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jintciice in United States and 8tate
EUQKNK A. UAWKIN'S
Hawkins & Hawkins,
attorneys at law,
iMERICUS, GEORGIA.
ALLEN FORT,
attorney at law,
A MERIC US, - GEORGIA,
W ILL practice in ll.o counties of the South-
w,..i«rn Circuit, in tlie Supreme Court ol
nl Circuit Court**
id of Cott
Spe<
mnpert, Pickett A Kin
N. A. SMITH,
A.ttorxi5jr at Xiaw,
AJERICUS, : : GEORGIA.
W ".LL practice in the Courts of Sumter and
aljoiuing Oonntkw, aud in Circuit Court oi
»i- Office on College street, next to Republi-
.a iffice. fob 2d tf.
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t ol*ixo y At Iiaf
AMEPJOna, GEORGIA,
iffi-e m Ilawkine’ Building, Cotton
jan3-tf.
COOS d3 CRISP
.VTTOHNEYS IT LAW.
AMERICU8. GEORGIA.
W 'lLL practice in the Counties of Macon,
IjogIv, Sahlejr, Webster, Sumter and Leo.
april 8 ly
J. R. McCLESKEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IMEKICVS, - - - GEORGIA
0 1FICE fronting Court House, with entrance
next door to Dr, Eldiidgcs Drug Store.
a r. nt’KititY. | Duroirr ouzux.
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Attorxxoya at XiaxA
SOLICITORS IN EQUITY
Americcs, Georgia,
WILL practice in ihe Superior Courts
** Sumter, Schley. Maoon, Dooly. Leo, Ter-
E. G. SIMMONS,
Attorney at Law
AMERIGUS, GA.
O FFICE ovex Grange Warehouse. Will
ties throughout Southwextern Circt .
Frfme Coiurta ol Georgia, IT. S. Courts at At-
Organization of the Democratic
Convention.
SPEECHES 6f MESSRS. WATER.
SON, McCLERNAND AND
COX.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION EFFECTED.
St, Louis, Juno 27.—The convention
Assembled at the hall of the Chamber of
Commerce, which was handsomely decor
ated. The delegates were promptly seat
ed and the convention was . called to
order at 12:20 by Augustus Schell. In
calling the couveation to order he sub
mitted brief remarks upon the purpose,
of this convention, which were to nomi
nate candidates whose election shall
change the Government and overthrow
corruption and produce administrative re*
forms demanded,by. the people. [Ap»
phrase;] Ho said (ho corruption,now ex-
iating in the Government must be buried.
This duty must be confided to the hands
not of those who now hold *he Govern
ment, but to the Democratic party. The
thing to be reformed cannot he reformed
by itself. The people are intelligent and
sagacious; they understand their rights
and will not again trust them to the Ue*
publican party. lie referred to the Dem
ocrats as the hard money party from the
beginning. He said that it was a trick
w. try to saddle on it the existing policy,
which is inconsistent with hard money
principles. All the acts authorizing pa*»
per money as legal tender, and the
opinion of the Supremo Court sustaining
it—all were done during the Republican
administration, lie then referred brief-
to the civil results. The remedy
;pid contraction or increased cur
rency, bat the one remedy at this time
the repeal of the resumption act. I
that, and give the Democratic party the
of Government, and their policy of
no money and sound finance will
specie payment speedily. [Ap
plause]
In this centennial of national indepen-
nce, we have met to adopt means tore
store the country to prosperity. May w
not hope, after sixteen years of Republi
canism, that the Democratic party may
resume its supremacy in the government?
The rules that will govern the conven-
tion will insure good nominations. He
exhorteJ the convention to wisdom in
making the platform.
At the conclusion of his remarks lie
nominated Henry Watterson, of Ken
tucky, as temporary chairmau. [Ap
plause.] This was unanimously adopted,
Messrs. Barnuin of Connecticut, and
Ransom, of North Carolina, being appoin
ted a committee for the purpose of
ducting Mr. Watterson to the chair.
Mr. Watterson, on being presented,
s received with applause. He said:
Gentlemen of the Contention : Wean
called together to determine by our wis
dom whether honest government admin
istered by honest men shall be restored
the American people, or to decide by
r folly that it is the destiny of this
country to pursue an endless, ever revol
ving circle of partisan passion and cor
ruption until with loss of our material
well being wo lose the poor man’s last
hope—civil liberty itself. Every citizen
of the republic, be he of one party or the
other, feels and has felt for many a day
the depressing influence of what are call
ed harsh times. We look about and we
glected fields and vacant houses ;
the factories closed, furnace doors shut.
There are myriads of idle hands—the hap
py activity of prosperous life is nowhere
to be found. Loyalists fatten whilst
honest men starve. Empty is the mart,
and 8hiplcss the bay. What is it that
has wrought so great a change in a land
that, under the rule of an intelligent,
progressive, constitutional party advanced
within half a century from a condition of
huddle of petty and squalid provincial
sovereignties to a foremost place among
T
Jno. N. Scarborough
attorney at law,
11,1. A YILLE, - - - - Gj
P HOMFT attention Riven to all claims plac
in my hands. Will practice in Southwe
< rn (ircuit. Office in Court houee.
m»y G ly
H. E. HINES.
ATTORNEY AT'LAW
No. G6 Chzbut Stuebt, Macon, Ga.,
[over J.. H. Eertz A Co.]
local bn«ro«*s I will give special
r
vwm *o case* ent •anted to me In the AI-
_..ii Southwestern Circuit*, and in the
iu-d states Circuit and Bankrupt Cor — “
C.B. Hudson,
ATTORNEY at law,
/ I VILLE, - - - - GA.
TTTILLpracticointhe Superior Conrta of H.
“ W. C.. ami pay strict attention to the col*
GEO. E. THORNTON,
.1 ttorney at law,
PRESTON, GA.,
WILL practice ii the Courts of Webster and
* Fining counties. Special attention given
*" '••U claims aud collection**. mar 17 r - m
JNO. N. HUDSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ei.LA YILLE, - - - GA
>n» B It
C B. WOOTEN,
attorney AT LAW,
Albany, - - Georgia.
STILL practice in the 8tato Courts and
. *• Circuit and District Courts of the United
Dr. J. N. CHENEY,
>‘ItACTiSINO PHYSICIAN,
ELLAVILLE, GA.
Dr. D.P. HOLLOWAY,
DentisT,
Americus, - - - Georgia]
'PfcRkTS successfully all dise«
* ta organs. PUls teeth by
jjethod, andinsertn^artificial /«
The
the uationd of the earth ? The reason of
must answer—partisan misrule and
sectional misdirection. The Republicans
my friends, arc not alone responsible.
With them rest the disgraces—with us
the follies. These twin agents of nation
al mischance working under, the misera
ble rule of contraries have kept the peo*
pie of the North and South aside and
have supplied sustenance to corruption.
They have disturbed values; they have
unsettled prices ; they have made our
whole financial system a cheat and snare;
they have driven the best elements of
political society into exile, and have or
ganized charlatanism into a sort of a pub
lie polity enabling the rogue to get a
cheap advantage of his dupe, and sacrifi
cing every popular interest to the iust of
that oligarchy which has become so cn
crusted with power as to believe itself en
titled to rule by the sheer force of its owi
wrong-doing. So much let us set down
to the convenient pretext of war—so
much to the long account of damages be
tween tho North and South. It is for
you to say whether the same conflict with
consequeucc, multiplied and magnified
shall oy any act of yours be inaugurated
between East and West. I shall not un
dertake, on an occasion of this kind and
in presence so imposing to enforce the
familiar lesson of mutual forbearance.
Nobody doubts cur capacity to make bat
tle atnoDg ourselves. Entreating you to
direct your energies to the common ene
my. I ask indulgence only on my own be
half. You have called me to a place of
not mere distinction, hut of difficulty—a
place which requires the best training of
a better man than I am In taking it, I
trust to your confidence, good nature and
hearts which arc incapable of an unman
ly or unfair act. The work before _ ui
should relate to'ideas, rather than to in
dividuals. It is the issue, not the man,
that should engage us. We have come
here for free no less than for honest Gov
ernment j for the reform of the public
service and the regeneration of public
morals j for administrative relief from ad
ministrative nihilism embraced in the
simple creed of Home Rule; reduced tax-
fis and a living chance for the South as
well as the North—for both the East and
thq West. If anything come3 ‘ of our
proceedings it must spring from the spirit
of association and fellowship. When
warned, the followers of Andrew Jackson
and Silas Wright, of Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster meet together on com*
ment of their affaire from the clutch of
rings and robbers—federal, State and
municipal, and who. mean to extirpate
these whenever they are found—whether
they he Republican or Democrat
The points of the speech were empha
sised by frequent applause. At the con
clusion he introduced Rev. Mr. Marvin,
who offered prayer.
The chair announced as temporary sec
retary Frederick O. Prince, of Massachu
setts, and T. PI Walter,- of Iowa, andi S.
K. Donovan, of Ohio, assistant secreta
ries. He also announced Dan Abel,"of
Missouri, sergeant-at-arms.
Mr. Abbott, of Massachusetts, moved
resolution adopting the rules of the
last National convention until otherwise
ordered.
Mr. Littlejohn, of New York, inquired
whether this included the two-thirds rale.
Voices, “yes.” “yes.” If so, all right.”
[Applause.]
Tne; chair answered, “it does.”
resolution wafe adopted.
Mr. Smalley, of Vermont, moved
olution to call tbo States in their order
for the presentation of credentials.
Vdopted.
Mr. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, in order
to have Democratic precedence observed t
moved to reconsider the resolution just
adopted. He urged that States should
name their members of Committees on
Credentials, and permanent organization
before any other.business was done,
hoped there would be nO innovation
the past precedents.
Mr. Weed, of New York, insisted the
resolution adopted is in accordance with
the precedents. Under it crdcntials arc
received only for reference to the Creden
tial Committee.
Mr. Wallace read from the official pro
ceedings of the convention of 18G8, to
show that the first business was to name
tho committees.
Doolittle, of Wisconsin, suggested that
there be appointed a temporary secretary.
He suggested that E. O. Perrin be ap
pointed.
The chair decided this out of order.
The motion to reconsider was rejected
and the secretary proceeded to call the
roll of the States for credentials.
Mr. Pomeroy, of Illinois, moved that
Perrin he appointed temporary secretary.
Mr. Finch, of Iowa, objected. Perrin
did not inherit this appointment—he had
it before—the appointment should he left
to tho committee on organization.
The chair finally decided the motion
out of order.
A Minnesota delegate moved a resolu
tion to call the roll of States for commit
tees on permanent organization and cre
dentials. Adopted. The roll was called
and the committees were named.
Mr. Carroll, of Tennessee, moved that
when the convention adjourn it be to 5
p. m. and the committees just named then
report. Adopted.
Mr. Smith, of Illinois, moved a resolu
tion that a committee of one from each
State he appointed on resolutions, and all
resolutions relating to the platform be re
ferred to committee without debate.
Adopted.
Mr. Weed, of New York, moved that
the chairman of each delegation send to
the chair the name of its member of the
Platform Committee. There being no
objection it was so ordered.
The chairman said delegates from the
National Woman’s Suffrage Association
Fere present, asking a hearing. Cries of
hear them.” No objection, and the chair
announced they would be heard.
Messrs. Weed, of New York, and Smal
ley, of Vermont, were appointed a com
mittee to escort the ladies to the platform
The chair announced that a lady had the
floor and refused to hear any proposi
tions.
Miss Phoebe Cozzens, of St. Louis took
the platform and addressed the conven
tion with self possession, but her voice
was too weak to bo heard many feet dis
tant.
Mr. Birdsell made a point of order
that there could be no committee on res
olutions until after permanent organiza
tion.
The chair said the convention had
power to decide this question for itself.
The roll was called and the committee
named
Various resolutions were sent up and
referred under the rulo without reading.
At eight minutes before two o’clock
the convention took recess..
The convention reassembled when the
committee on credentials reported all the
States represented. There were no con
tested scats. The report was adopted
with an amendment admitting the dde-
gations from the District of Colombia and
Territories without votes.
The report of the committee
manent organization was read, commend
ing Gen. Jno A. MeClernand, t f Illinois
for permanent President with a Vice Pres
ident for each State.
The report was adopted
The committee escorted Gen. MeCler-
nand to the chair, who addresed the
vention extemporaneously, arraigning
the Republican party for maladministra
tion.
SPEECH OF MR. McCLERNAND.
General MeClernand was escorted to
the chair and on taking his seat made the
following speech:
Gentlemen of the National Democrat-
Convention : I thank you for tho d is-
tinguished honor which you have done
me in directing me to preside over your
deliberations.. You are the delegates of
the Democracy of the whole Union of
thirty seven States once unnaturally es
tranged, hut now forever united in om
iudivisahlo Republic—brethren of one
political family, with the same heritage of
liberty, under equal law, and heirs of one
destiny. Shall we preserve and transmit
that great heritage? Shall we make
that destiny the most glorious in the his
tory of a free people ? If your delibera
tions, fellow Democrats, to-day, shall be
wise, if your perception of the necessities
of our time, our country and our politics
shall be just and sagacious; if your sym
pathy shall he quick with the hearts of a
great people, theu beyond all peradven-
turc we shall transmit to our children
and our children's children unimpaired
this priceless heritage. Yours will be
better renown than " that renown most
prized by Roman conquerors, your im-
peritanism far greater than tho founders
of empires, or the founders of republics.
There arc no enemies of tho Union to-day
on this continent, ex«ept».tha^ .adminis
trative centralism, which:is congesting,
the capital, the vital currents which
ugbt to flow out through every part,
;iving life to the farthest, extremities of
ody politic and energy to all its members
except that corruption which is the curse
that centralism has never failed in or
land to entail upon any Government
Centralism and corruption have'impress
ed upon ten States the! rapacious 'tyran
nies. of carpet-bag rule, and wince peace,
have added'two hundred million dollars
to their debt; they have inflicted the
government of our Northern States and
Northern cities with the same disease of
extravagance and fraud; they have de
bauched the Federal Government itself
and made the names pf scores of its high
officers and public men our puolio scandal
and open shame—a record of horrible in
capacity; venality, waste and fraud, and
the party which has been powerless to
break down and trample under foot dt?
corruptionists, with stupendous effrontery
pledged itself to restore specie payments,
every year taking us farther from specio
payments j so it has pledged itself to civil
service reform and then dropped and
mocked its reform; so it pledged itself to
protect American labor, and with its
monstrous custom-house taxation, over
three thousand articles, it has impovished
American labor. A few score of monopo
lists—a few thousand corruptionists have
been enriched; hut capital in the hands
of those that earned it by industry and sav
ed it by fiugality, is everywhere distrustful
and rusts unused, while honest labor goes
about the streets begging bread. Is this
the final outcome of a century of Repub
lican self-government ? Forbid it gra
cious God !
But we have wandered from the right
path. We must return to the constitu
tional principles, the frugal expenditures
and the administrative purity of the foun
ders of the Republic. This is tho first—
the most imperious necessity of our day
and nation. This is the appeal wc have
to make to our fellow citizens of every
former political affiliatior. This is the
one supreme commanding issue, to which
all others arc inferior—all others trivial.
Reform ! reform ! reform ! if you shall
guarantee in your platform the successful
achievement of this arduous work of na
tional regeneration : if jou select standard
bearers true to your own high purpose
and faithful to your pledge, victory in thi
November, victory in the October con
tests are already yours. Incarnate the
vital issue of reform to candidate and
platform, and States that havo honored
Douglas and Lincoln—the states that, to
day, honor Hendricks and Thurman,
Hancock and Parker, Bayard and Tilden
—these States, with all their vast popu
lations, will rise up like the woods and
the winds that followed the fleeting Or
pheus, and follow you to victory.
Mr. Belmont, of New York, read a se
ries of resolutions arraigning the Repub
lican party and appealing to the Ameri
can people to forget the civil war, after
eleven years of peace, and put aside sec
tional strife. lie accompanied them with
earnest remarks. The resolutions
were referred. Adjourned until eleven
o’clock to-morrow.
After the adjournment Dan Voorhees
was vociferously called upon and uttered-
an eloquent speech on the issue of thd
campaign.
S. S. COX SPEAKS;
S. S. Cox was called out. He said the
House of Representatives had passed
twelve appropriation bills and sent them
to the Senate, having cut down the Re
publicans estimates sixty-four millions.
[A voice—“Stick to it Cox ; we will/’]
Let the thunder of this convention follow
the electric flash of the telegraph and ex
hort the Democratic House to stand by
their action and they will.
Proceeding to consider the asserted
dangers of such action he said he thought
wc could do without the army until after
the November election. Why, the navy
could be spared from protecting a com
merce which had legislations and injudi
cious taxation had destroyed. As to the
Indian Bureau, if the border men are only
tamed loose they will soon crush out these
contractors’ Indian warfare.* He touched
upon and favored tho repeal of the
sumption act. The best business men
East and West concur that resumption
1879 is utterly impossible.
Touching upon the isBues of the
paign, he asked, who shall be your stan
dard hearer ? He was overwhelmed by
cries of “Tilden,” “Tilden!” long con
tinued. Cox said when he asked that
question he intended to answer it himself.
[Laughter.]
Referring in terms of respect to Tilden
he said Cox also knew the strength of the
objections to him. He also remembered
successively and complimentary to Han
cock, Hendricksandthe Groat Unknown.
Every time his phrase gave opportunity
the audicuce renewed its cries of “Til.
den 1” “Tilden !” In conclusion, he said
the Democratic party had no common
contest in meeting the ticket of Ilays and
Wheeler, and he appealed to the Good
Lord and common sense to name the
Democratic leaders in no haste, hut care
fully and discreetly after a full considera
tion of all the necessities of the hour.
THE DAB^gLE .OF ^TUfi,
l:-An<Mt came to pass in the iaiit year
of the reign.-of Ulysses, {the son of Jesse,
lings did occur.) . ..
was a valiant Captain of. the
k$ap which dwelleth in the
owa, who was a mighty man
t ily he did smell the battle
afar off, aha'longed to plunge into * the
thickest df the carnage, hut was always
preveritedf fftmvdoing so, when the rcbcLs
appeared Im-llie -field, by some duty at
home. -V
4. Notf- Bclknftp.was a than after Ulys-
ses^ own heart, for was it not written that
Ulysses sprang up like a mushroom in the
night? -Xcgjliko a mushroom sprang
5- For Triases, the son of Jesse, sold
fits'^ffrdSwobaahd filled himself full of
jugtauuk.and becamo a spectacle to the
leople of St. Louis, who dwell beyond the
athere of waters.
(T. 1 But when the blast of war blew in
his cars, then rose he up and sent forth
his valiant soldiers by millions, who put
to flight the boets of Jeff—tho E,F. Y’s,
the Tar. Heels, the Gouleers, tho Butter
nuts, the Sand Hillers, the Dagoes, and
all they that dwell south of Mason and
Dixon’s line.
7. Then came forth Ulysses, the son of
Jesse, from his seat, and the smoko of the
weed went forth from his nostrils, and his
nose was red with the fumes of fire-water
and be said, let us have peace.
8. Now the people of Yankeedodledom
rejoiced exceedingly, and proclaimed
Ulysses, the son of Jesse, tfie Great
Highoockalorum, to rule over the land of
Uncle Samuel for the period of four
years.
9. And Ulysses went into the White
House and surrounded himself with all
manner of plunderers, who gave unto
him a portion of the spoils they had ta
ken from tho people of the land of Atner-
*: b£MQCRATIG PLATFORM
Terrible . Arraignment of . the
5. PR^Ti \* pooi*. , Republican' Party.
Inform is necessary to correct thb omis
sions of the . Republican Congress and
” treaties, and.our diplo
macy, ’which hnye stripped our fellow-
r A* New declaration of' Imlcpen-
- : ' 'dence.'
citizens ofYoreign birth, but of kindred -soft money give your votes to the roost
race?, of tho right of recrossing the At-j distinguished.' advocate, but-if you r— L
Bainuiuixjg, Ga., March 14, 187G.
Drs. Love <6 WtUson, Atlanta. Ga.:
Gents: I have been requested to make
_ statement of my experience with
Anti-Malarial Belts. When Dr.
visited this place during the past season,
(I do not remember the exact date,) I
was suffering with Chills and Fever every
day, every other day and every third day;
their frequency depending on the quan
tity of medicine taken to prevent them.
Being thoroughly tired of taking tine
pleasant medicine without permanent re
lief, I procured from Dr. Love one of the
Belts which I used ns directed for five
weeks, and have not hod a chiU sinee the
second day I wore it. I also had a little
son of nine years similarly affected. I
procured one for him which he wore with
the same result
Whether the Belts effected the cores
or not I am unable to say, yet not know
ing what else to attribute it, I shall cer
tainly, if oocasion offers, try it again with
decided more confidence than I did be
fore. Yours very respectfully,
E. B. Peabo]
np28tf
A disciple of Coke in Charleston, when
asked by a ‘brudder’ to explain the Latin
10. And Ulysses, the son of Jesse,
fused not the horses and the houses and
the lands and the other good things that
offered unto him by the bribers and
plunderers, save the hull pnp sent by ex
press, C.’ 0. D., which Ulysses would
not take until all the charges were paid.
Selah.
11. Moreover, Bahroostor. the scribe
of Ulysses, the son of Jesse, divided the
spoils cf the crooked whisky with the St.
Louistcrs, and gave not unto Ulysses a
portion thereof; whereat Ulysses waxed
wroth and bounced Bab; yea, in his au
ger did he bouucc him from beneath the
roof of tho White House.
12. And it came to pass that Belknap
the mighty man of valor, did take to him
self a beautiful damsel in the land of
Kentucky; of the tribe of Tomlinson ; but
the Lord took her away as he did mourn
exceedingly.
13. And it came to pass that the sister
of the damsel, who was a widow with a
r ondrously ; pretty foot did cleave unto the
valiant captain, that she might comfort
him; but the Lord waxed wroth that
such a sin fihonlctbe done before the peo
ple of the:nation,'and great was the pun
ishment of;Belfc»ap.
14. For.the Lord caused Ulysses, the
a of Jesse, to appoint Belknap his
Scribe of War, .whichhouor turned the
head of his spouse whb had the pretty
foot, and who. was as poor as a church
mouse in tfie‘ beginning.
15. But nojv she yearned for the green-
bax, wherewith she might buy the shod
dy, tho brown stone, the chariot, the glit
tering bracelets, and all that trash that
is so much sought after by the upstarts
who do sojourn in the capital of the na
tion^ I’clf , ~ *
10. Moreover, she wanted to’give big 5
dinners, and would not be outdone by the
Fish, nor the flesh, nor the fowl, ii
entertainment thatvihoundeth in the city
where he wfio uiaketh the greatest show
is worshipped by. those who. partake
thereof.
17. Bat the pretty spouse with the
pretty foot had not the greenbax where
with to purchase these things, and she
urged her husband that ho might sell the
post-trnderships to the frauds who swin*
died the poor Indians out of their lauds
and their lives.
18. And William did.
19 Whereupon hesank into the Marsh
of despair, and the rejoicing of the widow
with the pretty foot is turned into lamen
tations; Ulysses, the son of Jesse, hath
bounced him, and all the lunchers have
eaten up all the greenbax that the post-
traders yielded,; yea, liko a swarm of
grasshoppers have tfiev devoured all and
flown away like the wind.
20. But the people do clamor to have
the matter investigated, and punish
the persons who are concerned in this
great iniquity; and it is written that they
shall not escape; not even Ulysses, the
son of Jesse, who taketh presents, and
bribes, and who drinketh the rum that is
tho jug behind tho White House door,
and who smoketh the weed of the devil,
and who driveth. tho. chariots furiously
with the hull-pup underneath the dost
thereof.
21. So endeth the epistle of. St. lluhe.
St. Louis’ June 28.—The convention
was called* to order'at 2:15, t. m.
. Judge Meredith, of Virginia,- Chair
man of the Committee on Resolutions,
presented a report stating that a great
many resolutions w‘ere presented, all of
which had been, larefully examined and
disciuised, before coming, to an agree
ment He then requested Mr. Dors-
heimerto read it to the Convention as
follows: .
THE PLATFORM. '
We, the delegates of the Democratic
r arty of .tho United States, in National
Convention assembled, do here declare
the administration of the Fed oral Gov
ernment to be the urgent need of imme
diate reform, and do hereby enjoin upon
the nominees of this convention and of
the Democratic party in eaoh Slate,! a
zealous effort and co-operation to this
end, and do hereby appeal to oor fellow-
citizens of every former political connec
tion to undertake with ns the first: and
most pressing patriotic duty, for the De
mocracy of the whole country.
We do here reaffirm out faith in. the
permanency of the Federal Union, onr
devotion to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, with its amendments univer
sally accepted, as the final settlement of
the controversies that engendered civil
war, and do here record onr steadfast
confidence in the perpetuity of republi
can self-government
In the absolute acquiescence in the will
of the majority—the vital principle of the
republic ; in the supremacy of the civil
over the military authority ; in the total
separation of Church and State, for the
sake alike of civil aud religious freedom;
in the equality of all citizens before just
taws of their own enactment; in the lib
erty of individnal conduct, unvexed by
sumptuary laws; in the faithful educa
tion of the rising, generation, that they
may preserve, enjoy and transmit the*e
best conditions of human happiness and
hope, we behold the noblest prodnots of
a hundred years of changeful history ;
but while upholding the bond of our
Union and the great character «of these,
onr rights, it behooves a free people to
practice also that eternal vigilance, which
the price of liberty. _
Reform is necessary to rebuild and es
tablish in the hearts of the whole people
the Unicn, eleven years ago happily res
cued from the danger of a corrupt cen
tralism, which, after . iufiicting upon ten
nies, has honeycombed the offices
Federal Government itself with incapac
ity, waste and fraud, infected States and
municipalities with the coutagion of mis
rule, and locked fast the prosperity of an
iDdnstrions peoplo in the paralysis of
bardtimes.
Reform is necessary to establish a sound
currency, restore the public credit and
maintain the national honor. We de
nounce tho failure for alt these eleven
years to make good the promise of the
legal tender notes which are a changiug
standard of value, in the hands of the
people, and the non-payment of which is
a disregard of the plighted faith of the
nation.
We denounce the improvidence which,
in eleven years of peace, has taken from
the people, in Federal taxes, thirteen
times the whole amount of these notes
and squandered four times this sum in
useless expenses without accumulating
any reserve for their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbecility
and immorality of that party which dar
ing eleven years of* peace, has made no
advance toward resumption, that, in
stead, has abstracted resumption by wast
ing oar resources and exhausting all our
surplus income, and while annually pro
fessing to intend a speedy return to soe-
cie payment, hafannually enacted fresh
hindrances thereto, and os such a hin
drance we denounce the resumption
clause of the act of 1875, and we here de
mand its repeal.
We demand a judicious system of pro-
oblip economies.", by official
Tl»© Bridal Chamber.
Ho was tall and awkward, but both
wore a nervous aspect of exceeding great
joy. They entered a hotel in Chicago
and after he had registered his name
‘“and lady,” he said to the clerk.
See hero, mister, mo and my wife have
just been spliced and I am going to show
Amanda Chicago, if it takes a mule a
day. Now give us one of them rooms
like the Temple of Solomon, yon know.
The clerk called a bell boy, and 6aid
Show this gentleman to the bridal
chamber.
At this direction the ‘toll rustic be
came instantly excited.
Not by darned sight! Ye shineh&ired,
hiled shirt, dollar-breast-pinned, grinning
monkey ye can’t play that on me! If I am
from the country, ye don’t catch mo and
my wife sleeping in your old harm
room.
And he left the hotel.
•Dey means dat you must prove de iaern & e or e ia, iritf one « two B caception
of de case to de satisfaction of de jury.’ should be returned.
paratioo by pal . ,, r
retrenchments and by wise finance,which
shall enable- the nation to assnro the
whol« world of its perfect ability and its
perfect.readiness to meet any of its prom
ises, at the call of the creditor entitled to
payment We believe such a system well
devised and above entrusted to compe
tent hands for exeontion, creating at no
time an artificial scarcity of currency and
at no time alarming the public mind into
a withdrawal of that vastermachinery of
credit, by which ninety-five per cent, of
all business transactions performed, a
system open to the pnblio and inspiring
general confidence, would, from the day
of its adoption, bring healing on its wing
to all our harrassed-indnstries and set in
motion, the wheels of commerce, manu
factnres and the mechanical arts, restore
employment to labor and renew, in all its
natural sources, the prosperity of the
people.
Reform is necessary, in the sum end
mode of Federal taxation, to the end that
capital be set free from distrust and la
bor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff, levied
upon nearly four thousand articles, as a
master piece of injustice, inequality and
false pretence. It yields a dwindling,
not a yearly rising revenue; it has im
poverished many industries to subsidize
a few; it prohibits imports that might
purchase the products of American labor;
it has degraded American commerce from
tho first to [an inferior rank upon the
high seas; it has cut down the dales of
American manufactures at home and
abroad, depleted the returns of American
agricuture, an industry followed by half
our people; it coat the neoplo five times
more than it produces to the Treasury;
it obstructs the processes of prodation
and wastes the fruits of labor ; it pro
motes fraud, and fosters smuggling; -en
riches dishonest officials and b&nrnpts
honest merchants.
We demand that all custom-house tax
ation shall be only for revenae.
Reform is necessary in the scale of pub
lie expense. Federal, 8tate, and munici
pal. Onr Federal taxation has swollen
from sixty millions in gold, in 18G0, to
fonr hundred and fifty millions in cur
rency, in 1870, and our aggregate taxa
tion from one hundred and eighty font,
millions in gold; in 1SG0, to seven ban
dred and thirty milHonsin currency, in
1870; or in one decade, from les3 than
five dollars per head, to more than eigh
teen dollars per head. : Since the peace
the people have paid to their tax gather-
era more than thrice the sum of the na
tional debt-, and more .thira twice that
snm for the Federal Government alone.
We demand a vigorous frugrality in eve-
tj department, from every officer of the
government. Reform is necessary to put
a stop to the profligate waste of public
lands, and their diversion from actual set
tlers by the party in power, which has
* two hundred millions of acres
lantio under the shield of citizenship,and
have exposed our brethren of the Pacific
Coass to tho inenrsions of a race not
sprang from the same great parent stock,
and, in fact, now by law denied citizen
ship through naturalization as being nei- 1
ther accustomed to the traditions of a
progressive civilization,, nor .^zeroised in
liberty under equal laws, Wo denounce
the policy which thus discards the liberty
loving German and tolerates tho revival
of the coolie trade in Mongolian woinet^
imported for immoral purpose, and Mon
golian men. hired to perform servile la
bor contraete; and demand snob modifi-*-
cation bf tho treaty with tho Chinese
Empire, or such legislation by. Congress
within a constitutional limitation, as shall
prevent farther importation, or immigra
tion of the Mongolian rafeet 1 j
Reform is necessary and tan - hefTr be
greeted bat * * • *"*■
issue of the
'fake issues i ^
class and the party in power seek to
8tnotherit—the false issue -with which
they would, enkindle sectarian strife in
respect )o pnblio schools, the establish
ment and support of whioh belong ex
clusively to tho several States, and which
the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and are resolved to
maintain without partiality or.preference
for any class, sect or creed, and without
mting from the treasury to any—
the false issue by which they seek to
light anew the dyiog embers of sectional
hate between kindred peoples once un
naturally estranged, but now reunited in
one indivisible Republic and a common
destiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil ser-
ce. Experience proves that efficient.and
economical condnct of the government
business is not possible if its civil service
be subject to change nt every election—
he a prize fought for at the ballot-box—
be a brief reward for party zeal, instead
of posts of honor, msigned for proved
competency, and held for fidelity in pub
lic employ; that the dispensing of pa
tronage should neither be a tax npon the
time of all onr public men nor the instru
ments of their ambition. Here, again,
professions falsified in performance attest
that the party in power can work ont no
practical or salutary reform.
Reform is necessary, even more in the
higher grades of public services. The
President, Vice President, Judges, Sen
ators, Representatives, Cabinet officers—
these and all others in authority are the
people’s servants. Their officers are not
a private perquisite. They are a pnblio
trnst. When the annals of this repnblic
show the disgrace and censure of a Vice
President; a late Speaker of the House of
Representatives marketing his ratings as
a presiding officer; three Senators profit
ing secretly by their votes as law makers;
five chairmen of the leading committees
of the lste House of Representatives ex
posed in jobbery; a late Secretary of the
Treasury forcing balances in the public
accounts; of a late Attorney-General mis
appropriating pnblic funds; a Secretary
of the Navy enriched, or enriching
friends by the percenlage levied npon
the profits of contractors with his depart
ment; an embassador to England censor-
a dishonorable speculation; the
President’s private secretary barely es
caping conviction on trial for guilty com
plicity in fronds in the revenue; a Secre
tary of War impeached for high crimes
and confessed misdemeanors, the demon
stration is complete that the first step in
reform mast be the people’s choice of
honest men from an other party, lest the
disease of one political organization in
fest the body politic and thereby making
no change of men or party we can get
change of measnre and no reform. .
these abuses, wrongs and crimes are t
product of sixteen years ascendancy of
tb» Republicans themselves, bnt their
reformers are voted down in convention
and displaced from the cabinet. The
mass of honest votes is powerless to
sist the 80,000 officeholders—its leaders
and guides. Reform can only be had by
peaceful oivd revolution. SYe demand
change of system—a change of admin
istration—a change of parties, that we
may have a change of measures and of
itraight3
hatd and aoft money. [Apotan
that we will Stand or fall.- If y
The reading was frequently interrupt
ed by applause. The denunciation of
the resumption act and demand for its
repeal was received with - especial favor.
At the conclusion, 1 Mr. Dorebeimer safid
the committee had. adopted and endors
ed— though not as a part of the platform
resolution, whioh he read, endorsing
action of the Honse of Representa
tives in catting down appropriations.—
Also, a resolntion as to the just claims of
the soldiers and sailors and widows and
orphans. ■■■■■
St. Louis, Jane 23.—Mr. Ewing, of
Ohio, took the platform and, said at the
request of several members of lb? Com
mittee, he presented the minority report
recommending striking out tho follow
ing clause in the majority report, to-wit:
“As such a hindrance we denounce the
resumption clause of the act of 1875, and
we demand its repeal.” He proposed to
substitute therefor the following words:
“The law for the resumption of specie
payment pn the first of January, 1879,
having been enacted, by the Republican
party, without deliberation in Congress,
and without discussion before the peo
ple, and being both ineffectual to secure
its object and highly injurious to the
business of the couptry, should be forth
with repealed.
■Hr. Ewing moved and Mr. Eaton, of
Kansas, seconded the motion, that the
amendment thus sagg< sUd be made..
Mr. Ewing proceeded to state his ob •
givens any.elmw to carry the hard
money Stales, staiid W the platform as
presented.. [Applause.] This is a com*
nroAnse’Jin' wbfch~lbfc 'jEt&t Tins •yielded
the Eastern Btates. .Oh this we stand or
fall. It you adopt the amendment of tho
gentleman l> >ra Ohio, then good byo
your hopes. Tho committee’s report,
however, gives us a living chance of suc
cess. In conclusion ho demanded the
call of the States on the questiou.
Mr. Verities, of ludiana, took the plat
form. , He $aid Dorsheimer’s issue was a
false issue, as stated by him. There is
no issue hero of hard or soft money'.—
They were- ell in -favor of resumption as
soon as healthfully practicable. Whoev
er tiesina ft farlier desire* -ft ,for some
oppoQ?PaiJy attempt at forced r6-*
sumption. Tho taw lmd been in force
two years, and the .country is two per
cent, further Jrom a gold standard than
it was when the law was passed. The
national law of legislation, if not nnwise,
will soon cover the twelve per cent gap
between gold and paper. Let ns leave
the qnestion to these natural laws. In
ferring to Mr. Dorheimer, he said the
West bad followed the lead of New York
too long already, nod 1 it is. now time to
assert the power of the . mighty West.
[Applause, J
Mr. Watterson, of Kentucky, urged
the policy of supporting the committee’s
report, signed by twenty-nine of its
members, after c&refal consideration aud
moved the previous question. Another
scene of great confasion ensued, many
delegates asking to bo heard, and one.
from Pennsylvania, bitterly denouncing
the gag law and insisting on the freeuom
of debate. After much confusion, tho
States were called on Ewing’s motion to
strike out the substitute. ( The chair an
nounced the vote to be, ayes 219, noes
515—so the amendment was rejected.
The vote recurring on the adoption of
the platform proper, the chair announced
the vote—yeas 651, nays 83, so the re
port of the Platform Committee was
adopted.
Getting: Money.
The most unfortunate day in the career
any young, man is the day on which
he fancies there is porno better way to
get money than to cam it; for from that
feeling spring the many extravagant aad
visionary schemes t which are indulged in
for the purpose of gaining a livelihood
without lat>or. When a young man once
becomes thoroughly infected with. this
feeling, he is ready to adopt anv means
for tho accomplishment of his object and
if his plans are frustrated and be is
foiled in his efforts, upon the very crest
of the waves which he has Already
mounted, and in fall view, is the temp
tation to crime, to shield him from tho
disgrace which he thinks most inevitably
follow in the wake of defeat To those
be yields, and. the first he realizes he
finds himself the violator of tho law, and
criminal in the prison, awaiting trial
all brought on for want of a little manly
firmness in the outset of life to prompt
him to choose an avocation in life where
will give them tho best possible opportu
nity to develop their natural talent and
do good to others while helping them
selves. In this way we may have a
nation of noble men and women which
will be a source of profit and pleasure to
us and an object of wonder and admira
tion to the world at large.
A Strang© Fish.
A correspondent of the Democratic
Dispatch, Mendocino county, California
thus describes a strange fish caught in
Little river a few days age. The length
of the fish is fourteen inches; the bead
resembles that of a small Jamaica monkey
nostrils are round, and ther size of a pea;
the head has no resemblance to that of
any other fish; below tjie nostrils is a
mouth, with s tongue sticking out; about
two inches above the month and nostrils
S rotrudes a bone used, I suppose, for
efenso, and which turns in all directions
iibcvo this bone and on tbo side of the
head, ’are Situated two big eyes as largo
as thoso of a cat; the body is llie same
thickness as the head till it gets to the
tail; underneath the body it has two legs
which it uses to propel itself along the
sand and rocks; the legs have two arms
coveted with flesh similar to thatjon a cats
tongue; the body then terminates in - a
tail like an eel’s. Altogether the fish is
a curious object.
An Awkward Pause.
A young gentleman undertook to re
late a circumstance, one Sunday evening
in the presence of some young ladies.
He commenced as follows:
“A lady friend and myself, last
dav evening, went to Bed—•”
With a sudden spring tho old lady
bounced him out of the house. The next
day the old gentleman met him in the
street and asked him for an apology.
“I was about to say,” commenced tho
young man, “that & lady friend and my-
jeciion to the olauae proposedflto be self went to Bed—”
stricken'ont. ! It tieDoanced only oao When i thrust from tho old man’
cUMnot ty«?,ufrtan ^t-hU^odo canc Bt arted him back several feet, upon
fmplfjdiorn leaving all the rest to*Btancl whieh ho exclaimed at the top of hie
as unobjectionable. The construction voice— #
given to this will be that the Demo “A lady friend and myself went to
cratie party wants resumption earlier Bedford Street Church, you old fool!”
than 1879; Another objection is that the
resolution, as reported,- patters with the Trifles
question of which it treats. It commits
The world is made of trifles. The
system, and leaves the Secretary of tho g««*cl movements of great events, and
Treasuty, perhaps, with tlie power to the changes of Empires aro founded in
fid, awaiting^ tho day of resamp- causes, very generally, which would he
tion, a policy to which tho Western Dem
ocracy almost unanimously oppose. The
resolution of the committee supports, by
implication, a bill for -which tho Demo
crats aro not responsible—a measure
which never received a Democratic veto.
Here time was called, and much con-
fusfon ensued, in consequence of efforts
to secure more time for Mr. Fswing/ The
chair ruled that as objection was made,
the time could net be extended. . ^ r
Mr. Dorsheimer appealed for a with
drawal of the objection, and it was with
drawn, and, by unanimous consent, Mr.
Ewing was authorized to proceed.
Another scene of confusion ensued.— ly gave
Mr. McLane, of Maryland, renewed hi**
objections to hearing Mr. Ewing further.
Finally Mr. Ewing thanked the eonven-
□ railroads alone, aud, out of more tion for the kindly spirit manifested to-
i thrice that aggregate, has disposed ward him, and said that 111
pronounced trifles by the world. Yes,
“trifles light as air” have led to some oi
the important discoveries wc have. The
fall of an apple gave Newton the clue to
gravitation; the rising up of the lid of a
boats, ocean steamers, and to speak of the
press that combined, put the world cen
turies ahead in the mystery of the uni
verse and the purpose of God. To the ob
servation of a flower dimly pictur< '
a stone we owe the philoaop r
“I don’t
Mr. Alums.
i0 would trouble Calline ain’t got
worruld than pappy’s
warn’fc eddicated.”