St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-31

to perfr0m their duties, as we'll as TO
| give the delegates an opportunity to ac-
cept Chairman Durant's hospitable in
vitation to dinner at the Sawyer house.
Over half an hour before the reasSembl-
ing was devoted to conference by the
didn't take the latter long to decide
to present Capt. o. G. Merri-
man Of the Mill City as their
candidate before the convention. In
the Ramsey county delegation things
we're not quite so harmonious, however.
There were few adherents of the Min
heapolis candidate in the delegation, but
| they were so few that the majority de-
| sired to pass unit rule. This was hOtly
| opposed, and was not attempted to be
either passed or enforced after the wise
ruling of Chairman Dan Aberle that no
such rule could be passed legally by the
delegation.
The report of the committee on Gre
| dentials was the first business conSid-
| cred when the convention was called to
| order at o'clock by Chairman Durant.
| The report was read by Secretary
| George H. Allen, and showed that the
| full number of delegates were present,
as apportioned in the call. The report
was adopted and, on the recommends
ganization, the temporary officers were
made the permanent officers. In re-
sponse to loud and prolonged applause
| Chairman Durant came forward and
said:
"The platform which this convention
will adopt to-day will reverberate
throughout the state, and the man we
nominate will, feel sure, repre-
sent this district in the next congress"
The speaker then urged upon the dele
gates the necessity of selecting the
strongest man to lead the banner of
the Democracy to victory in November.
Locality should not enter into this fight
at all, and as patriots and Democrats we
| should select our best man regardless Of
which county he may reside in"
The report of the committee on resO-
| lutions was next brought forward by
Chairman w. P. Murray of that commit
tee, and read by the secretary. Its ref
erences to the present burdensome tariff
laws, the force bill, and the abuse of
| the pension laws, were greeted with
| hearty approval, and showed that the
resolutions reflected the sentiments of
| the convention. The platform is as fol-
| lows:
They declare that the present depressed
| condition of all agricultural and laboring
| interests throughout the whole West, and the
prosperous and fourishing condition of
! trusts and monopolies in all other sections of
| the country. is the result of vicious legiSla-
| ton inflicted upon the nation by the Repub-
| lican party.
This party has practically had possession
of the government for the past thirty years,
| and wholly so far as the shaping of any i'm
| portant policy is concerned. In this brief Pc
! riod it has legislated out of existence our
once proudest industry, the merchant ma
rine, and rendered extinct the American
sailor 1t has depressed our farming inter
est (Which occupies as per cent of our peo-
| ple) to the verge of begging and has so re-
| duced the purchasing capacity of the dollar
| of the laborer, farmer and mechanic that all
| harmony between employer and emplOye is
| outraged and destroyed, and disastrous, de-
| moralizing and dangerous. Strikes and con-
| tentions fill the land and the most beauti-
| fully country, occupied by the freest people
| in the whole world, is gradually assuming a
condition of bankruptcy among all but the
| favored few.
We attribute the principal cause Of these
affections suffered by the poor (who are rs
| per cent of our people, to the just and un-
| American system of protection to special in
| dustries at the expense of others, which has
been the fundamental principle of the Repub-
| lican party since its birth. We denounce the
| entire system, and pledge the people of this
| district that we will exert our best efforts to
| relieve them of its burdens and confne the
revenue solely.
We regard the Mckinley bill now pending
| in congress as the worst blow to the agricult-
ural and laboring Interests OF the Northwest
| that has yet been devised by Republican mo-
| nopolists and pledge our energies to its de-
| feat. or repealif passed.
The true philosophy of trade and inter-
| course is embodied in the constitution of the
| United States in the following language:
mo tax or duty shall be laid on articles eX-
| ported from any state. No preference shall
| be given by any regulation of commerce or
revenue TO the ports of one state over those
| of another
| 1t is designed to extend the market of the
| producer to the uttermost limits of the land.
| The Democracy pledge to the farmer the
| world for market when they gain posses
| sion Of the government, and to add 35 per
| cent to the value of his hard-earned dollar in
| the purchase of his necessities of life.
| We assert that no member of congress
| from this state elected by the Republican
| party has ever voted in the interests of his
| farmer constituents on the tariff question,
| but they have continually and persistentlY
| voted with the worst enemies of their pros
| perlty.
| We look upon the election BILL commonly
| known as the force bill, pending in congress,
| as an infamous invasion of the rights and
| liberties of the citizen, intended solely for
| partisan purposes and the perpetuatlon OF
| the Republican party in power and the sacri-
ficing of free elections. If it fails to pass at
this session it will not be from any dlsin-
| clination on the part of the Republican legis-
lators to inflict its workings on the states,
but because they quail before the indigna-
ton of all outraged Constituency.
The present federal administration found
an enormous surplus in the treasury of the
| United States, which it has by the most IN
| raralleled extravaganza wasted, and we pre-
diet a large deficit to be supplied from the
| exhausted resources of the people. We de-
mand economy in government expenditures,
but we see no hope for it in the Republican
party.
We strongly favor the granting of liberal
| pensions to all citizens who have suffered in
the cause of their country, but we deprecate
| the indiseriminate bestoWal of bounties upon
! pretended soldiers for political purposes
We rejoice to see that the farmers and
| laboring men of Minnesota, by their political
organizations, are beginning to discover that
their hopes lie in the direction SO long ad-
vocated by the Democratic party-a reduc-
ton of tariff taxes, and we commend their
wisdom in shaking off the incubus of the Re-
| publican leaders, whom they have SO often
| elected to congress, only to be deceived and
1 dnfraudnd nv them and RupPeSL that they