Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 July 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME 3 PETERSBURG, INDIANA Neatly REASONABLE BATES. Baildhtg. Main stmt NUMBER 12. notice: Person* rcr-eivinjf a copy of this this notice crossed In lend pencil that the time of their subscription has expired.

EWS IN BRIEF. from Various Sources. liiUOSil.-Un> FOUTICU. *' claim d by Keoator Mahone, of Bill, that the apportionment bill was actitly passed., an i he appeals for an Btlen against the Secretary of State's issuance of Sew poll butt. This I3oa*d of Pension Appeals appointed by the President consists of Aaron Bra ithaw, of California; George Ewing, of Pennsylvania, and Harrison L. Bruce, of lllllnois. Queer Victoria congratulates the President of the United States upon the rescue Of the (Jreely party. On the 821 the Chicago police arrested Ifollie Fink, charged with murder near Master on, Mich. Secretary Teller has decided the Eureka Springs (Ark.) case in favor of the town, against the pre-emptors and homestead claimants. It is Ie ported that Osman Digna will send reinfonseinents to the rebels at Berber, where there is fear that Gordon will make a bold move. Orders have beer, sent to Admiral Courbet to remain with his squadron at Foo Choar until ihe indemnity is paid. Jake GraySwisshelm, aged sixty-eight yearti, the noted authoress and philanthropist, is dead. At Friar's Point, Miss., J. M. Luddath ronuoiitted suicide on the 22d because of despondency. On tts 22d, a statue of Beethoven was unveiled in Central Park, New York, by the Beetho’ren Mannerchor. It is the opinion of Be Lesseps that the Technical Commission will recommend the widening of the Panama Canal. Ex-Banker Eno’s wife and daughter have joined him at Quebec, where he has

rented an elegantly tarnished bouse. Ok the 23d the President of San Salvador eras presented to President Arthur. Ex-Uhtister Sargenj is being urged to run Ibr Congress in one of the California districts. Ik tlie Seventh District of Texas the Democrats nominated Hon. Wm. H. Crain for Congress. Th* Sixth Iowa District Greenbackers have nominated General J. B. Weaver for Congress. The Democrats have also nominated Weaver. ' Th* authorities of Pittsburgh, Pa., arrested A. B. Lowry on the 22d tof the tnurder of Hiram Edmonson. One of the principal State witnesses, Michael Donley, was recently murdered. / Th* Conference of Independent Republicans at Kew York on the 22d was a big * flair at which Blaine was oratorically roas eel, and Cleveland and Hendricks indorsed JohS E. Redmond and Thomas E. Sexton, Irish agitators, will attend the Irish National Parliamentary party convention at Boston next month. The Prohibition Convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., was a big one. McDonald, of California, with his $1,000,000 contribution [to the campaign fund seemed to have the lead for the Presidential nomination. Color el Goshen, the giant, wants a divorce from his wife in New York. On the 23d Rear Admirai George F. Emmons died at Princeton, N. J., aged seven-ty-five. According to London Truth Plunger Walton has left behind unsettled accounts for large amounts. Emperor William, in the event of an epidemic in Germany will revoke the order for the autumn manoeuvres. The King of Abyssinia binds himself in his treaty with England to abolish slavery and the slave trader ZmciLER, the Philadelphia grocer, did not die of cholera, as reported, but according to the post mortem, of aggravated cholera morbus. fig Eugene Kelly is announced as a Presidential elector-at-large for New York vice Purcell, of the Rochester Union, who bolt, ed the Democratic ticket. • A Montreal newspaper has attacked! Judge Caron, who tried the Eno case, and an application has been made for the editor’s arrest. Or the 25-i the Prohibition Convention at Pittsburgh permanently organized, the committee on Credentials reported and then an adjournment was taken. Or the 23d Salvator Landini was arrested in New York for wife murder, En route to the police station he tool: poison and died before assistance came. Ik the Third Congressional District of Ohio the Republicans have nominated H. I*. Morey for Congress. A PlTTSCURGH girl named Lizzie Brad ley, who disappeared from home recently , * was Ifound on the 23d, covered with wounds, at a fi >htng camp on the Monon- ; gabeln. > "W.1S. Grant has been nominated by this Second District Vermont Republicans foir Congr ess to succeed Judge Poland. Du, Koch, the eminent German scientist, has or ganized a transport service and i»sued rules for the public guidaflee iu guarding against cholera in Germany. Caster Harrison has formally accepted the nomination for Governor of Ulinois in a letter of his original kind. Catholic circles in England keep repea ting the assertion that Mary Anderson will become a Carmelite nun. LkciEbert has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats at Portsmouth, O. * Lord Granville will not consent to Hollarfd’s proposed blockade of the Aoheen coast to secure the release of the crew of the i isero. This ticket chosen at Pittsburgh by the Prohibitionists was: For President, John TVSt. John, of Kansas; for Vice-Presi-V- ,?*'!*' WjlMam Daniels, of Maryland. Pint! otto: Dowh with the liquor traffic. John T. Heard was nominated for Congress from the Sixth District of Missouri

' Off the 24th Wifliam H. Barnum and 9. O. Prinoe were unanimously re-elected Chairman and Secretary of the National Democratic Committee. < Tac officer* of Nelson’s flagship Victory, at Portsmouth, wfll giro a banquet to the Philadelphia cricketers ‘ " «H»g,on CB AEL tor of the l:'ri louse of Lora G-overnoi 8 Sixty-ninth - Peekskill, N. S. >unces the .ague Convention in I to Parliamentary policy, a. MonTOff, Assistant Postmaster yn, N. V., is missing, and there t discrepapcy in the pay rolls. Ohio, was the Grand **£ infs tb.il visit prep* ahis getting Italia atPlorresult of wounds rewith * man who wanted a Prohibition

A XAR who drowned himself! In the bay at; Erie, Pa., iia now thought to have been Ed. Sperry, the $100,000 defaulter of ChaU.uqoa County, N. Y. Thk wife o f the late Dr. Pa-ry has gone Blast for the remains of her husband, one of the dead of the Greely parly, and will bury them In St. Louis, Mo. At Burlington, N. J., Annie fiagmett has been for some days suffering in a manner which leads people to thlnlt she is affected with hydrophobia, although it is not known that she was ever bitten by a mad dog. Os the Slat petroleum miners at Drohobis, Austria, attacked alt the dews, desecrated the synagogue,' tore up the books and carried on a wild ri ot, in which several persons were killed and several others wounded. Forest fires were reported raging all through Northern Michigan, doing terrible damage. At Gloucester, Mass., on the 22d, a heavy fire came very new sweeping the town away. On the 22d, at the colored Methodist camp-meeting at Jewell's Woods, lnd., one man was fatally and others seriously injured during a fracas. In Michigan the forest fires had completely surrounded the town of Farwell, Clare County, on the 221, and the citizens were fighting to keep them off. Fire destroyed Blanchard’s shoe factory in Boston, Mass., on the 23a. On the 23d a hail and wind storm did considerable damage to property and life_ in Wisconsin. On the 23d George Nichols was shot in the back and instantly killed, by James Culltnane in Cleveland, O. A. B. Wagner has been arrested for complicity in the Edmunson murder at McKeesDort Pa. In the recent storm at Dakota, seven persons were killed. Much property was also destroyed. At Petersburg, Va., on the 23d, R. C. Mack’s and George Davis’peanut factories burned. Supposed incendiarism. An explosion of gas occurring in the German Bank vault at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 23d, shattered the building and almost killed the bank cashier. The boiler of a steam thresher at Rushville, lnd., exploded on the 24th, killing three men and severely injuring half a

uussa timers. On the 24th three children of Joseph Ashley, while bathing at Green Bay, Wis., attempted to rescue one of the party and all were drowned. Or the night of the the 231 deerstalkers, gillies and laborers on an estate nea r Inverness, Scotland, had a fight. A gillie named Campbell killed a laborer. Fire destroyed Overholts & Co.’s distillery, with three bonded warehouses and 7,000 barrels of whisky, at Connelsville, Pa., the night of the 24th. Tee spectators got drunk drinking whisky which flowed along the ground. ' On the 25th the boiler of an engine on the Lehigh Valley Road, exploded, killing four men. > Nearly all the houses in Massowah were destroyed by an earthquake on the 25th, and the inhabitants fled for the interior. On the 25th Miss Mary Si. Aulters, of Leachburg, Pa., who attempted suicide by prussic acid a couple of weeks ago, tried it again with a pistol, inflicting a mortal wound. Or the 25th the wall of a rolling mill at Lexington. Ky.. was forced cut by a load of wheat in the building, and one man was killed and another fatally injured. On the 25th Carl Kfessler and Albert Kellogg, two newsboys at Lafayette, Ind., fought, and the former stabbed the latter four times. It was thought that Kellogg would die. A German janitor in New York named Julius Halweg, committed suicide in a most elaborate fashion, on the 25th. X1SCKLLANEOCII. The Department of Slate has a pamphlet in course of preparation which will contain information of interest to the agricultural implement manufacturers. AT Borne, Switserland, on the 32d, the Salvation Army was attacked by a mob in a hall, and the building was completelywrecked. The Pinkerton police who were on duty during the Hocking Valley strike have all been sent home. TRx Banitary Council of the Mississippi Valley recommends to all h ealth officers additional caution as to sanitary measures. Permission has been granted the re* ceiver of Grant & Ward by the court to sue all persons who borrowed money from the firm. The island of Ischia was shaken by'aplainly perceptible earthquake shock on the 22d. At a meeting of shareholders on the 23d, in Paris, it was declared that the Panama Canal would be open for traffic in 1888. Jn a murder case in Cincinnati the jury prayed for guidance and found tbe defendant gnilty. A meeting of the Austro-Hungarian German and Russian delegates will beheld, shortly to settle the Servo-Bulgarian difficulty at Belgrade. Swiss troops are to bo^ralled out at Berne to protect the Salvation Army., A Convention of tbe Amalgamated Coal Miners’ Association was held at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 23d. It is announced that the Mudir of Dongola has defeated 5,00) of the- Mahdi’s men near Debbetr, capturing 800 Remington rifles. The students at Agr.au concerned-in the recent riot have been expel let from the University and the salary of the rector

nas oeen stopped. Tsi Judicial Committee of the English Privy Council will recommend the same Ontario boundary as recommended by the Canadian arbitrators. Thk citizens of New Orleans were thoroughly frightened on the 2id at the announcement that a death had occurred there from yellow fever. An autopsy dispelled the excitement. For the purpose of evading the law prohibiting distillers sending liquor into any other State, the distillers are shipping it all to Windsor, Canada. Thr National Sanitary Conference will hold a meeting early in August to take action with regard to the antic ipated appearance of cholera. Dispatches of the 34th said drought prevailed in Indians, Ohio and Kentucky. . Forest and swamp fires were raging in Northern Ohio, pastures were almost dead, water becoming scarce, and altogether things looking blue. Thk New Orleans Exposition managers have notified the Governors of all States that the $6,000 appropriated for each State is ready for distribution. Much excitement was occasioned in Ohio on the 23d by a rumor to the effect that some of the operators have been shipping bombs to NslsOnville to bo used against striking miners. At Gloucester, Kass., on the 33d, a workman, while carrying a basket of dynamite packages, got frightened ond threw it away, eausing an explosion which shook up the entire neighborhood . Ah attack by the rebels Is expected on Snakim while the inbabitsntc celebrate the Bairam feast closing the fast Of Rama>dW. / -

Vvwsa the twenty-tour hours ended at # p. m. on the 234, there were forty-four deaths from cholera at Marseilles and fifteen at Toulon. The public schools in tioth cities are dosed. A large number of deaths also occurred at Arleu and Aix, and the people are fleeing by thousands. At Toulon and Marseilles the cholera epidemic is on the decrease. lit Iowa and Missouri reoent storms have played havoc with the s malt pain Tm'k saloon-keepers of Cincinnati are worrying the State in the Scott liquor law cases and mean to demand a jury in each case. Tan Salvation Army has been prohibited holding meetings at Berne, Swi tzerland. Or Che 24th the stockholders of the Encaustic Tile Works at Indianapolis applied for and secured the appointment of a receiver. This is another of J. fit. CL Harrison’s institutions. On the 24th the sailors, firemen, waiters and others of the steamship Illinois struck at Philadelphia against shipping under the provisions of the Dingley bill and brought the company to terms in short order.. Tins Irish team won the Echo shield in the rifle match at Wimbledon. For the last quarter returns from 159 letter-carrier post-offices show the postal receipts were 15,169,053. The Court of Appeals at Richmond, Va., has declared unconstitutional the act of the Virginia- Legislature prohibiting school superintendents dabbling in' politics. The plot recently unearthed aPWarsaw was an elaborate one. After murdering the Czar, the scheme was to pillage the Jews and rich tradesmen, and then raise the standard of rebellion in Poland. Forty-eight deaths from cholera were reported at Marseilles in the twenty-four hours ended at nine o’clock on the night of the 24th. The Mexican debt’ agent, Moetzlin, is endeavoring to induce the Barings, of London, to place a new Mexican loan of $80,000,000 at seven percent. It is reported that General Gonzales is going to Europe to conclude the contract. The amount of gold coin and bullion owned by the Government is only $120,000000. The amount has been reduced by over $20,000,000 during the last month. The reduction for some days has been about $1,000,000 per day. This fact is causing considerable comment in Treasury Department circles. For the past fiscal year internal revenue receipts were $121,590,030. On the 25th Victor Elci, wife murderer, and Kendrick Holland, (colored) who killed his mistress, were hanged at Hew Orleans. In different pdrts of France sporadic cases of cholera are reported appearing. Tourists are giving Paris a wide berth. The expedition to, explore the Congo country starts from Hamburg on the 30th, under command of Lieutenant Schultze. During the week ended the 25th there were 225 failures reported to Bradstreet’3, against 211 in the preceding week, and 163 and 22 and 8S in the corresponding week of 1883, 1882 and 1881, respectively. Marseilles and Toulon dispatches up

to the evening of the 35th indicated that the condition of affairs was steadily improving. Counsellors of Arles who fled at the approach of cholera will be prosecuted. The total deaths to date numbered at all points about 1,000, with 500 cases having recovered. Reports received at Bradstreet’s, New York, indicate that the general prospect for an average crop is not thought to be The Police Commissioners of New York want to investigate charges that officers were in league with Mother Handelbaum, the famous fence. In the United States Court at 8t Louis, Judge Brewer decided denying the right of an insolvent to give a mortgage just before assignment to any one party. Tim stove foundries and cigar manufacturers of Cincinnati threaten to remove their establishments to other cities unless non-union men are protected from assault. The Cincinnati police force are paid from the tax raised under the Scott liquor law, and the liquor dealers are contesting, therefore there are no funds. There is talk of reducing or disbanding the force unless an appropriation is made. Irish public opinion is offended by the rejection of the bill providing for reform in the manner of electing Poor-house guardians in Ireland. The first case against the liquor dealers under the Mott law at Cincinnati resulted in a victory in favor of the County Treasurer. Lieutenant Schwatka, thij Arctic-ex-plorer, has resigned from the navy to take a position, it is understood, under some foreign power. The commercial treaty between Spain and the United States don’t move along smoothly owing to a clash of interests. The Bennett-Mackay cable will, according to an interested party, be ready fot public nse October L • Ellen Terry is ill, and the Lyceum Theater at London is in conscience closed. She was vaccinated recently and took cold in her arm. . Judge-Advocate General Swaim has been suspended from duty pending his trial by court-martial. Irishmen at Skibbereen have begun boycotting, because of the introduction of la-Ibor-saving machines. I At Arles fear of the cholera drives many people crasy. Advices from Marseilles are that the epidemic is not as severe as previous outbreaks. : Frank Hutchins, the San Francisco mechanic who strangled his mistress a few days ago, was found guilty cm the 26th of *murder in the first degree. Juan C. Bucha, a New Mexican millionaire, was drugged and robbed, it is said, of $13,000 at the Latonna race track fair. LATE NEWS ITEMS. i

near (Jincmnati, u., oyapairrii connaence | operators. i Donnell, Lawson & Simpson have ob11nined consent of nearly all tbeir creditors to take their assets out of the hands of the assignee and utilise them themselves. They will soon resume. » The President and Cabinet are all out of Washington, and subordinates are running the machine. The Greely relief squadron will be royally received on their arrival at Portsmouth, N. H., about August 3. Charles P. Morton, the missing Assistant Postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y., is said to be insane and in the hands of 1 friends. i Extraordinary quantities of whisky 1 have been taken from bond and exported during the past three months in carder to secure postponement of the payment of the tax. During the twenty-four hours ended at 9 p. m. on the 37th there wore thirty-six [deaths from cholera at Marseilles, eleven at Toulon, twelve at Arles and six at Aix. I The Duke de Chartres has been attacked .with fever as a result of fatigue caused by his recent visit to Toulon. The Salvation Army has ilnvaded Albany, N. Y. Mrs. Pauline Grimm, a hotel proprietress in Indianapolis, committed suicide oh the ?7th,

GENERAL LOGAN’S LETTER Accept}** the Republican 1 ■ for the Vice-Free! deucy. TfASBISOTOn, U. C., July 2L General John A. Logan's letter of acceptance, under date of July .9, anu a tdreseed to Genera! John B. Henderson, Chairman of the late Kepublieaa Convention, km riven out to-day, and is to substance > s fol ov*i Dear Sxk—Haring reoeiveci from you on Hue 24th of June the official notification or my nominstion at the National ltepuiblican Convention as the Hepoblican candidate for Vice FreaMent of the United States, and considering it to be the duty of every man devoting himself to the public eervico-to assume any position to which he may be called by the —--**-*- countrymen, I uo:«ptthe nomtvoice of hia i____ _ ._ nation with a grateful and deep sense of its responsibilities; and, if elected, shall endeavor to discharge the duties of the office to the best of my ability. This honor, as is well understood, was whot Iv unsought by me. That it was tendered by the representatives of the party In a manner so flattering, will serve to lighten whatever labors I may he-sailed upon to perform. Although the variety of subject s covered in Hie very excellent and vigorous declaration of ptjnciplesadopted by theConrentionprohibits, upon an occasion calling tor brevity of expression, that full elaboration of which they are suaceptib'e, I aviil myself of party usage to signify my approval of the var oua resolutions of the platform, ami to discuss them briefly. The resolutions of the platform declaring for a levy of such duties “as to afford security to our diversified industries, and protection to the rights ane wages of the I > borer, to the end that active and intelligent labor, as well as capital, may have its just award, and the laboring man his full share in the National prosperity,” meets his-hearty approval and he sums up the subject of a protective tariff by saying; “The principle Involved is one of no great obscurity, and can to readily comprehended by any Intelligent person cnlmly reflecting upon it. The political and social systems or some of our trade-competing natiins have created working c asses miserable in the extreme. They receive the merest stipend for tie r daily toil, and in the gtreat expense of the necessities of life, are deprive 1 of those comforts of clothing, housing and healthproducing food, with which whoto.ome mental and social recreation can alone make existence happy and dcsirab e.” “Now, if the products of these count-ies are to be placed in our market alongside of American products, either the Amerleui capi a!ist must sufferin his legitimate pi-otts, or he must make the American laborer suffer in his attempt to compete with the Bjiecies of labor above referred to.” “The obvious policy of our Government is to protect both capital and labor by a proper imposition of duties. This protection should extend to every article of American production which goes to build up the general prosperity of our people.” The letter goes on to discuss the wool interest, and the necessity for protective legislation In regard to that industry. He otaima for the UepubUcan party the credit of establishing a monetary srstem that has never been equaled by any ether na tion, and cites the h'gh credit of the Nation and the premium at which our bonds are held as nroof of its stability. He holds that ‘the convertibility of the currency should he maintained intact, and the estab lishment of an international standard among all commercial nations fixing the re'ative values of gold and silver coinage, would be a measure of peculiar advantage." “lnrespcot to Inter-ota e ecntmercc.mere is much to be desired in the tray of equitable ia es and facilities of transportation*, that commerce may flow freely between the States themselves, diversity of industries and employments be promoted in all sections of out country, and that the great granaries and manufacturing establishments of the Interior may be entitled to send their products to the seaboard for (hipment to foreign countries, relieved of vexatious restrictions anddiscrimination- in matters of which it may emphatically be said, “time is money," and also of unjust charges upon articles destined to meet close competition from the products of other parts of the world."

As to our foreign commerce, the enormous growth of our industries, and our surprising production of cereals and other necessities o* life, imperatively require that immediate and effective means te taken Jlirough pta eful, ordeuy and conservative methods to open markets which have been a ad are now monopolized largely by other nations. This mors part oularly t elates to our sister republics of Spanish America, as also to our friends tt* people of the Brazilian Kmu re.” In regard to our foreign re’atlons he claims that what we most; need is a ‘ Arm and vigorous assertion of every right and privilege belonging to our Government or its citizens, as weil as sn equally Arm assertion of the rights and' privileges belonging to the general family of American Republics situated on this continent, when opposed, if ever they should be, by tbe systems of government upon another continent. An appeal to the right by such a Government as ours could not be disregarded by any civilized nation. In tbe treaty of Washington we led the world to the means of, escape from the horrors of war, and it ft to be hoped that the era when all international differences shall be decided Dy peaceful arbitration is not far off." The letter next deals with the conditions of society previous an i subsequent to the war of the rebellion and the cnamu'l conlition consequent UJKm y,e enf wnohisement of 4,tXkJ,UMof negroes. The metho Is of nullifying the negro vote in the South tire severely' criticised. Under these methods, he says: “Minorities actually attempt to direct the course of Na 1 Dal affairs, and though up to this tune success has not attended their efforta to elect a President, -yet success has been so perilously imminent as to encourage a repetition of the effort at each qua Irennia) eleotlon, and to subject the interests of an overwhelming majority of our people, North and South, to the hazards of illegal subversion.” The question of t e i- poit t on of pau er labor by ihe Indis r miiaie t,(mission or Immigrants rom ihe old w r cl cal s ;or !e*i latioii that shal p o eet tl e hones at d Imel i gent ii bor of the country train tui oua cempetit on. "As 1 nave heretofore maintained,in order to achieve the ideal perfection of a popular government, It is absolutely necessary that the masses should be educated. This proposition applies itself with full force to the coloiel people of the South. They must have better eduoational advantages, and thus be enabled to become the intellectual peers of their white brethren, as many olf them undoubtedly a'ready arj. A liberal school system uouid bs providodfor the rising genera.ion of the South, and the colored people bo made as capable of exercising the duties of electors as the wlnte people." “With the determination to elevate our Gov ernmental administration to a stun lard of justice, excellence and public Diomlity, the Republican party has sedulously endeavored to lay the foundation of a system which shall reach the h ghest perfection under the plastic hand of time and accumulating experience. The problem Is one of far greater inir cacy than appears upon its superficial consideration, and embraces the sub-questions of how to avoid the abuses possib's to the lodgment of an immense number ol appointments in the hands of t he Executive i of how to give encouragement to and provoke emulation in the various Government employes, in order that they may strive for proficiency and tvst their hopes of advancement upo i the attri- ' butes or ottciil merlt.KOOti conduct and exemplary honesty; and how best to avoil tie evils of creating a privileged class in the Government servioe, who, in imitatlcn .of European prototypes, may gradually lose all proficiency and value in the belief that they possess a liie calling only to lie taken away in oase of some flagrant abuse.” “The Republican party came Into existence In a crusade againit-fhe Democratic institutions of slavery and polygamy. The first oi these has been buried beneath the embers ol civil war. The party should continue Its efforts until the remaining -iniquity shall disappear from our civilization unde:; the fores of faith

lull* CALUUIUU wws. “While there should be the most rigid economy of governmental administration, there should be no self-dereaUng par i nony, either in our domestic or foreign service. Official ilshonest-r shoo'd be p. omotly an l reientlcsuy punished. Ou r ohligat ons to the defenders of our ecu itry shouiu never bo forgotten, an 1 t. <i liberal system of pensions provided by the Bepublcan party shOu d not be imperiled by adverse legialation. The law establishing a Labor Bureau, through which the interest of labor can be piaoed in an organized condition, I regard as • salutary measure. The eight-hour law should be enforced as rigid ly as any other. We should increase our navy t) a deguga enabling us to proteot our coast linos, oui'K88mtner.e, and to give us a force in foreign waters which shall be a respectable and proper representative of a country like our own. Thu public landi belong to the people, and should not be alk naUd from them, but reserved for free bodies for all desiring to possess them, and finally, our present Indian policy should bo continued and improved upon as our experience in Its administration may from time to time suggest. Enterprising Home Thieves. ' Daw,as. Tint., July as. Yesterday an officer succeeded in capturing Robert, alias Sonny Moseley | Wm. Moseley and James Oilltand, alias Briggs, notorious horse thieves. They hare been operating in Northern & Western Texas and the Indian Territory lor the past two years, and bail been constantly pursued by officers. At the time of their arrest they had a contract to deliver a hundred horses to a party in Louisiana. This led to the arrest. Robert Moseley, chlet ot the gang,is twentyfonr years old, has engaged in horse stealing for twelve years, and la one of the fflost dating in the Northwest.

komixatmq speeches. The AMram Cleveland Before the Candidate for the Presidency, and Which Secured Ills Nomlinatloa. D1KBL LOCX WOOD Mr. lock wood, of New Ycrk, said: It i» with - ordinary feelings and with no ordinary feel- ■ of responsibility that 1 appear beforb this ention as a repiesentaive of the Democof the State of B ewY ork -. applause! —for he purpose of placing in nomination before this convention a gentleman from the State of New York for the candid'ey of the Presidency of the United States, This responsibility is made greater when 1 remember that the richest pages of American history hare been made op from the records of Democratic administration. (Applause.) The responsibility is made still greater when I remember that the only blot in the political bistory at TVashington was the outrage upon the rights Of the American people in 1876. and that that ‘utrage, and that injury to justievis sti'l unvenged— applause and cheers)—and this sponsibiiity is not lessened when l recall at the gentleman whose name 1 shall promt to you has been my political associate ;rom my youth to the present time. Side by have we marched to the tune of Demote music—lapplausel—side by side hare studied the principles of Jefferson and Jackson to learn the language of the faith which we believe. (Appiause-1 And dury all this time we have occupied positions comparatively oi private eitizens, always true, always' faithful t« Democratic principles. But, gentiemer of the convention, the only -object of our coming here is to deal with th> Question so that when we have gone to out homes the peop’e who are the voters of the country will ratify tho nominations which we shad make. (Applause and cheers.) Ne man has a greater respect or more vcnetatica for the honored names which have been preset' ' to this convention than toy self: but, t 'man, the world is moving, ant’ mo. .g rapidly. From tho North to the South new men. men who have acted but little in politics, are coming to the front (applause), and to-day there, arc hundreds and thousands of young men in this country, men who are to cast their first ”ote, men who are independent in politics, a d they are looking to this convention, prayir;; silentlv that there shall be no mistake made iere. They want to drive the Kepublican arty from power. They want to cast their verte for a Democrat in whom they believe. (Applause.) Those people know from the record of the gentleman whose name 1 shall resent that Democracy with him means isimest government, pure government and protection of tho rights of the people of every class and every condition. A little more than three years ago I had the honor at the city of Buffalo to present the name of this same gentleman for tho office of Mayor of that city, it was presented thoa for the same reason, for the same causes, that we present it new. It was because the government of that city had become corrupt end had become debauched, pad political integrity sat not in high places. The people looked fora man who would represent the country, and without hesitation They named Grover Cleveland as the man. The result of that election and his holding that office was that in less than nine months the State of New Tork found fcerseif in a position to want just such a candidate and for snch a purpose, and when at the convention of 1868 his name was placed in nomination for the office of Governor of the State or New d ork the same people, the same class of people, knew that that meant honest government, it meant pure government, it meaut Democratic government, and it was ratified by the people. (Cheers.) And, gentlemen, now, after eighteen months’ service there, the Democracy of the State of New Yo-k come to you and ask you to give to the country, to give to the Independent and the Democratic voters ot the country, to give to the young men of the country, the new blood of the country, the name or Grover Cleveland as its standard-bearer for the next four years. I shall indulge m no eulogy of Mr. Cleveland. I shall not attempt any further description of his oolitical career. It is known. His Democracy is known. His statesmanship is known throughout the length and breadth of this land. Ail 1 ask of this convention is, let co passion, no prejudice infiuence the duty which they owe to the people of this country. Be not deceived. Grover Ctevand can give the Democratic party the thirty-six electoral votes of the State ot Now York on election day. He ean. hy his purity ol character, by h.s purity of administration, by his fearless and undaunted courage to do right, bring to you more votes than anybody else. Gentlemen of . the convention, but one word more. Mr. Cleveland s candidacy before this convention is offered upon the ground of his integrity, his wisdom, and bis Democracy. (Cheers.) Upon that ground we ask it, believing that if ratined 1-y this convention he can be elected and take his seatat Washington aaa Democratic President of the United States.

CARTER HARRISON SECONDS. Mayor Harrison said: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of tbe convention, I was asked a little while aso to secoud this nomination, because the distinguished gentleman who was to have done so is absent, bjr reason of indisposition. 1 wt 1 detain you but a few moments to give the reasons why I think Illinois wants tiller Cleveland for its candidate. (Applause.) Gentlemen, in 1870 was that terrible crime so graphically described by your temporary Chairman committed. He told vou. In language with which I can not compare, that the crime is yet t-i be avenged, and that until tbe. Hem eraev had won a Presidency it would not be wiped from the page of American history. He told you that that crime was next to judic ial murder—murder committed by the Republican party. Remember, Holy Writ says: “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man’s hand shall his blood be shed.” <ApSlause.) Twe Democracy must destroy the epublican party this full or the crime goes lour years longer unavenged. Ei,;ht weeks ago we had corning from all over this land a name that we know would wipe out the crime. From the North and from the South, from the East and West, came one name, and that name was Samgel J. Xliden. (Vociferous applause.) A Voice—And Hendricks. Mr. Harr!sot-1 will reach the other end of that ticket in a moment. (Laughter and applause.) Samuel J. Xiiden we expected to be presented at this convention, and we had expected no Domination and no ballot. It would have been doue by acclamation. (Applause.) And it would have been followed by another name—one who, even yet, if we can not agree, may be mentioned here. (Applauan.) But with true chivalry, true to hislriend whom he has nominated to-day, Tom Hendricks refuses to have his name mentioned here(Applause.) Now, gentlemen, how Is tbe crime committed in ltfittto be avenged? The cry came eight years ago for Tilden and reform. (Applause.) That cry Is echoed here. "Cleveland and reform. (Applause.) No man asked the nomination of Mr. Cleveland because of his magnetism. (Laughter.) He neither attracts the people nor do corporations attract him. The magnetic man is on the other side. We warn the man whose name will be a synonym of hopeaty and reform. (Applause.) We believe In Illinois that tbe mantle of Governor Tilden has fallen, and rightly fails and rests gracefully upon the shoulders of Grover Cleveland. (Applause.) We believe tho last closing words of that great letter from our grand leader, whose brain is yet as clear as a bell, though Almighty God has permitted his hand to be palsied and hfs voice to be almost still, we believe that utterance of his. that the cry of the Democratic party this fall must and shall be ‘‘Reform’’ (cries of “good! good!” and applause—and we have no doubt that Mr. Cleveland will give us reform. Gentlemen, we are here to deliberate. I do not want to nominate Mr. Cleveland it we can notelccthim. They tell us we can not. Factional fight comes and says he has enemies. Where does the fight come from? They say that a great church will oppose him on religious grounds. 1 know that that church never lets its ministers’ voices be heard in tbe pulpit preaching politics. (Cheers.) And the cry that that church will not permit Mr. Cleveland to be elected is a slander upon a church that has in his employ some of its most notable standard-bearers. X hey say that the Irish will out his threat— that they will knife him. Did you ever know the Irish to knife the Democratic party except for good reasons. (Loud applause, and a voice behind ones ‘‘TesT* “Yes!” and great

Mr. Harrison Continuing)—No, so. (Loud cries, and cries of “Put him out!" “Put him out!") The Irishmen believe in the Demooratic party because the Democratic party is true to every oppressed people and to every Irishman. They saySAIr. Cleveland did not pardon somebody, aqssherefore the Irish will knife Mr. Cleveland. Whom trill they knife him fori For Blaine? Aye! Do you think that the Irishmen will forget MeSweenio living in a foreign dungeon? (Applause.) McSweenle, whose wife had almost shed tears of blood before James G. Blaine, and ho turned a deaf ear to her implorations. Tho Irish will not desert Cleveland, because-the Irish believe in the Democratic party, and the Democratic party is right. If we nominate Mr. Cleveland we will be right, and the Irish will stand by us. (Loud applause.) They tell us that the workingmen will desert Mr. Cleveland. My friends, who are the friends of tho workingmen? It is the Democratic party-the party of the people, true to the workingmen, founded on the workingmen—a party founded and built upon the workingmen as upon a rook which will endure fop ever. (Loud applause.) They tell us that Mr. Cleveland vetoed Borne bill hostilo to the workingmen. Has there been a whisper that those vetoes .or that veto was brought about for corrupt purposes? Not one. It is an insult to the workingman to say ho is going to be oaught by a catoh-word or carried away by Idle denunciation. (Applause.) My friends, there is another great party in this country. There is a nationality, and those sprung from it who believe in honesty. I speak now or the Germanic people of the United States. (Applause.) Ail they demand in an officer in this Government is honesty of purpose and honesty in praotice. Give us Governor Cleveland, and I belie re that ninety per cent, of the German-speaking Republicans of the part will be found side by side with the Democrats this fall in electing him. (Applause.) On this account, Mr. Chairman, I ask that this convention will nominate Grover Cleveland, bp

cause 1 believe he will help us to win IUlnot* next November. (Applause.) Addresses were made by delegates from various States lurther seconding the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, notably by Mr. Maxwell, of Minnesota; Mr. Bose, of Tennessee; General Bragg, of Wisconsin; General Ken*, or New Hampshire: Judge Dool.ttle, of Wist consin; Governor Waller, of Connecticut and others. Blaine and the Suspects. The attempt of the supporters of the tattooed candidate to make favor with Irish-Americaa citizens on the ground of his alleged sympathy with the cause of Ireland, and that he will maintain a “rigorous foreign policy,” whatever that may mean, is not likely to amount to anything more effective in the way of results than the cautious appeals recently made on Blaine’s behalf to Catholic voters, which seem to have been pretty effectually extinguished by the Madgan circular, printed and circulated, if not actually written by Mr. Blaine. That was probably the most disgusting and abusive appeal to sectarian enmities and prejudices ever circulated even in the most heated of our political contests. But about Mr. Blaine’s sympathy for Irishmen and the Irish cause, there are some facts accessible well worth keeping in mind.

in 1881 the English Parliament passed the Irish Coercion bill, one of the most despotic acta that ever disgraced the name of law. By it a single individual in Ireland, called the Lora Lieutenant, was authorized, at his own sweet will, to issue his warrant and consign- to the English jails in Ireland any person daring his pleasure, and that, too, without anyeomp'aint on oath showing that any crime had been committed or threatened, or that the person imprisoned was guilty of any wrong whatever. The purpose ot the act, as indicated on its face, was to keep the persons arrested in prison without a trial and without any intention to try them for any offense, pretended or otherwise. It declared that any person so committed should nor be held to bail, or tried or relieved by any court or officer without the consent of his Lordship. In short, it was a purel f despotic and barbarous edict. • Undeij that act several naturalized America!) citizens of Irish birth—viz., Dennis O’Connor, lianiel McSweenev, Michael Boyton, Henry O’Mahonev,' John McEnery and a great many 'others were arrested and confined in the English jails in Ireland. Applications were made by these persons to Mr. BrooLs, our Consul at Cork, complaining of their arrest and imprisonment, and stating that they had done nothing contrary to law; "that they had neither committed nor threatened to commit any crime, and had not wronged any one, and that they desired a speedy trial. Mr. Brooks forwarded these applications to Mr. Lowell, our Minister, to England, and asked his intervention for the piotec«ion of these American citizens. Mr. Lowell declined to interfere or to assist in any way any of these citizens to be relieved from British dungeons, and on August 3, 1881, in a letter to Mr. Brooks," as a reason for his official action,-said: The Coercion act. so called, is an exceptions, and arbitrary measure. Its chief object is te enable the English authorities to arrest persons whom they suspect of ittog-al conduct, without being able to produce any proof of their guilt Its very substance and purpose are to deprive Buspected persons of the speedy trial they desire. This law is, of course, contrary to the spirit and foundation Drinciples of both English and American jurisprudence: but it is the law of the land, and it controls all persons, whetberthey are British subjects cr not and it is manifestly entirely futile to olaimthat naturalized citizens of the United States should be excepted from its operation. * * * Unless I am instructed to the contrary by the Department of State, I must take this view of my duties, and it is proper that you should give this information to the parties interestedMr. Blaine at this time was our Secretary of State. As President Garfield was disabled, he was in fact, both Acting President and Secretary of State. H« was Mr. Lowell’s superior officer; Mr. Lowell was subject to his instructions, but he declined to interfere. He was applied to by Mr. P. C. O’Connor, ol Baltimore, a‘brother of one of the imprisoned persons, and in bis answer to that gentlemao, after indulging in some

fenerat reruarKs, saw : •• Mr. Lowell as pursued his instructions with great energy and sagacity, and iu lull sympathy with the feeling of his Government.” Mr. Blaine’s approval oi Mr. Lowell’s course was unqualified and complete. Mr. Lowell’s s\ mpathy with the barbarous code enforced against American citizens in Ireland is equally well known—especially to Irishmen who have kept track of his sycophantic diplomatic career in England. Prompt interference bv our Government iu the case of the Irish suspects was demanded by every consideration of National honor and good faith. They were entitled to speedy trial or unconditional release; but neither was granted. After lingering for months m a British dungeon -they were turned adrift, and warned to leave the country without even being informed of the charges against them. As Senator Voorhees put it in commenting on Blaine’s truckling to the English Government in the despotic exercise of power: “All the vigor of Blaine’s foreign policy seems to have been expended in an effort to enforce a claim against broken and ruined Peru; - none was reserved for the protection of American citizens against the lawless and brutal power of England.”—Pittsburgh Post A Bad Beginning. Never at so early a period in the campaign was a party so unfortunate with its Presidential Electors as the ^Republicans are this year. Of course at the wind up their electoral misfortune will be of a wholesale character, but already they are meeting with bad luek which presages the disastrous endAs has been already noticed, in New York, one of the most reputable and welPknown of their Electors, Mi\ Joseph W. Harper, of the great publishing firm of Harper Brothers, requites his name to be taken from the ticket as he does not approve the public character of tho principal nominee and can not permit his name to be nsed as an endorsement of the methods represented by the nomination. Vacancies have before occurred on electoral tickets from different causes, but for an Elector to withdraw his name to, avoid being compromised by the bad reputation of the leading candidate is peculiarly a Mulligan honor. In Pennsylvania one of the Electors, who is also the proprietor of the leading party paper, is about to be forced from the ticket by the threatening attitude of a large portion of the labor element, which avows its determination to defeat him as a punishment for his illiberal treatment of a certain class of working people connect*! with his printin ' establishment. This is a bad beginning with the Republican Presidential Electors, foreshadowing an end that will be a good deal worse. —Harrisburg (Pa.) Patrick -It starts off well. In fact it looks like a tidal-wfye ticket—N, fr World.

TJws RbiswrtaWe Speo^i*r Cv1«m) TOm. Ob taking-She Permanent Chairmanship of tbs recent Democratic National Convention, ColoneS Vitas delivered the following table address: Gentlemen of the National Democracy:— I know full well tent this mark of your favor I* no personal compliment. Out a recognition of the young Democracy of the Northwestern States—timid applause)—and 1 claim it to be Justly their due—(loud applause)—as a tr.bute for their lofty zeal and patriotism, for their ion g and gallant struggle against an out-oismberiag foe. and for their great and growing numbers—(applause)—and I hail it as a presume and prototype- of their oomiug triumphs. (Applause.) But I am veeud. though honored beyond all deservingfrii being selected as their representative; and I gratefully acknowledge nay obligation, and render you hearty thanks for the honor you have been pleased to confer. (Applause.) No pledge is necessary for the continuance of their devotion. As it has hitherto been, so will it abide in the contest now at hand, purer, unselfish, resolute and untlinctiing till its great object shall be achieved In the restoration and security of upright and constitutional government. (Loud applause). *'eUow-deiegaiea, you are assembled to consider a great cause, to pronounce a most momentous judgment. Your hand is on the helm of a mighty nation of freemen. It is for you. by tras and far-reaching determination, to lay its future course in fetidly for many years, freighted with a vast humanity iu »rosperous pursuit of happiness. Fifty live'millions of freemen who are, and IbO.OOO who soon will be our nation, earth's greatest, noblest free society, will rejoice in the well-considered work of this cont ration. (Applause.) its import and value lie notin mere parti- an succes i in touching the spoils of ottsce. It is a nobier opportunity, due hour is pregnant with mighty possibilities of good to men. Liberty, constitutional liberty, strangling in the surf of corruption, injustice ami favoritism, cries aloud for resusc tati n, for purification and rerorm. (Applause.) An assemblage of politicians such as long possession of unlicensed power creates but recently fihed this hall with clamor, and it is said to have been too well manufactured to have been the product of infant industry. (Laughter.) They have announced their purposes, and they cla m the submission of the country os if it were theirs to command. How have they met the just expectation of this intelligent people? Like some corporations, which have flourished under their auspices, they have issued a watered stock of promises— laughter)—and every one a confession. They have promised redress only of wild disorders they have themselves communicated to the body politic. (Laughter and applause), jlfcey profler the infection to cure the disease. (Laughter). They have tendered nothing adequate or worthy to the fervent aspirations and hish hopes of this patriotic and progressive people. To a country which rejo.ces in restored unity and concord, they tender the renewal of sectional strife. To a nation which feels the impulse of a mighty growth, and yearns for leadership In ht.b e prosperity, they offer the inspiration of National ca.atnity and misfortune. To a proud and sensitive people, demanding deliverance from dishonoring corruption, demanding decency in seating and cleanliness in holding their public stations, they offer the gilded arts of demagogy. (Applause). To (he generous ardor nS youth, nobly ambitious to achieve a freeman's manhood, they proffer the elevating sentiments of the party machine To the men of toil, seeking only equal opportunity to earn a freeman’s livelihood, they cry: “Be your masters'villains and you shall have bread.” (Applause*. The burden of their campaign is already made manifestshouting, and, iu common political parlance, “soap” its inspiration and ammunition.

lunusutct am. npptau&c;. The boisterous cry of the drill sergeant—the black list for the hesitating!, rewards to the willing!. This is the politicians’ share, while from the ranks of those who amass the fruits or others' labor, the copious streams of pecuniary profit will summon the body of sweetened sophistries to the ear of the weak and ignorant. The air already is fi led with vapors of visionary schemes addressed to vari.ous interests and factions of trtak and undeserving men, and some are induce 1 to expect advantage from the chaotic pi ssibilities of foreign war:-others relief or gam in legalized irruptions upon the National Treasury. Ttte history of the Republic wilt have beetle read in vain if such a prospect does not alarm! and warn os. Twice a ready has liberty sunk beneath the waves of fraud and venality. She has seen her chosen servants, her chosen high priests, chosen by a major.ty of voters exceeding all which were cast to elect Washington. Adams, Jefferson, Madison—I th.uk I might add Monroe—displaced byoho.ioery and her people temporarily enslaven bv fraudulent _ usurpation o* their places. (Applause.) She b as seen a National election perverted by the stream of money which dowed from the gaping wounds at Washington. Can she rise a third time if again submerged by herenemtes? Gentlemen, no patriot here can contemplate contemporaneous events without profound couvietion that the duties of this hour rise far beyond partisanship. There Is one supreme question before us: How shall we most surely rescue the Republic? I know you will pardon roe for saying it is no time for persona! devotion or a personal canvass. No man has the s ightest o aim to our personal preferences, and we have no personal preferences. No personal objections should weigh as a feather even against our resolute choice of such a ticket as will certainly unite ail friends of constitutional liberty, purity and reform in solid array for the country. (Applause.) And this spirit now animates the expectant hope which is turned to this convention from every quarter of this Uni >n. A great change has been wrought in recent years in this country , not alone in numbers, in personal and material characteristics, bnt also in the mind > of the people, and in the composition of its po itical forces. We have ceased to fight in fratricidal war; the sin of slavery has been purged, the crime of secession has been punished. Goth are at an end, and the chained man's sorrows are forever closed, and stand in memory only as safeguards for the National justice, peace and union forever. (Cheers.) The horrors of that dreadful hour of internecine conflict must stimulate suitable honor and reward to the noble men whose lives were offered then for their country's salvation, but these people wilt not go backward thither for animosity and springs of action to destroy the fruits of their labor apd sacrifices. The hour of peace and oonoordfthe embrace of friends after bitter war, the restored joy of happy liberty and enduring union are their highest honor; the most noble ohaplet that ever crowned a soldier memory. Who bares a •auto bleedagain, who fans a dying spark of enthity strips the tendercst leaves from that laurel leaf Of gjlcry,—(cheers)—and doubly wicked he who perils a nation's peace and happiness to serve by such ends a vain ambition. (Cheers.) The day for such attempts has passed. A new generation is on the scene of action—an educated an intelligent generation. They understand our institutions; they comprehend the tremendous growth and capabilities of this country, and they accept the responsibilities which have devolved upon them. Their realizing sense is keen that the welfare and progress of this people demand—have long demanded—an utter sod radical change in the administration of the Government. (Applause.)

M;jc.v jiiirv uuaiu njjjuaiuu promts* g oi reform with each recurring election, and with disgrace and shame they witnessed each new Administration discover deeper iniquities than those it promised to amend. (Applause.) There Sea growing conviction that the one reform which will work alt others, and isthe condition precedent of all, isthe otter defeat of the present party in power. (Applause.) And there i3 but one hope—it is vafn to look to any new party organisation. (Applause.) The prosperity and progress and hope of the Republic rest to-day upon the wisdom and patriotism ot the Democracy now here in convention. (Loud applause.) It is adequate to the greet responsibility. It is the party which bringsdown the traditions and represents the prtneiplos upon which this Government was founded, as a homestead of equality and liberty. lAppiauioi It is the party of Thomas Jefferson—applause)—of James Madison—(applause)—and of Andrew Jackson. (Applause.) As they taught and led it, it stands today, the party of th9 people for honesty, capability and fidelity in the public service, for strict principles of political economy in their public affairs, for encouragement of every art and industry, the development of traded and manufactures, with equal justice to all. (Applause. It stands as they Inspired it, the party of the people, for the generous diffusion of knowledge, the elevation of every man, for common rights and equal opportunities for all, the resolute enemy of monopoly, of class favoritism and corporate oppression, the friend of labor, the inspiration of youth, the nursery of freemen. (Applause.) It has shared the vicissitudes, the frailties, tbs faults of humanity. It has proatco by the sweet uses of adversities— (laughter)—and it stands forth to-day with a disciplined patriotism fitted to invoke and receive the restoration of that power which for half a century it wielded to the Nation's grandeur and glory. (Applause.) Mere than five millions of freemen, a greater number than east the ballots for Lincoln, Breckenrldge, Bougies and Bell ail combined, compose this patriotic aggregation. For nearly twenty year* it has been recruited, steadily and constantly from the upright and fearless, who, uvefening the rewards ot self-respect to the allurements of power, have shaken the dust, from their feet and departed from the Sodom of sooailed Republicanism, It has exchanged for these the venial and time-serv-ing of ws own former possession. who sought the spot Is of office where they were to be found. H has received, and continually receives, new accession ot those who come in the same character which we have received before, and if there bo any who can not abide Its high purposes and fortitude and ability to wait for the culmination or Its principles, we are ready to captlnue ihe Uke exchange, (Applause.) It fcts enlisted Rad caught the fire of the young manhood of this Nation. and the spirit of victory rules its council* and rides in the ■ of its fcatt'e. (Applause.) The fatality of blaisdoritw has The fatality of bianrfertng has become a Republioaci noesessioa—slaughter and applause) —and the deost of God's award to folly, let as pray, be tfe'.lre. The triumph of the party of *t*»pp'tii$ie'8 hwo can cot be longer stayed.

A confident expectation may to placed in your wise deliberations. We mar pope Iron* your wisdom the first step to to taken, and uj see again our Nation restored to its real station among the powers of tto earth; to tee Its navy, public and commercial, again as of vote, break the waves of every sea and spread . . __ every sea and spread its Bag in every sky- tAppiaased We may hope to see the squandering of potato e. justice to take her place in out; mm______„__ laws, regulating finance and economy. We may hope to tee a democratic people of equality and simplicity and frugality, where happiness may tost to found. (App ausc.1 appiness may tost be found. (Appause.) And as millions multiply, add the subdued earth yields its abundant increase, wbile in every form art and industry employ their cheerful labor, the proudest boast of American citizenship shall rise, not from the favored sons of wealth, but from tto manly fireman who returns with the evening tun from hfs place of honored toil to the house which is his own—(loud applause)—where the blossoming vine and rose bespeak tto fragrant happiness of the loved ones st r (Loud applause.) Gentlemen, in the hardest dutiea tofore me I implore your generous forbearance, I stand in greater need of your indulgent consideration by the comparison which I must suffer with the brilliant services of the distinguished gentleman who has just quitted this chair—(tremendous applause)—with tto well deserved plaudits of this convention. (Loud applause.) 1 pledge yen my utmost efforts to administer my function ' ■ “ impartiality, (loud applause.) ons here with Immortal Bemocracjw The life of the Democracy does not depend on any success of the hour. Elections may be lost or elections may be won; wisdom or folly may prevail for the time being ; delusions may overcome the minds of men and passion and interest may lead them astray; but after all political sins have been committed, and all blunders endured and punished, the truth of Democracy still shines untarnished, and the hopes oil mankind cluster around the possibility of its realization. Those who imagine that the life ol the Democratic party depends, upon its fortunes at any particular time, those* who fancy that the failure to carry an. election may disrupt, or disorganize or destroy it, are mistaken and deceived. What is Democracy ? What makes the Democratic party ? Democracy is the government of "the people by the people and for the people. It is that theory and fotm of political institutions which establishes the self-government of communities and States, and diminishes to the greatest possible extent the domination, the ^control, and the interference of the central organised

auiuunijr. There are two tendencies in human nature. One is to the increase of power in government, the other to its diminution. The Democracy is the representative and embodiment of the latter tendency. '1 hose, then, who wonld stake the existence of Democracy and the Demo- . eratic party upon lo.-al and temporary issues, such as taxes on wool or the excise on whisky, fail to appreciate its grand and universal nature. Democracy remains after all these momentary controversies have been fought out and forgotten. So long as there is a republic there must be a Democratic party. The party of centralization, bent afwtiys on enlarging the sphere and aggrandizing the importance of the centred power, stands out on one side, and the party cl the masses, of liberty and equality] stands out on the other. The fact that thd Republicans triumph in one election afte* another only renders the continnance ot the Democracy more necessary—more indispensable. In every free commonwealth there is as great a need for an Opposition as for a government; and though the Republicans should continue to hold the keys of power and place for another quarter of a century, the Democrats will continue to oppose their principles and resist their development. They may continue for a long time, and on many fields, to fight none but losing battles, and the tired and exhausted veterans may sadly drop out of the ranks and disappear. But new recruits, young, ardent, disinterested, believing in liberty and devoted to the Republic, will rise up to take their places. No calamity Can extinguish Democracy; no ferror of those who are temporarily intrusted with its leadership can break it down; it is immortaL—N. X Sun. For President—<1 rover Cleveland. GroTer Cleveland is the Demoo ratio nominee for President. Next to Mr. Tilden, a stronger or better man could not hare been chosen for the honor. He is Governor of the great Slate of New York, having been elected by a majority greater than was eve* given for a candidate for a State office* before; and it is not out of tbe way to remeijtber that he sits in tho seat where Tilden once sat, and has, with tbe mantle of the great chief, inherited a large share of his. strength and popularity. In one sense it may be said Govern©* Cleveland is a comparatively new man; but in another sense a public man can not be new and experimental who hat been chosen Governor of tho .Empire State by 198,000 majority, and whore record as Governor commends him not only to the great party of which he is an honored member, but to the largt dissatisfied element in the opposite party.

iiovernor Cleveland unites to uiq quality of availability the better quality of litness. He combines in his person an enviable National popularity with uprightness, conservatism and official ability of a very high order; and the fact that his administration as Gov-; emor of New York has provoked the resentment of a troublesome faction of # his own party in the city of New York is not the least of his elaims on the respect and favor of the country. It will be said, perhaps, that the nomination of Cleveland is a sort of conciliatory courtesy to the "independent Republicans of his "own Stato. He is,' certainly, the man whom they were most anxious, to vote for, and his nomination secures the support of the ticket by this importaut element- It has not escapqgl observation, too, that Cleveland is the man of all others whom the —_ loyal Republicans most feared—and that because of the tremendous majority by which he was chosen Governor two years ago; and if the fears and wishes of our opponents are a sign of what is worst for them and best for us, the selection of Cleveland was most apt and wise. ’ „ ;■*? It has been asserted that Cleveland’s majority of 1955,000 in New York, two years ago, was phenomenal, and he can not secure it again. But this may be admitted without impairing in the least his brilliant chances. Throw oft one-half, and even half the remaining half of 193,000-and still a large majority, carrying with it the thirty-six electoral votes of New York, is left: and it is not to be forgot ten in this connection that the same Independents who voted for Cleveland against Folger two years ago are more eager to vote for him against Blaine now. In short, it looks as though the day foi Democratic restoration was at hand, and the high honor of personating it was to be r,warded to Grow* Cleveland.—Sf. ipJtepwWtoo*.