The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-04
And Cleveland and Watterson
Both Positively Refused
to Allow the Use of
Their Names.
BUCKNER UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN
The Platform Declares For the Gold
Standard Without Saying Anything
About international Agree
ment or the income


Indianapolis, Ind, sept. o.--John NJ.
Palmer, of Illinois, and Simon Bolivar
-BucLner, of Kentucky, two white-haired
veterans of the war, rival commanders
of the blue and gray, were nominated
to-day by the National Democratic
convention for President and Vice
President on brief but emphatic
platform which repudiates the doc
trines enuneiated by the Chicago con-
vention; endorses President Cleveland
and his administration in glowing
terms; declares for the gold standard;
tariff for revenue only; liberal ship
ping laws; currency reform; Civil Ser
vice and economy in public expendi-
lures. The spirit that animated the
convention was contained in this de-
claration of the platform:s
"The Democratic party has survived
many defeats but it could not survive
a victory won in behalf of the doctrine
and policy proclaimed in its name at
Chicago"
And so in the language of Mr.. Ham
mond, of Louisiana, this convention
placed in the hands of other nominees
their banner and bade them fling it
forth ''skyward, high and wide"
The real work of the convention was
soon transacted when it was reached,
but the delay in reporting the plat
form gave opportunity for a series of
eloquent and stirring speeches. The
attendance was larger than yesterday
and the enthusiasm was great. Col
w. G. p. Breckenridge, the famous blue
grass orator; Dewitt G. Warner, of
New York; CA. Hammond, of Georgia;
w. d. Bynum, of Indiana, and Con-
troller of the Currency Eckles, of Illi-
nois, were in turn called to the stage
4 ~. L l.
pitch.
When the platform was at last
brought in, shortly before o'clock, af-
ter the convention had been in session
three hours, it was read amid an al
most continuous storm of applause
and was adopted unanimously without
"A word of debate.
NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT.
When the nominations. for President
were called for, it was apparent that
Palmer would be nominated over his
protest as the opposition to Bragg had
concentrated upon him. These two
names were the only ones presented
to the convention. 1t was known that a
message from President Cleveland had
reached the convention that he could
not entertain for moment the sug-
gestion of his nomination and his de-
cision was at once accepted as final.
Before the States were called for
nominations, Henry Watterson was
taken out of the lists by Mr.. Carroll,
OF Louisville, who, from the platform.
conveyed to the convention a message
from the Kentucky editor in his re-
treat in the mountains of Switzerland.
Mr.. Watterson, Mr.. Carroll said, three
days after the Chicago convention, had
cabled that other candidates must be
named or the Democracy was lost.
Later he had said he did not want the
honor but that if no one else could
be found to take command, he would
not ask of others to go where he would
not lead Now that others were ready
10 accept, he preferred to do babtle
in the ranks.
Some of the nominating speeches
were eloquent and full of fire. i. l..
Kilbourne, of Michigan, placed Senator
Palmer in nomination, and there was a
series of seconding speeches. Burr w.
Jones, of Wisconsin, nominated Gen.
Bragg, ''the hero of fifty battles, and
the commander of the iron brigade.
SENATOR PALMER NAMED.
Illinois waited until all the other
States had been called. Then Judge
Morgan, of Chicago, took the stage and
sand they had recognized from the first
that Senator Palmer was the man to
lead the fight. He was he said, plat
form in himself All his life he had
fought hatism, greenbaclzism, free sill
yer and other yagaries, and he had seal
ed their lips. After seeing the temper
of the convention, however, he said.
Illinois was compelled TO join hands
with her sister States in urging his
nomination. The roll-calI Immediately
deye' 9ped an overwhelming majority
in favor of Senator Palmer, but it pro-
ceeded to the end. Palmer received
7571a votes, and Bragg 124R At its
conclusion, the commander Of the iron
brigade mounted a chair, and in a brief
but graceful speech moved that the