, 1888-06-07


lossal IL his political and mental figure in
the public eye, that all others must Of
necessity take In its immehsity. Let no
mistakes be- made at this time. Mistakes
ars crimes. II you do your duty; If you
/ but give the people what the expect and
instead OF just commencing will be .prac-
tically ended; for the great electoral and
popular majority which Cleveland Thur
man will surely receive at the
polls will be revelation OF our
selves as representative OF the democratic
party Of the nation that we have duty to
perform. We must nominate the man that
! tho people have already nominated. We
! have but to- endorse the popular verdict
ard nothing less will be accepted at your
hands. Let no consideration OF personal
friendship or glamour OF locality influence
! your actions. Personal friendships cannot
| be repaid by nomination where great
party's interests and future is at stake. No
trifing with great co ncerns OF state should
be tolerated. No expression of local pride
can be admitted to influence our action.
When the sovereign people speak, they
must be obeyed. Broad ground must b.
taken
THE MAN OF THE NATION,
not the man Of state, must be nomina.
ted-nominate Allen G. Thurman. Nom
mate him by acclamation. Let IL not be
said that one single democrat made this
great union fail In Its testimoni to the
Greatest man Of his day; the noble.t
breathing man upon American soil but
consort in the Temple of Fame OF those
patriots of the past, the fathers of our in
stitutions, whose sacred dust lies slumber-
ing beneath the sods of Mt. Vernon, Mor-
ticello aud the hermitage ava ting.the del
ication of our National Pantheon
At precisely 10 90 a. M, Chairman White
stepped up to the desk and after looking
for n moment over tn 9 mass OF human be-
ings packed in the hall, banged the desk
with the solid silver gavel, which was pre-
sented to the convention yesterday, and
said "Convention will come to order;
take your seats as rapidly as possible; con-
vention will be opened with prayer by Rev.
j. z. Green. OF Missouri" Rev. Green ad-
dressed the throne of grace as follows:
"Oh my Lord, Thou hast been our
dwelling place in all generations; Thou
hast been the God and art the God of all
nations; Thou hast appointed the bound
aries of their habtatiOns; Thou hast been
the God of this nation, God of our fathers.
and we, their children, this MOI ning enter
into the inheritance OF blessings that Thou
ddst bestow upon them. We come this
morning to ask Thy blessing upon this
sembly; upon TIA sse men who have come
up from their sister states from all over This
great republic; who have come on this IN
portant occasion sent by their people Oh
God do Thou class them in this assembly
this morning and as Thou hast ruled over
hast brought good out OF all our evils;
be Thou this day the ruler over
this convention for the good of this
nation, and for the glory of Thy
great name; we pray that Thy blessings
may be upon the president of the United
States, and upon the governors of all the
states of this country, and upon the
humbest officer of the people of our natl n,
and upon the humblest citizen OF this great
republic. We pray Thee, OH Lord, that
Thou will guide us in our destiny, help us
as u people to fear God and to keep His
commandments, and direct US in all our
ways that we may be the Lords people,
not simply ia profession OF our lips. but In
Cody and holy and just life. Now we
commend ourselves to Thee for guidance,
Thou spirit, as Thou must overrule the
mistakes of men for the good OF Thy name,
and as Thou must guide us in all things
that are great and good do Thou this day
bless these men and lead them in Thy way
according to Thy purpose, and let them re-
member this day as they sit in this convex
tion that they are not only making history
for this country, but they are also to deter
mine that which will be good for it or bad
for it, and may their policy and may theiI
works rebound TO the good OF all the citi
zens OF all this country, and for the glory
of all Thy name in all the earth, let Thy
blessing in Jesus name. Amen.
The report of the success of the republi-
can party i'm Oregon at Mondays election
hit the dem jcratic delegates from the states
with a sort of mild CONSERVATION which
had latterly turned to skepucism Matt onal
Committeeman A. Noltner was seen TO.
night and expressed bimself as disnclined
to swallow the whole report" ut is true,
he said, that the election was on the tariff
platform. Before we came to the conyen-
tion our party had undeniably placed it
self with the administration, aud the lines
were strongly drawn. What puzzles me.
| though, is the gain claimed west of the
mountains. There is no wool interest there
| that we care about, and besides this, from
all reports we find we have Is out of the 26
counties. Ifthe republican majority Is A.
500 as stated, this vote will exceed
! by 10000 any former election. What we
| hear is that the buying Of votes in Multi.
onamah county was too strong for us
This is the county which contains Portland,
and where we had tie most vote purchas.
! ing business to contend with. You
| there is no registry system, and there is
nothing to prevent the repu slican party
from running in lot of offishermen and con-
trolling their votes."
Were you not surprised at the report
having come to st. Louis so confident Of
success?"
That's it; there's where the difficulty
COMES in. We were sure OF the legislature
and counted upon it. Still we have hope
as 1t is impossible for all the returns to
be IN. There ~ no telegraph in, places,
a stage to bring certain returns to the
county seats / know the counting cant
possibly be through in Multnomah county,
but will concede them a majority OF
ZOO; not more. The wealthy wool. gro W.
ers are in sympathy with the administra-
ton and are good democrats. Another
thing is this that in Oregon there are no
mugwumps A mans either democrat
or republican. there's no intermediate con-
dition with them. Another matter whi ,h
goes mucn against MS there is the defecti We
Tn" best dem ocrats have become disgtlsted
and are not active, as the wrong element
| controlled the last state convention, On