Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-16
ouro DEMOCRATIC CONTENTION.

OHIo DEMOCRATIC CONTENTION.
Expenses--The Silver BiII--Pensions--
Billion Dollar Congress--A Lack of
Harmony.
Associated Press Dispatch by special Wires
CLEVELAND, OHIO, July 15.-One of
the largest and at the same time most
inharmonious conventions ever as
sembled in the history of the Ohio Dem
ocratic party was called TO order
promptly at 1870 o'clock by Chairman
Norton of the state central committee
He introduced Allan w. Thurman as
temporary chairman, and the vast au-
dience burst into cheers at tho sight of
the son Of Ohio's distinguished leader
VICTORIOUS ROOSTER.
Ex-Congressman Frank Leblond was
selected permanent chairman of the
convention and addressed the conven-
ton briefly on taking the chair.
General Armstrong of Cleveland,
moved that the convention adopt the
picture Of victorious rooster as the
device to designate Democratic tickets,
the recent ballot reform law requiring
the selection of some device. The sug-
gestion struck the convention favorabiy
and General Armstrong; motion was
adopted by exclamation.
The platform presented to the con-
vention to-day endorses the administra-
ton of Governor Campbell, commends
the state legislature for having provided
for secret ballots by which every person
can vote in secret as he chooses and
have his ballot counted as cast, favors
graded income tax, denounces the Re-
publican blllion-dollar Congress for ex-
hausting the surplus In the national
treasury by extrayagant expenditure,
congratulates the people on the defeat
of the Adams force bill, favors tariff for
revenue only, demands reinstatement of
constitutional standard Of both gold and
silver, with equal right Of each to free
and unlimited coinage, favors liberal
and just pensions to deserving and
honest soldiers and sailors and closes
with declaration of censure of the
Russian government for its persecution
of Jewish people.
We are opposed to all class lcgisla-
ton and believe in tariff levied for
the sole purpose Of producing revenue
sufficient to defray legitimate expenses
of the government economically admin
istered. We accept the issue rendered
to United States by the Republican
party on the subject of the tariff, as rep
resented by so-called Mckinley tariff
act, confident that the verdict of the
people of Ohio will be recorded against
tho iniquitous policy of so-called pro-
lection championed by the Republican
party in the interest of favored classes
against the masses. We denounce the
decentralization of silver in 1873 by the
party then in power as an ubiquitous al
teration of the money standard in favor
of creditors and against debtors, tax
payers and producers, and which by
shutting off one Of the sources of sup
ply OF primary money operates contin-
ually to increase the value of gold, de-
press prices, hamper industries and dis
parage enterprise, and we demand the
reinstatement of the constitutional
standard Of both gold and silver with
the equal rights of each to free and un-
limited coinage.
1--WE recommend the adoption of the
following resolutions as substitute for
the plank In the platform on the free
and unlimited coinage of silver:
We believe In honest money, the
coinage of gold and silver and circu-
lating medium convertible into such
money without loss, and we oppose all
legislation in which tends to drive
either gold or silver out of circulation
and we believe in maintaining the coin
age of both metals on parity. We also
recommend that the resolution declaring
for graduated tax on incomes be
stricken from the platform.
LOOKS VERY LIKE CAMPBELL.
At $50 the convention was continu-
ing the Campbell demonstration, and
the indication and temper OF the con-
vention seems to indicate the renomina-
ton of the present governor on the first
ballot or by reclamation.
CAMPBELL WINS OF FIRST BALLOT.
Campbell was renominated on first
ballot.