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uewis M. grist, Proprietor. | $a Judrprndtnt <$imrly $tacspapfr: the promotion of fhy fjolitical, Social, g^riciiltural and <$ommei;rial Jnlerrats of the jtouft. | TERMS?$2.00 A TEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. 38. YORKYILLE, 8. C., "WEDNESDAY, JUNE 39, 1892. NO. 26. ' -I ? , ! iL. L ?/ the sum BY NATHANIEI CHAPTER VL THE ELF CHILD AND THE XIX1STEB. Governor Bellingham, in a loose gown and easy cap?such as elderly gentlemen loved to endne themselves with in their domestic privacy?walked foremost and appeared to be showing off his estate and expatiating on his projected improvements. The wide circumference of an elaborate ruff beneath his gray beard, in' the antiquated fashion of King James' reign, caused his head to look not a little like that of John the Baptist in a charger. The impression made by his aspect, so rigid and severe and frostbatten with more than autumnal age, was hardly in keeping with the appliances of worldly enjoyment wherewith he had evidently done his ntmoet to surround himself. Behind the governor and Mr. Wilson came two other gnests, one the Reverend Arthur Dimmeedale, whom the reader may remember as having taken a brief 4n fKn arsartck r\f Hoatar nuu iuiwmm* ym*w ua *hv vwmv wPrynne's disgrace, and in close companionship with him old Roger Chillingworth, a person of great skill in physic, who for two or three years past had been settled in the town. It was understood that this learned man was the physician as well as friend of the young minister, whose health had severely suffered of late by his too unreserved self sacrifice to the labors and duties of the pastoral relation. The governor, in advance of his visitors, ascended one or two steps and, throwing open the leaves of the great hall window, found himself close to little PearL* The shadow of the curtain fell on Hester Prynne and partially concealed her. "What have we here?" said Governor Bellingham, looking with surprise at the scarlet little figure before him. "I profess 1 have neves seen the like since my days of vanity, in old King James' time, when 1 was wont to esteem it a high favor to be admitted to a court mask! There used to be a swarm of these small apparitions in holiday time, and we called them children of the Lord of Misrule. But how got such a guest into my hall?" "Aye, indeed!" cried good old Mr. Wilson. "What little bird of scarlet plumage may this be? Methiuks I have seen just suc'a figures, when the sun has been shining through a richly painted window and tracing out the golden and crimson imrTes across the floor. But that was in the old land. Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion? Art thou a Christian child?ha? Dost know thy catechism? Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies, whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, 1 in merry old England?" "I am mother's child," answered the scarlet vision, "and my name is Pearl." ! "Pearl? Ruby, rather, or Coral or Red Rose, at the verv least, judging from thy hue," responded the old minister, patting forth his hand in a vain attempt to pat little Pearl on the cheek. "But where is this mother of thine? Ah! 1 see," he added, and turning to Governor Bellingham whispered, "This is the self same child of whom we have held speech together, and behold here t the unhappy woman, Hester Prynne, her mother." "Sayest thou soT cried the governor. "Nay, we might have judged that such j a child's mother must needs be a scarlet | woman and a worthy type of her of i Babylon. But she comes at a good | time, and we will look into this matter forthwith." . | Governor Bellingham stepped through the window into the hall, followed by ! his three guests. "Hester Prynne," said he, fixing his naturally stern regard on the wearer of the scarlet letter, "there hath been much j question concerning thee of late. The point hath been weightily discussed whether we, llnit are of authority and ' influence, do well discharge our consciences by trusting an immortal soul, such as there is in yonder child, to the guidance of one who hath stumbled and fallen amid the pitfalls of this world. Speak, thou, the child's own mother! Were it not, thinkest thou, for thy little one's temporal and eternal welfare that she be tal.vn out of thy charge, and clad soberly, a..i di -cipiined strictly, and instructed in the truths of heaven and earth? What canst thou do for the child in this kind?" "I can teach my little Pearl what 1 have learned from this," a., wered Hester Prynne, laying her finger on the red token. "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!" ; replied the stern magistrate. "It is because of the stain which that letter indicates that we would transfer thy child to other hands." "Nevertheless," said the mother calmly, though growing more pale, "this , badge hath taught me?it daily teaches me?it is teaching me at this momentlessons whereof my child may be the wiser and better, albeit they can profit nothing to myself." 'We will judge warily," said Bellingham, "and look well what we are about to do. Good Master Wilson, I pray you examine this Pearl?since that is her name?and see whether she hath had such Christian nurture as befits a child of her age." The old minister seated himself in an armchair and made an effort to draw Pearl betwixt his knees. But the child, unaccustomed to the touch or familiarity of any but her mother, escaped through the open window and stood on the npper : step, looking like a wild tropical bird of rich plumage, ready to take flight into j the upper air. Mr. Wilson, not a little astonished at this outbreak?for he was a grandfatherly sort of personage, and usually a vast favorite with childrenessayed, however, to proceed with the examination. "Pearl," said he with great solemnity, ; "thou must take Heed to instruction, that so, in due season, thou mayestwear in thy bosom the pearl of great price. Canst thou tell me, my child, who made Hiaa''" Now Pearl knew well enough who j made her; for Hester Prynne, thedaugh- i ter of a pious home, very soon after her talk with the child about her HeavenlyFather, had begun to inform her of those truths which the human spirit, at whatever stage of immaturity, imbibes with such eager interest. Pearl therefore, so large were the attainments of her three years' lifetime, could have borne a fair examination in the "New England Primer," or the first column of the Westminster catechisms, although unacquainted with the outward form of either of those celebrated works. But that perversity which all children have more or less of, and of which little Pearl had a tenfold portion now, at the most inopportune moment, took thorough possession of her and closed her lips, or impelled her to 6peak words amiss. After putting her finger in her mouth, with many ungracious refusals to answer good Mr. Wilson's question, the child finally , announced that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that grew by the prison door. This fantasy was probably suggested by the near proximity of the governor's red roses as Pearl stood outside of the window, together with her recollection of the pink rosebush which she had j passed in coming hither. Old Roger Chillingworth, with a smile on his face, whispered something in the I young clergyman's ear. Hester Prynne looked at the man of skill, and even then, with her fate hanging in the bal-1 , HAWTHORNE. ' anoe, was startled to perceive what a change had come over his features?how much uglier they were, how his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier and his figure more misshappen? 6ince the days when she had familiarly known him. She met his eyes for an instant, but was immediately constrained j to give all her attention to the scene now going forward. "This is awful!" cried the governor, | slowly recovering from the astonishment into which Pearl's response had! thrown him. "Here is a child of three years old and she cannot tell who made her! Without question she is equally in the dark as to her soul?its present depravity and future destiny! Methiuks, gentlemen, we need inquire no further." Hester caught hold of Pearl and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost ? artiiMuinn AlnnA in th? wnrld. cast off by it and with this sole treasury to keep her heart alive, she felt that she possessed indefeasible rights against the world, and was ready to defend them to the death. "God gave me the child!" cried she. "He gave her in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She is my happiness I?she is my torture, none the lesc! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me too! See ye not she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a million fold the power of retribution for my sin? Ye shall not take her! I will ; die first!" "My poor woman," said the not uukind old minister, "the child shall le well cared for!?far better than thou canst do it." "God gave her into my keeping," repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a shriek. "I will not give her up!"' And here, by a sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr. Dimmesdale, at whom np to this moment she had seemed hardly so much as j once to direct her eyes. "Speak thou for me!" cried she. "Thou wast my ! pastor and hadst charge of my soul and knowest me better than these men can. : I will not lose the child! Speak for me! 1 Thou knowest?for thou hast sympathies which these men lack! Thou knowest what is in my heart and what are a mother's rights, and how much the stronger they are when that mother b as but her child and the scarlet letter! Look thou to it! I will not lose thechiM! Look to it!" At this wild and singular appeal, which indicated that Hester Prynna's situation had provoked her lo little less than madness, the young minister at once came forward, pale, and holding ; his hand over his heart, as was his cub- j torn whenever his peculiarly nervous ! temperament was thrown into agitation. He looked now more careworn and emaciated than as we described him at the scene oi Hester s paunc b.uu , whether it were his failing health, or whatever the cause might be, his large dark eyes had a world of pain in their ! troubled and melancholy depth. "There is truth in what she says," began the minister with a voice sweet, tremulous but powerful, insomuch that the hall re-echoed and the hollow armor rang with it; "truth in what Hester stys, and in the feeling which inspires her! God gave her the child, and gave her, too. an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements?both seemingly so peculiar?which no other mortal be ing can possess. And, moreover, is there not a quality of awful sacredness in the relation between this mother and this child?' "Aye!?how is that, good Master Dim- | mesdale?' interrupted the governor. ' "Make that plain, I pray you!" "It must be even so," resumed the minister. "For, if we deem it otherwise, do we not thereby say that the Heavenly Father, the Creator of all flesh, hath lightly recognized a deed of sin, and made of no account the distinction between unhallowed lust and holy love? This child of its father's guilt ? 1 -1 I aim lis uiuuier a euou10 uaiu tuwc nuui the hand of God, to work in many ways upon her heart, who pleads so earnestly, and with such bitterness of spirit , the right to keep her. It was meant for a blessing; for the one blessing of her life! It was meant, doubtless, as the mother herself hath told us, for a retribution too; a torture to be felt at many an unthought of moment; a pang, a sting, an i ever recurring agony, in the midst of a troubled joy! Hath she not expressed this thought in the garb of the poor child, so forcibly reminding us of that red symbol which sears her bosom?'' "Well said, again!" cried good Mr. Wilson. "I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child." "Oh, not so! not so!" continued Mr. Dimmesdale. "She recognizes, believe me, the solemn miracle which God hath wrought in the existence of that child. And may she feel, too?what, mettinks, | is the very truth?that this boon was meant, above all things else, to keep the mother's soul alive and to preserve her from blacker depths of sin into which satan might else have sought to plunge her. Therefore it is good for this poor, sinful woman that she hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care, to be trained up by her to righteousness; to remind her at every moment of her fall, but yet to teach her, as it were, by the Creator's sacred pledge, that if she bring the child to heaven the child also will bring its parent thither. Herein is the sinful mother happier than the sinful father. For Hester Prynne't; sake, then, and no less for the poor child's sake, let us leave them as Providence hath seen fit to place them." "You speak, my friend, with a strange ?? oni/i aI/1 D aftot" PlllllinfT ettrUCBUlCDS, OCMVi, ViU AWfjVi worth, smiling at him. "And there is a weighty import in what my young brother bath spoken," added the Reverend Mr. Wilson. "What say you, worshipful Master Bellingham? Hath he not pleaded well for the poor woman?" "Indeed, hath he," answered the magistrate, "and hath adduced such arguments that we will even leave the matter as it now stands; so long at least as there shall be no further scandal in the woman. Care must be had, nevertheless, to put the child to due and stated examination in the catechism, at thy hands or Master Dimmesdale's. Moreover, at a proper season, the tithing men must take heed that she go >x?th to school and to meeting." The young minister on ceasing to speak had withdrawn a few steps from the group, and stood with his face partially concealed in the heavy folds of the window curtaiu, while the shadow of his figure, which the sunlight cast upon the floor, was tremulous with the vehemence of his appeal. Pearl, that wild and flighty little elf, stole softly toward him, and taking his hand in the grasp of both her own, laid her cheek agai st it, a caress so tender, and withal so unobtrusive, that her mother, who was looking on, asked herself, "Is that my Pearl?" Yet sbo knew that there was love in the child's heart, although it mostly revealed itself in passion and hardly twice in her lifetime had been softened by such gentleness as now. The minister ?for save the long sought regards of woman nothing is sweeter than these marks of childish preference, accorded spontaneously by a spiritual instinct, and therefore seeming to imply in us j something truly worthy to bo loved? the minister looked around, laid his I hand on the child's head, hesitated an ^ instant and then kissed her brow. Little | Pearl's unwonted mood of "sentiment 1 lasted no longer; she laughed and went capering down the hall so airily that old Mr. Wilson raised a question whether 1 even her tiptoes touched the floor. "The little baggage hath witchcraft I in her, I profess," said he to Mr. Dimj mesdale. "She needs no old woman's : broomstick to fly withal!" | "A strange child!" remarked old Roger I Chillingworth. "It is easy to see the i mother's part in her. Would it be beyond a philosopher's research, think ye, gentlemen, to analyze that child's I nature and, from its make and mold, to give a shrewd guess at the father?" "Nay; it would be sinful in such a : question to follow the clew of profane i philosophy," said Mr. Wilson. "Better to fast and pray upon it, and still better, I it may be, to leave the mystery as we find it, unless Providence reveal it of ; its own accord. Thereby every good | Christian man hath a title to show a father's kindness toward the poor, deserted babe." The affair being so satisfactorily concluded. Hester Prvnne, with Pearl, departed from the house. As they descended the steps it is averred that the lattice of a chamber window was thrown open, and forth into the sunny day was thrust the face o'f Mistress j Hibbins, Governor Bellingham's bitter ! tempered sister, and the same who a few years later was executed as a witch. "Hist, hist!" said she, while her ill omened physiognomy seemed to cast a shadow over the cheerful newness of the house. "Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the ' f/M-ocf our! T well Tiiedi nromised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one." "Make my excuse to him, so please you!" answered Hester, with a triumphant smile. "I must tarry at home and keep watch over my little Pearl. Had they taken her from me I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest and signed my name in the Black Man's book, too, and that with mine own blood!" "We shall have thee there anon!" said the witch lady, frowning, as 6he drew back her head. But here?if we suppose this interview betwixt Mistress Hibbins and Hester Prynne to be authentic and not a parable?was already an illustration of the young minister's argument against sundering the relation of a fallen mother to the offspring of her frailty. Even thus early had the child saved her from satan's snare. [TO BK CONTINUE!* NEXT WEEK.] MWMTMtt He Is Nominated on the First Ballot. HIS CHOICE MADE7UNANIMOUS. Now for a Long Pull and a Strong Pull for Democratic Success. The first day's proceedings of the national Democratic convention at Chicago, were very dull. The delegates were rather slow in assembling, and all were not in their places until 12.30 p. m. The convention, however, was called to order at 12.42 p. 111. by Chairman Brice, of the national executive committee, and after prayer by Rev. John Rouse, Hon. William C. Owens, of Kentucky, temporary chairman, entered upon the discharge of the duties for which he had been chosen. He delivered a short address to the con veil CALVIN S. MUCH. tion, but did not succeed in stirring up any especial enthusiasm. A temporary organization was then etrected by the appointment of committees on permanent organization, credentials, resolutions, rules, executive, and to notify the nominee. South Carolina was represented on the committees as follows: National executive committee, M. L. Donaldson: Resolutions, W. J. Talbert; credentials, John L. M. Irby. After the appointment of these committees. the convention had a great deal of time at its disjiosal pending their reports. The committee on platform was unable to report until after midnight, Thursday morning, and only then after having turned over its work to a sub-committee of nine. Shortly after the convention met on Wednesday morning, the committee on [ permanent organization reported the selection of William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, as permanent chairman, and the selection of vice presidents from | all the States. (Jovernor It. K. Tillman was selected as the vice-president for South Carolina. On taking the chair, Mr. Wilson made a speech of about fifteen minutes, which was loudly ! cheered. G0VEI1N0K TILLMAN. The remainder of the proceedings, as reported by the Associated Press, are as follows: Delegate Phelps, of Missouri, then presented in hehalfof the miners of Missouri. a gavel of zinc, a protest against the tariff upon that metal. As the shining hammer was held aloft by the chairman, a great shout went up and hearty clapping of hands. Don Dickinson made a motion that the convention take a recess until *> p. m., and the convention agreed at 1.44 p. 111. to do so. iiefore the opening of the afternoon session, tickets were being sold upon the curbs outside the hall for .*12 to ?!"> each. The atmosphere was charged heavily with moisture. The men in the the galleries took oil'their coats. How the women maintained life none but themselves know. The New York delegation, with Croker at the head, came first into tinhall and a genuine Tammany yell leaped forth from the bench rows direetly behind that alternate. A cry for Hill went up, but sounded like escaping steam shot out from the floor, and , grew to a whistling, hissing storm. I The great throng, however, subsided when Chairman Wilson thumped the desk and the session had began. Prayer was ottered by Rev. Thomas Reed, i of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and he was applauded when he closed. The temper of the audience was clearly one of quick demonstration. A band of brass and reed instruments 'started "America." while the eonven6KNATOK HtBV. tion was awaitinir the resolution com mittce. and strains of the familiar hymn ; brought hundreds to their feet and ! cheers from all. DuBignon, of Georgia, moved to ad| journ until 11 u. m. tomorrow. Yells of derision greeted him, and the motion was scarcely put before the convention by the chair, before it it was buried in a storm of "noes." Meantime, Campbell, of Ohio, and Dickinson, of Michigan, were seen moving among the delegates, apparently on a missionary service. At 6.24, Charles H. Jones, of Missouri, chairman of the resolution committee, appeared upon the platform. Addressing the convention, he said : "I am instructed by the committee on resolutions to present to you as the report of the committee, the following resolutions and move their adoption. "In order that you may more distinctly hear what the committee has i prepared, I intend to ask the gentleman who is as familiar as myself with the phraseology of the plutform, to read it for me. And when it has been read I shall move the previous question upon the adoption of the platform. [Cries of ! "no, no, no."] T. K. Patterson, of Colorado, adOAVIU a HILL. * ! vanced on the platform and said : "In view of the statement just made, I will j say that I represent the minority of the committee on resolutions, and I i desire to announce that the minority expects to be heard to present its report before the previous question shall be put." Quick cheers followed this announcement. Then ex-Secretary Vilas commenced to read the resolutions at 6.28, but when he reached the phrase, "from I Madison to Cleveland," there was a ! quick shout of one voice near the platform. It was not lost, however, for it seemed that as though with one impulse the entire 20,000 people leaped : upon their chairs, und with hats and handkerchiefs in the air, 20,000 throats let loose yells and screams that shook ! the heavy air and almost made the barracks quiver. In a flash a white satin banner, heavy with gold fringe, was shot afloat and was moved to the centre uisle. It wus the ensign of atir>lii<r<iii mid on one side was the nic I ~ ture of Cleveland. Had the throng shouted before? Oh, no! The first outbreak hud been hut a murmur heside the savagery of noise and din that . rose then and swept and rolled from *'%^NATOtt VILASa ' side to side of the great wigwam aixl around tiie amphitheatre. A man in the rear of the delegates hoisted i). picture of David B. Hill. Quick asbunian impulse moves, a liosj tile hand ripped it from the standard ! and tore it up, while hisses for and against the act swept in a wave around the hall. Then came into the arena a banner of Iowa. A sturdy Boies man bore it | aloft and waved it constantly while the mass of swelling people swelled the j din and storm of sound. The tempest ebbed and flowed until <5.47. when Don Dickinson, of Michigan, caused the Michigan banner to be carried from view in order that business might be resumed. There were hisses from the crowd that the guidon and baton of its applause should lie removed. Through all this the Tammany men in the centre aisle sat grim and silent, neither hissing Cleveland nor cheering Hill. Its thunderous disapproval challenged admiration even from those who opposed the Manhattan Indians. Finally, at (!.4S. Vilas llOi:A(^ltOIES. again resumed tin* reading of the platj form, wliicli is as follows : DKCIiA RATION OF PRINCII'I.KS. J Sec. 1. Representatives of the Remocratic party of the United States, in national I convention assembled, do reaffirm their allegiance to the principles of the party as formulated by Jefferson and exemplified by the long and illustrious line of his successors iii Democratic leadership, from Madison to Cleveland, we believe the pub| lie welfare demands that these principles , be applied to the conduct of the Federal government through accession to the power of the party that advocates them; and we solemnly declare that the need of reI turn to the principles of free popular government, based on home rule and individual liberty, was never more urgent than | now,*when the tendency to centralize all power ut the Federaf capital has become a menace to the reserved rights of States that stril.es at the very roots of our government under the constitution as framed by the fathers of the Republic. Sec. 2. We warn the people of our common country, jealous for the preservation of their free institutions, that the policy of Federal control of elections, to wnich the Republican party has committed itself, is , fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely K'uu iiwiiiionfniiM than would result from a revolution practically establishing a monarchy on tlie ruins of a republic. I It strikes at the North as well as the South, and injures colored ^Htizens even more than white ; it means a horde of deputy marshals at every polling place armed with Federal authority; outrage of the electoral rights of the Peopje in several States; subjugation of tlie colored, people in control of the party iu po.we*uiui^he reviving of race antagonisms now bAppily abated; of the most peril to safety and happiness of all; a measure deliberately and justly described by a leading Kepublii can senator as "the niost infamous bill that ever crossed the threshold of the senate." Such a policy, if sanctioned by law, would mean the dominance of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of ot\jce-holders, and i 4 GENERAL SICKLES. I the party first entrusted with its machinery . could be dislodged from power only by an unpeal to the reserved rights of the j people to resist oppression which is inhe' rent in all self-governing communities. Two years ago this revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned by tne people at the polls; but in contempt of that. I verdict the Republican party has detiant! ly declared in its latest autnoritive utter; ance that its success in the coming elections ; will mean the enactment of a force bill and the usurpation of despotic control over j elections in all the States, believing that the preservation of a republican governI meiit in the United States is dependent up. on the defeat of this policy of legalized 1 force and fraud, we invite the support I of all citizens who desire to see the con, stitution maintained in its integrity, with j the laws pursuant thereto which have ! given our country an hundred years I of unexampled prosperity, ana we pledge the Democratic party, if it be ! entrusted with the power, not only to the i defeat of the force bill, hut also to relent, less opposition to the Republican policy of profligate expenditure, which, in the I short space of two years, has squandered ' an enormous surplus and emptied an overflowing treasury alter piling new burdens of taxation upon the already overtaxed lalK>r of the country. Sec. 3. We reiterate the oft-repeated declaration of the Democratic party that the necessity of the government is the only justification for taxation, and whenever a tax is unnecessary, it is unjustifiable ; that when the .custom house taxation is levied \iaoii articles of any kind produced in this country, differences between the cost of labor here and labor HEN'ItV WAT'l fc'IiSON. ! abroad, when such difference exists, fully : measures any possible benefits to lalior, : and the enormous additional impost; tion of the existing tariff falls withcrush: ing force upon our farmers and working! men, and for the mere advantage of a few whom it enriches, and exacts from labor agroasly unjust share of the expenses of the ; government, and we demand such revisi ion of the tariff laws as will remove their ; iniquitous inequalities, lighten their op1 precisions and put them on a constitutional 1 and equitable basis. Hilt in making a 1 reduction in taxes, it is not proposed to in; jure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth. From the foundation of this government the taxes collected at the custom houses have been the chief source of Federal revenue. Such they must continue to be. Moreover, many industries have come I to rely upon legislation for successful continuance, so that any changes of lav; must be at everv stop regardful of the labor and capital thus involved. The process of reform must be subject in the execution to this plain dictate of justice. We denounce the McKinley tariff law, enacted by the Fifty-first congress, as the <tilminatingatrocity of class legislation; we endorse the efforts made by the Democrats of the present congress to modify its most oppressive features in thedirection of free raw material and cheaper manufactured goods that enter into general con sumption ; imu we promise u? i.-j .in our of tin* bcniticent results tluit will t??I GOVERNOIt CAMI'HELL. low the action ol'tlie pcojtlc in entrusting p.iwcr to the tJeinocratie party. Since the McKinley tarifl' went into operation there have been ten reductions of wages of the laboring men to one increase. We deny that there has been any increase of prosperity to the country since that tariff went into operation, and we point to dullness and nistress, wage reductions and strikes in the iron trade as the best possible evidence that no such prosperity has resulted from the MeKinlcy act. We call the attention of thoughtful Americans to the fact that after thirty \ears of restrictive taxes against the importation of foreign wealth in exchange for ouragricultural surplus, the homes ind firms of the country have become burdened with a real estate mortgage debt of over two thousand five hundred million dollars, exclusive of all other tortus of indebtedness; that in one of the chief agricultural States i f the West there appears real estate mortgage debts averaging ?Um per capita of the total population ; and that similar conditions and tendencies are shown to exist in other agricultural exporting States. We denounce the policy which fosters no industry so much as it does that of the sheriff. Sec. 4. Trade interchangeon the basis of reciprocal advantages to the countries participating, is a time-honored doctrine of Democratic faith, but we doiiouuce sham reciprocity which juggles with the people's desire for enlarged foreign markets and freer exchanges, in pretending to establish closer trade relations Ibr a country i whose articles of export are almost ex clusirely agricultural products, with other I < countries that are also agricultural, while ! t erecting a custom house barrier of pro- i i hibitive tariff taxes against the richest countries of the world that stand ready to j t 'u?ke our entire surplus of products, and to i 1 ' exchange therefor commodities which are j < : necessaries and comforts of life among our ; t people. I ? Sec. 5. We recognize in trusts and com- j i l binations, which are designed to enable j t ' capital to secure more than its just share of i 1 ' the joint product of capital and labor, the 1 WILLIAM C. WHITKSY. ^ 1 natural consequence of prohibitive taxes, ? which prevent free competition, which is j the life of honest trade, but we believe j their worst evils can be abated bylaw, and we demand a rigid enforcement of the laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in ; restraint of their abuses as experience may i show to be necessary. Sec. ti. The Republican party, while professing the policy of reserving public land, 1 for small holdings by actual settlers, has I given away the people's heritage till now u few railroads ana non-resident aliens, | ! individual and corporate, possess a larger j i area than that of all our farms between the two seas. The last Democratic admin- ! istration reversed the improvident and un- | I wise policy of the Republican party touch- j itig the public domuin, and reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly j one hundred million acres of valuable ! land to be sacredly held as homesteads for \ our citizens, and we pledge ourselves to j continue this policy until every acre of | land so unlawfully held shall be reclaimed and restored to the people. Sec. 7. We denounce the Republican j legislation known as the Sherman act ; .~..wvn - - _.J1 1... ..I.; A > oi inau, as :t cowaruij ninKt-oiiiu itm.gu. . with possibilities of danger in the future ' ; widen should make all of its supporters, j as well as Its author, anxious for its speedy , 1 repeal. We hold to the use ot both j 1 gold and silver aa the standard money of j ? : the country and to the coinage of both I 1 gold and silver without discriminating * j against either metal or charge for mintage, 1 j closely linked witli our own, aim we view willi aliirin tlus tendency to a policy j of irritation and bluster which is liable at any time to confront us with the altcrnulive of humiliation or war. We favor the ! maintenance of a navy strong enough forull purposes of national defense and to j properly maintain the honor and dignity ! of the country abroad. See. 11. This country has always been a refuge of the oppressed from every land, exiles for conscience sake, and in the [ spirit of the founders of our government 1 we condemn the oppression practiced by the Russian government upon its Lutheran and Jewish subjects, and we call upon our national government, in the interest of justice and humanity, by all just and i proper means, to use its prompt and best efforts to bring about a cessation of these cruel persecutions in the dominions of the Czar and secure to the oppressed equal j rights. We tender our profound and earnest sympathy to those lovers of freedom who arc struggling for home rule and the great cause of local self-government in Ireland. See. lg. We heartily approve ail legiti- , mate efforts to prevent tlic I'uitcd States A. P. <;<MIMAS'. from lieing used as a dumping ground lor know n eri initials and professional paupers J of Knrope. and \vr demand a rigid enforcement ol*tIn* laws against Chinese immigration or tin* importation of foreign workmen iindereonlraet to degrade AineiI iean la I ?or and lessen its wages, hut we i -ondciun and denounce any and all at- j empts to restrict the immigration of the ' ndustrious and worthy of foreign lands. ' See. 13. This convention hereby renews he expression of the appreciation of the lutriotism of' the soldiers and sail>rs of the Union in war for its preserva- i ion, and we favor just and liberal penlions for all disable*! Union soldiers, their vidows and dependents, but we demand hat the work of the pension office shall : ie done industriously, impartially and ] lonestly. We denounce the present ad- ; ninistration of that office as incompetent, orrupt, disgraceful and dishonest. Sec. 14. The Federal government should are for and improve the Mississippi river tnd other great waterways of the republic, o as to secure for interior States easy and heap transportation to tide water. When "Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: On behalf of the committee on resolutions, I wish to say that we accept the amendment of the gentleman from Ohio as an addition to section 3." . At this point of Jones' remarks, there arose such a tumult in the chamber of hisses and applause that his voice was drowned and he could not be heard. Afer waiting patiently for some moments Jones retired in despair. Neil demanded a roll call on his motion to ' 'ISUBTSn TRKI. strike out and substitute. The roll was called and resulted : Ayes, 564; nays, 342. The Illinois vote was first announced as 33 aye and 15 noes, but the chairman of the;delegation announced that under the instructions of the State convention enforcing the unit rule, the vote of the State would be 48 aye. Delegate Mazyck, of Minnesota, entered a protest against his delegation my waterway of the republic in 01 sum ieiit importance to demand aid of the govinnnent, that such should be extended by i definite plan of continuous work until he permanent improvement is secured. Sec. 15. For the purposesof national defences, the promotion of commerce beween States, we recognize the early con- i traction of the Nicaraugua canal and its irotection against foreign control as of rreat importance to the Lnited States. Sec. 15. Recognizing the World's Colum>ian exposition as a national undertaking >f vast im])ortance in which the general j fovernment has invited the co-operation J (fall the powers of the world, and appre:iating the acceptance by many or such ! iowers of the invitation extended, and the ; iroadest liberal efforts being made by ! hem to contribute to the grandeur of the I indertaking, we arc of the opinion that :ongres8 should make such necessary , inanclal provision as shall be requisite to ! he maintenance of the national honor and ; mblic faith. Sec. 17. Popular education being the ! ml j* safe basis of popular suffrage, we re:ommend to the several States the most iberal appropriations for public schools, ''ree common schools are the nursery of WILLIAM E. RUSSELL. food government and they have always i eceived the fostering care of the Demo- I iratic party, which favors every means of j ncreasing intelligence. Freedom of education being an essential of civil and reigious liberty, as well as a necessity for he development of intelligence, must not ie interfered with under any pretext vhutever. We are opposed to State inerference with parental rights and rights ; >f conscience in the education of children ! is an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest indi- j , idual liberty consistent with the riglits of : >thers, insures the highest type of Ameri- j an citizenship and the best government. Sec. IK. We approve the action of the ! irescnt house of representatives in passng bills for the admission into the I nion j * ? .?- . !??: ? v?... I US rttuten OI II1U icrrinuicn tu ..icv. .UGAI- | o and Arizona, and we favor the early j id mission of all territories having the i lecessary population and resources to adnit tliein to Statehood, and while they renain territories, we hold that the otticials tppointed to administer the government >f any territory, together with the District j >f Columbia and Alaska, should be lama I ide residents of the territory or district in vbich their duties are to be performed. The Democratic party believes in home ule and the control of their own affairs ty the people of the vicinage. Sec. 1?. We favor legislation by congress md State legistures, to protect the lives tnd limbs of railway employees and those >f other hazardous transportation comtanics, and denounce the inactivity of the Republican party, and particularly the DON DICKINSON. but the dollar unit for the coinage of both 1 metals must be of equal intrinsic value 1 and exchangeable, or be adjusted through ' international agreement, or by such safe- 1 guards of legislations as shall insure the ' maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal powerof every dollar at I all times in the markets and in the nayment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall bo kept at par with ! and redeemable in such coin. We insist I u|)onthis policy as especially necessury i for the protection of the fanners and laljorj ing classes, the first and most defenseless | victims of unstable money and fluctuating | currency. Sec. 8. We recommend that the prohibl itory 10 per cent, tax on State bank issues j be repealed. Sec. 0. Public oflice is a public trust. I We reaflirm the declaration of the Detnoj cratic National convention of 1870 for a reform of the civil service, and we call for | an honest enforcement of all laws regulaj ting the same. The nomination of a pres' ident, as in recent Republican conveni tions, by delegations composed largely of j his appointees, holding otliee at his pleasure, is a scandalous satire upon free popular institutions, and a startling illustration ; of the methods by which a president may j 1 gratify his ambition. We denounce the | | policy under which Federal olliee-holderx i : usurp control of party conventions in I i States, and we pledge the Democratic ] party to a reform of these and all other < ! abuses which threaten individual liberty t and local self-government, i Sec. 10. The Democratic; party is the i j only party that has ever given the country i a foreign policy consistent and vigorous, < i UOVKKNOR 1'ATTISON. compelling respect abroad ami inspiring confidence at home. While avoiding en- ( tangling alliances, it has aimed to enltivate friendly relations with other nations j and especially with our neighbors on the i American continent, whose destiny is j v MU w '"or yvy/ ^ / Wit.1.1 AM K. MOItlilSOK. Tin; only font tiros of tin* platform which seemed to call forth divided .sentiment was the tariff and silver planks which , were apparently not sufliciently radical to satisfy delegates with pronounced views. Jones moved the adoption of the t I latform. Neil, of Ohio, was recognized and moved to strike from the tarilf section nil words preceding the denunciation of the McKinley act and to .substitute ' therefor the following: "Wedenounce Republican protection as a fraud on the labor of the great majority of the A iner- ' ican people for the benefit of a few. We declare it to he the fundamental principle of the Democratic party that a government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tarilf duties. except for the purposes of revenue only |applause and cheers] and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government when honestly and economically administered." [Cheers and applause with tremendous tumult following. | Neal. Vilas and Wat terson took part > in debate and Jones of St. Louis said : I being recorded as a unit in tne negative, and Wallace, of Pennsylvania, did the same; also some others, but chairman Wilson ruled that wherever instructions for a unit rule had been given, the vote would be recorded as reported by the chairman of the delegation. Several States voted under the unit rule under protest. Patterson, of Colorado, then took the floor and presented a minority report on the silver plank. It is identical with the majority plank, except that it reads "through the free coinage of both gold and silver," instead of "through the coinage of both gold and silver." Patterson endeavored to deliver a GOVERNOR GRAY. free silver speech, but was interrupted by cries of "time." McKenzie, of Kentucky, suggested that the silver matter be recommitted to the resolutions committee. [Cries of "No. no."1 Patterson moved the" adoption of his substitute for the silver plank. The motiou was put and declared lost. The Chairman?The question is now on the adoption of the platform. This motion was voted on by yeas and nays and carried. NOMINATIONS IN ORDKR. The Chairman?The next order of business, gentlemen, is the call of States for the nomination of candidates for the office of president of the United States. The clerk commenced to call the roll and got as fur as Alabama, when he was interrupted. Mr. Fenton, of Arkansas, attempted to move an adjournment but no attention was paid to him. Arkansas yielded her place to New Jersey, and ex-Governor Abbett of that State came forward, accompanied by enthusiastic cheers from the Cleveland wing of the convention, it being under stood tlmt lie was to nominate the ex- j president. When order was restored ; the governor addressed the body, for- j mally placing Grover Cleveland in ! nomination. Governor Abbett proceeded without JOHN (i. CARLISLE. Republican senate, for causing the defeat I if measures benetieial and protective to his class of wage-workers. Sec. 20. We are in favor of the enactnent by States of laws for abolishing the lotorious sweating system; for abolishing ! ontract convict labor, und for prohibiting j miployment in factories of children un- | ler fifteen years of age. Sec. 21. We are opposed to all sumptuu y laws as an interference with the individual rights of the citizen. Sec. 22. Upon this statement of primaries and policies the Democratic jiarty asks lie intelligent judgment of the American leople. ft asks a change of administra- i ion and change of party in order that | here may be a change of system and of I ncthods, thus assuring the maintenance, I ltiiuipaircd, of the institutions under I .vlrieh the republic has grown great and I lowerfnl. IIOW THK IM.ATKOKM WAS HKCKIVKI). < The denunciation of measures like j he force bill was loudly cheered^ Ap- j ilause also greeted the homestead [ilank and the portion of the silver dunk denouncing the Sherman act. Reference to Federal officers in the na- J ional convention elicited a terrific j fell. The foreign policy plunk, navy, ! lews in Kussiu, home rule for Ireland, | a cre all liberally cheered. The school j aw plank was carefully listened to and 1 ivus punctuated at the end of nearly . very sentence by shouts of upproval. | UOVEBNOK AUUETT. receiving more than mild applause until he reached that portion of his address where he said : "If there was any doubt existing in my mind of the result of this national contest, I would not urge 011 behalf of my State the views of its Democracy in favor of (Jrover Cleveland." KXCITIXt; SCKNKS. When Governor Abbett named Cleve- j land, the hurrah of an hour before was renewed. The delegates sprang to their feet, many of them mounting chairs. Hats were thrown in the air : and the noise of the cheering was deafening. Michigan's banner was waved aloft again. The enthusiastic banner-bearer forgot discretion, and taking the banner across the aisle, Haunted it in the face of the New York delegates. General Sickles resented this impertinence, and denounced it. und he was joined by other members of the delegation. Mayor Manning, of Albany, put out his foot to bar the aisle where he sat, and the banner bearer fell. Michigan men were across the aisle in an instant, and it looked as though blows would follow. General Sickles said : "We in ** ? ?..a <i?? .\ti\V 1 ill'tv !ll"t: mm II? ...? not propose to be insulted." ' So are we." said a man from Michigan, "and we know now how to behave ourselves." "You cannot carry that man's banner across here," said Sickles, waving his crutch in the air. "We propose to say who shall be our candidate, and we do not want to have Michigan ramming their candidate down our throats." Then a Michigan delegate poured oil on the troubled waters by saying: "The man was told not to raise the banner, and he had no right to go over in the New York delegation in any event," and the conflict which threatened blows came to an end. The cheering continued intermittingly for ten minutes. The chairman succeeded in pounding order with his gavel, and (Jovernor Abbett went on. Almost the next sentence was: "Not < only will ne receive me suppun ui every Democrat in the land." There were cries of "No" and counter cries of "Yes" from all over the hall. Stopping a moment the governor repeated: "I said every Democrat," laying strong emphasis on the word "Democrat." The point brought down the house. At another point where Governor Abbett paused, some one cried: "Give us a Democrat!" but it did not provoke a demonstration. When Governor Abbett came to the review of the modern heroes of Democracy, each was cheered in moderation, from Russell to Boise; but when David B. Hill's name was mentioned, Tammany and the New York delegation led a demonstration second only to that which the Cleveland men had made. Mounting their chairs, the New Yorkers led a cheering army which found recruits momentarily in every part of the hall. Twice the New York men sat down, but each time the cheering started anew, and again and again the friends And admirers of New York arose to their feet. Just behind the chairman, Dr. Mary Walker stood, almost alone, a whlfA hanHkpi>nhi(>f in the face of the convention. The chairman tried to rap the con* vention to prder, but some one brought in some lithographed pictures of Mr. Hill and held them aloft. General Sick- lea stuck one in the end of his cratch and waved it above his head. A delegate rushed to the platform and held another of the pictures over the head of the official stenographer. Flags and parti-colored umbrellas were waved in the galleries. Ohio, Mississippi and half a dozen other States joined in the demonstration and made it continuous and noisy. A bearded delegate with a brown hat on his head stood in a chair and waVed a Cleveland picture slowly in the face of the New Yorkers. It was like the traditional red rag to the New York bull. It provoked another outbreak, even more enthusiastic than the one preceding it?a demonstration that brought even "Boss" Croker to his feet. Again the chairman tried to bring the convention to order, and again he failed. Every blow of his gav&l was answered with increased cheering and stamping of feet. Governor Abbett stood in front of the chairman's desk, looking over the hall The demonstration had continued several "minutes, when Ed Murphy waved the New Yorkers to their seats. Order restored, Governor Abbett went on, and was permitted to conclude bis speech in comparative silence at 10.12 p. in. A new outbreak of cheers took place as he sat down. The Michigan delegation hoisted the Cleveland banner flcmin and ten minutes were iriven to the uproar, the baud assisting, while occasional peals of thunder reverberated above the din. Rain began to pour in on the ladies sitting at his right, and umbrellas were put up for protection. The chairman stood his ground, but was perceptibly soaking. An umbrella was raised over his head and he took shelter under it. The secretary vainly endeavored to resume the roll call. The lightning, meanwhile, was flashing vividly, and the torrent of rain forcing through the roof increased in volume. Colorado, being reached, yielded to the State of New York. Mr. W. C. DeWitt, of Brooklyn, made his way up the aisle to nominate Senator Hill. Bourke Cockran asked for a suspension of the proceedings till the storm . should abate. This was granted. After an interval of ten minutes or more, the chairman again sought to restore order and resume business, threatening to clear the galleries if quiet were not maintained. A delegate moved to adjourn, but Don Dickinson and others cried "No." The chair decided that Mr. DeWitt had the floor, and could not be taken of? even by a motion to adjourn. The storm Anally abated, and Mr. DeWitt proceeded with the nomination of Hill in a strong speech. He reviewed the New York senator's political career, defended the midwinter convention, and wound up with the 8tatemeut: "We hail from Waterloo ; and we fearlessly proclaim that Hill is the Blucher who can drive the Republican chieftain to St. Helena in November." The call of the roll of the States was then resumed, and after quite a number of other nominating speeches, and speeches seconding nominations, a ballot was finally ordered at 2.50 a. m., Thursday morning. THE VOTE BY STATES. Alabama?Cleveland 14, Morrison, 4, Campbell 2, Hill 2, Boies 1. Arkansaa^-Cleveland Id. California?Cleveland 18. Colorado?Hill 3, Boies 5. Connecticut?Cleveland 12. Delaware?Cleveland (1. Florida?Cleveland 5, Carlisle 3. Georgia?Hill5, Gorman 4, Cleveland 17. Idaho?Boies 6. Illinois?Cleveland 48. Indiana?%'leveland 30. 1WW U iJUICO w</t Kansas?Cleveland 2*). Kentucky?Carlisle 8, Boies 2, Cleveland 18. Louisiana?Boies 11, Cleveland 3, Hill 1, Herman 1. Maine?Hill 1, Whitney 1, Horman 1, < 'leveland 'J. Maryland?Cleveland 0, Horman 9J. Massachusetts?Cleveland 24, Hill 4, Hoies 1, Russell 1. Michigan?Cleveland 28. Minnesota?Cleveland 18. Mississippi?Hill .'1, Horman 4, Boies 3, Cleveland 8. Missouri?Cleveland 34. Montana?Boies 8. Nebraska?Cleveland 1.1, Horman 1. Nevada?Boies 4, Herman 2. New Hampshire?Cleveland 8. New Jersey?Cleveland 20. New York?Hill 72. North Carolina?Stevenson ltijf, Morrison 1, Cleveland 3J, Boies 1. North Dakota?Cleveland 8. Ohio?Cleveland 14, Boies 18, Carlisle 5, Hill 8, Herman .1. < )regon?Cleveland 8. Pennsylvania?< 'leveland 84. Rhode Island?Cleveland 8. South Carolina?Boies 13, Hill 3, Cleveland 2. South Dakota?Cleveland 7, Boies 1. Tennessee?('leveland 24. Texas?Hill 1, Boies 8, Cleveland 23. Vermont?Cleveland 8. Virginia?Cleveland 12, Hill 11, Herman 1. Washington?Cleveland 8. West Virginia?Cleveland 7, Hill 1, Pattison 1, Herman 3. .... IM 1 i ? 1SCOI1S1II?v.icvt'innii -1. Wyoming?Gorman 3, Cleveland .'1. Alaska?Cleveland 2. [Alaska's vote nominates Cleveland. Arizona?Cleveland 5. District of Columbia?Cleveland ."1. New Mexico?Cleveland 4. Oklahoma?Cleveland '2. I'tali?Cleveland 2. . Indian Territory?Cleveland 2. RECAPITULATION. Total vote, HO'JJ. Necessary to a choice, 5U1), or two-thirds. Cleveland received 317J, Hill 115, Hoies 10:1, Gorman 3(1 J, Stevenson, llijj,Morrison 5, Carlisle 15, Campbell 2, Pattison 1, Whitney 1, Kussell 1. Texus changes her vote to Cleveland, 30. West Virginia and Maryland change their votts, 11 and 1!) respectively, to Cleveland. THE NOMINATION MADE UNANIMOUS. Ohio moved that the rules he suspended and Cleveland he nominated by acclamation. Daniel,of Virginia, Flower, of New York, seconded the motion, which was carried und the nomination was made unanimous. THE VOTE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. The convention met again at 2.50 o'clock, Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for vice-president. The following candidates were placed in nomination: Gray, of Indiana: Stevenson, of Illinois: Morse, of Michigan ; Mitchell, of Wisconsin: Watterson, of Kentucky; Cochran, of New York ; and Tree, of Illinois. The vote resulted as follows : Alabama?Morse 22. A rkausas -Gray HI. [CONTINUED o.\ FOURTH PAOK.]