Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-27
No Further Explosion.
Policemen Sat on the Safety
 Valves.
COLORED MEN IN CONVENTION

COLORED MEN IN CONVENTION.
 Defeated-A Circular to Colored Men to
 be Prepared-Ths Convention Indorses !
 Cleveland and Condemns Protection.
 INDIANAPOLIS, July 27.-The colored Dem ocrats had quret time of it in the second days session, and although the debates were at times acrimonious they did not reach the riotous stage. Before the business of the morning began some Of the peaceable ones in authority sent to police headquarters for an officer or two. The superintendent de- tailed a sergeant and a patrolman, and put ting them under the control of Chairman Sheldon, all danger of a repetition of the scenes of the day before was avoided
 Peter Fl. Clark, of Cincinnati, then took the chair as the permanent presiding officer, and delivered a long address, in which he detailed reasons why tho colored people should decide between the two great parties. He said that a careful study of the principles Set forth in the Democratic and Republican platforms will convince any man that the contest for the presidency is to be carried on this year in lines of thought new to this gen. sration. The Republicans declare in favor of free ballot and a. fair count, but know full we'll that the evils of which they com plain such cannot be controlled by federal action. The decisions of the supreme court have repeatedly shown that fact He advocated stated rights, and said that the negro must fight his way to education, to civil equality, to free ballot and & fair count Even if the order of government could he changed and the federal govern ment could be made supreme in all things. 1t would not be a good shing to do.
 The negro should assume that the laws of the state are on his side and let him appeal, not once, but continually, until authori- tative decision is given for or against him. Along with this must go unceasingly the effort for education, for tke advancement of morality. The colored men who adhere to ! the Democratic party have learned that the troubles which asail them are not all of the 1 same kind They find that they are all not l of political nature, and stranger still, that i politics Is not the universal panacea for the 1 ills that besst the negro rac, The truth Is, l few of the evils of which COZ lplaint is made l arc political in nature, and not many can be ! cured by political action. The average of morality, intelligence, industrial skill, wealth and manliness of the negro must be raised, and they rise prejudice against him will ! decline. He said the interests of the colored people wore as safe ill the hands of President l Cleveland as In those of any man who had ! ever occupied the office of chief magistrate. J. Milton Turner ackno wledged his defeat l and submitted to the rganizaton He then | moved the appointment of committee, ] which prevailed, to prepare address set
 ting forth the political views of the men I composing the convention
 Among the delegates who were appointed 1 members of the committee were two or three | to whom strong objection was made on the ! ground that they were officeholders, and
 their names were dropped. At the sugges-
 tion of MT. Fortune, of New York, it was ! afterward determined to consolidate the I committees on resolutions and address.
 The committee on resolutions then reported
 an ndorsement of President Cleveland, who
 had pursued q broad and liberal policy in re-
 gard to the colored people It was also | stated in the resolutions that as $50, COG, COG
 are annually taken out of the pockets of the
 people, thus threatening their prosperity and
 menacing financial operations, the conven
 tion indorse the financial policy of the Demo ! cratic party and President Clevelands mes
 sage to congress
 The ticket and platform of the St Louis ! convention were indorsed, and the position
 taken by the Chicago convention was strongly | condemned. resolution of sympathy for
 the Irish was reported, as was one indorsing ! the proposition that the Federal government ! ''roimburse the defrauded depositors of the
 Freedmans' Saving and Trust company. {"
 This measure of justice was urged upon the
 chief executive The report closed with the ' following:
 Resolved, That we think it the apex of ! political imprudence for the Republican | party to expect the colored voters of this
 country to take kindly to their ironcad pro-
 lection declaration, when the colored men \ and women in the north as we'll as in the
 south, almost, absolutely barred from ! the manufactories which receive the chief
 benefits from the protective system"
 \ After that recess was taken to wait for ' the report of the committee to select a \ national committee, to be composed of one ! member from each state represented at the \ convention Later in the afternoon the com I mittee reported as follows, the report being
 approved:
 District of Columbia, R. B. Robinson; ! Illinois, W. T. Scott; Indiana, C.. H. Shsl- don; Iowa, Charles Curtis; Kansas, Frank
 Boyd; Kentucky, J. A. Ross; Massachusetts, c. H. Hummer; Michigan, George H. : Moore; Missouri. J. Milton Turner; New York, Henry F. Downey; Ohio, R. A. Jones Pennsylvania, F. B. Anderson; South Caro-
 lima, T. A. J. Clemmens; Tennessee, H. c. } Smith Virginia, G. W. Fisher.
 Turner made an effort to be appointed 5 chairman of the committee, but failed The convention then adjourned.