The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24

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convention was called TO order at noon
in st. Louis on Tuesday, June 16. Q.
W. Fairbanks of Indiana was chosen
temporary chairman. He made an able
address, and his references to protec-
ton, to sound money, to eminent re-
publican statesmen past and present,
were loudly applauded. After short
session, during which only the business
necessary to complete the organization
was transacted, the convention adj
journed.
Senator Thurston, the permanent
chairman of the committee, took the
chair of the presiding officer on the
second day. His address is model of
substance, brevity and eloquence. He
said
Gentlemen of the Convention The
happy memory of your kindness and conf
dence will abide in my grateful heart for
ever. My sole ambition is to meet your ex-
pectations, and pledge myself to exercise
the important powers of this high office with
absolute justice and impartiality | be-
speak your cordial cooperation andI sup
port, to the end that our proceedings
may be orderly and dignifed, as BELTS the
deliberations of the supreme council Of the
republican party.
Eight years ago had the distinguished
honor to preside over the convention which
nominated the last republican president of
the United States. To-day | have the
further distinguished honor to preside
over the convention which is to nominate
the next president of the United States.
This generation has had its object-lesson,
and the doom of the democratic party is al
ready pronounced. The American people
will return the republican party to power
because they know that its administration
will mean
"The supremacy of the Constitution of
the United States,
"The maintenance of law and order.
1.-THE protection of every American citi-
zen in his right to live, to labor and to vote.
" A vigorous foreign policy.
1.-THE enforcement of the Monroe doctrine
1.-THE restoration of our merchant marine.
Safety under the Stars and Stripes on
every sea, in every port.
"a revenue adequate for all govern
mental expenditures and the gradual ex-
tinguishment OF the national debt.
"A currency as sound as the govern
ment and as untarnished as its honor
whose dollars, whether of gold, silver or
paper, shall have equal purchasing and
debt-paying power with the best dollars of
the civilized world.
A protective tariff which protects,
coupled with a reciprocity which recipro-
Gates, securing American markets for
American products and opening American
factories to the free coinage of American
muscle.
A pension policy just and generous to our
living heroes and to the widows and or
phans of their dead comrades.
The governmental supervision and con-
troll of transportation lines and rates
The protection OF the people from all un-
lawful combinations and unjust exactions
Of aggregated capital and corporate power
An American welcome to every God
fearing, liberty-loving, ConsttutiUn-respect
ing, law-abiding, labor-seeking decent man
The exclusion of all whose birth, whose
- tnon hyylfvn
whose practices would menace the perma-
nency of free institutions, endanger the
safety of American society or lessen the
opportunities of American labor.
The abolition of sectionalism - every
star in the flag shining for the honor and
welfare and happiness of every common
wealth and of all the people.
" A deathless loyalty to all that is truly
American and patriotism eternal as the
stars"
AS Senator Thurston closed his short
speech with the phrase I" A patriotism
as eternal as the stars the air was
rent with cheers, amid which he was
heard to ask the official question, Gen
tlemen, what is your pleasure?"
The committee were not ready to re-
port and the convention adjourned un-
til afternoon. The committee on Gre
dentials reported in favor of seating
the Higgins dele cation from Delaware
and the gates-at.large from Texas
headed by John Grant. The rest of
the report recommended that the roll
of delegates and alternates, as pre-
pared by the national committee for
the temporary organization, be ap-
proved as the permanent roll of the
convention, and this report was
adopted by large majority. Addicks,
who headed the contesting delegation
from Delaware, was branded by the
majority report as political adven-
turer of the worst type, and the con-
vention endorsed this view of the boss
from the land of peaches. Neverthe-
less, Hepburn of Iowa, in a minority
report, sought to give the adventurer a
character. A resolution denouncing
mob violence and lynching was intro
duced by H. A. Buckner, colored
delegate from Georgia, and was re-
ferred to the committee on resolutions.
The convention adjourned for the day.
The third and last day of the
convention began at half-past ten
O'Clock Thursday morning. Without
any preliminaries, Chairman Thurston
plunged into business by announcing
that the first business in order was the
report OF the committee on resolutions.
Senator j. B, Foraker of Ohio, chair
man Of the committee, then read
THE PLATFORM:
1.-THE republicans of the United States
assembled by their representatives in ma
tional convention, appealing for the popular
and historical justification OF their claims
to the bitter fruits of four years OF demo
cratic control, as we'll as the matchless i'm
provements of thirty years OF republican
rule, earnestly and confidently address
themselves to the awakened intelligence,
experience and conscience OF their country
men, in the following declaration OF facti
and principles:
For the first time since the Civil Wal
the American people have now witnessed
the calamitOus consequences of full and I'M
restricted democratic control Of the govern
ment. 1t has been record OF unparalleled
incapacity, dishonOr and disaster. In thu
administrative management it has ruth
lessly sacrificed indispensable revenue
eked out ordinary current running expenses
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