The Monitor., 1888-06-08

same on any other day than the first day
of the week.
Il. That arbitration is the Christian,
wise, and economic method of settling ma
| tionaI differences and the same method
should by judicious legislation be applied
to the settlement of disputes between large
bodies of employees and employers; that the
abolition of the saloon would remove the
burdens moral, physical pecuniary, and
social, which now oppress labor and rob it
of its earnings, and would prove to be the
wise and successful way Of promoting labor
reform: and we invite labor and capital to
unite with us for the accomplishment
| thereof.
| -. That monopoly in the land is wrong
| TO the people, and public land should be
reserved to actual settlers, and that men
and women should receive equal wages for
equal work.
| 10. That our immigration laws should be
so enforced as to prevent the introduction
into our country of all conviets, inmates of
dependent institutions, and others phys-
cally incapacitated for self support, and
that no person shall have the ballot in any
state who is not a citizen of the United
| States
''Recognizng and declaring that prohibit
tion of the liquor traffic has become the
| dominant ISSUE III DttClOildi poiitfcS, W.T. III
vite to full party fellowship all those who,
on this one dominant issue, arc with MS
agreed in the full belief that this party can
and will remove sectional difference, pro-
mote national unity, and insure the best
welfare of our native land.
After the adoption of the platform, the
nomination of candidates for President and
| Vice President was then in order. Ala
bama being the first on the roll, John t.
| Tanner of that State nominated Gen. Clin-
| ton b. Fisk for President, which was sec
onded by Judge William Morrow, of Bel
videre, New Jersey, in ringing and elo-
quent speech, which, in conjunction with
| the nomination, created the widest cnthu-
siasm. y campaign banner bearing Gen
eral Fisk S portrait was run up over the
| platform, which was the occasion of the
most vocilerons cheers No other name
being presented before the Convention,
General Fisk was thercupon nominated by
acclamation.
Rev. Sam Small in one Of his impress
sive and Characteristic speeches, nomina-
| ted for Vice President Col. Geo. w. Balm
of Kentucky. Col. Balm appealed to the
generosity of the delegates to release him
from any such service He preferred in
the first place to be allowed to continue
his work of Prohibition agitation, and in
the next, his health would not possibly
permit him to undergo the terrible ordeal
of a national campaign.
George c. Christian of Illinois, noml-
mated Dr. John A. Brooks of Kansas City,
Missouri, who nominated Rev. Sam Small
of Georgia, and that gentleman begged to
| be excused for reasons similar to those of
Col. Bain's. j. B. Cranfield nominated
d. l.. Dohoney of Texas. The names were
all withdrawn save Dir. Brooks, and that
gentleman was nominated unanimously
and returned his thanks in rousing
| speech.
After the appointment of anew National
| Committee the Convention adjourned sine
die Take it all in all, the Convention was
one of the largest, most enthusiastic. and
most harmonious ever held in the United
| States