The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-06-25
Democratic National Convention.

Democratic National Convention.
The convention at Chicago met
on Tuesday last ct IL: As P. n, in
the midst Of q great thunder storm.
When the furious clouds had passed
away and the bright beams Of the
sun appeared, W. G. Owens of Ken
lucky was appointed temporary
chairman Of the convention. He
was conducted to the chair amid
great applause and spoke as fol-
lows;
1.-TWO great dangers confront the Dem
ocratic party, One is external and the
other il Internal. The one il tho organ
ization Of the machinery of organized
capital, supported BY the whole power Of
the Government; the second is the ten
dency among the Democrats to make
issues among themselves.
1.-TWO needs, therefore, stand before us,
indispensable to success-unlty and har-
mony. If this chair and gavel stand As
representatives of one, it remains for you
TO supply the other. In this spirit | greet
you, fellow Democrats, as the
ADVANCE GUARDS OF A GRAND ARMY
sent forward to blaze the pathway to
victory.
"How momentuous is your responsible
ity, l need not tell you. If you work in
wisdom, millions toiling in the shop and
mine, and field, will rise and call You
blessed.
"The roll call Of the republic attests
that its heart and conscience are with US
in our war with the representatives OF
greed. The best thought in our party il
the platform that challenges appreciation
and invites the support OF the people.
We can succeed; but VS. must DO more,
We must deserve success. Above the wreck
if need be, of selfish combinations, We
must rear temple to plain people and
build shrine SO broad that every lover
of his kind may kneel.
s.Our work but begins here; under the
sun of summer and in the frosts Of au-
tumn We must carry it forward with
unfaltering courage and triumphant
close"
Cable, of Illinois, offered the following
resolution:
Re,o,ced, That this convention tender
its profound sympathy to that distin-
quished American, James G. Blaine, in
the heavy affection which has befallen
him.
The reading was interrupted By loud
applause, and the resolution adopted
unanimously.
Sweat, of Maine, thanked the conven-
ton for the sympathy to the distin-
euished resident Of that state. ''GOd for
bid" be said, ''that the democracy Of
blaine or any her state should hesitate
to tender sympathy in the presence Of
the grim tyrant who wipes out all polit-
ical lines and levels all ranks"
The committee on permanent
organization selected W::L. Wilson,
of West Virginia, permanent chair
man of the convention.
Thomas L. Bayard, ex-Secretary
of State under Cleveland's admin
was selected chairman Of
the committee on platform and
John E. Lamb Of Indiana chairman
of the committee on credentials.
At 2 20 O'Clock Thursday morn
ing Grover Cleveland was nomin-
ated for President on the first ballot,
receiving GIG Ia votes out of 9OS.
The same day A. E. Stevenson, Of
Illinois, was nominated for Vice
President. We publish below the
plank of the platform in relation
to silver, as adopted by the conven-
ton. Further space will not permit
publishing the platform in this
issue, but it will appear in full in
our next. The plank reads as
follows:
We denounce the Republican legisla-
ton known a. the Sherman act OF 1890
rs a cowardly makeshift fraught with
possibilities of danger in the future which
should make oil it's supporters, As we'll
as its author, anxious for its speedy re-
peal. We hold to the use of both gold
and silver rs the standard money Of the
country and to the coinage of both gold
and silver without discriminating against
either metal or making charge for mint.
age; but the dollar, the unit of coinage
OF both metals, must he Of equal intrinsic
and interchangeable value, or adjusted
through international agreement or by
such safeguard legislation as shall secure
the maintenance Of the parity of the two
metals, and the equal power Of every
dollar at any time in the market or in
the payment of debts; and we demand
that paper currency be kept at par with
and redeemable in such coin. We insist
upon this policy az especially necessary
for the protection of farmers and labor
ing classes, the first and most defenseless
victims of unstable money and huctua-
ting currency.
Governor Wiley has been invited
to send delegates to food expos'-
ton to be held in New York from
October 1st to October 9th. Az
tho dolooatea will either have to