The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-05-17

credentials was received and adopted.
! The report of the committee
on permanent organization named
Hon. Waller Young. of Buchanan
county. for permanent chairman, aud
Lee Chiswell Of Lamar, for secretary.
\ TIE committee on resolutions r.
ported as follows:
We, the democ, ats Of Missouri, in
convention assembled, on the eve of
one of the most momentous campaigns
in the history Of The country. reaffirm
the time-honcred principles Of The dem.
ocratic party, IS formulated by Jetier-
son, applied and enforced by Andrew
jackson, Samuel j. Tilden and Gro
yer Cleveland, and defined in the
national democratic platform of rs
| 80, 81 and 'S8.
i We denounce the Fifty-first con-
gress (known to history as the
"billion dollar congreeO for its
expenditures OF the money wrung
from the people by oppressive taxa
ton, for its enactment of that culm;-
mating atrocity of class legislation, the
Mckinley tariff bill, and for its at
tempt to place upon the statute
books the infamous force bill
designed to bring popular elections
throughout the country under the con-
troll of the District Of Columbia Of
fceholders, whose sole aim would be
to m-intain themselves in power re-
eardless of the peoples will /;
and we arraign Benjsmin Harrison,
preside mt of the United States, IS
in.tigator and defender Of all these
crimes against the public welfare.
| We demand the repeal of the Sher-
man bullion storage act, which makes
of silver commodity and the Dationsl
treasury a partner in Wall street
speculation, that demoralizes trade,
deranges values and debases the cur.
renew.
We hold to the use of both gold
and silver as the money of the cOun-
TRY, and maintain that the sole fuuc-
ton OF the federal government is to
ascertain the relative values of money
metals, and IN case there has been q
fiuctua,ion in the relative value Of the
two metals to make the existing coin
age ratio equal. We hold that
it is the duty Of the government
to readjust the coinage ratio,
and keep its minis open for, the free
coinage Of both metals instead Of dis
continuing the coinage of either, for
the arrangement of commodity val
ues and the contraction of the curren.
cy below the natural basis Of supply.
Recognizing in the existing tariff a
tax which falls with crushing force on
the agricultural states Of the Union.
and which for the benefit of the ia
vored few whom it enriches exacts from
labor more than its just store of the
expenses of government, we demand
such revision of the tariff as will re-
move its inequalities. tighten its op-
pressiveness, aud place it on basis Of
a tax levied for revenue, for revenue
only, on articles Of luxury instead of
on articles Of necessity.
While We are absolutely and I'M
changeably opposed to the
folly of taxing any form
of wealth on the country. e denounce
the policy that would give favored
corporations free trade with agricul-
tural states of South and Central
America, while increasing the burdens
on the trade of the Mississippi Valley
states with the only markets in which
there is sufficient demand for their
surplus to justify its production.
We reiterate the demand of the
democratic party that all taxation
shall be for revenue only and we de-
mand for agricultural exporting states
Of the Mississippi Valley their right
of way, unobstructed, to and from
their European markets.
Believing that Grover Cleveland is
everywhere associated with the popu-
lar mind with this great reform, and
this paramount issue, we favor
his nomination at Chicago, and
the delegates to be selected
by this convention are hereby re-
quested to use all honorable means to |
secure his nomination.
The delegation to the Chicsgo con-
vention shall vote as uuit on ell
questions, the vote of a majority of
The delegates determining what the
vote of the delegation shall be.
The report Of the committee was
adopted without any alterations.
Nominations for delegates-at-large
being in order, Hon. E. c. Crow, Of
Jasper, nominated Hon. w. H.
Phelps. /
Col. Ben. Eli Guthrie, of Macon,
in a ringing speech presented the
name of Senator John III. Carroll.