The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-06-16

/ lands Tariff Message-The Mills Bill
| Commended in Separate Resolution.
The Democratic National Convention
at st. Louis at noon on the 9th was
called to order by Chairman Barnum, OF
the National Committee. In few fit
ting words he opened the session and
| introduced Bishop j. b. Cranberry, of
st. Louis, who offered prayer. Mr..
| Barnum then announced the selection
| by the committee of temporary officers
as follows: Chairman, S. NJ. White, of
| California; secretary, +. o. Prince, of
| Massaehu~ etts. The temporary organ
ization being accepted by the conven-
| ton, Mr.. White was escorted TO the
| platform where he delivered a
long address of congratulated to
| the delegates. The organization OF
| the various state delegations was
announced. The committee on
| resolutions was appointed as follows:
Clay w. Taylor, CALIFORNIA;; Thomas NJ.
Patterson, Colorado; Alfred f. Burr,
| Connecticut; w. f. Causey, Delaware
+. q. Dubignon, Georgia; n. T..
| Worthington, Illinois; David Turpie,
lndia' a; +. w. Lehman, Iowa;
I. g. Lowe, Kansas; Henry Wat
terson, Kentucky; John Dy-
| iuOHu, LoulSlaHds n. W elduigdU, hdlue
j. w. Cunningham, Massachusetts; \. z.
German, Maryland; George NJ. Yaple,
| Michigan; f. c. Stringer, Minnesota
| w. H. Simms, Mississippi; James L.
| North, Nebraska; Richard Battle, North
| Carolina; NJ. B. Garraghan, Nevada; j.
| G. Moore, New Hampshire; Leon Alb
bett, New jersey; Edward Cooper. New
! York; L. T. Neil, Ohio; NJ. S. Hellman,
| Oregon; VIM. Mutchler, Pennsylvania
| Joseph Metcalf, Rhode Island; John T.
Sloan, South Carolina; Lillard Thomp-
son, Tennessee; George Clark, Texas;
| John \. Santer, Vermont; z. W. Mckin-
| ney, Virginia; W H Seaman, Wiscon-
sin; Wesley Mellahan, West Virginia
The national committee is: H. C.
| Semple, Alabama; NJ. f. Tarpey, Cali
| tornia; Charles 5. Thomas, Colorado; w.
| FL. Barnum, Connecticut; James II. Es-
| till, Georgia; f. NJ. Phelps, Illinois; ST.
| mon s. Sheerin, Indiana; J. ]. Richard
son, Iowa; w. G. Blair, Kansas; Henry
D. McHenry, Kentucky; James Jeffreys,
Louisiana; Arthur Sewell Maine Charles
| ID. Lewis, Massachusetts; O. NJ. Barnes,
Michigan; c. A. Johnson, Missis-
sippi; James f. Boyd, Nebraska; r. P.
keating, Nevada; A. W. SulIoway, New
Hampshire; Miles Ross, New Jersey
Herman Oelrich, New York; NJ. w.
Ransom. North Carolina; Calvin s.
| Brlce, Ohio; A. Noltner, Oregon; J. b.
| Barnaby, Rhode Island; +. W. Dawson,
South Carolina; 2. II. Looney, Ten
nessee; o. P. Holt Texas; Hiram At
kins Vermont; John s. Barbour, VIr-
! ginia, John l.. Mitchell, Wisconsin /;
W. VI. Clements, West Virginia. After
the announcement of the committees
the cOnve ention took recess till next
| morning at 10 o'clock.
The second days session of the con-
vention was opened with the usual for
| mallties by yTemporary Chairman White.
The report of the committee on perma-
nent organization, nominationg Col.
Pat. A. Collins, of Massachusetts, for
chairman ard the usual lists of vice.
presidents was adopted. Col. Collins. on
| taking the chair, spoke in substance as
follows:
Gen. Collins spoke eloquently. He
said the chairmanship OF the conven-
ton, post so far filed by the foremost
men of the party, was appreciated by
him as a distinction of the highest char
acter. The young men of the nation,
he said, bad heard more in their time of
the clash of arms and the echoes of war
than of the principles of government.
So 1t was no wonder the question is
asked and scarcely answered: "W bat
difference is there between the
| two parties?' The speaker re-
piled to the query with
| plthy summary of the political creed
of Thomas Jefferson, the apostle of
Democracy. 10 this Gen. Collins added
| the golden economic rule that no more
take, should be levied upon the peo-
pie, III any wav, than is necessary to
| meet the honest expenses of govern
ment. True to this principle, the DEM
Ocratic party had fought successfully
| our foreign wars, protected our cit
izens in every cline, compelled the
respect of all nations for our
| flag, added imperial domain to our ter
ritory, and insured peace, prosperity
| and happiness to all the people. False
to these painciples, the great Federal,
Whig and know-notbAg parties went
down, never to rise again. And here
to-day were the representatives of the
party that had survived all others, the
united triumphant, invincible Democ-
racy, prepared to strike down forever
| the last surviving foe in November.
This country has been the asylum
| for all good men," he said, "from over
the earth, who flee from want and OPP
preston, and mean to become Ameri-
cans. But We invite and welcome only
friends to this ground and liege men to
the republic. Our institutions cannot
change to meet hostile wishes, nor be so
| much as sensibly modified save by the
peaceful and deliberate action of
the mass of our people in
accordance with the constitution or laws
of the land. And the man is not true
American, who, knowing what we are,
will by word or act, experiment or
| thought, in any wav, attempt to weaken
the foundation of this splendid political
structure-the republic of the United
States"
Gen. Collins warmly and at length
| eulogized the administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland as having triumphantly
| justified his election The Democracy
now stood on the edge of another and
perEaus greater contest, with a relation
to the electors not held be-
fore for a generation-that of re-
| spoEslblHty for the great trust
| OF government, no longer critics, but
criticised. They were confronted by
willy, unscrupulous and desperate foe.
There would be no spot on the record
that would not be magnified into blot,
| no circumstances not tortured and mis-
represented, no disappointment not ex-
aggerated into a revolt no class or
| flame, no passion not attempted 10
rouse, no fraud that would not be will
| ingiy perpetrated. But the appeal ofthe
Democratic party is not to passion or to
prejudice, to class or any faction or race
or creed but to the sound. common
sense, the interest, the intelligence and
| patriotism of the American people.
Upon their matchless record for the
last four years and upon the earnest
efforts as yet incomplete to reduce end
equaiize the burdens of taxation, the
Democrats enter the canvass.
Gen. Collins closed by appealing to
the patriotic independent citizens who
four years ago forsook their old ale
glance and who since that time have
| nobly sustained the administration to
remember that it is a fatal error
to weaken political organization
by which great reforms have been
achieved, and risk them in the
hands Of their known adversaries. The