The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-23


mage Horace Boies' band came In 90
compsnied by its Iowa ''tail'' like
Highland chieftain, its followers all
waving their hats and all the Tammauy
men joining in with shouts of oRt-calls
and cheers. All the other anti Cleveland
men Joined In.
Chairman Wilson took his seat at s;15,
but simply for the purpose of enabling
Secretary Bell to announce kilograms
from delegates. Two minutes after
Chairman Wilson took his scat the new
zinc Ravel raped to order. Order was
slow in coming, and so was business.
1t was fully twenty minutes before the
convention was called upon to listen to
anything else except the band.
An innovation in the usual course Of
proceedings was made by the Chairman
calling upon another reverend gentle
man for second prayer in the same
days proceedings. The gentleman Sc
looted for this service was Rev. Thomas
o. Green of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Then the band struck up "My Coun-
try, tits of Thee" to slight applause,
which was renewed when the playing
ceased Then there was pause, which
was broken by some one in the galleries
proposing three cheers for Cleveland,
which the people all about him gave to
an accompaniment of Kisses from the
floor.
Then the band played again, and the
delegates sat perspiring, tanning them
j selves, and waiting for the platform.
The crowd in the packed galleries sat
sweltering through the .intermission,
many Of the men being without coats.
The delegates looked the picture of dis
comfort as they mopped and famed.
Mr.. Whitney's appearance on the plat
form beside the Chairman called out
some applause.
At 6:20, the chairman announced to
the impatient convention that the plat
form was ready and would be presented
by Mr.. Jones, tine chairman of the COM
/ mittee Mr.. Jones from the platform,
amid cries of Louder" which grew in
intensity, said:
II am instructed by the COMMITTEES
on Resolutions to present to you as the
report of the committee the following
resolutions and to ask their adoption.
In order that you may more distinctly
hear what the committee has prepared
intend to ask the gentleman who is
familiar with the phraseology to read
them for me, and, as soon as they read,
shall move the previous question upon
the adoption Of the platform"
The announcement was received with
loud cries of "No" from the left of tn,
Chair where the delegates from the sill
yer States were grouped.
Mr.. Neal of Ohio jumped on the plat
form, and said with warmth: 'In view
of that statement, /, representing the
minority of the Committee on Resolu
tions, desire to announce that the min
ha rI oh 3,
present its report before the previou!
question shall be put"
Mr.. Jones closed by asking Mr.. villas
of Wisconsin to read the platform. Mr.
Villas began to do so in his magnificen
sonorous voice and most impressiv
style.
THE PLATFORM.
Section 1.-The representatives of the Dem
ocratic party of the United States, in Ma
tional Convention assembled, do reafirm thei
allegiance to the principles of the party, a
formulated by jefferson and eXempliied b
the long and illustrious line of his successors i
Democratic leadership, from Madison t
Cleveland. We believe the public welfare dc
mands that these principles be applied to tn
conduct of the Federal Government throug
accession to power of the party that vote
them; and we solemnly declare that the nee
of return to these fundamental principles Q
free popular government, based on home rul
and individual liberty, was never more urgen
than now, when the tendency to oentraliz
all power at the Federal Capital has become
menace to the reserved rights of the State
that strikes at the very roots of our Govern
ment and under the constitution az fra med
the fathers of the Republic.
| Section 2-We warn the people of our con
mon country Jealous for the preservation G
their free institutions, that the policy of th
l.af ola Ntrrl,sp oh fhn T4a
publican party has committed itself, is fraugl
with the gravest dangers, scarcely less momeI
tous than would result from a revolutio
practically establishing monarchy on the ruin
of the Republic. 1t strikes at the North
well as the South, and injuries the colore
citizens, even more than the white; it near
horde of deputy marshals at every pollin
place, armed with Federal power, returnin
boards appointed and controlled by Feder
| authority, the outrage of the electoral righ
of the people in the several States the subj
cation of the colored people to the control
the party in power and the reviving of ra,
| antagonisms now happily abated, OF tine u
most peril to the safety and happiness of a
a measure deliberately and justly describe
by leading Republican Senator as "the mo
infamous bill that ever crossed the thresho
of the Senate"
Two years ago this revolutionary policy WI
emphatically condemned by the people at u
| pOlls' out III cOulelupb OF Inab NefulcL, VI
Republican party has defantly declared in 1
latest authoritative utterance that its suooe
in the coming elections will mean the euRc
ment of the Force bill and the usurpation
despotio control over elections in all Il
States.
Believing that the preservation of Repu b
can Government in the United States is depe
dent upon the d defeat of this policy of legalz,
force and fraud, we invite the assistance
| all citizens who desire to see the constitute
maintained in its integrity with the laws pu
> ! suant thereto which have given our countI
; hundred years of unexampled prosperit
and we pledge the Democratic party If 1t
entrusted with power, not only to the defe
of theIForce bill, but also to relentless Oppoi
tion TO the Republican protligate eXpenditu
, which, in the short space of two years IA
, squandered an enormous surplus and emptii
an overhOwing treasury, after piling new bu
dens of taxation upon the already overtax
labor of the country,
Section 3-we reiterate the oft-repeat
7 doctrines of the Democratic party that the Il
! cessity of the Government is the only JUST
= cation for taxation and whenever tax is u
necessary It is unjustihable; that when custo
: house taxation is levied upon articles of al