The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-08-13
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second primary shall be held upon day
TO lie fixed by our State central commits
tee, which shall be not more than thirty
days after the former primary, and that
at such second primary the choice shall
be between the two who shall have re-
ceiyed the most votes in such former pri.
mary.
"And we instruct and require, our State
central committee to take the necessary
steps to arrange all proper details for the
carrying into effect of this the declared
policy of the party, so that the majority
of our party voters, each voting directly
in our party primary election for his
choice, according to his own free will and
Judgment, shall, in reality and in truth,
select Virginia Senators in the Congress
OF the United States"
che vote by roll call resulted as fol-
lows: 900 for its adoption and $50
against.
The platform was then adopted with
that Paragraph eliminated.
SPLENDID COMMON SENSE OF
SENATOR H. d. FLOOD.
Capt Camm Patteson offered the fol
lowing resolution before the convention
and stated that it expressed true, sound,
Democratic doctrine. 1t was as follows:
''Resolved. That inasmuch as it is ad
mitted by all political economists that
the chief part of the revenue OF the Fed
eral Government is and will always be
obtained Ey proper duty on imports;
therefore both common sense and true
Democracy means that the Democracy
must have tariff SO as to give the strong
est possible incidental protection to
American industries. That true Democ
racy desires not the destruction but the
proteo ton of American industries. and
it takes this occasion to denounce the
School Master Wilson bill in language
that Capt. Camm Patteson declines to
use, feeling, as he does, that in the pres
ent condition of English literature. even
by the help of the Century Dictionary,
there are as yet no words that could prop
erly denounce this infamous bill. Capt
Patteson places the following as true
Democratic doctrine:
"'Resolved. That the Democratic
party, favoring the protection and not
the destruction of American industries,
lays 1t down as a principle of Democracy
that all raw material, such as hay, to.
bacco, corn, wheat, wool, lumber and rail
road ties should not be permitted to he
introa uced into this country unless there
was tariff Of more than rs per cent. ad
valorem placed upon them; that the Dem
ocratic party abhors the odious, infa-
nous, abnormal and unjustifiable protec-
tion given to New Eng land manufacture
ers by the attorneys of those corporations,
who happened unfortun ately to be
Grover Cleveland, the Buffalo sheriff,
and John G. Carlisle, the Confederate
traitor, who was born and reared OH
Southern soil. but was too great Il COW
ard to fight on either sihe, and who,
when elected speaker of the Democratic
Congress, was offered two oaths and
stated that he preferred to take the iron
clad oath, and did take it, stating that he
never had. either diIectly or indirectly,
any sympathy with the South or its cause
or any member thereof
Mr.. Saunders, the permanent chair
man, threw every possible obstacle that
he could in the way of Capt. Camm
Patteson in Offering this resolution, and
by his tyranny suppressed it. Then it
was that H D. Flood, living in the same
district with Mr.. Patteson, turned 10 him
and said:
~ am glad, Captain, that you are not
allowed to discuss the question"
The Captain instantly replied:
81 congratulate you, Senator, upon
your splendid Judgment. Of course, if
You allowed discussion of this question
it is highly probable that although you
have hardly discarded diapers, your name
hereafter will live il an oblivion so thick
that it could he cut with n railroad tie.
l will not say, Senator, because it is i'm
polite and parliamentary, that to use
the language of Hudibras, Never yet did
rogue feel halter draw with honest opin.
ion of the law AS great as your aggra-