The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-26

Springfield, Ill, July 25.-The Repub-
James B. Mann, of Chicago, temper
airy chairman, made a strong address, |
holding the Democratic party respon-
sible for the prevailing distress.
After adopting a resolution declar-
ing that the members of the conven-
ton should do their utmost to secure |
the acceptance by the state of the mon |
ument of Lincoln with a view to its
preservation, the convention took re-
cess.
The committee on permanent organ
ization selected Ex-Governor Fifer as
the permanent chairman of the con-
vention.
The following dispatch from Senator
Cullom was received:
Washington, D. c., July 25.
ITO the president of the convention,
Springfield, Ill:
II sincerely regret that I cannot be
present at the convention today. My
duty in the present struggle is here.
We may yet defeat the pernicious Will
son tariff bill. The death of the bill
would mean life to the industries and
labor of the country, employment to
labor and an end of lockouts. It would
mean that no tariff legislation would
be enacted until after the people have
q hearing at the polls in November.
[ trust the convention may be charac-
terized with a spirit of harmony. 1
am sure its work today will be ratified
at the polls.
rs. M. CULLoM."
After an hours discussion, amid ex-
IRENE confusion, the convention at
4 80 voted to lay the question of a
nomination of a United States senator
on the table, by vote of 1,019 to S15.
At 4:55 Alderman Madden began
reading the resolutions
Tune BY Fifer.
When the convention reassenlbled at
4 p. M, the report Of 4he committee on
permanent organization was adopted.
Ex-Governor J. w. Fifer was named
for permanent chairman, and on TAX
ing his seat spoke in part as follows:
mo party convention has assembled
in many years under the shadow and
stress of greater national perils and
business difficulties than now threat
ems the peace and prosperity of the
American people. In 1892 the Demo-
Gratis uScldEeu, Will IllStOIlC tllcy 81
readily employ, that protection has
never fostered any industry except
that of the sheriff. The nation has
now learned that the supremacy which
was obtained under that platform
greatly fosters one important industry,
that of the militia. From the summit
| of national prosperity We have fallen
into the bottomless pit.
after seventeen months of bourbon
rule, manufactures and commerce still
wait GREATNESS to know the exten of
partisan riot and diabolism they are
expected to survive. Business dies of
apprehension, while the Democratic ex-
| ecutioner, with exquisite and cruel al
| lance, is still whetting his knife, and
even the merciless rawhide of a Dem
ocratic president fails to relieve the
suspense by precipitating the fatal
| blow.
1.-THE Democratic leaders have always
appealed to ignorance and built up on
prejudice. They praise American enter
prise and foster the industries Of Eng
| land. They burn out their candles in
the service of monopoly and then blow
| the stuff in the faces Of the dear peo-
pie They carry a kiss for the Ameri-
can laborer's cheek and a punch for
his fifth rib. They have always favored
the capitalist against the laborer, and
the men of fixed income against the
producer. Their real philosophy is
small class to rule through pretense
and fraud and the many ignorant
enough to submit to such rule as it is
precisely where such conditions exist
that the Democratic party has always
been strong"
A SquaIIy Time. 4
! AT the conclusion of Chairman Fifer's
speech Mr.. Fuller, of Boone, arose and
in a speech of some length, proposed
that the convention proceed to declare
it's choice for United States senator
to succeed Shelby M. Cullom.
| This Immediately caused a great up
roar, which continued so long that eX-
| Governor Fifer got tired of 1t and re-
tired from the chair, being succeeded
by Ex-Governor Ray.
| The latter had a hard time in quelling
the turmoil, but finally he managed, by
peremptory rulings, to bring order out
| of chaos and a motion to lay the sena-
toriaI matter on the table was carried
| by vote of 1,019 to 345.
| The report of the committee on reso-
| lutions was adopted as follows:
| The Resolutions.
The Republican party of the state of
| Illinois reaffirms it's belief in the great
principles. of civil and religious liberty
| upon which this government was
| founded and under which the people
| have enjoyed uneXampled prosperity
and happiness, and believing that the
restoration of the Republican party to
power in the government of the coun-
| try would promote the general welfare
| of the people and its chief condition of
renewed prosperity, this convention
most respectfully and cordially invites
all good citizens, irrespective of polit-
| ical antecedents, to unite in support
ing the Republican caucus in the next
election.
| We earnestly maintain the right and
| Justice of the American doctrine of
protection to American industries In
raising the necessary revenue to main
! tain the government, we are in favor
of such duties on competing imports as
will best tend to the development of
| of the resources of our own country
| of the labor of our own people per-
formed at wages which put the COM
forts of life within easy reach and Sc
cure good prices for the products alike
for our farms, our mines and our
| workshops; and we believe that arti-
| cles that cannot be successfully pro-
duced in this country except Injuries
should be placed upon the free list We
| further believe that without labor
| there is no such thing as raw mater
| iaI of any practical marketable value,
and no tangible thing of vaule that
| does not require labor to produce or
utilize. and hence the importation of