Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1884 — Page 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

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SPORTING MATTERS. 1 Yesterday’s Running Races at Washington Driving Park. Chicago, July B.—lt rained all night, but the ! weather to-day was fine, the track good and the attendance very large. _ The three-quarter-mile race Volunte won; Exile second, Tennessee third. Time, 1:171. Constellation was left at ; the post. The second heat, Sadie McNairy won; Lady TiOud, second: P. D. Q., third; Glenellen. Wheat Bread aud Banouo, distanced. Time, 1:04. The third heat Niphon won; Sadie McNairy, Kgond. Time, 1:05. The second race, for colts, three-year-olds, (foals '.of 1881), one mile, General Harding won; Strickinnd second. Bob Cook third. Time, 1:45. '"The third race, for the Washington Park cup, swdepstakes for three year-olds and upward, two miles and a quarter, Gen. Mouroe won; Bob Miles second, April Pool third. Time, 4:05*. The fourth race, free handicap sweepstakes, for all ages, one and one-eightn mile, Topsy won; Swiney second. Imogene third. Time, 1:57. In the fifth race, five-eighth:, of a mile heats, In the first heat there was a driving finish between Niphon, Maramonist, Lady Loud and Eva very close to the wire. The judges decided that Niphon won by a head. Mammonist second, Lady Loud third. Time 1:04, Sensational Racing at Monmouth Park. New York, July B.—The racing at Monmouth park, to-day, was sensational In accidents. In the third race. Himalaya threw Feaks, his jockey, who ruptured a blood vessel in the head, and was carried off the track unconscious. At the close of the race, the horse Orator, coming in fourth, dropped dead just as he was being palled up. The attendance was large. In the mile and a furlong race, George Kinney and Jack-of-Hearts were the starters. The former won. Time, 1:56. In the July stakes, for two year olds, threefourths of a mile, Brookwood went ahead on the straight, and won easily by a length; Exile second. Richmond third, Time, 1:16. In the third race, the Lorillard stakes, for three-year-olds, a mile and a half. At the bend Himalaya stumbled and landed on his head, throwing Feaks, and Welcher. immediately behind, -came in collision with Himalaya and was thrown out of his stride, which put him out of the race. Greystone led to the head of the stretch, when Ecuador came up with a rush and won by a short length; Leo third. Time, 2:40*. Orator dropped dead on pulling up. Base Ball. The clubs of the American Association played games yesterday as follows: At Ovncivnati — Cincinnati 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 2 10 Brooklyn 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0— 4 Base Hits—Cincinnati. 15; Brooklyn, 8. Errors—Cincinnati, 4; Brooklyn, 6. At Toledo— * Toledo L.l 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 Metropolitan........o O 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 Base Hits—Toledo, 10; Metropolitan, 3. Errors—Toledo, 7; Metropolitan, 4. At Colwnbue— Oolumbus 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 I—B Athletic 0 1 2 0 0 0 o'o o—3 Base Hits—Columbns, 12; Athletic, 6. Errors—Columbus, 1; Athletic, 4. At Louitcille — Baltimore 0 03000000 o—3 Louisville 1 00200000 1 4 Base Hits—Balitimore, 7; Louisville, 0, Errors—Baltimore, 3; Louisville, 2. At St. Louie— Allegheny ;..l 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0— 1 ot. Louis 0 1 1 6 0 0 5 0. * 7 Base Hite—Allegheny, 5; St. Louis, 10. Errors—Allegheny, 10; St. Louis, 5. Clubs of the National League played yesterday as below: ' At ChicagoNew York .*..8 33 0 0 1 2 0 o—ll Chicago ..1 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 8 Bass Hits—New York, 12: Chicago, 10. Errors—New York, 7; Chicago, 12. At Cleveland— Boston 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 4—lo Cleveland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Base Hits —Boston, 14; Cleveland, 6. Errors—Boston, 3; Cleveland, 6. At Buffalo— Buffalo 0 00003020 o—s Providence 1 00000310 I—6 Base Hits—Providence, 9; Buffalo. 9. Errors—Providence, 10; Buffalo, 1. At Detroit— T£Tadelphia 0 0 4 2 3 1 1 0 *—ll oit 1 1100001 o—4 Base Hits—Philadelphia, 14; Detroit, 11. Errors—Philadelphia, 8; Detroit, 0. National Soldiers’ Reunion. CoLUMBUSr 0., July B.—The eleventh annual national soldiers’ reunion will be held at Caldwell, 0., September 17 and 18. It is nou-noiit-ical, and composod of privates only. Private Dalzell is chairman, and all inquiries should be addressed to him. Ayer’s Ague Cure is warranted to cure all malarial disorders, when the directions are faithJufly followed.

THE UNIT BULE SUSTAINED. Proceedings of the First Session of the Democratic National Convention. Temporary President Hubbard Declares that the Nomination of Logan Is a Revival of the Bloody Shirt. The Convention at Once Proceeds to a Discussion of the Unit Rale. After a Debate Lasting Two Honrs a Vote Is Reached, and a Majority Decides to Abide by the Ancient Plan. Bntler Refused Recognition by the Presiding Officer and the Convention. Indications Point Strongly to the Nomination of Cleveland, Who Is Thought to Have More Than 400 Votes. General Belief that Ex-Senator McDonald Will Secure Second Place. The Great Men of the Party Who Are Present, and How They Look—Gossip and Incidents of the Day.

THE FIRST SESSION. Mr. Hubbard’s Address—The Fight on the Unit Rule—Tlie Probable Outcome. Special to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Chicago, July 8. —It was nearly 1 o’clock this afternoon when the ruddy-visaged Se ven-mule Barnum appeared at the rostrum of the national Democratic convention and commanded order. The delegates were early in their places, but the galleries and spectators’ seats at either end of the great hall were by no means filled. There were certainly quite three thousand vacant chairs, and throughout the entire proceedings of the first session there was manifested a notable lack of enthusiasm, although there was deep and anxious interest, apparently. Mr. Barnum was brief and business-like. He deals more in October and November options than in speech, and so he did little more than to put the motion for the election of Governor Hubbard, of Texas, as temporary president Hubbard is called the Lone-star Infant. He is a good man, personally, and Weighs something less than four hundred pounds, He looks like a mixture of the lain Secretary of State Hawn and Ira Williamson, with a possible flavor of Superintendent Charlton. He has a fair speaking voice and shakes his head and his protuberant abdomen with great vigor, and with much assumed gravity. His speech was a tame affair, with a noticeablo point or two. He scored the electoral commission fearfully, which was unkind, considering that Abram S. Hewitt, the author of the bill in the House, was of the committee to escort him to the chair, and that in his audience was Allen G. Thutman, of Ohio, and Jonas G. Abbott, of Massachusetts, and Francis S’. Kernaq, of New York, who were members of that Democratic extralegal, extra-constitutional institution, which, like a gun aimed at a duck or plover, kicked in the breech and knocked the owner over. The most notable thing he said was that the nomination of General John A. Logan as a candidate for Vice-president of the United States by the Republican party was a flaunting of the bloody shirt in the faces of the Southern Democrats. He said good men of all parties and of all beliefs had united to forget the memories of war days. According to Governor Hubbard, the tender susceptibilities of the South must not be outraged by the nomination of a Union soldier, but all reference to the war, directly or indirectly, be omitted out of deference to our Southern brethren. We are getting along rapidly. The Journal has frequently called attention to the rapid development of the sentiment that relegates service in the federal armies to the background, and, in truth, makes it rather a political disability than an honor. But this speech of Governor Hubbard goes a little further than anything yet seen. It is worth the attention of loyal people and the surviving soldiery of the nation, that, in twenty years after the dispersion of the armies of the government, a Democratic State convention in Indiana fails to specify the character of soldiers they would compliment with their gratitude, and the temporary chairman of a national Democratic convention announces that it is flaunting the bloody shirt for a Republican convention to nominate a Union soldier for office. This point is worth emphasizing. It was in this city of Chicago, twenty years ago, that a national Democratic convention declared the war a failure; and now, at their next meeting here, the same body declares that to honor the most famous volunteer general of that war for the Union is flaunting the bloody shirt, and should be rebuked. THE UNIT BULB. Mr Hubbard spoke about half an hour, and then, upon the very first item of business presented, the battle over the unit rule began. It was opened by a motion of State Senator Grady, Tammanyite, to the effect that if the vote of any State should be challenged, the individual roll of delegates should be called. The debate was not a great one, but it was full of interest and was participated in by Grady, Colonel Fellows (Mr. Kelly’s anti-Tammanyite colleague), John Kelly, ex Senator Doolittle, Carter Harrison, Major Burke, of New Orleans, and John 0. Jacobs, of Brooklyn. Fellows, Doolittle, Jacobs and Burke speke for the right of the State as a State*-a distinct Democratic doctrine—while Kelly, Carter Harrison and Grady defended the rights of individnal delegates. Kelly received a great ovation, but did hot attempt anything much. He spoke briefly and plainly, and with much force. He is getting quite gray. The lines of the prize fighter are being somewhat softened

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with age; but he is still John Kelly, the idol of the “boys” and the bull dog of Tammany. He is nobody’s fool by a good deal, and may be trusted to take care of himself in debate; but Fellows carried off the honors of the discussion. Cool, dispassionate, full of humorous irony, and with mock deference he laid bare the pretension that Tammany of all things in the world was making an honest fight against machine methods in politics. Part of Colonel Fellows’ second address was a keen and delicious bit of satire. It was appreciated both by the delegates and the audience, and was so sharp and effective that no reply was even attempted. General Butler got upon his feet to participate in the discussion, but was recognized neither by the chair nor the convention, and quickly sat down. At one point Allen G. Thurman rose to a parliamentary inquiry, when at once there was a demonstration second only to that which ensued when Chairman Hubbard alluded to Mr. Tildeninhis opening address. That'was the chief incident of the day. dt was a genuine burst of enthusiasm, but was not long continued. When the name of Mr. Hendricks followed, the Indiana delegation rose to their feet and gave a cheer, but the convention did not catch on with any vigor. Mr. Thurman is in good health, and bears well his age; his rugged appearance has not much softened or shrunken with years. Dressed in a neglige suit of gray, with his red bandanna either in his band or displayed from his side pocket, he is easily recognized as the one typical, noble old Roman of the gathering. The Pacific coast is for Thurman, and they led in the applause that greeted his rising. When he came in to dinner at the _ Palmer, this afternoon, the guests gave him a salvo of cheers and a rataplan of applause with their knives upon the tables. The four principal figures of the convention sit on the end chairs of the south aisle of the delegates—Hendricks, General Palmer, Thurman and Ben Butler. They attract the most attention, are the most called for. and are the cynosures of the largest number of eyes. When the debate closed, which was protracted for two hours, the call of the roll proceeded amid much suppressed excitement. New York was passed until the call was completed. When it was seen that Grady’s amendment was defeated and the unit rule was sustained, the vote of New York was announced seventy-two in the negative, a result reached by a vote in the delegation of 48 to 15, nine votes less than a full roll. The Chair ruled that the vote must be recorded as the chairman cast it, so that the result does not truly represent the real vote. The real vote was 435 for the unit rule and 347 against In about another eight years the Democratic party will follow their Republican leaders and abolish this rule, which disfranchises the individual delegates, and gives only the States a voice in the convention. It takes, on an average, abont twelve years for the Democratic party to catch up with the Republican party.

Cleveland’s strength. This vote, while not a true test vote, may be taken as a somewhat fair indication of the strength of Cleveland. There were votes east against the unit rule which will be cast for him, as, for instance, Maine and Illinois, and in Missouri, while on the other hand there were votes cast for the rule that will not be cast for him at first; but it is evident that he has a decided majority of the convention, and lacks not more than 100, if so many, of a two-thirds vote. There was a decided break in the Southern States against the unit rule, and this is interpreted by the anti-Cleveland men as an indication of the inroads that Bayard is making in the South, but the friends of Cleveland jubilantly claim that they will nominate him on the second bailor, and it looks as if nothing could prevent that result It might have been better policy for the Cleveland men to have conceded to the minority the right of voting for someone else, and thus have shown their magnanimity; but the Tammany opponents of Cleveland have said and done all they can against the favorite, and there is little disposition to show them any quarter. Like the man’s wife, they are as mad as they can get, anyhow, and there is no particular use of casting the pearis of sweetness before the Tammany swine. Indiana voted thirty votes aeainst the unit rule. Thus did Mr. Hendricks have the opportunity to show his gratitude to his friend. Mr. Kelly, and he smiled very graciously and in a satisfied manner, as he rose up and sat down. As the indications for Cleveland increase, so do those of McDonald for the second place. The naming of Colonel Vilas for permanent chairman would seem to take him out of the list of the candidates for Vice-president, but there is still a good deal of quiet talk for him, and his friends think that in tlie chair he will enhance his chances rather than lessen them. Judging from the present outlook, the ticket will be Cleveland and McDonald, with a possibility of it being Cleveland and Vilas. PERSONNEL OF THE CONVENTION. Nearly All the Great Lights of the Party Present and on Exhibition. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Chicago, July B.—The personnel of the Democratic convention is, to many persons, more interesting than the proceedings. Nearly aH the notable men of the party, with the exception of those who are candidates for places on the ticket, are here, and occupied seats either on the stage or among the delegates to-day. They were the center of attraction, and from all parts of the hall could be seen curious lookers-on pointing them out. Ex-Senator Hendricks, General Butler, Allen G. Thurman, Senator Pendleton and John Kelly commanded the most attention. As Mr. Thurman came up the hall he was complimented with a round of cheers, which he acknowledged by lifting liis hat. There was a faAnt murmur of applause when Mr. Hendricks came in, and a bare acknowledgement for Mr. Pendleton. John Kelly sat with the Tammany representatives in the New York delegation and directed their operations. In the heated debate over the uuitrule question he came to the aid of the minority when it was evident that the case was going against them, and made a speech which was heard but indistinctly, but which was pointed and crafty. In a running debate with Mr. Fellows he held his own very cleverly, but was evidently not an equal match for his quick-witted and sarcastic opponent Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, a plain man, with iron-gray beard and hair, was dull and prosaic in his argument for State representation, but General Clunie, of California, who followed

him, was just the opposite. A howl of enthusiastic shouts went up when Carter Harrison, mayor of Chicago and Democratic nominee for Governor, got up to speak. He has a prepossessing appearance and a nervous way about him that is calculated to create the impression that he is in constant fear of a mine being exploded under him. Wade Hampton was on the stage with the other Democratic notables, and took a great interest in the proceedings. Governor Abbott heads the New Jersey delegation, and helped Tammany as much as possible in the opposition to the nnit rule. The platform was principally occupied by members of the national committee, prominent among whom were Prince, of Massachusetts, and Hamm, of lowa, who helped Austin H. Brown in his disposition of members of the press. The correspondents of the leading newspapers have eligible locations, although not as much space is allotted to them as they desire. The Chicago papers each have ten or twelve men; the Associated Press, eight; the United Press, six; the Cincinnati Enquirer, five; the Louisville Courier Journal, three, and each of the leading New York, Boston and Philadelphia papers three. “Gath,” with two stenographers, is just at the right of the speaker, and next to him is Joe Howard, of the New York Herald, and Ed Perry, of the Boston Herald. The Indianapolis dailies have but one seat each, which is in striking contrast to the treatment they received in the Republican convention last month. The Western Union Telegraph Company has sixty operators and forty messengers in the convention, while a pneumatic tube is used to send manuscript to the operating room in another part of the building. Just to the right of the delegates are about 600 seats assigned to newspaper men who are merely 100 kers-on and do their work outside. To the right of these is the space allotted to alternates, many of whom were accompanied by ladies. The,crowd began assembling around the entrance as early as 6 o’clock this morning, and long before they were opened, so as to get front seats in the galleries and lower section. The hall is so immense and the seating arrangements so curious that not more than half the spectators can hear what is going on, and a great many of them are shut off from even a satisfactory view. While they were assembling this morning a military band in the gallery gave various selections, and it was noticeable that “Dixie’ received a round of applause, while “Yankee Doodle,” “Hail Columbia”. and other patriotic airs received little attention.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. A Confident McDonald Man—A Promising Boom for Thurman. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Chicago, July a— Said State Senator Bell tonight: “The Cleveland men are reckoning without their host in claiming that his nomination is almost, if not quite, a sure thing. That alleged test vote to-day was not a test vote. Nearly all the Southern delegates who voted with the Cleveland men did so in support of the principle of State sovereignty. 1 tell you that McDonald will be the nominee of this convention, for all the opposing factions can consistently unite on him. and this cannot be said of Bayard. The 323 delegates who voted against Cleveland to-day will hold . out against him, and they will receive very large accessions from the West and South. I feel more confident to-night than at any other time since I have been here.” The most striking event this evening was the development of a sturdy boom for Allen G. Thurman. After his enthusiastic reception by the convention to day, the Ohio delegation to-night held a meeting, and almost unanimously decided not to present Hoadly’s name, but to nominate Thurman. A telegram was sent to Hoadly notifying him of this determination, and in response he answered that,he favored the plan. All this evening the Ohio headquarters have been crowded, and much enthusiasm is displayed. The Thurman boom is evidently promising. A Quarrel in the Ohio Delegation. To the Woßtern Associated Press. Chicago, July 8. —It was stated in a very positive way that the encouragement which the Thurman movement had received would impel his formal nomination, and that the speech would be made by General Breckinridge, of Ken tucky. The Ohio headquarters at the Palmer House, to-night, presented a scene of furore and excitement growing outof this fact. The spacious rooms were crowded to suffocation, speakers rapidly following one another, addressing the ever-moving crowds from a table placed in the center of the room. The faction quarrel between the Thurman and anti-Thur-man parties, to all outward appearances, is becoming more intense and bitter than when - the delegates first arrived. At least a dozen Ohio delegates declare openly that they will not vote for Thurman. No caucus vote of the delegation on presidential preference has yet been had, but from various delegates it is learned that Ohio stands twenty-five anti-Thurman to twenty-one Thurman. This estimate is strenuously denied by Thurman’s supporters, who claim twenty-eight votes. The anti-Thur-man element in Ohio are uncertain whom they shall support, but the indications to-night point to their casting at least a portion of their vote for Hoadly. whose name will be put in nomination if Thurman’s friends persist in presenting him. After that the anti-Thurman votes will probably go to Cleveland. Ohio holds a caucus in the morning before enteriug Jhe convention. Thurman’s friends to night state that many Southern delegates have declared their intention of supporting him. It is, therefore, probable that Thurman’s name vWI be presented as the nominal outcome of the caucus. The entire California delegation visited the Ohio headquarters, and Mr. Turpey, of California, speaking for his State said that if the Ohio people would abandon the candidacy of Mr. Hoadly and would accept in his place Mr. Thurman, the Pacific coast would guarantee to him the solid Democratic vote and a victory which he believed would not only includf California but the entire Union. GENERAL AND PERSONAL. Cleveland’s Nomination Considered Certain— A Row Among the Hoosiers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Chicago, July B. —The opponents of Cleveland claim that the vote on the uuit rule to-day is not a fair test of his strength. They argue that the precedent of the party has steadfastly been against the abrogation of this restriction, and the old guard who always attend the conventions voted to-day in accordance with tradition, and not because of partiality to any one candidate. The Cleveland men themselves express surprise at the majority, for they have at no time claimed to have more than 400 votes on the first ballot It takes 542 to nominate, according to the two third* rule, and to-night they express themselves as confident that he will bo nominated on the second ballot, if not the first. The assertion is safe that the McDonald men have practically abandoned the hope of nominating him unless some unforeseen

contingency arises which will defeat Cleveland. They will not publicly acknowledge this, but in private they say that they r-*" he pore than sat* isfied if their man gets the place on the ticket, and for this he has cr chance. An effort is being made 3 oeat Cleveland with Bayard, and Henry "rt ,-son, and other McDonald men. are once 2. ; this as much as possible, in the hope th O onald may come in as a compromise ca . The bitterness against Cleveland incl - vith the strength that he is developing, i, > Delegate Davis, of Pennsylvania, to-nigu- Cleveland will be beaten 50,000 votes in his own State, and he cannot carry either Delaware, New Jersey, or Connecticut. If we nominate him, Blaine will cany more States than Garfield did.” Delegations of workingmen are here from the East, opposing Cleveland, and their fellow-laborers here are uniting with them. The. most conspicuous fizzle of the week has been the Butler boom, which has almost completely faded away. An attempt was made to revive it to-night by holding a grand labor demonstration, which the Cock-eyed Son of Destiny addressed,hut it did not amount to much. Mr. Flower has also completely dropped out of public notice, and but little is heard of Hoadly. Mr. Randall, another of the presidential possibilities, will reach here some time to night, and Mr. Carlisle is already here. A big fight is expected, to-morrow, over the tariff plank in the platform, for the Randall men are determined to have some recognition. About 400 more Hoosiers arrived this morning, all expecting to get in the convention, and about fifty of them got in. After the adjournment, when it became generally known that there were fully twentyfive hundred unoccupied seats in the convention, they were so mad that they threatened to mob Austin H. Brown and Dick Bright, and about two hundred who felt particularly aggrieved marched about the hall singing, “We’ll hang Aus Brown on a sour apple tree. ” A determined fight is being made by John P. Frenzel, Peter Lieber, and others to defeat A. H. Brown in his candidacy for Indiana member of the national committee, and it is about an even thing that they succeed. The choice was to have been made last night, but the delegation postponed it, so as to compel Mr. Brown to be more liberal in his disposal of the tickets. It had its desired effect, and to-day tickets were somewhat more plentiful, but still there are not enough to go half-way around. Every Indiana man here expects to be able to get a front seat, and any one of them will be lucky if they get in.

IN THE HALL. The Arrangements for Seating the Audience and the Workers. Chicago, July 8 —Crowds began to gather in the vicinity of the great hall in which the Democratic presidential convention is being held at an early hour in the day, the door-tenders and ushers reporting for duty at 8 o’clock, with people then in waiting to enter and secure their seats. Inside the auditorium, however, there was an approach to chaos, laborers still being engaged in giving the finishing touches, after having been employed during all of the preceding night. They did not desert the main platform where were being hung to within half an hour of the time announced for the opening of the convention, when the workmen quitted the building and the scene was clear. The picture presented was majestic, with its sittings of fourteen thousands auditors. Every seat in the vast amphit heater appeared to be occupied, the audience having its full quota of the fair portion of humanity in holiday attire. It is conceded that the picturesque effect, arrange ment and dressing of the hall excel that of the convention of four weeks ago. The great of the old hall has been lost by the placing of the main stage at one side and midway, instead of one extreme of the hall; but the arrangement brings the entire audience very much closer to the stage proper ’and the delegates. The decorations are not profuse, but striking and pleasing to the eye, the national colors predominating. Tlie main platform is dwarfed in comparison to the magnificent proportions of the hall. The delegates are seated in a square immediately fronting the speaker's platform, on the dead level of the convention hall. Between the delegates and the platform are the quarters assigned the press representatives, who have been provided tables in rising tiers, affording these workers a complete view of any incident likely to be provoked during the session. To the right and left of the delegates are the seats for the spectators, sloping upward easily to a point thirty feet from the floor level. The only, additional word to be offered in way of description is that the lighting of the vast hall is complete, being flanked and crowned with great windows which pour their flood of light on every portion of the auditorium, even with a dull leaden sky overhead. At 1.1:30 the scarlet-coated band of the First Illinois regiment took position above the speaker’s platform, and burst forth with a martial air which also proved the signal for the arrival of the first of the delegates, the Tennessee delegation leading the van. From that moment the crowd streamed in without ceasing until the noon hour, when the hall had its full complement of people. THE OPENING PROCEEDINGS Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, Elected to the Temporary Chairmanship.' Chicago, July B. —The convention was called to order at 12:37p. m. by Hon. Wm. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, chairman of the Democratic national committee. He said: “The Chair has the honor to present Rev. Dr. Marquis, of Chicago, who will open tlie deliberations of this convention with prayer.” The Rev. Dr. Marquis addressed the Throne of Grace. He prayed for a blessing on this retire sentativeconventionof citizens; that they should be endowed plentifully with that wisdom which is first pure, then peaceable and gentle, and easy to be entreated; that nothing should be done through strife or vain jealousy, but that they should be filled with that charity which is not puffed up and doth not behave itself unseemly; and that their deliberations would be guided to such conclusions as would promote the glory of God and the welfare of the nation. The Chair then said: Gentlemen of the Convention: Harmony seems to be the sense of this convention. Even the very air itself seems saturated with the desire, os well as the determination to nominate a ticket for President and Vice-president satisfactory to the North as well as to the South, to the East as well as to the West, Nay, more, a ticket that will harmonize the Democracy of this nation and insure victory in November. No effort has been made to nominate a temporary chairman of this convention in the interest of any candidate, but, on the contrary, one who will proceed with absolute impartiality.. With this spirit and to that end I have been directed, by the unanimous vote of the national committee, to nominate Hon. Richard B. Hubbard, of Texas, for temporary chairman. As many of yon as favor the Hon. It. B. Hubbard, of Texas, for temporary chairman of this convention will say ayo. Upon the vote that followed, Hon. Richard B. Hubbard was elected temporary chairman of the convention, the chair announcing the vote to that effect, and appointing Senator B. F. Jonhs, of Louisiana, Hon. Geo. Barnes, of Georgia, and

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Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, of NewYork. a committee to wait upon Mr. Hubbard and conduct him to the chair. Mr. Hubbard, on being conducted to the chair, was received with voeiferous applause, and tlie chairman advancing to the front said: “I have the distinguished honor to present Mr. Richard B. Hubbard, of Texas, as the absolutely impartial temporary chairman of this convention." Mr. Hubbard came forward amid loud applause and said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Democratic convention of the Union: I am profoundly grateful for the confidence whieh you have reposed in me, in ratifying the nomination of the national executive committee, who have done your bidding for t-he last four years by your authority. I accept it. my fellowDemocrats, not as a tribute to the humble citizen and your fellow-Democ.rat who.speaks to you to-day, but rather as a compliment _to the great State trom whence I come—a State which, more than any other American State, is absolutely cosmopolitan in' every fiber of its being. In its early days and struggles thither came to our relief,, as winds sweep across the sea. men of Illinois and NewYork, men of Maine and New England, men of Georgia apd along the coast, and gave their lives at the Alamo and San Jacinto for the freedom of Texas. I can only recall to you in the brief moments which I shall detain you the fact that our . neighboring sister States, her women—her glorious Spartan women—sent to us the twin cannon . that belched into glorious victory at San Jacinto. But, above all, we accept it as a tribute to the fact, my fellow-Dom'icrats, that Texas, with her over two milliojw of people, gladly at each recurring election, places in the ballot box over one hundred thousand Democratic majority. Fellow-Democrats, we have met upon an occasion of great and absorbing, interest , to our party as well as to our common country. The occasion would not justify me nor demand that I should attempt to speak to you of its great history and its distinctive principles through two-thirds of the most glorious history of our country. I could not stop to discuss, if I its magnificent policy of progress, the part which she has taken in building up our country, its prowess, its territory and its wealth. I can only say to you to-day. in brief, that the Democratic party, in all its elements, is the same as it was when founded by the framers of the Constitution nearly three-quarters of a century ago. Men died as the leaves in autumn, but the principles underlying liberty and self-government are eternal, and the principles underlying the Democratic party cannot be effaced from the earth, though their authors may be numbered among the dead. 1 thank ttod, fellow-citizens, that, though we have been out or power for a quarter of a century, we are to-day, in all that makes adherence, and confidence, and

zeal, as much a party organized for aggressive war as when the banners of victory were perched upon °. ur beads. The Democratic party, fellow-citizens, since the war time, commencing with reconstruction with our hands manacled; with our ballot boxes surrounded by the gleaming bayonet; with carpet-bag rule; with the voice stilled—the voice of free meu who pay their taxes to the government—the Democratic party- has lived to see through all this misrule, the day come when in a great majority of our States, the Democratic, party lias resumed its control and its power. It has your House of Representatives, and but for treason stalking in tlie Senate Chamber we would have that too. \Vc have had the presidency too, but with impious hands—the hand of the robber—our rights were stricken down at the ballot-box. and through perjury, and bribery, and corruption the presidency lias been stolen' from the Democratic party by men uttering falsehoods, and through pale lips and chattering teeth. Some of the men who had participated in that crime, have ‘passed beyond the river, ” there to give an account of their stewardship. But history will not lie when it records, as it has done, that that electoral commission announced in the Senate chamber, and in tl.e House, that it would not consider the question ami the evidence of fraud in returning the vote of Louisina. I remember it. It is the blackest page in our country’s history, and all good Republicans today are ashamed of it. (Loud applause. [ They turned their faces as well as their consciences upon the promises of the past, and refused to consider the evidence, all reeking with ignominy and bribery and shame, and counted in a man who had not received, under the Constitution and the laws, the suffrages of his couutrvmeu. That is a wrong that we have met here to right. Eight years have passed since. We are told that the law has given the verdict to them. That is true. When a jury is in its box, under the statute of your State, and a judge upon the bench who holds the scales of justice unevenly, holds with guilty hands a parchment from the executive of your State and a' ows tne jury sitting in the box to condemn a man to death, under the ;rgis of law he does what all the law-writers of civilization for hundreds oi, years have eursed and dnmned as legal murder. Oh, the great sin of that electoral commission omains to-day unpunished, and will ever be una venged so long as the Republican narty is in power in this country. I thanlt God that there is no statute of limitations running in favor of that party (applause.) and in that connection, my fellow-Democrats, be it said to the credit of the Democratic party, that they exhibited none of that spirit of the Hotspur, and of that spirit-which sought to engulf this country, fresh as it was upon the heels of a great and fratricidal war. But our great leaders, Tilden and Hendricks [here the speaker was interrupted bp. long-continued applause, the delegates rising to their .feet ami waring tneir hats.) our great leaders. Tilden and Hendricks, with the dignity of heroic statesmen, with' the courage of men who love their country better than, its pelf and its power, accepted the wrong and injury of perjury and of fraud, and they are grander ' to-day in their defeat, than the men who wear the power' at the expense of justice and right. [Cheers.] Thus we have succeeded in the face of federal power. We would 'have succeeded in 1880 but for federal gold, and federal greenbacks—fresh and uncut from Washington [applause and laughter* money earned and held by star-rooth contractors and the "loving” friends of a venal administration. They bought, the presidency. Fellow-Democrats, we want reform, God knows, not only in the personnel—in the men, as well as in the measures of the government as it is. [Cheer*). We want men there whose very lives aud whose very

names would be a platform to this people. We want men there who shall iu all the departments of the government, in its Department of Justice, in its postal affairs, its Interior Department, who every where shall follow its servants with the eye of the ministers of justice, and see that every cent.' that belongs to the government shall remain with the government. No tribute shall bo demanded except the tribute that is due the government; that no assessment shall be made upon 100,000 office-holders; that of sloo,ooo.ooopaid annually, $5,000,000 shall not go into a corrupt political fund. Tnese. these, we thank God, will be corrected when the Democratic party shall get into power once more. We read of the enunciation of principles by the Republican party. They tell us they have civil-service reform, and yet they demand in the next breath from every federal office-holder, of the 100 000, the tribute to the corrupt fuud that shall be paid out to the voters at the polls. Thej- tell us they have a Puritan government, and yet not a solitury felon lias been condemned in the Book of those who have stolen their millions from the Treasury. Your Springer committee, only on yesterday and the day before, tell us of the perjury, of the corruption, of the subornations that run all along through the ministers of justice in the prosecutions of the government. We want real reform—a reform, my countrymen, that shall mean what it says, and that will say what it means. It is not my business, as your presiding officer, to day, to enunciate anything that shall be embodied in your platform. But wish to say one thing to your committee on platform that you will endeavdr to write upon the basis of principles which we have advocated for the years that are gone, and that you will have no Delphic oracle, speaking with double tongue, in the platform which shall be named by you. I Loud applause]. Let the Green Mountain boya of Vermont ami the men of Maine, of Texas, of Louisiana, and Georgia, from the Carolinas to the golden coast demand that the common platform shall say in our noble vernaculur of purest English tongue what they mean, so that the wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err in reading it. Iu doing this we will declare against tho corruptions of the government; that is, we will declare against the enormities of its system of civil service, its department of so-called justice, its postal sendee, the robbery in high places by the men in power; it wdll say, "moreover, tuat the burdens of the government shall be placed alike, equally Rud equitably, upou all classes of our countrymen, having respect for the greatest good to the .greatest number; that the hundred millions of dollaiqwf surplus revenue shall not be allowed to accumulate as a corrupt fund, and that there shall be a radical reformation and reduction iu the taxes, as well as the methods of taxation in our country. But, fellow-cltiseus, in conclusion let mo say that harmony and conciliation should l-qle your councils. There neverwas a time in tho history of the Democratic party when the enemy invites tho victor as now. The great and unnumbered hosts of dissatisfied men of the Republican party are heard in the distance —in New England, in Now York, on the lakes, and in the West and everywhere, and while the Democratic party should not deviate an lota from the principles of its party, it should, with open anus, say to these men—hundreds of thousands, God grant thero may bej ‘•Here, here is the party of the Constitution, the Union, that loves our common country: come hither and go with us for honest rule aud "honest government.” ■ The Democratic party, while it mav have its local differences, when tho onset of the charge comes, will be together, and whoever you may nominate of all the great and good names that are before you from the East to the West, from the North to the .’South, he who stands back in the hour of peril, because, forsooth, hU own State or himself shall not have been tho choice, yea, the choice of his heart, is toss than a good Democrat, and hardly a patriot, in this mr country’s hour of peril. The Democratic party is loyal to the Uuiou. The “bloody shirt,” in the vulgar parlance of the times, has, at each recurring election, been flaunted m the face of Southern Domoorats, and In your own