Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-06-30

| ed who escorted MI. owens 10 the ClaI.
After a greeting of applause Mr.. Owens
acknowledged the honor conferred upon
him in a very graceful speech.
The committees on credentials, pcrIna-
nent organization, rules, and resolutions
were appointed,
SYMPATHY FOR BLAINE.
Mr.. Cable of Illinois offered the following
resolutions:
THAT this convention tender its profound
sympathy to that distin -uishcd American
James G. Blaine, in the many atllCtlohs
that have belallen him"
The resolution was received with great
enthusiasm and was UNANIMOUSLY
carried.
Edward c.. Sweet of Maine, briefly
thanked the convention on behalf OF the
state of Maine for its resolution OF sympa-
thy. .
An invitation from President Baker, of
the worlds Columbian exposition, was
read, inviting the delegates to visit the
grounds of the exposition. On motion OF
Delegate Bragg of Wisconsin the conven-
ton then at 2 p. N. adjourned until IL
o'clock next day.
SECOND DAY.
The convention was called to order by
Temporary Chairman Owens and Rev. A. ii.
Henry introduced who opened the proceed
ings with prayer.
The committees not being ready to re-
port the time was taken up in short speeches
by prominent Democrats.
MIR. Bronson OF Kentucky here appeared
and announced that tho on ere
dentials was now ready 10 report. Mr..
Lamb o. Indiana, chairman OF the commit
tee on credentials, then said:
am directed by the committee on credentials
TO make the following unanimous report. III
the contest from the state Of Alabama the fegh-
lar delegation as recommended by the Demo
cratic national committee Is seated and gwen
the right to vote, while the contestlugd delegation
is civ en- seats upon the hOor OF this convention.
In the Twenty-third and TwentyslNth districts
OF Pennsylvania the regular delegates as recon-
mended by the national committee are gwen
the seats and the votes upon the hOor. IN the
state of Ohio, the First district, the regular dele.
gate. Mr.. Bernard, is seated. In the Territory OF
Utah the regular delegation RECOMMENDED by
the Democratic national committee, Messrs.
Henry B.. Henderson and John II. CalIle, are
given the seats and the votes upon TIE
floor. In the Territories OF New Mexico ana
Arizona il was recommended by che national
committee that each be given six seats upon the
floor OF this convention. In view OF the Tact
that these two territories have been barred from
the sisterhood OF states in this Union upon the
sole ground that they were Democratic, and the
further fact that a Democratic house mas al
ready passed an enabling act TO make them
states OF this Union, your committee uuani-
mously adopts the recommendation OF the Ma
tional committee and submits IL Tor the APP
prevail OF this convention Mr.. Chairman, |
move the adoption OF the report OF the COM
mittee.
The reading OF the report was greeted with
frequent cheers, and especially that part oil 1t Ee-
lating to the admission oil the states referred TO
through the enabling act oiconeress was eheered
TO an echo.
The report WAS adopted.
The next business was the report OF the
committee on permanent organization.
The report was ready, and was read by
the secretary as follows:
For chairman, Hon. William L. Wilson, West
Sihir n a ssssst1FSs: sims9n Z ssesrin; o.
rift of Illinois; W. II. Doyle OF Pennsylvania;
Hamilton Shepard OF Virginia; Clinton Galloway
of Missouri; L. L. Rolls OF Michigan: Robert l..
Wilson OF Mississippi: Charles r. Depres of New
York; james, {. strain OF Illinois; Thomas
R RaMy S q NigneSSfa' Pa Reading af s Siss :
Assistant reading secretaries, Morgan Morrison
of Indiana, Cato Sells of Iowa. II. 5. Martin OF
Kansas, William +. Thompson OF Michigan,
William wilkins Carr Of Pennsylvania, Henry
J. Lynn of Tennessee, Thomas y. Knapp of
Missouri: sergeant. at-arms, Hon. Richard J.
Bright OF Indiana; assistant Sergeaut-at-arms,
John P. Hopkins OF illinois,; official stenogra-
pher, Edwin J. Dixon OF Illinois; vice presidents,
the secretaries from each state.
The report was adopted without division.
A committee escorted Mr., Wilson to the
chair and he delivered an appropriate ad-
dress of acceptance. .
On motion the convention took q recess
at la p. m, until 3 p. m.
The committee Oh resolutions presented
the following platform which was alter
considerable discussion adopted:
Section /. The representatives of the Demo.
cratic party Of the United States III national
convention assembled do reEfirm their allie
glance to the principles OF the party as formu-
lated By Jefferson ana eXempliBeG by the long
and ilustriOus line OF his successors in Demo-
cratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland.
We believe the public welfare demands that these
npriciples be applied to the conduct OF the fed
eral government through the accession to power
OF the party that advocates them, and We
solemnly declare that the need of a return to
L these fundamental DriuCinlps of n free nDDu;aF
government, based on home rule and indl-
Vdual liberty, was never NJ, lie urgent thannow,
when the tendency to centraliZe all power at the
federal capital has become a menace TO the re-
served rights OF the states that strikes ut the
very roots OF our government under the consti-
tuition as framed by the fathers OF the republic.
THE FORCE BILL.
Sec. 2. We warn the people O. our conf
mon country. Jealous for the preservation of
their free institutions, that the policy OF federal
control of elections to which the Republican,
party has committed itself is fraught with tile
gravest OF dangers, scarcely less momentoHS
than would result from a revolution practically
establishing monarchy on the RUNS pf the re
public. 1t strikes at the North as syeA as the
South, and injuries the colored citizens: even
more than tie white; it mrans a horde OF dvpu-
ty marshals at every polling place armed with
FEDERAL power, returning boards appointed and
controlled by federal nu' hority; the outrage of
the electoral rights of the people in the several
states; the subiugalinu of the cOlOred people to
the control OF the party in power, and the re
yiviEg of race aTtagouisms, now happily abat-
ed, OF the utmost peril to the safety aud happi-
ness OF all: n measure deliberately and
Justly described by a leading Republican sana-
ter 'as the most Infamous bill that ever creased
the threshold OF the senate" Such u po!icy, Il
sanctioned by law, wou,d mean the dominance
OF aself. perpetuating dig IrCy of OniCeholdeFs and
the party first entrusted with its machinery
could not be dislodged from power unless by an
appeal to the reserved right OF the people to re
sist oppression which is inherent in all selfgov-
erning communities. Two years ago this revo-
lutionary policy was cmphatically condemned
| by the lpOplp at the DOllS. hnt in pnnfpmni nf
that verdict the Republican party has defantly
declared i'll its latest authoritative u.teraEce
mean the enactment OF the iorce bin
and the usuTpatiOn OF despotic
control over elections in all states.
Believing that the preservation OF republican
government in the United states is dependent
upon the defeat of the policy Of legalized force
and fraud, we invite the support Of all citiz.nS
who desire to see the constitution maintained in
its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto.
which have given our country a hundred years
OF uneXampled prosperity; and we pledge the
Democratic party, II it be entrusted with power,
not only to the defeat OF the force bill, but also
to relentless opposition to the Republican policy
OF profiIgate expenditure, which in the short
space of two years has squandered au enormous
surplus aud elnptied an overlooking treasury,
after piliug new burdens Of taxation upon the
already over-taXed labor of the country.
TAXATION.
Sec. 8. We reiterate the oft repeated doc
trlnes OF the Democratic party that the neces-
sity OF the government is The only Justification
II " hNhNaSf't 'h''' : II "a u uhItiOFSdTN
il is unjustiiable; that when custom house tax.
alton is levied upon articles OF another kind
produced IN this country the difference bet Ween
the cost OF labor here and lat or abroad, when
such a difference exists. fully measures any nos
sible benefits to labor. and the enormous addi-
tional itnpoSitious of the existing tariff fall
with crushing force upon our farmers and work
ingmen. and Tor the mere advantage OF the lew
whom IL enriches, exact from labor grossly I'M
just shares OF the expenses OF the government.
and we demand such d revision Of the tariff
laws as viii remove their inquitious ~inequali-
ties, tighten the expressions and put them on a
constitutional and equitable bass. But
IN making reSnctiop in taxes,
it is not proposed 10 iniure
any domestic industries. but rather to promote
their hsalthy growth. From the foundation of
this government, taxes collected at the custom
enue. Such they must continue to be. More
oven, many industries have come to RELY unon
legislation Tor successful continuance. so that
any change of law must be at every stem regard
fui OF the labor and capital thus involved. The
process of reform must be subject i'm the axrcn-
ton OF this to the plain dictates of Justice. We
denounee the Mckinley tariff law enacted by the
Fifty-hrst congress as the eliminating atroeitV
OF class legislation; We indorse the efforts made
by the Democrats Of the present congress to
modify its most oppressive features in the dirac-
non OF Tree raw materi ds and cheaper manu-
consumption; and we promise it's repeai
as one of tie beneiicent results that
viii follow the action OF tine peoDle
in entrusting power to the Democratic y rty
Since the Mckinley tariff went into operation
there have been ten reductions of the wages of
labe-ilg men to one Increase. w deny that
there has bean increase OF prosperity 10 the
country since that tariff act went into opera
| ton. and we point TO the dizziness and distress
| the wage reductions AMI strikes In the iron