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put the knife to corrupting extravagance and compelled a return to comparative purity of administration. Earnest in purpose, pore in life, a trained tribune of the people, ana a thorough statesman, no favor sways and no (fear can awe this man. Her son Pennsylvania present* to the Democracy of the Union here assembled in convention as*her candidate for the mighty office of President of the United States in the person of Samuel J. BandaTT. [Cheers.] SECONDING SPEECHES. Mr. Cleveland, of New Jersey—Mr. Chairman, upon the call of the roll of Slates yesterday when the name of New Jersey was called she was silent, but on behalf of apartion of the delegation from New Jersey, it is desired that Governor Abbott, of that State, shall now second the name of Hon. Samuel J. Randall, and I respectfully ask from- thin convention, unanimous consent for that seconding. Governor Abbott, of New Jersey, seconded the nomination of Randall He said there was a conviction in the land that if wisdom controls the counsels of the Democratic party in making a platform broad enough for every Democrat to stand upon, and in placing upon it a candidate of transcendent ability and pure life, success lies in the results of their deliberations He believed that Samuel J. Randall, as the candidate,, would reach the controlling vote more certainly than any other of the distinguished men named. He asked, where does success liel Not in Minnesota, not in lowa, or other of the confirmed Republican States, hut in those close States which were carried by Tilden in 1876. He reviewed the arguments urged for Cleveland, and said these all applied to Thurman, Bayard and others. Then what excuse in putting aside these grand Democratic veterans for anew man? The record of Randall is pure and stainless, while hisjmblie eareer for twenty years has been in behalf of an economical and nonest government- There are practical efforts for reform. Randall would sweep New Jersey like a great political cyclone. He is the hnend of laborers everywhere, and the convention could do no better than to nominate him. When Governor Abbott, of New Jersey, had concluded, Judge Abbott, of Massachusetts, rose and said: When Massachusetts’ name was called on the regular call of the roll she presented no name. I now desire, in behalf of the majority of their delegation, to ask the consent of the convention that a delegate from- that State, Hon. Mr. Cummings, may second the nomination of Thomas P. Bayard, of Delaware. Mr. Cummings was escorted to the platform and spoke as follows: KB. CUMMINGS SOWS WIND. Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Democrats of the Convention: I beg your hearing patiently, but for a few monents. It may be, indeed, that you are already wearied with the speeches of gratulation and landatioa that have beep made from this platform. We of Massachusetts eame here believing that with her favored son we could carry that State Sear the Democratic party ia the national election, and we are equally sure that there is still another name that may be called that will place Massachusetts once mom in the ranks of the States that shall give their votesfor the nominee of thia convention and regenerate and restore her to the Democratic party. For sixty years Massachusetts has not given her electoral vote to the Democratic nominee. It may be, indeed, that in this convention she, least of all. should be heard forcing a candidate upon the convention; but we who know the feelings of our State and have watched her growth, who have seen her at bar place in the ranks of the Democratic party in 1882, know that the toilers of the State are the majority of the voters to-day, and the anti-monopolists of the State, side by side with them, walking in the ranks of the Democratic party, will, if you take the name of the mas that the Massachusetts Democrats will follow to the end—Thomas F. Bayard. of Delaware—carry the State for the Democratic party. Gentlemen of the convention, we hear from the South that Her electoral vote will go for the nominee of this convention, and the gentleman who preceded me said that any decent, honest Democrat was good enough for them. Not so. The South has kept the faith unfalteringly, unflinchingly; but it must be seen to that qo Democratic convention commits itself to a nomination or a nominee that will, in the slightest degree, imperil those States in the future. We are not here for this day alone, nor for this generation. The best man. the Democrats can give will be none too good to carry the banner of the Democracy, and none too pure and high for the Democracy of the South. Pure, and high, and exalted as the nominee of this convention can be in those attributes, he never can be more so, none can be more so, than Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. We come to place the garment of snccess upon out nominee. It must not be a rent and tattered garment, as New York nresents. It must be a whole and SB garment. We of Massachusetts, vote as we and for whom we please, but almost the entire ion w*U vote for Thomas F. Bavurd, We, I say, rotingonrown free choice-—trot simply with a voice, but with a vote, not with our hands tied, not enslaved, , not crushed down, and then given a man and forced to fight for him—we wifi take the nominee of the convention, who ever he is, and carry tlm State of Massachusetts, surely, if he is Thomas F. Bayard. Gentlemen of the convention, in this solemn hour Ist us consider the attitude of these candidates that call for our suffrage; let us see the positions that the delegates in this convention are placed in when raffled upon to take these candidates. New York, with its great vote in this convention, is found with a large fraction of it bound hand and foot, enslaved in the convention and misnamed representatives. They are not envoys here; they are not heralds here; they are slaves, speaking with the tongues of their masters. Gentlemen, yon who wish to see the Democracy triumphant. can you believe that the representatives of New York; sent here to represent their constituents, and when they arrive, bound and rivited iri this convention, can go back as the slaves they are forced to be, awaken any enthusiasm in their constituency, or bring them back to the fold? Gentlemen of the convention, the Democrats of New York State cheerfully and anxiously will take any name that von may pronounce. We are not here to defeat, we are here to fight to the end. We are not degrading this great convention with our State quarrels. New York, in the last three conventions, has torn and a&riost upset the convention with its quarrels and bickerings. This is not the place for them; let them be relegated back to their own State. Let them take their State home with them. Take them back to your own State and come m here with clean hands and pure hearts: come in here in peace, and do not forever bring us war, and with it a candidate that means defeat. Gentlemen of the convention, I represent from my State a district made np from workingmen,, of toilers that have steadily won battle after battle until they have triumphed in their Democracy. Gentlemen, thrust upon us this man who has rent the garment of success in New York, and we lose the State. Thrust upon us [renewed hisses' and cheers]. Ah, gentlemen—[more hisses and cheers trying to drown each other out.] Ah, gentlemen [here the speaker turned to the audience and waved his hand threaten - ingiy at the parties who were indulging in tho demonstration], you are here, as a distinguished citizen said yesterday, by the courtesy of this convention. I am nrisuaßning, I fear, some of you with white hate who dare to hiss where they would not dare to speak or strike. [Here there wag a tremendous outburst of cheers, punctured by a few hisses.] We are here,, we say, to take the name that this convention shall pronounce, whatever name it will be—we who have looked, since 1878, to the morning light; we who have watched victory slaughtered on the Democratic altar, still with our eyes turned to the east. W know the name that shall be written, upon it by this convention shall have written, under it the word “victory," but at the same time we arc anxious that in these momenta of deliberation reason and judgment should not he ousted by passion. We are Mmous that the voice of the- toiling millions of this •otmtry, already raised in open battle against a candidate here named, in a revolt that threatens the next ntonaent to turn: into rebelfion, wa are anxious for you to hear their voice and pause before you slap them in the face. The laboring masses of the country am found working fertfee ranks of the Democratic party; the laboring masses of tho country—at least such of them: as ara represented in my . district—and: It has been the fighting district far lkborin tt oonn try—represents the antagonism and struggle that labor hae had and has made. I know that that district and its workingmen and the men that are opposed to the grasping greed of monopolism, toll yon We, and they wnee (the laboring element of ihs country) that if you try to put the torn, garment of New York on the candidate of ttteDem■oemtfa party, you have lost the country end yon have banished: tho labor vote. Mr. Pmsfttenband gentlemen, but a moment more. I toW yon that the name which mines from Delaware tmamwoui* sweep onr State. Three years ago Massa —bunelitw felt into-the- eoluron and was stricken down by the- Republican practices and Republican devices. votes east, the Democratic party cast mere then 150,000 of them. To-day the defection in the Republican party in that State' ia great, an# is growing hourly. Give us the man that tbs- independents, that the stanch true Democrats, Hast tho laboring element and tho anti,monopolists will work for and want—Thomas F: Bayard—and Massachusetts is a Democratic State. When South Carolina was reached Wade Hampton aroßO and said: Mr. Chairman: South GaroHna has no candidate to present [Cries of '“Platform."]' lam not going to nia&e a speech, andt cannot very weiT take that platform. The platform of the Democratic party is not vet arranged. South Carolina has no candidate to present. Her delegates have come here uninstrooted nd unpledged. Bat a sister State has done ns the honor hi udrCbut one of our sMeWt he heard fa be-

, half of the pore and. able statesman Horn Delaware. I have the honor to present to the convention the Hon. Leroy F. Yeoman, who, at the request of Delaware, will second the nomination of Mr. Bayard. Mr. Yeoman, of South Carolina, seconded the nomination of Bayard, and M. M. Rose, es Arkansas, seconded Cleveland's nomination. The States of Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia were cabled' without any response from either of the delegates from those States. When Wisconsin was called Mr. Delaney, of that State, said: Mr. Chairman: In accordance with the vote taken in the Wisconsin delegation, the majority of that delegation desire to second the nomination of Governor Cleveland, and, sir, ft is their desire to be heard by the distinguished chairman of the delegation, General' Bragg, of Wisconsin. While General Bragg was on. his way to the platform he was greeted with cheers, in the midst of which a voice was-heard, shouting: “A little more grape, Captain Bragg.” Upon. General Bragg’s arrival at the platform the Chair introduced him. GEN. BRAGG AROUSES GRADY'S WRATH. General Bragg spoke as follows: Gentlemen of the Convention: It is with feelings of no ordinary pride that I fflfl the post that has been assigned to me to-day. Grim and gray, personally, fighting the battles of the Democratic party, I stand to-day to voice the sentiment of the young men of my Slate when I speak for Grover Ctovelana, of New York. His name is upon their lips; his name is in. their hearts, and he is the choice, not only of that band of young men, but he is the choice of all those who desire, for the first time, as young men. to cast their veto in November for the candidate nominated by this convention. They love him, gentlemen, and respect him, not only for himself, for toe character, for hie integrity, judgment and iron will, but they love him most for the enemies he has made. [Loud and long-continued applause, which continued for several minutes, i toe midst of which Mr. Grady, from New York, arose m front of toe chairman's desk and interrupted the speaker as follows]: “Mr. Chairman: On be- ! half of his enemies I reciprocate that sentiment, and we are proud of it." [Loud hisses and great confusion followed, in the midst of which Mr. Grady retired to hie seat} General Bragg resumed: I thank the emissary that represents a respectable party, at least, fox calling himself again to my attention. This broad Nation witnessed the disgraceful spectacle of a senator es the United States trading his proud position fox gain. Mahon* and Riddleberger would scarcely be allowed to stand upon this platform to teach yon gentlemen Democracy, and whom yon ought to nominate. Go to the Senate of the State of New York, since Governor Cleveland has been Governor, and there you find two worthy conferees ploying, in a small theater, Mahone and Riddleberger over again. And why? Because the Governor of the State of New York had more nerve than the machine. They may apeak of him—aye, the worst of the species may defile a splendid statue—hut they only disgrace themselves. Wherever the thin disguise can be reached you will find it covering nothing but personal grievance, disappointed ambition or a cutting-off of access to the flesh- I pots to those who desire to fatten on them. Ido not assume here to speak for labor. The child of a man who always earned his daily bread by his daily labor, brought up tor more than I a quarter of a century, from boyhood, among laborers that have made the great Northwest what it is, I do not assume to apeak for labor. Labor is not represented in political conventions by the soft hand of the political trickster, no matter where yon find him. The men who fellow conventions and talk about the rights of labor are the Swiss contingent who- place thsir tent wherever the prospect of profit is greatest, while honest, intelligent, horny-hanued labor will be found following the old Democratic flag. Thank God that its self -styled leaders have gone where they belong. They came here to talk of labor. Yes, their labor has been upon the crank of the machine, and their study has been political chicanery. Iu the midnight conclave we ore told that the Democratic party is suffering from fearful political disorders by these men. If we are to judge from past experience, those disorders, in toe quarters where they are alleged to exist, can only be oared by a reapplication of federal soap. I have heard it said that the States of the Northwest ought to have no voice in this nomination. I have heard it said: “What boots it what their opinion maybe!” What was it that placed toe great States of the Northwest ia the Republican column? It was because they followed blindly, implicitly, the old leaders, and they led the party of the Umon to defeat, and they placed our States down under thousands and thousands of Republican majorities. We have fought our way steadily upward. We see, through toe water which has been so deep above onr heads, now the glimmering again of the sunlight, and wa ask to breathe once more the air of victory. Our young men ask ft; the religious sentiment of our country asks it; the intelligence of our people asks it; our German foreign-born citizens say to us: “We come to you with Cleveland.” The old guard will fight steadily, and go down to death shouting gloriously as they fall under the lead of the ehivalrie Bayard. The;’ will follow steadily and unflinchingly that sturdy old Democrat front Indiana, but with the same result, they fear. They will rally around that glorious old Senator tram Ohio, and they will accept that judicial-minded gentleman from Kentucky. Bat they want some new life. They have followed the old lenders to death. They ask somebody to lead them to vietory. Pardon me for saying there was a time when the 2:40 steeds stood first upon the fist, but in these days something that has made 2AO ought to be retire# as stale, for it is of no account against. 2:101a. Let our old war horses be retired with honor. Let the records of their achievements be recorded and pointed at with pride and pleasure. But onr people say give us new fife; give ns new blood; give us something that hae some to manhood and positron. since the war, that we may hear no mors about what took place at, before and during the war. Every breeoe brings to us what would seem- to be indications of victory. But we cannot accomplish victory without recruits. Those recruits are at our bidding—young, middle-aged and old. You see them in platoons and regiments, brigades and divisions. Every one of thein bears upon his banner first, Cleveland,, of New York. Let the countersign of the great Democratic camps in November be “Gfereland, ” and then men can make their way to it, and, recruited as we shall be, our ides of November will not be a Waterloo, bnt will be a glorious sun of Ansteelit*. and Wisconsin, my own adopted State, I say to you, gives us every reason to believe that she will find herself once mare in the Democratic column, sod her eleven electoral votes will be. cast for the nominee of this, convention. For that reason, on behalf of the majority representing her State, I second that nomination. After toe. applause bad subsided, Henry (X Kent, of New Hampshire, seconded the nomination of Cleveland, and was followed in. a short speech by ex-Senator, James Doolittle, of Wisconsin, and Governor Walter, of Connecticut, concluded toe business of the Booming session by seconding the nomination of Grover Cleveland. The convention then adjourned to 8 o’clock to-night WAITING FOB THE BEVOBI. Action of the Conventhm While Waiting for the Raport cm Resolution*. Chicago, July Id— The evening’ session of the convention was attended by an immense gathering of spectators, every seat within toe building, outside of the sections assigned to the delegates and their-alternates, being filled half an hour bfe fore the time to- which toe adjournment took place; and a s the delegations came in, and prominent man among them we re recognized, they were greeted with cheers or dapping ot hands: Meanwhile; popular airs were performed by a band ofjmusic. There was a far more intense feeling of interest and excitement vibrating in the<atmosphere than was apparent at any other session, for it has been a matter of general obynrvation among those who have attended both the Republican convention and this one, that | there has been a striking contrast between too enthusiasm manifested in toe one, and the abssnae.of itjn toe other. Nans-of the promi nent candidates seem to be capable of exciting the delegates or spectators to anything like, toe degree that Blaine and some of his rivals for the Republican nomination did in this same hall five weeks ago. i At 8:25' the convention was colled to- order and ! a resolution was offered by Mr. Henry, of Mississippi, expressing, the regret and intense admiration of toe convention at reading the statesmanlike and patriotic tetter of Samuel J. Tilden, : in which ho made known the overpowering and ' providential necessity which constrained him. to. decline the. nomination to tho presidency, condemning the fraud and violence by which Tifden and Hendriekswere cheated out of their offices in 187(6; expressing regret tivat. the Nation has been deprived of the lotty patriotism and splendid executive and administrative 1 ability of TBfetetr; and appointing' • committee to convey these asntisaants to that gentleman. Adopted. On motion of Mr. Cleveland, of New Jersey, It was ordered thwt the States and Territories be

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called for toe names of members of the national Democratic committee. The following were announced as members of toe national committee: Alabama—Henry C. Smryrte. Arkansas—B. W. Fordvce. California—M. Jf. Tarpey. Colorado—M. S. Waller. Connecticut—W. H. Barnnrn. Florida—Samuel Pasco. Georgia—Patriek Walsh. Illinois—S. Corning Judd. Indiana—Austin H. Brown. lowa-—M. M. Ham. Kansas—C. W. Blair. Kentucky—Henry V. McHenry. Louisiana-—-B. F. Jonas. Maine—Edmund Wilson. Maryland'—A. P. Gorman. Michigan—Don M. Mckmson. Minnesota—P. H. Kelly. Missouri—John G. Prather. Mississippi—C. A. Johnson. Nebraska—. Tames E. Boyd.l Nevada—Dennis E. McCarthy. New Hampshire—A. W. Sulfaway: North Carolina—M. W. Ransom Ohio—W. W. Armstrong. Rhode Island—J. B. Barnaby. South Carolina—Francis W. Dawson. Tennessee—Robert S. Looney. Texas—O. T. Hall. Vermont—Han. B. B. Smalley. Virginia—John S. Barber. West Virginia—Louis Baker. Wisconsin—-Wafiam. F. Vilas. Arizona—W. K. Meade. District of Columbia—William Dickson. Idaho—John Hal ay. Dakota—M. H. Day. Utah—J. B. Roseborough. Montana—William McCormick. Washington Territory—J. A. Kuhn. New Mexico—Not announced. Wyoming—M. E. Poet. A report was made by the committee on resolutions in, favor of the proposition, to permit the national committee to choose a eh airman outside of its own members. The report was adopted. A delegate from Arkansas offered a. resolution abrogating and discontinuing, in future, the twothirds rule in the nomination of candidates for President and Vice-president Mr. Cochrane, of New York, moved to lay toe ; resolution on the table, charade riling it a revo- ! lutionary proposition. Mr. Abbott, of New Jersey, said it was absurd ! foe this convention to attempt to make rules for the next convention, and he moved to postpone the resolution indefinitely. Mr. Cochrane withdrawing bis motion, the question was taken, and the motion: to postpone indefinitely was carried. The following members were reported for toe committee to wait on the presidential and vicepresidential candidates when nominated: Alabama—Daniel P. Bestor. Arkansas—S. R. Cockrell. California—Miles Searls. Colorado—Not appointed. Connecticut—T. M. Waller. Florida—W. D. Shipley. Georgia—Milton P. Reese. Eliaois—A. B. Stevenson. Indiana—B. IX Bannister. lowa—L. G. Kenney. Kansas— C. C. Burns. Kentucky—Attila Cox. Louisiana—James Jeffreys. Maine—C. A. Osgood. Maryland—Dr. Georgs Welles. Michigan—Daniel J. Campion. Minnesota—Henry Poehler. Missouri—D. R. France, Mississippi—Charles E. Hooker. Nebraska-—P. Fahey. Nevada—John H. Dennis, New Hampshire—John F. Clsutman, North Carolina—W. G. Damb. Ohio—Not named. Rhode Island—D. S. Baker, jr. South Carolina—Jos. H. Earle. Tennessee— Wra. A Quarles. Texas—Joseph E. Dwyer. Vermont—George L. Spur. Virginia—Robert Beverly. West Virginia—Not appointed. Wisconsin —Wm. P. Vilas. Arixona —G. H. Onry. District of Columbia—E. IX Wright: Idaho—Not appointed. Dakota—M. S. McCormick. U tah—Rutherford Smith. Montana—S. T. Hauser. Washington—N. B. Dutro. . New Mexico—George W. Steredorw Wyoming—Was. H. Holiday. THE PLATFORMS PRESENTED. The Minority aad Minority Keperts of she Committee on Resolutions. . CmcASOy July M,—At 9:26 jS m. Mr. Morrises, of Illinois- chairman of toe committee on resolutions, stepped to the platform to present toe report of that committee. His appearance was greeted with cheer*. The platform was rend by one of the reading clerks, and is as follows:: . The Democratic party of the Union, through its representatives in national convention assembled, recognise that, as the nation grows older, new issues are born of time and progress, and eld issue* periah.. But the fundamental principles of the Democracy, approved by the nnitea voice of the people, remain, and. will ever remain, as the best and only security for the continuance of free government, the preservation of personal rights, the equality of *ll citizens before the law. The reserved right of the States and the supremacy of the federal government, within the limits of the Constitution, will ever form the tone basis of onr liberties, and ean never be surrendered' without destroying, balance of rights and powers which enables a continent to be developed m peace and soeial order to be maintained by means of local self-government. But, it is indispensable, for the practical application and enforcement of there fundamental principles, tiiat the government should not always be controlled by one political party. Frequent change of administration is as necessary as a constant recurrence to the popular will. Otherwise, abases grow, and the government, instead of being earned on for the general welfare, becomes an instrumentality for imposing heavy burdens on the many who are governed for the benefit ot the few who govern. Public servants thus become arbitrary rulers. This is now the condition of the country- Hence, a change is demanded. The Republican .party, so far as principle i* | concerned, is a reminiscence; in practice it is an organization for enriching those whocontrol its machinery. The frauds and jobbery which have been brought to light in every department of the government are suflfeient to have called for reform within the Republican party, yet those in authority, made reckless by the long possession, of power, have succumbed to fts corrupting-influence, and have placed in nomination a ticket against which, the independent portion of the party are in open revolt. Therefore, a change is demanded. Such a change was alike necessary in 1878, But tho will of the people Was then defeated by a fraud which, can never be forgotten nor condoned- Again, in IBBQ,the change demanded, by the people was defeated by the lavish use of mousy contributed by unscrupulous contractors and s&assre less jobbers, who bad bargained for unlawful profits, or for high office. The Republican party, during, its legal, its stolen, and its brought tenures of power, has steadily decayed m moral character and political capacity. Its platform promises are now a list ot its past ftulures. It demands tie restoration, of our nary;; it has squandered hundreds of millions to create a navy that does nt exist. Hi calls on Congress to remove the burdens under which American shipping has been, depressei; It imposed and-has continued those burdens. It pr--1 fesses the policy of reserving the public lands for snail . holders by actual settlers;: it has given away tbs people’s heritage- till now a few railroads, and nonresident aliens, individual and corporate, possess a larger area'than'that of all onr farms between: tfce bao seas, it professes a preference for free tistruction; it organized and tried to . legalize a oon tool at State elections- by federal troop*. It professes a, desire to elevate labor; it has. subject*! American working men to the competition of convict and imported contract labor. It professes gratituih to all whs wees disabled, 01 died in war, lewnng widows and orphans; ft left to a Democratic House df Representatives the first effort to- equalize hot* .-bounties and pensions. It proffer* a pledge to eoi ’sect the irregularities of our tariff; it create! 1 and ha* continued them; its own tariff | commission confessed the need of mom than twenty Ji per cent. redaction; its Congress gave a redaction of less than ff per cent. It professes ) the protection of American manufacturers: it ha*: sob) . jected them, to an inareasing, flood of manufactured ! goods and a hopeless competitibir with manufacturing 1 nations,, not one of which taxes raw materials. It prej fieaees to protect all American industries; it has in* noverished the many to snbsidize a few. It professes I the protection of American, lobar;, it tree depleted the ; returns of. American, agriculture—am.industry followed by half our peoplfe. It professes tfie equality of all - men before the las*; attempting to fix the state* ; of oolored citizens, the acts of its Congress were oven set bv the decisions of its courts; It “accepts anev] the duty of leading in the work of progress and rei , form;” it* caught criminals.are permitted, to escape : through contrived delays,or actual connivance in the, I prosecution. Honey-combed with corruption, out: breaking exposures no longer shock it* moral sensei , Its hoDest members, its independent jpurnals no longer maintain a successful' contest for authority in its counsels, or a veto upon bad sominations. That q change is necessary is proved by an existing surplus of more than 8100,000,000, which has yearly been , collected, from, a suffering people. Unnecessary taxoi lion is unjust taxation. We denounce the Rapubi < lloan party for having failed to relieve the peopld from tho-crushing war taxer;. whfefa: have paralyzed business, crippled industry, and deprived labor of 1 employment and of just reward. i 'Hie Democracy pledges iteslfi to purify the adnrinisi Oration from corruption, to restore economy, to rei ‘ vive respect for law, and to reduce taxation to the

lowest limit consistent with a duo regard to the preservation of the faith of the Nation to creditors and pensioners. Knowing full well, however, that legislation affecting the occupations of the people should be cautious and conservative In- method, not in advance of pubHo opinion, but responsive to its demands, the Democratic, party is pledged to revive the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests. I But m making this reduction, in taxes it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but r. ther to. ! promote their healthy growth. From the foundation ; of this government the taxes collected at the customhouses have been the chief source of federal revenue, and such they must continue to be. Moreover, many I industries have come to rely upon legislation for successful continuance, so that any change of law must ; be at every step regardful of the labor and capital | thus involved. The process of reform mnst be- subject, in its execution, to this plain dictate of justice. AH taxation shaft be limited to the requirements of economical government. The necessary reduction in taxation can and mnst be effected without depriving Americas labor of the ability to compete successfully with foreign labor, and without imposingilower rates of duty than will be anr ; pie to cover any increased cost of production which : may exist in consequence of the higher rate of wages j prevailing in this country. Sufficient revenae, to pay : all the expenses of the federal government, eeonomtj cally administered, including pensions, and interest and principal of the publie debt, can be got, under our present system of taxation, from custom-house taxes on fewer imported articles, bearing heaviest on arti- : cles of luxury aad bearing lightest on articles of ne- : cessity. We therefore denounce the abuses ot the existing tariff, aud, subject to the preeed- ; inp limitations, we demand that federal tax- . ation shall be exclusively for public purposes, | and shall not exceed the needs of the government, economically administered. The system of direct taxation, known as the “internal revenue, ” a war tax, and so lon* as the law eon- . tmnes the money derived therefrom should be sacred- : ly devoted to the relief of the people from theramain- ; ing burdens, of the war, and be made a fund to defray the expense of the care and comfort of worthy soldiers disabled in the line of duty in the wars of the repubi l'°i sod for the payment of such, pensions as Congress may, from time to time, grant to such soldiers—a like fund for the sailors having been already provided—and any surplus should be paid into the treasury. We favor an American continental policy, based, upon more inti mate commercial and political relations with the fifteen sister republic* of North, Central and South America, but entangling alliances with none. We believe ia honest money, the gold and silver coinage of the fijtestitution, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss. Asserting the equality of all men before the law, we hold that it is the duty of the government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and. exact justice to all citizens, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political. We believe in a free haltotand a fair count, and we recall to the memory of the people the noble struggle of the Democrats in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, by whieh a reluctant Republican opposition was compelled to assent to legislation making everywhere illegal the presence of troops at the pools, as the conclusive proof that a Democratic administration will preserve liberty with order. The selection of rederal officers for the Territories should be restricted to citizens previously resident therein. We oppose sumptuary laws which vex the citizen and intotere with individual liberty. We favor honest eivil-earvice reform and the compensation of all United .States officers by fixed salaries; the separation of church and state, and the diffusion of free education by common schools, so that every child in the land may be taught the rights and duties of citizenship. While wa favor ail legislation which will tend to the equitable distribution of property, to the prevention of monopoly, aad to the strict enforcement of individ. uat rights against corporate abuses, we hold that the welfare of society depends upon a scrupulous regard for the rights of property as defined by law. We believe that labor i* best rewarded whet* it is freest and most enlightened; it should, therefore, be fostered and cherished. We favor the repeal of aft laws restricting the free action of labor, and. the enactment of laws by which labor organizations may be incorporated, and of all such legislation as wffl tend to enlighten the people as: te the true relations of capital and labor. We believe that the public lands ought, os for as possible, to be kept as homesteads for actual settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to the public domain, and that no more grants of land shall be made to corporations or be allowed to foil Into the ownership of alien absentees. We are opposed to til propositions which, upon any pretext, will convert the general government into a machine for collecting taxes to be distributed among the States, ex the citizens thereof.

In reaffirming the declaration of the Democratic platform es 1856, that “the Kberal principles embodied by Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which make ours the land of liberty, and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the Democratic faith,” We, nevertheless, and not sanction the importation of foreign labor, or the admission of servile raees unfitted by habits, teaming, religion or kindred, for absorption into the great body of our people, or for the citizenship which our laws confers. American civilization demands that against the immigration or importation of Mongolians to these shores onr gates be closed. The Democratic party insists that it is the duty of this government te protect, with equal fidelity and vigilance, the rights of its citizens, native and naturalized, at home and abroad; and to tbs end that this protection may be assured, United States papers of naturalization, issued by courts of competent jurisdiction, must be respected by tbe executive aad legislative departments of our own government and by til foreign powers. It is an imperative duty of this government to effectually protect aft the rights of persons and property ot every American citizen in foreign land*, and demand and enforce full reparation for any invasion thereof. An American citizen is only responsible to his own government for any act done in hi* own country, or under her flag, and can only be tried therefor on her own soft and according to her laws; and no power exist* in this government to exyatrmto an American citizen to be tried in any foreign land for any such act. This country has never had a weft-deflned and wellexscutod foreign policy, save under Democratic administration. That policy ha* ever been, in regard to foreign nations, so long as they do no act detrimental to the-intereste of the country or hurtful to our citizens, to let them alone; that as the result of this policy we recall the acquisition of Louisana, Florida, California, and' of the adjacent Mexican Territory, by purchase alone; and son treat these grand acquisitions of Democratic statesmanship with the purchase es Alaska; the sole fruit of a Republican administration of nearly a-qnarter es a century. The federal government should care for and improve tbe Mississippi river and other great water-ways of she republic, so ae to secure for the interior State* easy and cheap transportation to tide-water. Under a long period of Democratic rule and policy ear merchant marine was fast overtaking and en the point of outstripping that of Great Britain. Under twenty years of Republican rule and policy onr commerce has been left to- British bottoms, and almost Has the American Sag been, swept off. the high seas; Instead of the Republican party’s British policy we- demand for the people of the United States an American policy. Undor Democratic rule and policy our merchants and Sailor*;, flying ther stare and stripes'in. every pert, successfully searched out a market for the varied, product* ot American industry. Under a quarter of a century of Republican vale and policy, despite our manifest advantage oven all atiier nations ia high-paid labor,, mvorable climates and teeming soils; despite freedom of trade among aft the United’ States; despite'their population by the' foremost, races ot men aad an annual immigration of the young, thrifty and adventur- ' on* of aft nations; despite our freedom here from theinherited burdens, of life and industry in the ohbworld monarchies—their costly war navies, their vast taxconsuming, non-producing standing armies; despite twenty years of peace tout Republican rule and policy have managed to surrender to Great Britain, along with our commerce, the-control of the markets iof theworli Instead of the Republican party's Brit- , ish policy, we demand, in behalf of the American Democracy, an American policy. Instead of the Republican party's discredited schema and. false pretense .of friendship-for American labor, expressed by imposing taxes; we demand; in behalf of the-Democracy, freedom tar American: labor by reducing taxes, to the I end that these United States may compete with unhindered powers for the supremacy among nations in l all tile enter at peace and. the fruits of liberty. . With profound regreti we hove been, apprised.by the ! venerable statesman through whose person was struck i that blow at the vital principle of repnftftes—- , acquiescene in the will es tbe majority—r that He cannot permit ns again to place in his hands ■ the : leadership of the Democratic hosts, for tine rea- , eon that the achievement of reform of the adminis- . (ration of the federal government is an undertaking : now too-heavy for his age and foiling strength. Re- : jbicing that; his life has been.prolenged until the general judgment of onr fellow-oountrymen is. united in ’ (he wish that that wrong were righted in his person, for the Democracy of tile Ukatefi States, we offer- to him, in. his withdrawal from public cares, not only our respectful sympathy and esteem, bnt also that beat homage of freemen, the-pledge of onr devotion to the principles and the cause new inseparable in the history of this republic from the labors and' the name of Samuel J. Tilden. With this statement of the hopes, principles and purposes of the Democratic party, the great issues of : reform and change-in administration i* submitted: to , the people in.calm confidence that the popular voioe will' pronounce in favor of new men and' new and more favorable eenditions for the growth of industry, the extension of trade, the employment and due reward of labor and of capital, and the general welfare of the whole country. The reading of the plafcform was concluded at 10 oletock, U was: listened to attentively and with wry tew interruptions. In faet, none of its paragraphs except that referring to Mr. Tilden, elicited, aay marked indications of approval. There was, however, a slight manifestation of applause when-the reading closed. Mr., Morrison.said.he would yield now to Gem eral Butter to present a minority report. He would then allow General Butler thirty minutes to discuss his report, fifteen minutes to Mir. Con-

ver, at Ohio, and frre minutes to Mr. Watterson, and then he would move the previous , question and ask for a vote. General Bwtler said that meet things m thw Pjtform he agreed to; some things ought to be added to it; and one thing especially ought to be changed; that he would submit to the better judgment of the convention. He asked tie clerk to read his report The clerk commenced by enunciating slawty and very distinctly the words “General Butler’s Platform,” which caused a general laugh. BUTLER'S PLATFORM. The planks of certain portions of a platform offered by General Benjamin F. Butler, of the committee of resolutions, were rejected. Other portions, such as the subject of the disposition of international taxes to a pension fuad, the American foreign poiicy, and the appointment of federal 1 officers in Territories from the citizen* thereof were adapted by fee committe. That no taxes, direat or indirect, ean be rfehtfully imposed upon the people, except to meet the expense* of an economically-administered government. TJb bring taratuMa down to this point is true administrative revenue reform: that tne people will tolerate direct taxation for the ordinary expenses of the governmen only in case of dire necessity or war? thererevenue necessary for such purposes should be raised by customs duties upon imports, after the manner of our fathers. That in levying such duties, two principles should be carefully observed: First—That all the materials ther arte and manufactures and the necessaries or lite, not produced in this country, shall come in free, and that all articles of luxury should be taxed up te the highest possible collection point/ Seocmd—1, im P xnd custom duties the Taw must be carefully adjusted to promote American enterprise aad industries, not to create monopolies, and to cherish and foster American labor. Faithful industry is the basis on which the who to fabric ot civih£atio&. rests. Under oux system, toilers and producers, the mass °* the people, are the governing power. Being the true Democracy they demand tho fullest consideration of measures for their education, their advancement and their protection. Dabor and capital are allies, not enemies. No contention can arise between them if each has done its duty to the other. Under existing law, State and national, all such controversies can only be settled by brute force, capital starving labor, and labor despoiling capital, the contention ending in the crippling or ruining of work. But capital is strong, labor is weak, labor has a right to demand of the government to establish tribunate in which these great controversies, which may lead to revolution, may be Judiciiuly and justly determined, with the fullest power to enforce their decrees; to provide by law that laboring men may combine and organize for their own protec* thm, as capital may be incorporated and combined for its protection; and that all devices, either by contract or terrorism, or otherwise, to obstruct and set aside this right in laboring men, are oppressive, in derogation of the rights of an American freeman, and should be made punishable by law. All the great woes upon our country have come because of imported labor. Our fathers made this land the . home of the free for all men appreciating our institutions and with energy enough, to bring themselves here, and such we welcome; but onr country ought never to be a lazar-house for the deportation, of the pauper labor of other countries through governmental aid the importation of the same kind of labor, or an instrument bv which capital can debase American Workingmen ana women from the pramdposition they now occupy by competing with them by imparted or convict tabor; while at tne same time capital asks and receive* protection of its interests at tho hands o£ the government, under guise of providing for American labor. Thfs evil, like all others, that find birth in the cupidity and selfishness of men, labor demands should be redressed by law. Labor has a right to demand a just share of the profits of its own production. The future of cur country unites with the laboring men in the demand for liberal support by the United States of the school system of the States, for the common school education of all the children, the same affording a sufficient foundation for the coming generations to acquire due knowledge of their duties as citizens. Every species of monopoly engenders two classes—the very rteh and the very poor—both of which are equally hurtful to a republic, which should give to its peeate equal rights and equal privileges under the- law*. The public lands of the United Statoa are the equal heritage of all its citizens, and should have been held open to the use of ali, in such quantities only as are needed for cultivation and improvement fey all; therefore we view with alarm the absorption of those lands by corporations and individuals in large

areas, some of them more than equal to princely domains. and demand of Congress to apply appropriate remedies with a stern hand, so that the lands of the imy be held ly the many and not by the few. The paths feuds es the nation are held by the government ini trust for these who make there home* in this United States, and mean to become citiaen* ol the republic, and we protest) against tie purchase and monopolization of these finds by corporations ams the alien aristocracy of Europe. All corporate bodies, created either by the States or Nation, lor the icrapose of performing public duties are public servants, and to be regulated in all their actions by the same power that created them at its own will. It ia within the power and is the duty of the creator to so govern its creature that by its acts it shall become neither a monopoly nor a burden upon the people, bat be their servant and convenience, which is the time test of its usefulness; wro call upon Congress to exercise fts great constitutional power for regulating interstate commerce, to provide that hy no contrivance whatever, under forma oi law or otherwise; shall discriminating : rate* and charges for the transportation of , freight and travel he made in favor of. ■ the few against the many, or enhance the rates of 1 transportation between the producer and the con- : Sumer. The various offices of tie government belong to the people thereof, and who rightfully demand to exercise , and fill the same, whenever they are filled, by capacity, Integrity and energy; the last two qualifications never to be tested* by any scholastic examination. We hold that frequent changes of federal officials are shown to be necessary; first, to conn ten-act the grown*g aristocratic tendencies to a estate of life offices; Second—Experience having shown that all investigation is useless while-the-incumbent and-hie associates hold - their places, frequent change of officers is necessary to the discovery and punishment of frauds, peculations, defalcations and embezzlement of the publicmoney. Resolved, That we adhere to and reaffirm the doctrine enunciated and established by Jackson—that the government alone- . has the ; power to establish and issue money for the people; that tbe ißsue of legal-tender notes mde By the government as a method off borrowing money to carry on tiro war, in the exercise of a constitutional power, has become the fixed currency of the United States, eqnal to- coined gold and silver; that neither policy nor duty Calls for any meddling with it. general butler’s address. General' Butler then proceeded to address the convention. He said he appeared with great di ffldence. Most of the things in the platform he agreed to. There was one thing on whieh there was the most radical difference between the-two platforms. Both agreed Chat tilers was no constitutional power to raise revenue beyond the necessary wants- of the government; that it should he raised according to the doctrines of the fathers) and that no tax should be laid: on necessaries of life not produced in this eDuntny. He came here as no mendicant; no beggar. Ha cams here representing more than 1,500,000' laboring men. He had brought their-condition-before the committee and had- demanded,-not that it should give them anything, but that, when taxing the peoplfe', the tax should be taken where it would hurt them reset. Was not that a reasonable demand? Did they think they eld get along without that? He thought not He objected to the tariff plank in tho platform of the committee because it took the committee thirty-six hours to- frame- it. and if it took these able gentleman so long to- frame- it and" get it In form, there must be some reason fori that. If they could not find out in thirty-six hours what they wanted, ltow were his laboring men. to- find out what it. meant? [Laughter.]: ; There was-a radical difference between tire com' mittee and himself. The very able chairman- es the committee, Ms. Morrison, thought there should he no- such, thing oc could be no such thing an protection to Americas labor by taxation. He [General Butler] believed- that these should be such protection, such fostering, such clierishing. Mr. Morrison, could not yield his ooiwksfcions, and he [General Butler], could not yield his;, aud there--1 fore the committee had to spend all that time to say something, that would mean one. thing one way and another thing another way. [Laughter.] He-asked the delegates, to read that tariff plank aad see if they could- find, out exactly what, it did mean. It did not. mean protection; if it did, Colonel Morrison was too horn est a man to bring, it here, and yet it was so twisted that it might mean protection. The. Democracy had- in. its-platform, in 1880,. a plank of “tariff for revenue only,” and it broke tbe buck of the most gallant soldier in the country; , and now they had a tariff plank “for public purposes exclusively.”' Wlu-re was tlifl difference? “Bxclusively*'meant "0n1y,.” and “only” meant “exclusively.” Passing to the currency question,, hB said he affirmed the doctrinaof Andrew Jack son, that tho government alone could issue mon- . ey, and he would rather be wrong with Jackson than be right with the committee. He represented many Greenback raemgood and true Greenback inen, like Allen G. Thurman [laughter], and these men were 1 willing to come to the Democracy to root out

caaruptiou and wrong nr the government, if the Democracy would have them. But how were they received? With a plank in the platform (teetering that “wftarftiw favor of honest money * as if the greenback* were nut. Who -was not ia favor off honest money? If there wm such a man here, let him bo put out. Aa to civil-service fc-eform, he ventured to say thaws was not a mania the convention iin favor of it unless he was a school-master. Ex-beoutor Pendleton had been the author of the original eiritservie* law, and ha had never bee heard of since. [Laughter.] George Washington himself could not have passed a civttservroe examination for a $1,200 clerkship. [Laughter.] His early education had been neglected. and in his will, written by his own hand, lie spelled clothes “cloathes”. [Laughter.] For himself, he wanted frequent changes, in ofita% “ or<fer to counteract the great tendency te hnve aristocratic life effices. If of- ] ®e was a great thing, the* all the people to have a chance at Ht and if it was s baa thing, then it was too hard te pnt 16 on to a *oor felluw for hie whale fife- timu conclusion, he said that if thia convention told toe working men and women of the country that they were to be, he would not sav protected . but fostered and cherished, then the Democratic party would sweep the country: otherwise they would remain in t.ieir work shops on election day and the Democracy would be again defeated Theoretically b was a free-trader, but, practically, when $280,000,000 of revenue had to be raised on imports, there could be no such thing as free trade, and so long as some industry must be fostered, American men and women should be taken care off [applause]. He would call for a vote by States on his substitute for the tariff plank in the platform. CONVERSE AND WATTKRgON. Mr. Converse, o£ Ohio, next spoke in favor ot the adoption of the platform as reported by the majority of the committee. He said there was much in Butler’s platform to which all could subscribe; there was much in his tariff plank to which all could subscribe; there was much of that plank embodied in the report of the committee. The majority report was made by representatives of the thirty eight States; the dissent was from but a single State. The majority report was a harmonizing of differences in the entire Union, aad should receive the support of the Democracy, In that platform the Kmgfcte of Labor were fully recognized, but tbe great central and overshadowing idea of the platform was a reform in the government from department to deportment, and when that should be done the party would be prepared to take up otter and Jess important; matters. This was the concurrent judgment ot thirty-seven out of the thirty eight States. Th* party was sincere, earnest and determined in the work of reform, and whoever might; be nominated by this convention would be elected Presi dent ot the United States; Henry Watterson,of Kentucky, next addressed the convention. He said that for h own part he had never doubted that if the convention should adopt an honest and sound platform of principles, and should place oa that platform ♦wo representative statesmen of honorable repo- 1 . t ation and spotless lives, they would fee the nest President and Vice-president of the . United States. The committee' kyi given to the convention the platform; it was for the convention to give the ticket to tie country. It was an honest pfotforru—entirely so. ft was a sound platform—eminently to The members of the committee had found that the differences between them were not so great as the country had imagined and as they themselves had imagined. The committee had given to the convention a revenue platform on which all of them could afford !<w stand The committee doaeunced the abuses of the present war tariff, and declared that all federal taxation should be exclusively for public purposes, and that no more tax should fee collected than ww requisite to support the government, economically administered, The gentleman from Massachusetts had avowed himserf as, theoretically, a freetrader. He [Mr. Watterson) wa* not a freetrader. He could imagine no system of taxation more oppressive or unequal in its exactions than the distribution of the cast of government among the States. He believed that a wellregulated and moderate custom-house taxation, yielding the necessary revenue for the expense* of the government, was tie lighest tax that coufd be imposed on the people; an Jhe had always believed in a tariff. There had been in toe committee a substantial agreement on a question that had divided the party hitherto much more than it would ever divide it again. The platform reported was one on which they could unite. It was a platform whieh they canid vote. It was a platform which could not be misrepresented by thetr enemies, a platform which; when the Democracy had elected its candidates; would constitute a noble programme; amd policy as the purpose off the national Democracy. Mr. Morrison mov-ed tie previous question on the report and substitute; and ft was ordered. The vote was then taken by States on Butler’s substitute, and it mts rejected—yeas, 97]; nays. 714]. When tho vote of Indiana was being announced, Senator Voorhee® stated that he wished specially to have his vote recorded in the affirmative. The question reeurred on the adoption of the majority report A delegate from Georgia inquired whether there was not an error in the paragraph relating to internal revenue. He had been, unformed by a member off the committee that ia the original tbs Sentence commenced as follows: “The system of direct tarnation known as the internal revenue is a war tax, and should be abolished,” the last four words being omitted in the print. The chairman, after inoniry, stated that 1 there was no variation between the manuscript amd tho print. The vote was l then taken and the platform adopted.

THE B4IXdTQKIk Cleveland Receives 3#2 Votes, anti 7 Bayard • Comes te Second with 17©. Chicago, July 19.—The convention, at 11:40 p. m. , proceeded to ballot for a candidate for the presidency. Before the State of Alabama tied responded to the-call, a motion for a recess tffi to morrow morning was interposed, and the vote upon it taken by States: The vote on t taking a recess resulted in the negative: Teas 194, nays 6165. * The convontion then proceeded at 12:05 to take the first ballot, with the folhrwfn'g’ result: ~~§ p .9 '’a? w < ."g © S j | 5 * t Statu and Tgaai- sr 3. § 3 * TORIK& • | f • r r : r .r ■ ,f f j. , t 1 Alabama. . Arkansas 14 ~ California....... IS .Colorado.. .... 5 1 , Connecticut.—........ 12 ...... . t... -....L... . | Delaware 6 , j Florida. - 8 (.... i.........•.... | Georgia. niitaoTs... 28 2 11 I 1 .... I , Indiana,...... s." i 3© ... j....... -f lowa 23 1 1 1 .... : Kansas... Kentucky L '26 Louisiana .... 13 1 1 ! Maryland 6 Iff F— ‘ Massachusetts 3 23 2. , ! Michigan 14 I 11 .... .... ; Minnesota 14 , —.l : Mississippi.......... 1 15 1 1,.-. Misaouri.— i Ift tt 1 33 !—. Nebraska... 8 1 1 .... .Nevada 1 S " 1.~ New Hampshire . 8.- .... j . .New Jersey 4' 3 11.... -NewHsork —.— 72 .... . w. North Carolina 22 .... lOWtat 1 < 24 .... Oregon. 2 4-.,, .... .... , 1 Pennsylvania. 3 1... ..... 56 i Rhode Inland. 8 ; 2 .... ,—. . South Carolina 8 f 10 .... Tennessee..., 2 8 3 XJ,-~ i I—'Texas 11 10 1 4 .... , ' Vermont 8 - Virginia 13 9 1 1 .... .... West Vitgfala. 4 ...: 2 ... 3..., - Wisconsin .......... 12 1 2 2 1 .... . Arisvraa 2 '•... Dakota 2 1„ District of Columbia 2 .... Idaho 21 Vo.. ~.. _— Montana 2 r j .... New.Mexico.2 t— t™. i... t— .... '.— Utah 2 ~.. H-..-.-’Washington-. 1 .... ■-... 1 .... ’Wyoming.. .... Mr. Hendrick* received 1 vote in Illinois; Mr. Tllden lin Tennessee, and Mr. Flower 4in