The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-28
A BIG PLATFORM.
The Principles Which Are to Guide
the Republican Party
Treated in q Plain. Straightforward
Business-Ilks Manner.
A ListOf Candidates so far Presented
for the Presidency.
AGOOd Deal Of Figuring Being Done
Upon this Problem.

CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, June
2I.-The convention faces another days
hot work, with the glimmer of a ballot
at the end of it. It appears probable
at this moment that the programme
for the day is to get through with the
platform at the session about to open.
have the nominating speeches present.
ING the names Of the candidates for
the presidential nomination disposed
of this afternoon or this evening, then
proceed to a show of hands on one bal
lot, and adjourn until tomorrow. This
is what is generally expected by most
of the delegates: although there Is
some talk as the delegates come down
to the hall that the convention viii not
stop at one ballot when the fight opens,
but that number of ballots shall De
taken to determine in some measure
what hope there may be of reaching an
agreement.
The talk of the delegates as they be-
gin to arrive is of the showing made
last night on the Virginia contest case.
all of which except in the case of the
delegates at large and those of the
ninth district were decided in favor OF
the Wise faction and presumably
against Sherman. The, actual numer-
| zeal difference to Senator Sherman by
this accession of the contesting dele
gates is loss of twelve votes. What
the lobby as well as the delegates are
| ing is whether the vote against
the admission of the Wise delegates
was test of the Sherman vote and a
good deal of figuring is being done upon
this problem. If the vote is test 1t
would appear to show that Senator
| Sherman will have about 200 votes on
the first ballot, but the most reliable
| opinions being now expressed y that
| this vote cannot be made the basis OF
any calculation and the Virginia ques-
tion was settled upon its own merits as
far as the delegates could determine
| the law and equity Of the case.
Chairman Estee arrived and the DEL
egates came in rapidly. The chair says
| that he will keep his word as nearly as
possible, and notwithstanding the gap
| ing open spaces in the delegates seats
he raps sharply with his gaVel at n 1e
minutes past the hour and asks the
delegates to take their seats and calls
the convention to order. The invoca-
| tion was delivered by the Rev. Thomas
E. Green of Chicago. At the conclu-
sion of the PRAYER the chairman pressed
an eleatric bell as signal for the band
to render some selections, but there
was no response, the members of the
band not yet having put in an appear
ance.
Under the directions of the chairman
| the secretary proceeded to call the roll
/ of states in order that the delegations
might designate the member to repre-
sent each state upon the national COM
mittee. This work having been dis
posed Mr.. Warner of Missouri, at 1880
announced on behalf of the committee
on resolutions that the committee
would be ready to submit its report IN
Mr.. Mckinley of Ohio, chairman of
the resolutions committee, who had
| just entered the hall, was recognized
| by the chair and he rose to make the
report of the committee. The cOnven-
ton, recognizing one Of the dark
horses in the presidential race, and q
popular one also, cheered Justify, and
when Mr.. Mckinley advanced to the
/ platform to read his report the ap-
plause redoubled and became almost
an ovation In a clear, distinct voice
| Mr.. Mckinley read the committees re-
port, as follows:
The republicans of the United States
assembled by their delegates in Ma
tional convention pause on the thresh-
memory of their first great leader, the
| immortal champion of liberty, and the
| rights of the people, Abraham Lincoln,
and to cover also with wreaths of
| imperishable remembranceS and
| gratitude the heroic names of
our late leaders who have
more recently been called away from
| our councils-Grant, Garfield, Arthur,
Logan and Conkliug. May their men,
recall, with our greetings and with
prayer for his recovery, the name of
one of our living heroes, whose mem
DRY will be treasured in the history both
of republicans and of the republic
the name of that noble soldier and
favorite child of victory, Philip
H. Sheridan. In the spirit of
those great leaders and OF our
own devotion to human liberty, with
that hostility to all forms of deSpotism
and oppression which is the funda-
mental idea of the republican party, we
send fraternal cOngratulatiOn to OuI
fellow Americans Of Brazil upon their
great act of emancipation, which COM
pieted the abolition of slavery through
out the two American continents. We
/ earnestly hope that we may soon con-
graduate our fellow-citizens of Irish
birth upon the peaceful recovery OF
home rule for Ireland.
We reaffirm our answering devotion
to the national constitution and to the
indissoluble union of the states, to the
autonomy reserved to the states under
the constitution, to the personal rights
and liberties of citizens in all the states
and territories in the union, and espe-
cially to the supreme and sovereign
right of every lawful citizen, rich OF
poor, native or foreign-born. white OF
black, to cast one free ballot in public
| elections, and to have that ballot duly
counted. We hold the free and honest
pOpul AT ballot, and the just and equa
representation of all the people, to be
the foundation of our republican gov.
eminent, and demand effective legiSla-
tion to secure the integrity and purity
of elections, which are the fountains OF
all public authority. We charge that
the present administration and the
their existence to the suppression OF
the ballot by criminal notification OF
the constitution and laws of the
United States.
i We are Incorporating In
favor with the American sys-
tenn of protection; we protest against
it's destruction as proposed by the
president and his party. They serve
the interests of Europe; we win sup
port the interests OF America. We
! accept the issue and confidently appeal
TO the people for their judgment. The
protective system must he maintained.
Its abandonment has always been fol
lowed by general disaster to all inter.
ests except those of the usurer and
sheriff. We denounee the Mills
bill as destructive to the
general business, the labor and
the farming interests of the cOun-
tey, and we heartily endorse the con.
sistent and patriotic action of the re
publican representatives in congress IN
} opposing its passage. We condemn the
proposition of the democratic party tC
place wool on the free list, and we in
sist that the duties thereon shall be adj
justed and maintained so as to furnish
J full and adequate protection to that In
dustry. The republican party would
effect all needed reduction Of the ma
tional revenue by repeating the taxes
upon tobacco, which are an annoyance
and a burden to agriculture, and the
tax upon spirits used IN the arts and
for mechanical purposes. and by