The record-union., 1896-07-08
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
CALLED TO ORDER
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ineSe preilIn1narleS with courtesy TO
everybody Let US stand together in
fhe Democratic party-that party which
mas stood by the people and has fought
Tor 1t and is the pride of the republic.
trust in God that nothing will occur
mere to prevent its doing so while the
republic lasts" (Cheers).
Charles S. Thomas of Colorado, one
OF the minority of the National Commit
tee, defended the minority report, and
urged that the majority report was SIM
ply a recommendation which the con-
vention might adopt or reject, as SEEM
ed proper to it, The minority did not
desire, he said, to suppress discussion,
put he reminded the delegate from Con-
Eecticut that he and those with whom
he acted had boasted that they would
capture the convention without yield
Ing to any one The minority of the
committee has therefore a duty i'm
posed up them to carry out as far as
possible what they conceive to be the
wish of the majority of the conven
tion. They knew that if the National
Committee were constituted so as to
represent the will of the convention it
would have reported in favor Of Sen
ator Daniel. (Cheers). He recalled
the charge that the Democrats of the
united States desired to inflict indig-
nifty and disgrace on the Senator from
New York. Nothing could be further
from the fact. For his own part, he
wished with his whole heart nothing
but good to him
At this point Mr.. Thomas referred to
his standing under the picture of the
Immortal ashington, and was proceed
ing to apostrophise the father of his
country, when he was made aware of
his mistake, and discovered that it was
the likeness of Jefferson that he was
standing under. He got out of it by
remarking that both Washington and
Jefferson were immortal Democratic
names. He said the minority of the
committee had taken their action be-
cause they had been told in the public
prints of this and other cities that the
purpose of the other side was to assume
control of the convention if possible,
and they had made up their minds that
IL the matter were to come to an issue
the sooner it came the better. He ap-
pealed to the convention to stand by
the minority report, and not let it be
said that in the first skirmish their
pickets were driven back from the
lines (Applause)
c. E. Walter of Alabama also advo-
Gated the adoption of the minority re-
port, and reminded the convention that
the great State of New York had re-
ceiyed the Presidential nomination for
the past thirty-five years. The people
Of the South, he declared, had the high
est regard and respect for Senator Hill,
but he wanted to know how it was
that the servant (meaning thereby Ma
tional Committed presumed to be
greater than its master. He reminded
the Eastern Democrats that while many
of the nations of Europe marched with
Napoleon in 1903. they marched against
him afterwards, and he said: I'VE have
been your friends. For twenty-five
Years we have supported every candi-
date that you put up, and we will be in
the near future called to do it again,
and we will do it gladly and pleasantly,
but we think that we are entitled to
this nomination, and that the National
Committee ought to have given it to
u.s.
Tarpey of California, a minority
member of the National Committee, also
advocated the adoption of the minority
report. He argued that II the conven-
tion chose as its temporary Chairman
side of the question 1t would imply a
lukewarmness and weakness in the con-
vention which the Democratic party
could not afford. The choice of tenn
porary Chairman would sound the key
note of the campaign, and he wanted
that keynote to be sounded by a silver
representative, not by gold represent
atiVe. He therefore submitted that the
minority report ought to be adopted by
the convention
Short stout and smooth faced John
Il. Fellows of New York walked down
the main aisle to talk in favor of HILL
and as he was recognized a great cheer
ing broke forth from the New York and
other Eastern delegations. He was re-
ceived with cheers as he came to the
platform He paid a tribute to the
splendid ability and long established
Democratic principles of the gentleman
from Virginia, Daniel, and had he been
nominated to a place ON the ticket by
this convention would have gladly given
him support But grave principles were
involved in the question now up. Dem
ocratic traditions were to be trampled
down and the whole life of the Senator
from Virginia repelled the idea that he
could sanction this unheard of act.
He proceeded to show the regularity
of the action Of the National Commit
tee. which, he said for a longer period
than the lives of any delegates present
had presented for the purpose of organ
ization the names of officers to tenn
porarily fill the chairs, and its action in
this regard had never been questioned.
He characterized the plan now pro-
posed as following a Republican prece-
dent, denounced and spit upon.
tCheers) And why was it, he asked.
with strong emphasis, that all the rest
of the report was accepted and only the
distinguished gentlemen from New
York was refused? You cannot es-
cape" he said "the distrust and sus-
picion this will arouse, and / trust
there will be no permanent i'll effects" J"
He recognized the right OF the ma jor-
ity TO control the convention when per-
manently organized. The temporary
organization could effect nothing. Why
not permit the report of the committee
TO stand in it's entirety? He referred
TO the precedent of the convention four
years ago, when Cleveland was nomin-
ated (Cleveland's name being received
with cheers), when a Temporary Chair
man opposed to the candidate, who had
a majority of the convention, was al
lowed to preside over the temporary
organization of the convention, and af-
terward the majority took charge and
nominated their candidate. (Cheers)
And he reminded them in closing that
the great State of New York, whose
loved son 1t was now proposed to strike