Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1892-05-19
The State Convention.
EVERYTHING HARMONIOUS In THE
RANKS OF MissOURI's DEM
OCRACY.
The Big Feur Selected as Delegates
at Large ON the First Round
Country Delegates Bound
to Have Harmony.

to Have Harmony.
SrDALIA, No., May 1.-THE
Missouri Democratic State Conven-
ton met in the Woods Opera
House at noon to-day and was call
ed to order by Mr.. c. G.. Maffitt,
chairman of the State Committee,
who announced that Judge Elijah
III. Norton of Platte County has
been named for temporary chair
man, with Henry L. Gray of Boone
as secretary and the following as as
sistant secretaries: III. Martin Viii
liams of st. Charles, w. l.. Reid of
Monroe City, William F. Duffen,
Jr., of Cooper, Sam B. Cook of
Mexico and F. NJ. Flemming of
Kansas City. Walter Young, of
Buchanan, was made permanent
chairman, Lee Criswell, of Barton,
permanent secretary, and s. B.
Cook, of Audrain, assistant secretary.
The following gentlemen were
placed in nomination for delegates
at large: Hon. w. III. Phelps, of
Jasper; Col. John HI Carroll, of
Putnam; Ex-Governor Crittenden, of
Kansas City; Col. c. H. Jones, of
st. Louis; Charles C. Maffitt, of
St.Louis; Hon. Martin L. Clardy, of
st. Francois, and Senator G. F.
Cochran, of st. Joseph.
When the roll was called Audrain
responded: Phelps 2, Carroll A,
Crittenden 2, Jones 4, Maffitt a.,
Clarly 4, Cochran a.
Whole number of votes, 524.
Necessary to a choice, 263.
Maffitt 416, Phelps 3S4, Jones
347, Clardy $50, Carroll 2S7, Crit
tenden 236, Cochran 13O, Bland
5.
Maffitt, Phelps, Jones and Clardy
were declared the delegates.
On motion the four next-Carroll
Crittenden, Cochran and Bland
were declared the alternates. Con-
gressman Bland had not been put
in nomination, and the votes for him
were surprise.
The Ninth District delegates are
M. S. Goodman, of Clarksville, and
T. F. McDearmon, of st. Charles.
Alternates-C. E. Peers, of Warren
ton, and DIR. Etmueller, of Herman.
THE PLATFORM.
We, the Democrats of Missouri, in
convention assembled, on the eve OF
one OF the most momentous cam
paigns in the history of the country,
re-affirm the time-honored princi-
pies oftheDemocratic party as formu.
lated by Jefferson, applied and en-
forced by Andrew Jackson, Samuel
J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, and
defined in the National Democratic
platforms of 1880, 1884 and 1888.
We denounce the Fifty-first Con-
gress (known to history as the Bill
ion-Dollar Congress) for its profit.
gate expenditure of the money wrune
from the people by oppressive taxa
ton, for its enactment of that cul.
minating atrocity of class legislation,
the Mckinley bill, and for its at.
tempt to place upon the statute books
the infamous force bill, designed te
bring popular elections throughout
the country under the control of Dis
trict of Columbia officeholders, whose
sole aim would be to maintain them
selves in power, regardless of tn.
peoples will, and we arraign Benja
min Harrison, President of the Unit
ed States, as instigator and defende,
of all these crimes against the pub
lie welfare. We demand the repea
of the Sherman bullion-storage act
which makes of silver commodity
and the National Treasury partne
in Wall street speculation, that de
moralizes trade, deranges values ant
debases the currency. We hold t.
the use of both gold and silver as tn,
money of the country, and maintain
that the sole function of the Fedora
Government is to ascertain the rela
tive value OF the money metals ant
in case there has been a sufficien
fluctuation In the relative value o
the two metals to make the existing
coinage ratio unequal. We hold tina
1t is the duty of the Government t.
re-adjust the coinage ratio and keel
its mints open for the free coinage 0
both metals, instead of fdiscontinuin,
the coinage of either for the derange
ment of commodity values and th'
contraction of the currency below
the natural basis of supply.
Recognizing in the existing tarif
a tax which falls with crushing forct
upon the agricultural States of tn
Union, and which, for the benefit o
the favored few whom it enriches
exacts from labor more than its jus
share of the expenses of the Govern
ment, we demand such q revision o
the tariff as win remove its Unequal
tiles, tighten its oppressiveness an,
place it ON a basis of tax levie,
for revenue only on articles Of luxur,
instead of on articles Of necessity
While we are absolutely and un
changeably opposed to the folly Q
taxing any form OF wealth out of tn
country, we denounce the polio
that would give favored corporation
free tlade with the agriculture
States of South and Central America
while increasing the burdens of th
trade ofthe Mississippi Valley State
with the only markets in which ther
is sufficient demand for their SUI
plus to justify its production.
We reiterate the demand Of til
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