The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29


Mr.. Duncombe first mentioned the name of
Boies, the whole Iowa delegation jumped
upon their chairs and sent up YELL fol-
lowed by South Carolina, Texas Mississippi
and New York, Governor Flower and
Bourke Cochran setting the time for the
cheers. The Boies boom had nothing like
the dimensions of the Cleveland and Hill
demonstrations 1t lasted eight minutes.
Henry Watterson seconded the nomination
of Boes, and General p. A, Collins OF
Massachusetts seconded that of Cleveland.
Bourke Cochran made telling speech
for Hill. 1t was an oratorical effort which
the delegates will long remember. Mr..
Cochran warned the convention that it
could not get one mugwump vote without
losing one hundred democratic votes. The
democratic hosts marched against the re-
publican party and took away from 1t every
bit of political property 1t possessed. " And
there we outrage the abstract ethics of civil
service REFORM said Mr.. Cochran, but we
strengthen the democratic party"
Finally, the convention got down to bal
lot, and at twenty minutes past three o'clock
it was known that Cleveland had won. The
vote of New Mexico gave the necessary
two-thirds. Several delegations changed
their vote when it was evident that the
contest was settled. A motion to make the
nomination unanimous was put, and New
York voted in the affirmative. The ballot
was as follows: Cleveland eliza; Hill ia;
Boies, 1903. German received one vote from
Louisiana, one from Maine, nine and one
half from Maryland, four from Mississippi,
one from Nebraska, two from Nevada, five
from Ohio, one from Virginia, three from
West Virginia, three from Wyoming, one
from AriZona-total, thirty-Six and one-half.
Carlisle received three votes from Florida,
six from Kentucky, five from Ohio total,
fourteen. Stevenson received sixteen and
two-thirds votes from North Carolina. Pat
tison received one vote from West Virginia.
nfna rntn nl,,
sets. Morrison received two votes from
Alabama and one from North Caroina--to-
tai, three. Campbell received two votes
from Alabama. Whitney received one vote
from Maine. While the convention was in
session, crowds stood outside the building
in the rain expecting to see the great build
ing collapse, as the storm was OF extreme
severity.
THURSDAY.
1t was about three o'clock on Thursday
when the convention was again called to
order. The business was the nomination
of a candidate for vice-president. Arkan-
sas gave way to Indiana, and John e.
Lamb of the latter state nominated Isaac p.
Gray. Colorado yielded to Illinois, and
Nicholas l. Worthington nominated Adlai
q. Stevenson. Michigan presented the
nominated John L. Mitchell of that state.
General Bragg had barely begun his speech
nominating Mitchell when the rain came
down in torrents. the voice of the speaker
was drowned and he was obliged to await
the storms subsistence. The band struck
up with the baby song from Wang" and
the Pennsylvania delegation sang these
words:
Grover Grover four more years of Grover,
In he goes, out they go;
Then Wen be in clover.
The whole convention Joined in the re-
frain, and while the thunder rolled, the
rain smote the roof and dripped through on
the heads of the crowd, the vast chorus
rose and fell like the waves of the sea in
gale The vote was as follows; Stevenson,
402; Gray, 343; Morse, Sc; Mitchell. as
Watterson received twenty-six votes from
Iowa; Cochran received five votes from
Montana; Tree received one vote from
Montana; Boies received one vote from
Tennessee. When the roll was finished
there was no choice. Then the changes be-
gan. Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio
and Oregon, Missouri, Georgia and Texas
went solid for Stevenson. General Steven
son now having received more than two
thirds vote, he was declared by accama-
ton the nominee of the convention for vice.
president amid great enthusiasm. After
some unimportant business, the convention
adjourned.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform is very long. 1t opposes
federal election law and accuses the re-
publican party of extravaganza. The fol-
lowing IS un6 dissertation on the tariff.
We reiterate the oft-repeated doctrines
of the democratic party, that the necessity
of the government is the only justification
for taxation, and whenever a tax is un.
necessary it is unjustifabe; that when
custom-house taxation is levied upon arti-
Giles of any kind produced in this country,
the difference between the cost of labor here
and labor abroad, when such difference ex-
lists, fully measures any possible benefits to
labor, and the enormous additional imposi-
tons OF the existing tariff fall with crushing
force upon our farmers and workingmen
and for the mere advantage of the few whom
it enriches exact from labor grossly I'M
just share of the expenses of the government;
and we demand such revision of the tariff
laws as will remove their Ubiquitous Unequal
tiles, Tighten their expressions and put them
on constitutional and equitable basis. But
In making reduction in taxes, it is not
proposed to injure any domestic industries,
but rather to promote their healthy growth.
From the foundation of this government
taxes collected at the custom house have
been the chief source Of federal revenue.
Such they must continue to be. Moreover,
many industries have come to rely upon
legislation for successful continuance so
that any change of law must be at every
step regardful of the labor and capital thus
involved. The process of reform must be
subject in the execution to this plain dictate
of Justice. We denounce the Mckinley
tariff law enacted by the Fifty-frst Congress
as the eliminating atrocity OF class legisla-
ton; we indorse the efforts made by the
democrats of the present congress to modify
its most oppressive features in the direction
of free raw materials and cheaper manufac-
tured goods that enter into general consump-
ton, and we promise its repeal as one of the
benehcent results that will follow the action
of the people intrusting power to the demo-
cratic party. Since the Mckinley tariff
went into operation there have been ten re-
ductions of the wages of laboring men to
one increase. We deny that there has been
any increase of prosperity to the country
since that tariff went into operation. and we
point to the dulness and distress, the wage
reductions and strikes in the iron trade as
the best possible evidence that no such pros
perity has resulted from the Mckinley act
We call the attention of thoughtful Ameri-
cans to the fact that after thirty years of re-
strictive taxes against the importation of
foreign wealth in exchange for our agricul-
tural surplus, the homes and farms OF the
country have become burdened with a real
estate mortgage debt of over 50, 500, 000, 900
exclusive of all other forms of Indebtedness
that in one of the chief agricultural states
of the West there appears a real estate
mortgage debt averaging $153 per capita of