Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — Third Day. [ARTICLE]

Third Day.

The session was opened with prayer by Rev. Geo. C. Lorimer. The Committee on Resolutions reported that they had as yet been finable to agree, and asked until 7 o’clock p. m., which was granted. After the disposal of preliminary business, the pending order, nomination of candidates, was proceeded with. ExSenator William A. Wallace came forward and nominated 8 ;muel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, the nomination being seepnded by Gov. Abbett, of New Jersey. Gov. George Hoadly of Ohio, was nominated by Thomas E. Powell, of Ohio. Speeches seconding the previous nomination, ■•were made by C. H. Mansur, of Missouri, in favor of Thurman ;- by J. W. Cummings, of Massachusetts, and Leroy F. Yeomans, of South Carolina, in favor of Bayard, and by A. H. Livingston, of Missouri; N. M. Rose, Of Arkansas; E. S. Bragg and J. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin; Henry O. Kent,of New Hampshire; and T. M. Waller, of Connecticut, in favor of Cleveland. At 2:20 p. m. a recess was ordered until Bp. m. Thirty minutes after the allotted time proceedings were taken up by naming members of the National Committee, and of a committee to notify the coming nominees of their nomination. W. L. Terry, of Arkansas, offered a resolution abolishing the two-thirds rule for future conventions, which was voted down. The roll of the States was called for the presentation of the names of members of the new National Committee and a committee to notify the candidates of their nomination, with the following result: States. National. Notification. Alabama H. C, Semple.. .Dan P. Bestor. Arkansas. 8. W. Fordyce. .8. B. CochrelL California......M. F. Tarpey.. .Miles Searls. Colorado. .M. 8. Waller ... Conn«cticut....W. H. Barnum.T. M. Waller. Florida Samuel Pasco ..W. D. Shipley. Ge0rgia........ .Patrick Walsh. .Milton P. Reese, f Illinois ........ .S.Corning Judd A. E. Stevenson. Indiana. Austin H BrownE. D. Bannister. lowa M. M. Ham L. Gr Kinney. Kansas ;...C. W. Blair C. C. Burns. Kentucky .H. V. McHenry.Atilla Cox. Louisiana B. F. Jonas James Jeffries. Maine .....E. Wilson ......C. It. Osgood. Maryland ~A. P. Gorman. .George Welles. Michigan D.M. DickinsomD.' J. Campeau. Minnesota P.H.Ke11y.... iJH.Poehler. Missouri J.G.Prather.. . .D.RFrancls. Mississippi.... t.C. A.Johnson. . .C.E.Hooker. Nebraska J.E. Boyd P. Fahey. N evada D. E. McCarthy ..J. H. Denn's. N. Hampshire. .A.W.Sullaway..J.F.Cloutman. N. Carolina M.W.R ansom.. .W.G.Lamb. Ohio WW Armstrong ... . Rhode Island...J. B. Barnaby..D. 8. Baker, Jr. S. Carolina F. W. Dawson..J. H- Earle. Tennessee R. S. Looney...W. A. Quarles. Texas O. T. H01t..... .J. E. Dwyer. Vermont B. B-. Smalley.. Geo. L. Speer. Virginia........, Jno. S. Barbour. Robert Beverly. West Virginia.. Louis Baker.... Wisconsin .Wm. F. VJlas... - Arizona W. K. Meade....G. H. Onry, Dist. Columbia. Wm. Dickson...E. D. Wright. Idaho ...... ... .John Haley Dakota. M. H. Day H. 8. McCormick U tail fJ BRoseboronghßutherf ’dSmith Montana W.J.McCormickS. T. Hauser. Washington... .J. A. Kuhn N. B. Dutro. New Mexico.... G. W. Stevedore Wyoming N. E. Post .Wm.H.Holliday William R. Morrison, of Illinois, presented the majority report of the Committee on Resolutions. It bitterly denounces the Republican party and its plattorm, the promises of which are declared to be a list of the party’s past failures. It then proceeds to say: The Democracy pledges itself to purify the administration from corruption, to restore economy, to revive respect for law. and to reduce taxation to thejowest limit consistent with due regar 1 to the preservation of the faith of the nation to its 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 pnhlin opinion, but responsive to its demands, the Democratic party is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests. But in making reduction in taxes it is hot proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth. From the foundation of this Government taxes, collected at the custom house, hav* been the chief source of Federal revenue. Such they must continue to be. Moreover, manyindnstr eshave 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 must be subject in its execution to this plain dictate of justice. All taxation shall be limited to the requirements of economical government. The necessary reduction in taxation can and must; be effected without depriving American labor of the ability to compete successfully with foreign labor, find without imposing lower rates of duty than will be ample to cover any increased cost of production which may exist in consequence of the higher rates of wages prevailing in this country. Sufficient revenue to pay all the expenses of the Federal Government economically administered, including pensions, interest and principal of the public debt, can be got, under our present system of taxation, from custom-hons? taxes on fewer imported articles, bearing heaviest on articles Of luxury and hearing 11 ghtest on articles of necessity. We, therefore, denounce the abuses of the existing tariff, and, subject to the preceding limitations,<we demand that the Federal taxation 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" is a war tax. and so long as the law continues the money derived therefrom should be sacredly devoted to the relief of the people from the remaining burdens of the war, and be made a fnnd to defray the expense of . the care and comfort of worthy soldiers dis- I abled in line of duty in the wars of the republic and 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 alread v provided; and any surplus should be paid into the Treasury. We favor an American continental policy based upon more intimatedommercialand polit- t leal relations with the tifte-n sister republics of North, Central, and South America, but entangling alliances with none. Wfe believe in honest money, the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss. Assertinz the equality of all men before the law, we bold that it is the duty of the Government, in its dealings with the people, to mete ont equal, and exact justice to all citizens of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion—religions or political. We believe in a free ballot and a fair count; and we recall to the memory of the people the noble struggles of the Democrats in the Forty-, fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, by which a reluctant Republican’opposition was compelled to assent to legislation making everywhere iUegal the presence of troops at the polls, as the conclusive proof that a Democratic administration will preserve liberty with order. The selectiori of Federal officers for the Territories should be restricted to citizens previously resident therein. We oppose sumptuary laws, which vex the citizen and interfere with individual liberty; we favor honest civil-ssrvjce reform and the-com-pensation of all United States officers by fixed sa aries; 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 riohte and duties of citizenship. While we favor all legislation which will tend to the equitable distribution of property, to the prevention of monopoly, and to the strict enforcement of individual rights against corporate abuses, we hold that the welfare at society depends upon a scrupulous regard for the rights of pro: erty as defined by law. We believe that labor is b-: st rewarded where it is freest and most enlightened. It should, therefore, be fostered and chnshed. We favor the repeal of all laws restricting the free action of labor, and ihi enactment of laws by which labor organizat ons may be incorporated, and of all such legislation as will tend to enlighten the people as to the true relations of capital and labor. Gen. B. F. Butler presented a minority report, said to be his exclusive werk, and embracing bis well-knownxiewß on finance, taxation, revenue, and the laßbr question. Gen. Butler sjoke thirty minutes for his report George L. Con- .

11 I ■ ! I. - m !»ll 11.. ,||| | I , vane, of Ohio, and Henry WaUereon, Kentucky, spoke for the majority report The previons question having been ordered, Gen. Bntietr’s motion to insert his tariff plank instead of that of the majority was defeated by a vote of 97h yeas and 721 nays, and the majority report was adopted. The convention, on motion of Mr. Jenkins, of Wisocnsin, then prweeded to ballot for a canitidate for President, with the ’following result: Cleveland 392 Flower 4 Bayard..., 170Hoadly 3 Thurman...... 88 Tilden i 1 Randall 78,Hendricks... i 1 McD0na1d........... 56; • . , Carlisle 271 Total cast., 828 Necessary to choice...- * Z i 547 The convention then, at an hour and a half after midnight, adjourned till Friday morning •t 10 o’clock.