The Washington bee., 1892-07-02
CLEVELAND AND STEVENSON.
The Candidates and Platform of the DEM
Ocratic Party.

| The National Democratic Convention
concluded its work at Chicago on Friday
last. and the delegates had all left town
by Saturday evening. The final result
showed that the Convention was from
the outset a Cleveland gathering, and
that all efforts to prevent his nomination
were futile
| w. c. Owens, of Kentucky, was chosen
temporary chairman of the convention,
and Congressman w. L. Wilson, of West
Virginia. as its permanent presiding Off
Ger. A long contest took place in the
committee over the platform, and the
cautious report on the tariff as reported
was defeated in the convention, and a
substitute presented by Mr.. Neal, Of
Ohio, adopted in its stead.
The Committee on Credentials reported
against admitting the anti-Hill delega-
ton from New York, and the report was
adopted.
Much of the time of the convention
was taken up i'll speeches. After the
adoption of the platform, the convention
proceeded to ballot for president at 327
o'clock on Thursday morning.
Mr.. Cleveland's name was presented
by Governor Leon Albeit, of New Jer-
sey, which was seconded by Attorney
General Hensel, of Pennsylvania; Will
liam II. Wallace, of Missouri; General
p. A Collins, of Massachusetts, A. w.
Greene. of Illinois, and Delegate McKen-
zie, of kentucky. William G. De Witt,
of Brooklyn presented the name of Sen
ator Hill, hich was seconded by Sena-
tor Daniel, of Virginia, and Congress
man Bourke Cochran and John R. FL
lows, of New York. Governor Boies's
name was presented by John F. Dun.
combe, of Iowa, and seconded by Henry
Watterson.
The first ballot resulted in the choice
! of Grover Cleveland. The vote stood:
Cleveland, 617!; Hill, lis; Boies, 1O3
German, 364; Carlisle, IA; Stevenson, of
North Carolina, 16S Morrison, 2; Camp.
bell, 2; PattisOn, l. The nomination
was made unanimous, New York falling
in the lead of the other States in casting
its vote for Cleveland
The Democratic platform is somewhat
lengthy. The material points are given
| below:
| Sec. /. The representatives of the Democratic
| party of the United S ates in national conven.
| iOn assembled do reaffrm their allegiance to the
| principles of the party as formulated by Jeffer.
son and exemplifed by the long and iustrious
| line of his ancestors in Democratic leadership
| from Madison to Cleveland.
Sec 2. We warn the people of our common
country jealous for the preservation of their fred
institutions that the policy of the federal cOnrUi
| OF elections, to which the Republican party ha-
| committed itself, is fraught with the graves;
| dangers scarcely less mOmentOus than would
| result from revolution practically establishing
| monarchy on the ruins of the republic 1t strikes
| At the north as we'll as at the SOUTH and INJURIES
| :he colOred citizen even more than the white: il
| means horde of deputy marshals at every poll.
| ing place, armed with federal power. returning
boards appointed and controlled by federal au.
ihorty the outrage of the electoral rights of thu
people in the several States the Subugation OF
the coored people to the control of the party in
power, and the reviving of race autagonisms now
happily abated, of the utmost peril to the safety
and happiness of all; measure deliberately and
Justly described by a leading Republican Sena.
tor as 1.-The most infamous bill that ever crossed
the threshold of the Senate" The Democratic
party is pleged not only to the defeat of the
force BILL but also to relentless opposition to the
Republican policy of prOfgate expenditure
which in the short space OF two years. has
squandered an enormous surplus and emptied an
oyerflowing treasury, after ping new burdens
of taxation upon the already overtaxed labor of
the country.
Sec. 3. We denounce Republican protection
as fraud robbery of the great majority of
the American people for the benefit of the few
We declare 1t to be a fundamental principle Of
the Democratic party that the federal govern
ment has no constitutional power to enforce and
collect tariff duties except for the purpose of
revenue only, and demand that the collection of
such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of
the government and honestly and economically
administered.
We denOunce the Mckinley tariff law enacted
by the Fifty-frst Congress as the eliminating
atrocity Of class legislation; we indOrse the eff
forts made by the Democrats of the present Con.
gress to modify its most oppressive features in
the direction of free raw material and cheaper
manufactured goods that enter into home con-
sumption, and we propose its repeal as one of
the benetcent results that will follow the action
Of the people in entrusting power to the Demo
cratic party. Since the Mckinley tariff went
into operation there have been ten reductions Of
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 dullness and
Distress the wage reductions and strikes in the
iron trade as the best possible evidence that nc
such prosperity has resulted from the Mckinley
act
Sec. favors trade interchange on the basis
Of reciprocal advantages, and declares it to be
a tlme-honOred doctrine of the Democratic
faith
Sec. 5. We recognize in trusts and mOnopo-
lies which are designed by capital to secure
more than their just share of the joint product
of capital and labor natural consequence of
prohibitive taxes, which prevent the free COM
petition which is the life of honest trade, but
we believe their worst evils can be abated by
law, and we demand the rigid enforcement OF
laws made to prevent and control them, to.
gether with such further legislation in re-
Straint of their abuses as experience may show
to be necessary.
Sec. pledges the party to continue the
policy of Democratic administration in res.
Cuing the public domains from the hands of
corporations and syndicates.
Sec Z. We denounce the Republican IepisIa
ton known as the Sherman act of 1890 as a cow
ardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities OF
danger in the future which should make all Of
its supporters as well as its author anxious foy
its speedy repeal We hold to the use of both
gold and silver as the standard money of the
country, and TO the coinage of both gold and sill.
yer without discrimination against either metal
or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of
coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic
and exchangeable value or be adjusted by inter.
national agreement or by such safeguards of leg.
islation as shall insure the maintenance of the
parity of the two metals and the equal power of
any dollar at all times in the market and in tho
payment of debts and we demand that all paper
currency shall be kept at par with and redeem.
able in such coin. We insist upon this policy as
especially necessary for the protection of the
farmers and laboring classes the first and most
defenseless victims of unstable money and iuct.
uating currency.
Sec. s. We recommend that the prohibitiye 10
nhr cent taN ON hank issues he ranealnd