selection of Ste phen W. White of California as chairman. Patrick A. Collins of Massachusetts was selected as the permanent presiding officer.
 On the second day Grover Cleve- land was renominated for Presi- dent by exclamation to the accom- paniment of 24 minutes continu- ous cheering and applause. He was put in nomination by Daniel Dougherty of New York, who de- livered an able and eloquent ad- dress. The next and third day Allan G. Thurman of Ohio was unanimously nominated for vice. President amid great enthusiasm and the waving of bandanna handkerchiefs.
 The nominations made are gen orally considered very strong and meet with universal satisfaction among Democrats all over the country. Thurman's name will add great strength to the ticket on the Pacific coast, where he is es- pecially popular by reason of his advocacy of the Chinese bill as presented by the representatives in congress from California, as we'll as other measures emanating from the same source.
 The convention urged the pas sage of the tariff reform bill known as the Mills bill and endorsed the Presidents policy.
 Following is summary of the platform: The Democratic party of the United States, in National Convention assembled, renews the pledge of it's fidelity to the Dem- ocratic faith and reaffirms the plat form adopted by its representa- tives in the convention of 1884, and endorses the views expressed by President Cleveland in his last earnest message to congress as a correct interpretation of that plat form upon the question of tariff reduction, and also endorses the efforts of our Democratic repre- sentatives in congress to secure a reduction of excessive taxation. Chief among the principals of party faith are the maintenance of an iDdissoluble union of free and indistructible states now about to enter upon its second century of unexampled progress and known devotion to a plap of government regulated by written constitu- ton, strictly specifying every granted power and expressly re- serving to states or people the en- tire ungranted residue of power; the encouragement of jealous popular vigilance directed to all who have been chosen for brief term to enact and execute laws and charged with the duty of pre- serving peace. ensuring equality and establishing justice. The platforms also welcomes the ex- ucting scrutiny of the Democratic
 
 administration for the past four years and challenges the most searching inquiry concerning its fidelity and devotion to the pled- ges made at the last convention. It mentions in detail number of reforms which the Democratic party has accomplished, such as restoring hundreds of millions of of acres of public lands to the people and the payment of soldiers in pensions and bounties more than ever paid before. While in this period it adopted firm and prudent foreign policy and ex- cluded the Chinese laborers from our shores. 1t also asserts that the equality of all citizens has been scientifically maintained and makes Il renewal of popular trust in the reelection of the present chief magistrates The platform prom ises that the Democratic party will continue with its power to continue its struggle for reform in accordance with it's pledges. It also denounces the system by which the price of necessaries is increased by the favorItism of an