Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-09-02

THE MOST HOILI Gun IEo r-D
GATHERINGS HELD IN YEARS,
AND LASTED FROM 10 A. NJ. TILL
$3.50 A. M.-NEAI. LED THE BAL
LOTING FROM THE START, BUT
AS THE WEAKER ONES DROPPED
OUT, THEIR STRENGTH WAS SO
DIVIDED AS TO PREVENT A NOM
NATIONWIDE SELECTION MADE
UNANIMOUS AMIDST GREAT EN-
THUsIAsM.
Special to the Register.
Spencer, w. Va, September AT 10
o'clock this morning this town was a
surging mass Of people. The big con-
vention was new thing for the me-
tropolis of Roane county, and the hills
and dales gave up the living that they
might see the sights and pay tribute
to the big event.
The various candidates and their i'm
mediate workers were up early and
moving around rapidly in search of
new developments that might effect
their candidacy; but no new develop
nents took place last night and every
thing settled down to its natural trend
along hotly-contested lines.
The Congressional Executive Com
mittee, met at II o'clock and named
Nan6a1a nf Rnano for
temporary chairman, and VIII otrick-
Ter, of Richie, for temporary secretary
Of the convention, with Van Zeveley
and Harry Hoyt as assistants, and after
transacting other routine business ad-
journed sine die
Promptly at l O'Clock Holly G. Arm
strong, chairman of the Congressional
Committee, called the. convention to
order in Wells Opera House, and after
making pleasant speech congratu-
lating the party upon the enthusiastic
gathering and loyalty to Jeffersonian
principles of Democracy, called those
gentlemen to their posts of duty.
Mr.. Vandale was greeted by hearty
t6utbursts of applause as he took the
vel and commenced to make a
Oh, ringing with enthusiasm and
Democratic principles. His speech
gical, convincing and received by
It outbursts of applause.
convention then proceeded to
Va 80 hn =
ID during their deliberations the
ion was at ease. The commit
resolutions was especially a
one.
THE PLATFORM
Euched in concise and unmistakable
1t is as follows:
The Democracy OF the Fourth West
Virginia Congressional district, in con-
vention assembled, reaffirm the plat
form of principles adopted at Chicago
by the Democrats at their convention
In July, 1896, and its devotion to the
teachings of Thomas jefferson, the
founder of the party, so clearly ex-
pressed in his inaugural address, in
these words:
Equal and exact justice to all men,
of whatever state or persuasion, relig-
ious or political; peace, commerce and
honest friendship with all nations, en-
tangling alliances with none; the sup
port of the State governments in all
their rights as the most competent ad-
ministration of our domestic concerns
and the surest bulwark against anti
ton of the general government in its
whole constitutional vigor as the sheet
achor of our peace at home and safety
abroad; a jealous care of the right Of
election by the people as a mild and
safe corrective of abuses which are
Topped by the sword of revolution
where peaceable remedies are unpro-
vided; absolute acquiescence in the d.
cisions of the majority. the vital prin-
cipIe fof republics, from which there
is no appeal but to force, the vital
principle and immediate parent of des-
potism; well-disciplined militia, our
best reliance in peace and for the first
movements of war till regulars may
relieve them, the supremacy of the
civil power over the military authority;
wise and frugal government, which
shall restrain men from injuring one
another and shall leave them free to
regulate their own pursuits of industry
and Improvement, which shall not take
from the mouth of labor tie bread it
has earned; economy in the public ex-
penses, that labor may be lightly bur-
dened; the honest payment of our
debts and sacred preservation of the
public faith; encouragement of agri-
culture and of commerce as its hand
maid: the diffusion of information and
,rraignment of all abuses at the bar of
public reason; freedom Of religion. free
Tom of the press and freedom of persons
under the protection of the habeas