Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-16
THE SECOND DAY.


al convention was set for II o'clock but |
was not really opened until Has |
o'clock. so slow Were the delegates in |
gathering.
The hall was crowded almost to its
utmost capacity when Chairman Fas-
sett pounded for order.
The proceedings were opened by B;sh-
OBJ 81. III. Whipple, of Minneapolis with
prayer.
l. E. Walker, of Beatrice, Neb., on
behalf of the Nebraska delegation pre-
sented Temporary Chairman Fassett
with gavel made from trees grown on
the first homestead in Nebraska The
gavel, he said, was Of wood of hard in
growth and was inlaid with silver.
S. C. Lockwood, of Idaho, presented
the report of the committee on organ
ization- A wild scene took place when
the committee reported Gov. William
Mckinley, of Ohio, for permanent chair
man.
A magnificent ovation greeted the
governor when he stepped to the chair
on the platform. Temporary Chairman
Fassett introduced his successor, say
| ing: THE chairman, gentlemen of the
convention Before presenting to you
| your permanent chairman, the chair
desires to thank you most heartily for
| the kind forbearance which you have
/ extended to him. now have the honor
| and the distinguished pleasure to intro
| duce Hoe William Mckinley, of Ohio"
Temporary Chairman Fassett retired
amid great applause and there was pro-
| longed and renewed cheers and waving
| of banners, after which Gov. Mckinley
spoke as follows:
thank you for the honor of presiding over
| the ninth quadrennial convention Of the repuh-
| hcan party. IApplause-l Republican conven-
| lions mean something They have always
| meant something. [Applausel Republican
| conventions say what they and mean
what they say. (Applause.l They declare
| principles and policies and purposes and when
! invested with power execute and en-
force them [Applause.l The first
| tional convention of the Republican
the city OF Philadelphia The platform of the
| great convention reads to-day more like in
| SEPARATION than the afirma ton of 2 political
| party. [Great applause.l Every provision OF
| that great instrument made by the fathers Of
our party is in the statutes Of country to-
| day. [Applause.l Every one of them has been
| embodied into public law and that cannot be
! said OF the platform of any other political
| ganization in this or any other country OF the
| world CHEERS
We are for protective tariff and for reci-
| procity. [Great applause We propose to
| take no backward step upon either one OF these
| great republican principles lApplause.l We
| stand for protective tariff because it repre-
sents the American home, the American fire
| side the American family, the American girl
! and the American boy and the highest possi-
| bilities OF American citizenship Applause
We propose to raise money to pay public
| expenses by taxing the products OF other
| tons rather than by taxing the products of our
| own lApplause.1 The democratic party be-
heves in direct taxation, that is in taxing our
| selves, but don't believe in that prin-
ciple, so long as We can find anybody else 10 tax
which revenue tax is doing. raising all needed
| revenues, but protective tariff does more A
| protective tariff encourages and stimulates
American industries and gives the widest
possibilities to American genius and Amer
Ican effort Does anybody know what
tariff reform iss NO, no, and laughter);
political opponents this year. What does it
meant You say Grover Cleveland's utterances-
From the first one he made in New York when
he sold he did not know anything about
the tariff until his last in Rhode Island,
you come away ignorant and uniformed
as to what tariff reform means Since
the war there have been three great
tariff reform bills proposed by democratic
leaders, none of them alike, neither of them
with the same free list, neither OF them with
the same tariff list, neither of them with the
| same rates of duty but all made by the demo
cratic party upon the same principle to sym
boIize and present tariff reform You may go
to Mills, you may go to Springer, and you will
fn1 they diFer totally; but you may so to
| ton which elected diStinctively upon
| what they call tariff reform issue, with
the two-thirds majority in the house and
what do you find? They pass three bills Lea
! me name them: First, free tin plate leaving
sheet steel from which it IS made, fairfield; that
| is, the finished product free and the mate
rial bearing a duty. Second free wool TO the
manufacturer and fairfield cloth to the con-
! sumner. Third, free cotton ties 70 the cotton
states and fairfield hoop iron to all the rest OF
the states That their idea OF tariff reform
Henry Bingham, Of Pennsylvania,
presented the report of the rules COM
mittee and it was adopted by acclana-
ton.
Ex-Governor Foraker arose in re-
spouse to the call for the committee on
resolutions and requested further time
, to consider the resolutions An extern
sion of time wa: granted and the roll of
states was called for the names Of the
new national committeeman
T When Iowa was called and the re-
election of Garrison, the Blaine leader,
: was announced. cheer after cheer fol-
: lowed from the Blaine delegates A
similar demonstration greeted the re
port of the names of J. II. Menley, OF
, Maine, and William Malone, of Vir-
Cinia, and when Missouri was called
and William Warner presented the name
I of Richard C, Kerens the Harrison dele
gates made grand counter-demonstra-
, | ton.
Various resolutions and petitions
, which had been introduced and sent to
: the clerks desk were read by title and
referred to the committee on resolu-
, tons
/ THE next thing on the list is the
2 nomination of candidates for the pr'esi-
.. dency," said Chairman Mckinley.
A glance at the rules showed that
) nominations could not be made under
l the rules until the reports of the COM
: mittees had been received, and on no
: ton of Hon NJ H De Young, OF Cali
' fornia, the convention adjonrned until
10 o'clock this morning
, Arm Torn Prom the SockeA
, QUINCY, Ill, June 9.@Shortly AFTER
e work commenced in the Csdogen-
+. Thatcher job printing Office the fore
. | man, E. H Delebare, started to UNI
J, | tangle a belt, when his hand was
3 caught and his right arm jerked clear
| from the socket, man and arm falling
| at cr1c<. on the dOOy.