Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-10
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
AT last NIGHTS session of the national

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republican convention at Minneapolis.
Gen. Cosswell, chairman Of the COM
mittce Gu credentials, presented q YER
bal report for the majority of the COM
mittee, and VIM. c. Wallace offered o
partial minority report. Then the fight
was on. The majority report sustain
ed the national committee as to twenty
three votes and reversed the national
committee as to seventeen votes. Po-
%litically, the result was a gain of thir-
teen votes to Harrison and OF II vote
TO Blainc-anothcr Harrison gain of
twelve votes. This gain included six
votes in Alabama, four in Louisiana
and two in Mississippi. The Harrison
men had won over three members OF
the committee and secured q majority.
The battle was begun by the chair
man of the credentials committee NOV
ing the adoption of the majority report:
Filley, of Missouri, taking the lead
for the Blaine men, moved that the mi
nority be substituted for the majority
report in the Alabama contest for dele
gates-at-iarge.
Knight, of California, spoke warmly
in favor of the minority report. 1lede-
clarod that the Moscly faction, recon-
mcnded by the majority to be seated,
had, through ita federal officers, at
tempted to thwart the will of the pco-
ple of Alabama. 1t was enough that
the democratic party suppressed the
will of the people of the South, without
a hundred thousand oflice-holders
thwarting the will Of republicans in
party convention. Heappealed o RUS
ticc Tor the loyal republicans Of Ala
bama.
b. II. Bcthca, of Illinois, deprecated
tho attempt to %conjure up prejudice
against the ~oiice-holding class. He
made an allusion ofa dcrogatory nature
TO the people Of the section from which
the contest came, which was, generally
speaking, that you cannot prove any
thing by them, Ii was a bad break,
and II large number of the gailcry's DC
cupants Kissed and some cried Down -
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, scored
the oifice-holders roundly and told
thcm to get back to their duties At
Washington.
Powell Clayton, OF Arkansas, attack
ed Walcott and told him there were
Senator's who should go back.
Senator Wolcott rctorted that he was
there representing "a republican State.
Chaunccy Deptw spoke earnestly III
favor of the adoption Of the majority
report as 10 Alabama upon its merits.
Then ex-senator Warner 1liller
spoke for the minority report, and ask
ed for q vote on the Alabama contest
separate from the report "a a whole,
It was at this Stage of proceedings
that Senator Quay, who has all along
piloted the Blaine boom, took the floor
10 put q stop TO the talking. Thus 1t
iranspired that at the suggestion of
Pcn~nsylyania's junior Senator. a vote
on the substitution of the minority re-
port for that of the minority in the Ala
bama case was ordered. At first it was
deemed best TO dispense with the roll
call and proceed with a quicker form
of division TO take the vote. But this
was unsatisfactory to the majority and
the roll calfofthe States was again or
dered.
At the very outset of the call DR.. De-
pew challenged the vote of Alabama
for the reason that the vote was on the
seats of members from that state.
Chairman Mckinley ruled that "the
sitting delegates had IA right 10 vote un-
til they were unseated.'
Before the close of the ballotting ii
WIS evident, as u subsequent bulletin
without figures showed, that the Har-
rison men had won on the test ballot,
and that the Blaine men were beaten
By from SO to so votes.
The motion to substitute the minori-
ty for the majority report was rejected
1853 nays, 423} aycs-a great victory for
the Harrison men. The majority re-
port on the Alabama case was then
adopted by a vote FAC to 365.
While the ballot was in progress the
electric lights in the hall went out and
the convention was in darkness. a
panic was narrowly averted. Tempo
rary lights being placed on the speak
er's desks, the roll call was finished.
Motions to adjourn were lost, and
then ex-Gov. Foraker was allowed to
read the platform, which was adopted,
The convention then, at LBS a. H.,
took Il recess.
TIE PLATFORM.
The following is a synopsis of the
platform as completed by the commit
tee ON resolutions st The national re-
publican convention at Minneapolis:
We rcafirm the American doctrine
OF protection. We maintain that the
prosperous condition of Ii country is
largely due to the wise revenue legisla-
ton Of the republican Congress.
We believe that all articles which
cannot sbc produced in the United
States, except luxuries, should be adj
mitted free of duty, and that on all inn
ports coming into competition with the
products of American labor there should
be levied duties equal to the difference
between wages abroad and at home.
We assert that the prices of manu-
featured articles OF general consump-
ton have been reduced under the
operations Of the tariff act of 1890.
We denounce the efforts of the DEM
ocratic majority of the House of Rep
resentativcs to destroy Il tariff laws,
as is manifested by their attacks upon
wool, lead and lead ores, the chief pro-
duct of a number of States, and VIC ask
the people for their Judgment thereon.
We point to the success of the repub-
lican policy of reciprocity, under which
our export trade has vastly increased,
,,d Now and onl,rced markets have