, 1888-02-23

~ o. LOUIS Win a democratic admins
%tration, 1t would be an honor indeed. She
would deiray the expenses of every mem
Der OF the committee and the Geographic,
transportation and hotel facilities were
unsurpassed.
SENATOR VEST,
in seconding the claims of St. Louis, said
that if there was anything in location
which would enable the Democratic party
to continue Its present brave and honest
administration of the government no
sort OF local or personal feeling
ought to interfere, but he did not believe
that holding the convention in any one
of the cities mined would influence to any
degree the election. In the course of his
speech he declared that he belonged to a
school Of Democrats who believed that all
the Offices of this country should be filled
with competent and worthy Democrats.
Loud and prolonged applause and cheers
and the cry of "hurrah for David b.
Hill" He believed that unless there
was such inequality as to render the de-
cision a crime. he would give tue prefer
encc to an honest Democrat over ali honest
Republican. An army that did not re
ward its wv soldiers would come
to grief; a party which did not
stand by its own men would
share the same fate. He urged that the
convention should be held in a Democra-
tic city and deprecated the practice of feed
sponge cakes. The coming convention
would be q short one; the candidate could
easily be named. Its duty would be to
a platform on which to 90 to
the country with great leader who would
% ~ thu namnaratfp narf- III. on-l.
date would come from New York. Why
should the convention 20 to that city in.
stead of the imperial West in order to
his name to the people of the
United States. II thank God" he said.
in conclusion, that VIC arc in battle array
and ready for what is to come. Our lea
der has and will have in his hand a BAN
ner not dropping uncertainty and mood
lily, but floating wide, fair and definite
with the principles Of the party emblaz-
oned upon it" Applause.
HoRATIo C.. KING
of Nevada spoke in favor of holding the
convention in San Francisco, believing
that the Democratic party would be great.
ly benefited thereby. lie referred to the
hospitality Of the people Of hat city, as
attested by their recent welcome of the
G.. A. R., and regarded that as earnest of
what might be expected if the convention
was held in San Francisco.
TARPEY
Of California subscribed to every word
that had been uttered by Senator Vest.
If one grain of sand could be put into
the balance in favor of the Democratic
party, and the gentleman could show that
by holding the convention in Chicago, st.
Louis, Cincinnati or New York, that that
grain of sand would fructify and bring
forth Democratic fruit i'll November, he
would not stand here asking that the con-
yention be given to San Francisco. The
Democrats of California and the Pacific
coast had been Spartans in the
cause and while they held forth
the hand of fellowship to their
fellow Democrats of the East and South,
and while they offered to harbor the con
v%entlon at their tiresides they would not
wish to have the pleasure Of its society
and company did they not feel they could
be OF some service in the great battle
about to be opened. The people of that
section were quick to resent insult and
prompt to reIu kindness, and he be-
ileved that il the convention came to San
Francisco the response of California would
be glorious; an overwhelming majority
for the Democratic nominee. The fires
of patriotism that would be lighted on
the pinnacles of the Sierra Neyadas, by
the gentlemen who would sit in the con-
v%ention, and the select nominee would be
carried triumphantly as a hambeaux by
the gentlemen on their returning march
until the blaze was uenched in the waters
of the Atlantic. Every citizen of Cali
fornia, Democrat and Republican, would
turn In and help 10 redeem his fellow
citizens promise. They felt that tn ey
could deliver the goods or they would not
ask the convention to partake of their
hospitality.
They promised to pay all the expenses
OF the committee. using all in its most
amplifed sense. There would be car
riages lad lib" laughter and two add.
tional telegraph wires would be put up
between San Francisco and Chicago,
which with those already in use would ac-
commodate all the business offered He
did not claim that San Francisco should
have the convention because its people
weIe hOspitable, or because it had the
finest climate in the world, but he did
claim that this Democratic body sitting as
the custodian of the interests of the Dem
ocratic party, should take into account
the fourteen votes which were trembling
in the balance, and that San Francisco
should have thoughtful consideration at
its hands. Applause.
All persons except members of com-
mite were then excluded and the ballot
ing began. The following were the bal