The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-06-30

N N0W OrK, Hill u.
North Carolina, Stevenson of Illi-
mis-, 16 %; Morrison l, Cleveland
3 1-3, Boies l.
! North Dakota. Cleveland 6.
Ohio, Cleveland IA; Boies 16; Car
Isle 5; Hill 6; German 5.
Oregon, Cleveland s.
Pennsylvania, Cleveland Ga.
Rhode Island, Cleveland 8.
South Carolina, Boies IA; Hill 3;
| Clevland l.
South Dakota, Cleveland Z; Boies 1.
Tennessee, Cleveland "a.
Texas, Hill 1; Boies 6; Cleveland
%.
Vermont, Cleveland 8.
Virginia, Cleveland II, Hill IL,
| German l.
Washington, Cleveland 8.
West Virginia, Cleveland Z, Hill 1,
Pattison /, German 3.
Wisconsin, Cleveland "a On this
ballot Cleveland has 5O4 12.
| Wyoming, German 3, Cleveland 3.
| Alaska vote nominates Cleveland.
Alaska, Cleveland 2.
Arizona, Cleveland 5. Great cheer
ing
District of Columbia, Cleveland 3.
| New Mexico, Cleveland 4.
Utah, Cleveland 2.
Indian Territory, Cleveland 2.
Total vote: Cleveland GIG 1 3,
Hill 112, Boies 1O3, German SO / 2,
Stevenson 16 3, Morrison 5, Car
lisle 10, Campbell 2, Pattison 1,
| Whitney /. Russell /.
Texas, West Virginia and Mary
land change votes to Cleveland. On
motion of Ohio, Cleveland is declared
nominated by acclamation at 3-45
a. M, Chicago time, (446 our tIme.)
| WHO SECONDED NOMINATIONS.
Some of the men who seconded
nominations at the convention are
| given here: Fenton, of Kansas,
| seconded the nomination of Boies;
Wallace, of Missouri, seconded the
nomination of Cleveland; Hensel. of
| Pennsylvania, seconded the nomina-
| ton Of Cleveland; Collins, of Mas
sachusetts, seconded the nomination
! of Cleveland; Watterson, of Ken
lucky, seconded the nomination of
Boies; Stevenson, of Kentucky, in
seconding Cleveland, kept the con-
vention in a roar of laughter by his
| witty sayings; Senator Daniel, of
4
of Hill; South Dakota seconds the
nomination of Boies; Ochs, of Ten
nessee, seconded the nomination of
Cleveland; Texas seconds the nomi-
nation of Cleveland.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Sec. i. The representatives of the
Democratic party of the United States
in national convention assembled, do
reaffirm their allegiance to the prin-
ciples of the party as formulated by
Jefferson and exemplified by a long
illustrious line by his successors in
Democratic leadership from Madison
to Cleveland We believe the public
welfare demands that these principles
be applied to the conduct of the fed
eral government, through the access
ion to power of the party that advo-
Gates them, and we solmnly declare
that the need of a return to these
fundamental principles of free popu
lar government, based on home rule
and individual liberty, was never
more urgent than now when the
tendency to centralize all the power
at the federal capital has become a
menace to the reserved rights OF
| y
OF our governments constitution as
framed by the fathers of the republic
Sec. g We warn the people of a
common country, jealous for the pre-
servation of their free institutions,
that the policy of federal control OF
elections, to which the Republican
party has committed itself, is fraught
with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous than would result
from a revolution practically estab
fishing monarchy on the ruins of the
republic. 1t strikes at the north as
we'll as at the south, and Injuries the
colored citizens even more than the
whites. 1t means a horde of deputy
marshals at every polling place,
armed with federal power; returned
boards appointed and controlled by
federal authority; outrage Of the
electoral rights of the people in the
several states the subjugation of the
colored people to the control of the
party in power, and the reviving o
race antagonisms, now happily
abated, of the utmost peril to the
safety and happiness of all; meas
ure deliberately and justly described
by leading Republican Senator as
"the most infamous bill that ever
crossed the threshold of the Senate >
Such a policy, if sanctioned by law
would mean the dominance of a self
perpetuating oligarchy of office hold
ers, and the party first entrusted
with it's machinery could be dislodg
ed from power only by an appeal tc
the reserved rights of the people to
resist oppression, which is inherent il
all self-governing communities Two
years ago this revolutionary policy
was emphatically condemned by the
people at the polls, but in contemp,
of that verdict the Republican party
has defiantly declared, in it's latest
authoritative utterance, that it's sue
cess in the coming elections will NEAR
the enactment of force bill and thu
usurpation of despotic control ovel
elections in all the states. Believing
that the preservation of Republican
government in the United States il
dependent upon the defeat of this
policy of legalized force and fraud
we invite the support of all citizens
who desire to see the constitution
maintained in it's integrity, with th,
laws pursuant thereto, which hav,
given our country a hundred year.
of unexampled prosperity. Wepledg'
the Democratic party, ifit be entrust
!, 1 ed with the power, not only to defea
the force bill, but also the relentles,
of prof1igate expenditure which, il
the short space of two years, ha.