The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-05-11
LATE NEWS BRIEFS
Carefully Condensed from Mail and
Wire.

A $4,000 fire occurred in Lynch
burg on Tuesday.
Delaware democrats heartily en-
dorse the Mills bill.
Citizens of Louisville, KY, have
raised 100000, for a cotton factory.
Lord Stanley is announced as the
coming Governor General of Cam
ada.
Little Alf" Taylor will be nomi-
mated for Congress in the first Con-
gressional district of Tennessee.
The differences between the
United States and the Moorish gov
eminent have been finally settled.
Alabama and Georgia democracy
heartily and unanimously and ems
Enthusiastically, endorse Cleveland
and his tariff reform message.
A car load of dynamite exploded
en- the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad, near Shamokin, Pa, on
Sunday night. The greater part of
a village was destroyed, numbers of
lives were lost, and the result was
generally most disastrous and pain
tul.
The democratic convention Of
Tennessee met at Nashville on
Wednesday. 1t is the largest con-
vention ever assembled in the State.
The permanent organization was
anti-Taylor. The convention dur
ing its first day only made perma-
nent organization, and adjourned
until Thursday morning. The vote,
so far as Bob Taylor is concerned,
or indicated in the selection of chair
man. stood 7134 anti-Taylor, and
6O94 Taylor. The anti-Taylor ele-
ment claim this means his defeat;
but leaves to him the power to
name his successor.
The following is the platform
adopted by the Georgia democracy:
Platform-The Democratic party
of Georgia, in conyention assem-
bled, representing the counties of
the State which have given their
views with unusual fullness and
authority, makes the following de-
claration Of principles:
Resolved, That the Democratic
party of Georgia, cordially endorses
the administration of Grover Cleve-
land as cminently wise, lust and
patriotic, and deserving the appro>
baton of the American people re-
gardless of party affiliation. In the
discharge of the duties of this his
trust, he had exemptified wisdom of
Jefferson, frmness of Jackson and
infexible integrity of Washington.
Resolved, That the surplus of
$14O,OO0,OO0 now lying idle in the
vaults of the treasury, is so much
money wrung from the toll and
and sweat of honest labor, and the
legitimate industry of every descrip-
ton, to maintain and protect the
corpulent and hoary headed mon-
opoly, under the preteXt of fostering
infant industries which never grow
old, and are as insatiate as cormo-
rants.
Resolved, That the message of
President Cleyeland urging reduc>
Iion of this surplus by reducing
taxes upon necessaries oflife rather,
than upon luxuries and unnecessa~
ries, was statesman like, AMI a true
declaration of the time-honored
PRINCIPLES of the Democratic party,
and meets our hearty and unquali-
fed endorsement. and We accept
and commend that passage as en-
bracing the principles of the DEM
ocratic party in this great issue.
Resolved, That recognizing the
difficulty, amid conflicting opin~
ions, interests and prejudices, of eff
fecting in practice the reforms so
easily asserted in the principle, we
accept as the most available plan of
securing the reduction, the tariff re-
form bill reported to the National
House of representatives by ma~
iority of the committee on Ways
and Means, known as the Mills
bill, and we tender to the chairman
and his colleagues our thanks for
their earnest efforts to accomplish
with full lights before them, all that
was practical in the way of reform.
Resolved, That the thanks Of the
democratic party of Georgia are due,
and are hereby rendered to Senator
Alfred H. Colquitt for his able
speech in the Senate of the United
States, in defense of the message of
the President upon the subject of
tariff reform.
Resolved, That the delegates from
this State to the st. Louis conven~
tion, are instructed to cast the vote
OF Georgia for Grover Cleveland for