Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-07-14
DEMOCRATIC STANDARD BEARERS
The Ticket Placed in Nomination By the Democratic
National Convention at St. Louis.
Parker of New York. for President and Henry
q. Davis Virginia. for Vice-Presdent
of United
Full Text of the Platform on Which the Democratic
Party of the Country Go Before the People.

gates, the roll call showed 647 votes
against and 299 for the adoption of
the report for which he had yainly
battled
Illinois, on request of National Com
mitteeman Hopkins, was passed on
the roll call. The twentyeisht votes
of Michigan and the sixty-eight of
Pennsylvania were cast as unit un-
der Chairman Williams ruling.
Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, took
the gayel as permanent chairman of the
convention late in the afternoon ses-
sion, and delivered his speech as such.
1t was sharp arraignment of Republi-
can shortcomings and inconsistencies,
both in the party and administration.
Mr.. Clark said in part:
MIR. CIark's speech.
Gentlemen of the Convention: The
principal part of the speech king by
the chairman in this convention has been
accomplished. My business is to run this
convention so that the nominees of 1t Will
be elected next November (applause), and
1t shall be done without fear or favor 10
them. King David said once in his haste
that all men are liars. If he had been IN
Chicago about the time Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge was reading the republican
platform. he could have taken his leisure
and said that "All republicans are liars.
daughter and prolonged applause.)
"They dragged out the old free trade
bogey. and expect to scare men with that
in the coming campaign. Men in the frame
of mind that the democrats are this year
can not be scared.
monumental lie that a democratic tariff
always produces bad time, and re-
publican tariff always produces good
times. And yet, in rs, when Grant was
beginning his second term in the White
House, and the democrats had scarcely
enough votes to call the ayes and noes,
you had a panic that made peoples teeth
rattle from sea TO sea. Laughter.l They
evidently believed in Mark Twains die
tim, Blessed is the man that bloweth his
own horn, lest it be not blown. Laugh
ter0
"They say 'we'-that is the republicans
fought a quick and successful war in
favor of Cuba, when the truth is, as
stated on the floor of the house when
they were all there, and none of them
dared to deny it, that we took them by
the scruff of the neck and dragged them
into the Spanish war. And their disin-
clination to go into, and their disposition
to monopolize all glories. reminds me of
a Poland-China sow that my father used
to tell me about. that was so bashful you
had to pull her cars on to get her 10 the
trough. and so greedy you had TO pun
her tail off to get her away. daughter
I'VE are in favor OF cutting down to
a reasonable basis the monstrosities oil
the Dingley tariff rates. We are in ia
vor of reciprocity that reciprocates. ZAP
plause) We are in favor of getting rid
of the Philippine islands at the f1rst ia
vorable opportunity. They are not worth
baubee and never were. We are III
favor of restricting the functions OF the
president and his cabinet to what the
fathers intended they should be in the
constitution, and We believe in compelling
the executive department of this govern
ment to abdicate the large part of the
legislative function that Il has uSnrped.
LAS far as my rulings in this convention
will be, they shall be fair II we so con-
duct ourselves that all OF the various
elements of public opinion that are op-
posed to the Roosevelt administration has
brough. together, we viii mop them on
the face of the earth from sea to sea in
not do any good presiding over this con-
vention without your help, and that ! So
ncit that we may have good order, good
feeling and a great victory in the contest
to come" (Applause.)
Following the speech of Congress-
man Clark the convention adjourned
shortly after o'clock until 10 o'clock
Friday morning.
The adjournment was made neces-
sary by the inability of the subcom-
| mittee of the resolutions committee to
complete its report.