The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-06-25
CLEVELAND and STEVENSON.
These are the Democratic Leaders
for the Coming Contest.
EACH NOMINATED ON THE
FIRST BALLOT.
OF THE CONVENTION.

copal Church offered prayer.
TEMPORARY OFFICERS.
The prayer ended, Chairman Brice called
for the report of the committee on temporary
Hon. S. P. Sheerin, of Indiana, secretary
of the national committee, read the list OF OIL
GERS recommended for the temporary organi-
cation and it was unanimously adopted with
out change, as follows:
Chairman - Hon. William c. Owens, of
Kentucky.
Indiana Assistant Secretaries-Edward L..
| Merritt. of Illinois; William III. Doyle, of
Pennsylvania; Hambleton Sheppard, of
Virginia; Clinton Tillery, of Missouri; l.. f..
Rowey, of Michigan; Robert E. Wilson, of
Mississippi; Charles r. Defreest, of New
| York; James c. Strain, of Illinois.
Principal Reading Clerk-Hon. Nicholas
NJ. Bell. of Missouri Assistant Reading
Clerks-Martin Morrison, of Indiana; Cato
Sells. of Iowa; Bernard Brown, of Montana;
William II. Thompson, of Michigan; Henry
j. Lynn, of Tennessee.
After a greeting of applause Mr.. Owens
spoke thus:
1.-TWO great dangers menace the Democratic
party. One is external, the other internal;
| the first is the organized machinery of Or
! RdlllLeu Cdpltdl ouppOitSN ~
| power of the government; the second is the
tendency among Democrats to make issues
among themselves. Two needs, therefore,
stand before us indispensable to success
unity and harmony. OF the one this chair
and gavel stand representative; 1t remains TOR
you to supply the other.
sin this spirit greet you, fellow Demo
Gratis. as the advance guard of a grand army
sent forward to blaze pathway to victory.
How momentous is your responsibility need
not tell you. If you work in wisdom the
millions toiling in shop and mine and field
will rise and call you blessed.
The roll call of the republic attests that
| its heart and It's conscience are with us IN
our war with the representatives of greed.
The best thought of our party is platform
that challenges the appreciation and invites
the support of the people.
''We can succeed: we must do more; we
must deserve success. Above the wreck, 1t
need be, of selfish combination we must rear
temple to the plain people and build u
shrine so broad that every lover OF his kind
NAV kneel. The burden must be lifted from
the back of toll and to that end 1t has right
| to demand that whoever bears our banner
must lift it above the smoke of conflict and
din of faction, that every Democrat OF the
Union may follow its lead in exultant and
| The gravity of the situation demands the
broadcast patriotism and every needn't sacri
| fee. Our work but begins here. Under the
suns of summer and the irosts of autumn we
must carry it forward with unfaltering courage
To Il triumphant close.
'!This again must be n campaign oil educa-
ton The study of the cornteld begun IN
the West and South and must be carried into
every hamlet of the East and North. The
people must learn their true relation to the
laxgatherer. They must learn that no rail
road president champions the trlbunes OF the
people, no taskmasters write our tariff bills.
They must learn, too, that for personal and
political advantage their country was men
aced by the threat of war, and they will learn
with shame and regret that on the day the
warlke message of the President was read
in the halls of Congress the peaceful response
of the little eight by ten republic Of Chill,
accepting the terms Of the presidential ultl-
matum, was read in every capital of the world.
Our opponents must be measured by their
deeds and not by their professions.
1.-The Fifty-frst Congress wrote the black
est page in our legislative history and became
n thing of the past. 1t challenged the APP
proval of the people, and they responded i'll
tones Sc portentous that it seemed the voice
of God. With unanimity that finds no par
allel in the history of popular government
they determined that n billion dollars was far
too much to pay for such museum of freaks.
If we permit, they will stand by their verdict.
That our cause may triumph. let us work IN
kindness. In the heat of contention let us
not forget that our political brothers may be
lust as honest and perhaps better informed.
.ImpeIled by one purpose, the public good,
we will free ourselves from the chickering's
and heart burnings that characterized the
Republican party when its Marshal Ney went
down at Minneapolis before the mailed legions
of the bread and butter brigade
The speakers voice penetrated to the far
thest recesses of the galleries, and his remarks
were cheered to the echo.
THE COMMITTEES.
At the close of Mr.. Owens speech, upon
motion of Delegate White, of California, the
roll was called for the constitution of the COM
mttees on credentials, on rules and order OF
business, on permanent organization and on
resolutions, each State to name one member
| of each committee. All resolutions and com
munications to the convention were ordered
referred to the resolutions committee.
MARYLAND named members Of the commit
tees as follows: 0npermanent organization,
(. Freeman Rasin; on credentials, Frank L.
Shaw; on resolutions, Charles j. NJ. Gwinni
member of the National Committee, Arthur
p. German.
Resolutions of sympathy with James G.
! Blaine in the loss of his son, Emmons Blaine,
were passed, and Delegate Holman, Of Ore
gon. announced that be had Just received a
telegram stating that Portland, Oregon, the
strongest Republican city on the coast, had
given 600 Democratic majority, instead Of
| 1000 Republican majority which had previ-
ously been the case.
Wednesday.
| On Wednesday the convention opened with
! the usual ceremonies. The committee on
/ organization named VIM. l.. Wilson, of West
| Virginia, permanent chairman and he was
unanimously chosen. Upon taking the chair
he made strong address. The new National
| Committee was named, also the committee 10
notify candidates of their nomination. Col.
| l.. Victor Baughman being named as the
member for Maryland, and the committee on
resolutions reported the following:
THE PLATFORM.
Section /. The representatives of the
| Democratic party of the United staies, in Ma
tional Convention assembled, do reafirm
their allegiance TO the principles of the party
as formulated by Jefferson and exemplifed
| by the long and illustrious line of his sue.
cessors in Democratic leadership from Mad
ison to Cleveland; we believe the public vel
fare demands that these principles be APP
piled 10 the conduct Of the federal govern
ment through the accession to power of the
| party that advocates themi and we Holemnly
| declare that the needs of . return to these
fundamental principles of free popular
government based on home rule and indi
vidual liberty, was never more urgent than
now, when the tendency to centralze all
power at the federal Capitol has become a
menace to the reserved rights of the states
that strikes at the very roots of our govern
ment under the Constitution as framed by
the Fathers of the Republic.
Section 9 We warn the people of our
common country, jealous for the preserva
ton of our free institutions, that the policy of
federal control of elections to which the Re.
publican party has committed itselfiS fraught
with the gravest dangers, scarcely less mo.
mentous than would result from revolution
practically establishing monarchy on the
ruins of the republic. 1t strikes at the North
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