Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-15
A Splendid Platform. and One That
Can Net lie MiSconstrued.
The "0Id Romans Rel Bandana Will
be the Campaign Flag.
Minor Details of the Great Convention
ME. DouGHERTY. SPEECH.

law of the written constitution. Thus
impressed | ascend tie rostrGm to name
the next president of the United States.
| New York presents hin to the convention
and pledges her electoral vote to him
| The delegates from the thirty eight
states and territories are assembled with
| ont caucus or consultation, ready, stimuli
| taneously, to take rp the cry aud make
the vote unanimous. We are here, not
| indeed, TO choose a candidate, but to
| name one the people have already chosen.
He is the man for tfe people. His ca
| reer illustrates the glory of your insti
tutions. Eight years ago unknown,
save in his own Locality, lie for the last
four has stood in the gaze of the world
discharging the most exalted duties that
can be confded to mortal. To day it is
determined, notof his own choice, but by
| the mandate of his eountrymen and with
| the sanction of heaven that he shall fill
! the presidency tor four years more. He
| has met and mastered every question, as
| if from youth trained TO craftsmanship.
| The promises of his letter of acce ptance
! aud of his inaugural address have been
| fulfilled. His fidelity in the past ins pired
faith in the future. lie is not the hope;
| he is the realization. Scorning subter
| fuge, disdaining re election by conceal
ing conviction, mindful of his oath of
office to defend the constitution, he
| courageously declares to congress, drop
| ping minor matters, that the supreme is
sue is the reform, revision and re-
| duction of national taxation; that
| the treasury of the United States,
glutted with unIeede6 gold, op-
| presses Industry, embsrrasses business,
| endangers financial tranquility, and
breeds extravaganza, sntraliZatiou and
corruption; that high taxation vital for
! the expenditures of an unparalleled war,
is robbery in years of prosperous peace !;
that the millions that pour into the
treasury come from the hard earned
savings of the American people; that, in
violation of the equality of rights, the
present tariff has created a privileged
class, who shape legislation for their
| personal gain, levy b? law contributions
for the necessaries of life upon every
man. woman and ctild in the land; that
to lower the tariff is not free trade-it is
to reduce the unjust profits of the mon
| opoIists and boss manufacturers and
| allow consumers to retain the rest. The
man who asserts that to lower the tariff
means free trade, insults Intelligence. We
from our thoughts to imperil capital or
disturb enterprise. Our aim is 70 up
hold wages and protect the rights OF
| all.
| This administration has rescued the
| public domain from would be barons and
corporations faithless TO their obnga-
tious, and reserved it for free homes for
this and coming generations. There is
no pilfering; there are no jobs under
this administration. "a public office is
a public trust" Integrity stands guard
at every post OF our vast empire.
While the president has been the
medium through which has flowed the
undying gratitude of the republic for her
soldiers, he has not hesitated to withhold
| approval from special legislation If the
strictcst inquiry revealed the want
of truth and justice. Above all, sec
tioual strife is at an end, and the sixty
! millions of free men in the ties OF
brotherhood are prosperous and happy
These are the achievements of this ad
ministration. Under the same illustrious
leader we are ready to meet our political
| opponents in high and honorable debate
and stake our triumph on the intelli-
genee, virtue and patriotism of the peo
| pt6s dGlSlIuS W JuS 1UHSblLuGlbu ana III
its every line and letter, and ever remem
bering that powers not delegated 10 the
| United States by the con stitution or pro
hibited by it to the state are reserved tC
the states respectively and to the peo
pie.
By the authority of democratic New
York, backed by the democracy of the
entire Union, give you the name en
twined with victory. I nominate Grover
| Cleveland, of New York.
TUMULTUoUs SCENES.
When DOugherty finished his speech
the delegates and audience SCI uo a yell
About this time the door at the rear OF
the platform was swung aside and in g
| panel appeared the portrait of Cleveland
Then the delegates and audience simply
went wild and with furious energy worked
| their voices and their bodies in their eff.
forts to testify their approval of the
nomination. The band somewhere in
one of the galleries started up Marching
! Through Georgia" and the air or senti
| ment nobody knew which elected tremen
dous cheers. AT this time about one third
of the delegates and perhaps ne-fourth
| of the audience produced bandana hand
kerchiefs and waved them frantically and
| in response to this fresh inc, ntiye there
! was an additional swell in the terrific
outburst of noise. After eight minutes
of bedlam. Chairman Collins pouude ID
for order but at every thump of the gave
arose a new section of yells from the
| assem5lage, At ttthis iuncture Daniel
| Dougherty, mouated the chair in the
center of the New York delegation
and waved the flag. From all parts ot
the hall delegates gathered in and about
DougheTty, bearing standards of their
| respective states, and formed in a circle
| about him, holding IN sort of canopy
over his head, placards, bearing nam.s
| of the states. The standards of Indiana
| and Kansas were decorated with strips OF
back silk, indicating their adherence to
the cause of the present commissioner OF
pensions. Under the canopy formed By
the standards couple OF L. s. flags were
| introduced, and the tableau, as com plete,
was greeted with pandemonious cheer.
| ing.
When the demonstration subsioed,
com paratively, John B. Castlemau and
| A. G. Dejarnette, of Kentucky, carried
| the standard on the platform and plant
ed it beside the chairman's desk to en-.
phasize the second which Kentucky pro.
| posed OH Grover Cleveland Eighteen
I
to be enough TO suit the delegates They
| sank back into their seats.
M'kESzIE SECONDS The NOMINATION.
Mr.. Mckenzie, of Kentucky, then took
/ the platform and addressed the conven
| tiou as follows.
Gentlemen of the convention-I bear
the commission OF the state of Kentucky
TO this convention and in the name OF
| the commonwealth that has given 20 the
United States Clay and Crittenden,
desire TO second the nomination OF
| Grover Cleveland for the offica of presi
| dency of the United States Within the
| broad limits of this great land there is
but one more popular democrat and
that Is The queenly woman he has made
his wife. Great applause-) 1t must be
| Mr.. Chairman, a matter of feiicitatiou to
| every good citizen of our land that the
| history of the white house. around which
cluster SO many memories that are dear
| to every patriotic heart Is presided over
| by a man who has the courage to enforce
1 obedience to bad laws until they be re-