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CLEVELAND CHOSEN.
The Ex-President Nominated
on the First Ballot at Chicago.
Details of the Proceedings of the
National Convention,
The secon \ Democratic National Conven
tion to meet in Chicago, ill., oe^an its session
with the same vigor and intensity of
feeling shown in the earlier contest, which
resulted in -Mr. Cleveland's first nonainat ion
for the Presidency eight years ago. The
vast hall in which the convention was held?
that huge, unpainted, woolen, boxlike wigwam
down on the lake front?began to
gather in the flower of the National Democracy
soon after the hand on the big clock
over the Chairman's platform had ticked
past 11.
THE DEMOCRATIC WI
Almost up to the hour of meeting the
sound of hammers, hurriedly driving; the
Jast nails into the woodwork of the galleries,
echoed through the haU. In the concluding
rush a number of the Intended decorative
effects had to be abandoned and others were
materially changed. Though ugly
enough from the outside, the Wigwam
was a bower of beauty within. Its
bare timbers were almost completely hidden
beneath festoons and covering of flags and
bright colored bunting, masses of hot-house
plants and myriads ot palms and flowering
shrubs.
GROVER CLEVELAND, OF NEW YORK.
At 12:42 Chairman Brice came to the front
of the platform, and, standing with gavel in
hand, said: "The convention will come to
T have the Dleasure of introducing
the Rev. John Rouse, who will open the proceedings
with prayer."
The Rev. John Rouse was a smooth faced
long haired, young man, dressei in the can
onicals of the Episcopal Church. He
looked over the assemblago for a moment,
and. spreading his hands, he said: "Order."
TheD, folding his hands, he began his prayer.
At its conclusion Chairman Bnce announced
that by direction of the National
Committee the Chair presented to the convention
as its temporary officers the gentlemen
named in the list, which he handed to
the Secretary, who read it as follows:
The Hon. W. C. Owens, of Kentucky,
Temporary Chairman; Secretary, S. P.
Sheerin, of Indiana; Assistant Secretaries,
W. H. Dovle, of Pennsylvania; H. Shepard,
of Virginia; C. Tilley, of Missouri; L. A.
Rowley, of Michigan; R. E. Wilson, of
Mississippi; C. D. Freest, of New York, ani
J. C. Swayen, of Illinois; Principal Reading
Clerk, the Hon. Nicholas M. Bell; Sergeantat-Arms,
Richard J. Bright, of Indiana;
Official Stenographer, Edward Dickinson,
of New York. ~
ISAAC r. GRAY, CF INDIANA.
The list was adopted without opposition,
and then a committee escorted Mr. Owens to
the platform. Mr. Owens made a short aidress,
and then upon motion of General
Bragg, of Wisconsin, the rules of the last
Democratic Convention were temporarily
adopted. The following resolution was introduced
and adopted with great applause:
The Convention theh aijourned to 11
o'clock a. m., on the following day.
Second Day's Proceedings.
Temporary Chairman Owens called the
nnmin.r dnaiiin tn nrJer at 11:32. and Rev.
Alfred Heary, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Chicago, delivered a prayer.
Senator Palmer made a long speech, which
was enthusiastically received, after which
the Committee on Credentials made its report,
giving Arizona and New Mexico six
delegates each.
The report of the Committee on Permanent
Organization was then made and
adopted. It made William L. Wilson, of
"West Virginia, Permanent Chairman. Mr.
"Wiison was escorted to the platform by Don
M. Dickinson, J. F. Duncombe, John R.
Fellows, Joseph C. Richardson and M. L.
Clardy. His speech denounced the "Force
bill," and attacked the McKinley law.
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DAVID B. KILL. OF NEW YOKK.
The Committee oa R'lles next made its report,
in which it su&ta.ned the unit rule.
This rule Cleveland's opponents had attempted
to set aside.
Mr. Phelps presented a cavei to Chairman
Wilson, the members of the National Committee
were named and ex-Uuvernor Campbell,
of Ohio, made a short speech. The
Committee on Flatforrr. not being ready to
report the convention, at 1:43, took a recess
to 5 o'clock.
When the convention reassombled at five
o'clock there was a decse nia?s ot parboiled
humanity boneatb its wooden roof. As far
as the eye could see overJ available chair
was taken, and thoro muse havo beea several ]
hundred more than 20,000 Democrats laughing
and sweating, the bulk of them in their
shirt sleeves and all of them ready for a
night of excitement and hilarity.
It was 5:30 when Chairman Wilson rapped
the meeting to order with the Missouri zinc
j gavel and introduced the Rev. Thomas
Green, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who sent up
[ to heaven an eloquent prayer.
After a tantalizing delay of an hour waiting
for the Platform Committee a motion
to adjourn was voted down. The delegates
wanted to get at the rea! business as speedily
as possible.
At 6:30 p. m. the Committee on Resolutions
entered the ball. Colonel Charles M.
Jones, of Missouri, made the report of the
committee. He offered the platform, which
was read in a strong, clear voice by ex-Secretary
Vilas.
Cleveland's name came in near the opening,
and its mention evoked a volume of applause
that continued just eighteen minutes.
It was an unearthly roar such as few men
have ever heard and ons t&at is not
likely to be heard by the average man twice
in a lifetime.
Michigan went wild and Don Dickinson
waved his Cleveland banner. Men jumped
a.
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GWAM AT CHICAGO.
up in their chairs, beating the air with
their arras, bats and handkerchiefs, and the
ladies performed their lull part in keeping
up the excitement. The big brass band
joined in the turmoil, but at tne distance of
a few yards it was impossible to distinguish
a note tbat was played.
In all this tumult the New York delegates
kept their seats as silent and unmoved as
statues. When quiet was finally restored,
Mr. Vilas was permitted to continue the
reading 01 toe pj&biurui nuuuuu amvuo ? ,
terference.
Chairman Jones, of the committee, moved
the adoption of the platform, and on this
moved the previous question. Delegate
Neil, of Ooio, who was a member of
the committee, offered an amendment
to the tariff plank of the platform.
Delegate Neal made a speech in support of
HORACE BOIIS, or IOWA,
his amendment. ' Henry Watterson, of
Kentucky, took the platform and spoke
for the amendment. Ex-Secretary
Vilas referred to the amende
ment as unnecessary and vicio us. Colonel
Jones ended the discussion by accepting the
amendment.
A roll call of States was ordered on the
motion to make the amendment a substitute.
The amendment was carried
by a vote of 564 to 342.
T. M. Patterson, of Colorado, desired to have
incorporated into tbe coinage plank the little
word "free" before the wora "coinage." jhx.
Patterson's minority report was rejected and
the platform was adopted at 9:15 P. X.
The Chairman then announced that the
next question was the call of the roll of
States for nominations of candidates for
President. At this the convention loudly
cheered. When Alabama was called a delegate
named Fenlon jumped on his chai r and
moved an adjournment, but without heeding
the motion the Secretary proceeded with
the call.
WILLIAM C. WHIT NUT, OF NEW YORK.
Arkansas yielded her place to New Jersey,
and Governor Laon Abbett rose to place the
name of Grover Cleveland before the convention.
When Governor Abbett named
Cleveland the hurrah of an hour before was
renewed. The delegates sprang to their
feet, many of them mounted chairs, hats
were thrown into the air, and the noise of
the cheering was deafening. Michigan's
banner waved aloft again.
When Governor Abbett came to the review
of the modern heroes of Democracy
each was cheered from Russell to Boies, but
when David B. Hill's name was
nentioned Tamm&ny and the New
York delegation led a demonstration
second only to that which the Cleveland
men had made. Just behind the Chairman
Dr. Mary Walker stood, almost alone,
waving a white handkerchief in the face of
the convention. After eight minutes of
noise toe uaairmau meu to rap me tuuvoutioa
to order, but some one brought in
some lithographed pictures of Mr.
Hill and held them aloft. General Sickles
stuck one on the end of his crutch and
waved it above hi3 head. The demonstration
had continued seventeen minutes when
Ed. Murphy waved the Hew Yorkers to
their seats.
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JOHN M. PALMER, OF ILLINOIS.
A minute later the whole convention came
to its feet to stare at a spot w the crowd at
the north end of the ball where two polict|
men were bending over a prostrate form.
A woman had fainted. She was carried out
and then, with partial order restored, Governor
Abbett went on. Governor Abbett
was permitted to conclude his speech
JOHN O. CARLISLE, OF KENTUCKY,
at 10:12 p. M. A renewed outbreak
of cheers took place as he sat down.
The Michigan delegation hoisted the Cleveland
banner again, and ten minutes were
given to uproar, the band assisting, while j
occasional peals of thunder reverberated
above the din. The rain began to drip in
on the Chairman's desk, and
also began to pour in on the
ladies sitting at his right, and
umbrellas were put up for protection. The
a
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ARTHT7R P. QORMAX, OF MARYLAND.
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 torrents of rain
forcing; their way through the root increased
in volume.
Colorado being reached, yielded_to the
State of New York. W. C. De Witt, or
Brooklyn, made his way up the aisle and
nominated Senator Hill. After Mr. De Witt
bad finished his speech nominating Senator
Hill Colonel John H. Fellows seconded the
nomination. The roll call was then proceeded
with in regular order.
Connecticut seconded Grover Cleveland.
No other nominations or seconds were offered
until Illinois was reached. A. W. Green
seconded Cleveland's nomination for that
State.
WILLIAM L. WILSON1, WE9T VIRGIJTCA.
Indians, by William E. English, seconded
Cleveland. Iowa was the next State, and
Hon. W. E. Duncombe, of Fort Dodge,
nominated Horace Boies in a strong speech.
At two minutes after midnight he
took the platform to nominate Iowa's Governor.
He finished at 12:18 and the applause
which greeted the nomination was as
boisterous and piolonged as the name of
Cleveland had elicited. The entire New
York delegation joined in the demonstration
for Boie>, led by Governor Flower.
The Kentucky delegation split on the roll
call, Henry Watterson seconding Boies and
Hon. J. A*. McKenzie speakiDg for Cleveland.
Louisiana seconded Boies. Massachusetts,
by Patrick Collins; spoke for
Cleveland.
Minnesota seconded Cleveland. So did
Missouri. Montana seconded Boies. New
York asked to be passed.
Pennsylvania seconded Cleveland. South
Carolina said it wanted Boies. South Dakota
also svrung into the Boies column.
Tennessee, seconded Clbveland. Texas
was a unit for Cleveland. Senator Daniel,
tr:?Hill
UJL v u^tuia, acuuuuvu
Bourke Cockran then opposed the nomination
of Cleveland in a speech of an hour's
duration, made just before the roll
call, but promised the support of New
York to the nominee. A vote was
ordered at nearly three o'clock a . m. The
roll of States was called without confusion
until Arizona was reached, when it was
evident that Cleveland would be the candidate.
Then there was great confusion in the
hall, but the roll was con eluded to the end
When Alaska was reached his nominatio
was made certain.
WILLIAM B. MORRISON, OF ILLINOIS.
Ohio then moved that the rules be suspended
and Cleveland be made the nominee
by acclamation. Daniel, of Virginia,
seconded the motion. It was carried.
On motion of Dickinson, of Michigan, the
convention then adjourne 1 until two P. M.
The vote by States wasas follows:
Alabama?Cleveland, 6; Morrison, 4;
Campbell, 2; Hill, 2.
Arkansas?Cleveland, 10.
California?Cleveland, 18.
Colorado?Hill, 3; Boies, 5.
Connecticnt?Cleveland, 12.
Delaware?Cleveland, t>.
Florida?Cleveland, 5; Carlisle, 3.
Georgia?Hill, 5: Gorman, 4: Cleveland,
17.
Idaho?Boies, 6.
Illinois?Cleveland, 41
Indiana?Cleveland, 30.
Iowa?Boies. 36.
Kansas? Cleveland, 20.
Kentucky?Carlisle, 6; Boies, 2; Cleveland,
lij.
Louisiana?Boies, 11; Cleveland, 3; Hill,
1; Gorman, 1.
Maine?Hill, 1; Whitney, 1; Gorman, 1;
j Cleveland, y.
Maryland?Cleveland, 6; Go mau,9XMassachusetts?Cleveland,
24, Hill, 4;
Boies. 1; Ru3sell, 1.
Michigan?Cleveland, 28.
Minnesota?Cleveland. 18.
Mississippi?Hill, 3; Gorman, 4; Boies, 3^
Cleveland, 8.
Missouri?Cleveland, 34.
Montana?Boies, 6.
Nebraska?Cleveland, 15; Gorman, t.
Nevada?Boies, 4; Gorman, 2.
New Hampshire?Cleveland, 8.
New Jersey?Cleveland, 20.
New York?Hill, 72.
North Carolina?Stevenson of Illinois,
16%; Morrison, 11; Cleveland, 3)?: Boies, 1.
North Dakota?Cleveland, 6.
Ohio?Cleveland, 14; Boiea, 16; Carlisle,
5; Hill, 6; Gormar, 5.
Oregon?Cleveland, 8.
Pennsylvania?Cleveland, 64.
Rhode Island?Cleveland, ^ ^
South Carolina?Boies, i?; am, o; wenr
land, 1.
South Dakota?Cleveland, 7; Boies, 1.
Tennessee?Cleveland, 24.
Texas?Hill. 1; Boiee, 6; Cleveland, 23.
Vermont?Cleveland, 8.
JAMES E. CAMPBELL, OF OHIO.
Virginia?Cleveland, 12; Hill, 11; GormtD,
1.
Washington?Cleveland 8.
West Virginia?Cleveland, 7; Pattison, 1;
Gorman, 3; Hill, 1.
Wisconsin?Cleveland. 24.
Wyoming?Gorman, 3; Cleveland, 3.
Alaska?Cleveland, 2.
Arizona?Cleveland, 5.
District of Columbia?Cleveland, 2.
New Mexico?Cleveland, 4.
Oklahoma?Cleveland, 2.
WILLLAK it. BTT8SILL, 0* 1fl(W10JIU8?tfg.
Utah?Cleveland, 2.
Indian Territory?Clevelan 1, 2.
Totals?Cleveland, 616K: Hill, 112;
Boies, 103;liorman, oo^\ oteveuhiu, iv-r^,
MorrisoD, 5; Carlisle, 15; Campbell, 2; rattersoo,
1; Whitney, 1; Russell, 1.
Life ot Grover Cleveland.
Grover Cleveland was fifty-five years old
n March IS last. His father was a Presbyoerian
minister, and he was born in the parsonage
at Caldwell, N. J. When he was four
years old his father accepted a call to Fayetteville,
cs. Y., where the son went to
school. Afterward his father moved to
Clinton. In his seventeenth year the son
became cierk and assistant teacher
ROSWELL P. FLOWER, OF NEW TORff.
in the New York Institution for the
Blind in New York Uity. In 1855 he went to
Black Rock, now a part of Buffalo, and aided
his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, in the compilation
of a volume of the "American Herd Book."
Heafterward helped prepare other volumes
of the same work. In August, 1855, he became
a clerk in the law office of Rogers,
Bo wen & Rogers. Four years later h 3 was
admitted to ttte Bar. On January 1, 1863
he was appointed Assistant District Attorney
of Erie County. New York, and he held the
office three years.
In 1869 Mr. Cleveland became a partner
in the law firm of Lanninsr, Cleveland &
Folsom, and continued the "practice of law
until 1870, when he was elec:e.i Sheriff of
Erie County. At the expiration of his
three years' term he formed the law firm of
Bas?, Cleveland & Bissell. In the fall of
1881 he was elected Mayor of Buffalo, an I
in the following year Governor of New
York.
He was nominated for the Presidency by
the Democratic National Convention at
Chicago on Julv 8. 1884. and was elected,
carrying New Yors State by 1047 plurality
over James G. Blaine. He had 219 votes in
the Electoral College and Biaiue had 182.
ROBERT E. PATTISON, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Onthe2il of June, 1SSG, Mr. Cleveland
married Frances Folsora, daughter of his
old Buffalo law partner, in the Blue Room
at tne White House. He has a daughter,
Ruth, born in New York City, Saturday,
October 3, 1891.
The Democratic National Convention at
St. Louis in 1S88 renominated Mr. Cleveland
by acclamation. Harrison beat him, get
i ting 283 votes in the Electoral College to 165
i for Cleveland.
Since March 4, 1889. Mr. Cleveland has
practiced law in New York City.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFOEM.
Declaration of Principles Adoptei
by the National Gonvention.
The platform as adopted by the Demo
cratic National Convention at Chicago i
as follow:
Sectio^I.?'The representatives of th>
Democratic party of the United States, ii
National Convention assembled, do re
affirm their allegiance to the principals o
the party as formulated bv Jefferson am
exemplified by the long and illustrious lint
of his successors in Democratic leadershij
from Madison to Cleveland. We be
lieve the public welfare demands thai
these principals be applied in tht
conduct of the Federal G-overnmenl
through the accession to power of the party
that advocates them, and we solemnly declare
that the need of a return to these fun
damental principles of a free popular gov
ernment,based on home rule and individual
liberty, was never more urgent than now,
when the tendency to centralize all power at
the Federal capital has become a menace tc
the reserved rights of the States, thai
strikes at the very roots of our G-overnmenl
under the Constitution as framed by thi
fathers of the Republic.
Section 2.?We warn the people of out
common country, jealous for the preservation
of tbeir free institutions, that thi
policy of Federal control of elections, t<
which the Republican party has committed
itself, is fraught with the gravest dangers,
scarcely less momentous than would result
from a revolution practically establishing
monarchy on the ruins of the
Republic. It strikes at the Nortt
as well as the South, and injures
the colored citizen even mon
than the white; it means a horde of deputy
marshals at every polling place, armed witl
Federal power; returning boards appointee
and controlled by Federal authority; the
outrage of the electoral rights of the peopU
in the several States; the subjugation of the
colored people to the control of the party io
power and the reviving of race antagonism!
now happily abated, of thu utmost peril tc
the safety and happiness of all; a measure
deliberately and justly describe! by a leading
Republican Senator as "th9 most m
famous 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 offica holders, and the party
first intrusted with its machinery could be
dislodged from power only by an appeal tc
the re.-erved right of the people to resist op
pression which is inherent in all self-governing
communities. Two;year3 ago this
revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned
by the people at the polls; but in
contempt of the verdict tha Republican
party nas defiantly declare! in its latest
authoritative utterance that its ?U2c?ss in
the coming elections will mean the enactDieDt
Of the Fnrn^ hill Riiri the luurnnfcimi nf
despotic control over elections in aJl the
States. Believing that th9 preservation of
Republican government in the United State*
is dependent upon the defeat of this policy
of legalized force and fraud, we invite the
support or ali citizens who desire to see the
Constitution maintained in its integrity,
with the laws pursuant thereto,
which have given our country
a hundred years of unexampled
prosperity, and we pledge the Democratic
party, if it be intrusted with power, not only
to the defeat of the Force bill, but also to
relentless opposition to the Republican
policy of profligate expenditure which in the
short space of two years has squandered an
enormous surplus and emptied an overflowing
treasury after piling new burdens of
taxation upon the already overtaxed labor
of the country.
Section 3.?We denounce the Republican
policy of protection as a fraud on the labor
of the great majority of the American people
for the benefit or the few. We declare
it to be a fundamental principle of the Deuicratic
party that the Federal Governmenc
has no constitutional power to impose and
collect tariff duties except tor tho purposes
of revenue only, and we demand that the
collcction of such taxes shall oe limited to
the necessities of the Government when honestly
and economically administered.
Section 4.?Trad? interchange on the
basis of reciprocal advantages to the countries
participating is a time-honored doctrine
of the Democratic faith, but we denounce
the sham reciprocity which juggles
with the people's desire for enlarged roreign
markets and freer exchanges by pretending
to establish closer trade
relations for a country whose
articles of export are almost exclusively
agricultural products witn other
countries that are also agricultural, while
erecting a Custom House oarrier of proaibitive
tariff taxes against the rich countries
of the world that stand ready to take our
entire surplus of products and to exchange
therefor commodities which are necessaries
and comforts of life among our own people.
Section 5.?We recogniz-s in the trusts
and combinations, whicb are designed to enable
capital to secure more thau its just
share of the joint products of capital and
labor, a natural consequance of the prohibitive
taxes which prevent the free competition
which is the life of honest trade, but
we believe their worse evils can be abated
by law, and we demand therigii enforcement
ot the laws made to prevent aad control
them, together with such further legislation
in restraint of their abuses as experience
may show to be necessary.
Section 6.?The Republican party, while
professing a policy of reserving the puolic
land for small holdings by actual settlers,
has given away the people's heritage till now
a few railroad and non-resident aliens, individual
and corporate, possess a larger area
than that of ell our farms between the two
seas. The last Democraticadministration re
ersed the improvident and unwise policy ol
the Republican party tonc'aing tn9 public
domain, and reclaimed from corporations
and svndicate?. alien and domestic, and re*
stored to the people nearly one hundred
million acres of valuable land to be sacred!>
held as homestea Is for our citizens, and we
pledge ourselves to continue this policy until
every acre of land so unlawfully held
shall be reclaimed and restored to the
people.
StCTiON* 7.?We denounce the Republican
legislation known a$ thi Sherman act of
1891) as a cowardly makeshift fraught with
possibilities of danger in the future which
should make all of its supporters, as well as
its author, anxious for its speedy repeal.
We hold to the us? of both gold* and
silver as the standard money of the
country, and to the coinage of
of both gold and silver without discriminating
against either rueta! or charge for mintage,
but the dollar unit of coinage of both
metals mu3t be of equal intrinsic and exwalltQ
AP Ka a A iiufaH th r All cr)\ in
ternational agreement or by such safeguards
of. legislation as shall insure
tbe mamtainanci of the parity of
the two metals, and the equal power
of every dollar at all times in tbe
markets and in the payment of debts,
and we demand that all paper currency
sball be kept at par with and redeemable in
such coin. We insist upon this policy as
especially necessary for the protection of
the farmers and laboring classes, the tirst
and most defenceless victims of unstable
money and a fluctuating currency.
Sectio.y 8.?We recammeni that the prohibitory
ten per cent, tax on State bank issues
be repealed.
Section 'J.?Public office is a public trust.
We reaffirm the declaration of the Democratic
National Convention of 187d for the
fjkfnr-rt f,h? mril !J?:*viea and wa call for
the bouedt enforcement of all laws regulating
the same. The nomination of
a President, as in the recent
Republican convention*, by delegation*
composed largely of his
appointees, holding office at his pleasure, is
a scandalous satire upou free popular institutions
and a startling illustration of the
methods by which a President may gratfy
his aubition. We denounce a policy under
which Federal office-holders usurp control
of party conventions in the States, and we
pledge the Democratic party to the reform
of these and all other abuses which threaten
individual liberty and local self-government
Section 10.?The Democratic party is the
only party that has ever given tne country
a loreign policy consistent and vigorous,
compelling respect abroad and inspiring confidence
at home. While avoiding entangling
alliances K has aimed to cultivate
friendly relations with other Nations
and especially with our neighbors ]
on the American continent whose
destiny is closely linked with our
own, and we view with alarm tho tendency ]
to a polios of irratioa and bluster, which is
| liable at any time to confront us with the
alternative of humiliation or war. We favor
the maintenance of a navy strong enough for
ali purposes of National defence and to properly
maintain the honor and dignity oc tne
country abroad.
Sectio.v 11.?This country has always
rn me aomnnons or tae czax and to secure
to the oppressed equal rights. We tender
our profound and earnest sympathy to those
lovers of freeJom who are struggling for
Home Rule and the great cause of local
self-government in Ireland.
Section 12.?We heartily approve all le
gumiaia eaorw to preventtne umtea orates
trom being used as the dumping ground for
the known criminals and professional paupers
of Europe, and wo demand the rigid
enforcement of the laws against Chines*
immigration or the importation of foreign
workmen under contract to degrade American
labor and lessen its wages, but we condemn
and denounce any and all attempts to
restrict the immigration of the industrious
and worthy of foreign lands.
SECTION 13.?This convention hereby renews
tne expression of appreciation of the
patriotism o' the soldiers and sailors of the
Union in the war tor its preservation, and
we favor just and liberal pensions for
all disabled Union soldiers, their
widows and dependents, but we demand
that the work of the Pension
Office shall be done industriously, impartially
and honestly. We denounce the
present administration of that office as itv
competent, oorrupt, digraceful and dishonest.
Section 14. ? The Federal Government
should care for and improve the Mississiopi
River and other great waterways of th9 Republic
so as to secure for the interior
States easy and cheap transportation to
the tidewater. When the waterway of the
Republic is of sufficient importance to demand
the aid of the Government that such
aid should be extended on a definite plan of
j continuous work until permanent improveI
ment is secured.
Section 15.?For purposes of National
defence and the promotion of commerce between
th# States we recognize the early construction
of the Nicaragua- Canal and its
protection against foreign control as of great
importance to the United States.
Section 16.? Racognizine the World's
Columbian Eroosition as a National undertaking
of vast importance, in which the general
Government has invited the co-operation
of all the Powers of the world, ana appreciating
the acseotance bv many of such
been the refuge of the oppressed from every
land?exiles lor conscience sake?and in the
spirit of the founders of our Government we
condemn the oppression practise! by the
Russian Government upon its Lutneran
and Jewish subjects, and we call
npon our .National Government,
in the interest of justice and humanity,
ujr uu JU31. auu proper metma,
to use its prompt and best efforts to bring
about a cessation ot these cruel persecutions
towers of the invitation for extended and
the broadest liberal efforts being made by I
them to contribute to the grandeur of the
undertaking, we are of the opinion that '
Congress should make such necessary financial
Drovision as shall be requisite to the
maintenance of the National honor and public
faith.
Section 17.?Popular education being the
only sate basis of popular suffrage, we recommend
to the several States most liberal
appropriations for the public schools. Free
common schools are the nursery of
good government and they have
always received the fostering care
of the Democratic party, which favors every
means of increasing intelligence. Freedom
of education being an essential of civil and
religious liberty as well as a necessity for
the development of intelligence, most
not be interfered with under any
pretext whatever. We are opposed
to State interference with parental rights
and rights of conscience in tne education of
children as an infringement of the fundamental
Democratic doctrine that the largest
individual liberty consistent with the rights
of others insures the highest type of American
citizenship and the best government.
Section 18.?We approve the action of
the present House ot Representatives in
passing bills for the admission into the
union as States of the Territories ot New
Mexico and Arizona, and we favor the early
>j?iuinn rvf ail thA Territories havinar
accessary population and resources
to admit thsm to Statehood, anl while
they remain Territories we hold that
the officials appointed to administer the government
of any Territory, together with the
Districts of Columbia and Alaska, should be
bona fide residents of the Territory or District
in which their duties ara to be performed.
The Democratic party believes in
iiome rule and the control of their own
affairs by the people of the vicinage.
Section 19.?We favor legislation by Congress
and State Legislatures to protect the
lives and limbs of railway employes and those
of other hazardous transportation companies
and denounce the inactivity of the Republican
party and particularly the Republican
Senate for causing the defeat of measures
beneficial and protective to this class of
wageworkers.
Section" 20.?We are in favor of the enactment
uy the States of laws for abolishing
I the notorious sweating system, for abolish|
ing contract-convict labor and for prohibifrI
ing the employment in factories of children
| under fifteen years of age.
; Section 21.?We are opposed to all sump'
tuary laws as an interference with the in
dividual riguu# ui weuiucu,
j Section 22.?Upon this statement of principles
and policies the Democratic party
i asks the intelligent judgment of the Amer>
! can people. It asks a change of administra1
tion anil a change of party in order that
J there may be a change of system and a ,
j change of methods, thus assuring the main!
tenance, unimpaired, of institutions under
j which the Republic has grown great and
powerful.
AMERICAN HEBOES.
| Brave Men Who Hare Risked Their
Lives for Others.
Thomas Meehan, a river man of New York
j City, has saved twanty-five live3.
I William Downing, a railroad conductor of
Oil City, Penn., saved Ave liva3 during the
I recent catastrophe in that city.
Frank D. Ring, of Denver, Col., has been
| presented with a gold medal by the Govern- '
tnenfc for saving Ave lives. His acts of her.>
j ism were performed while he was a citizen
< of Jersey City, N. J.
I The son of Admiral Kimberly has rec9nt1
ly received a siiver medal fro n tha M&ssa|
chusetts Humane Society for rescuing an
I older comrade from drowning while swim
minz in Boston naruur.
Captain Nicholas Murphy, of Boston, is
one o? the most uoted life savers in Amer
I ica. Durin? the period of thirty-five years
he has saved upward of 10<) persons from
drowning, his first rescue being rua ie waen
he was fourtesn years old.
Fathn* Duren, a Catholic priest of Spring
Gar ten.near Madison, Wis., whoresiujl the
daughter of M. Orsmi, a Paris millionaire,
from drowning in the Me iiterraneaii Sea
last winter, nas b<?en pre-'nte '. by h*r tather
witu $35.(WO, waici the pries: wiLl devj:s to
charitable purines.
RETALIATION OH CANADA
Urfjetl by the President in a Message
to tlie Senate.
In a State paper sent to the Unite! States
Senate in answer to a resolution of February
24 last, call ng for information relative
to reciprocity negotiations with Canada,
the President sounds the death knell of that
I ??:a?*- ?"'! '? rar^-nmnn.-ij thflifc
Congress procaal t?> retalidti upon the
Dominion for its persistent denial of the
rights of American citiz?ns, guaranteed by
the treaty of Washington, iu connection
with the navigation of Canadian cmals. The
President, iu his communication says that
his answer to the resolution was delayed
at the suggestion o? the Secretary of
State until the conference, Juue 3, took
place between the Secretary ani the British
Minister and Mackenzie Bowell and George
?. Foster. Joan W. Foster also appeared
on behalf of the Government of the United
States, at the request of the Secretary of
State.
Work ha3 begun on a mining tunnel which
is to be two miles long and will tap six of the
principal mines iu the C'our n'Alene District
in Idaho. The tunnel will tak9 the
place of tramways and railroad lines In
transporting ore to the concentrating plant.
Colonet, Hbndrick Von Stamp, of Denmark,
and Miss Mildred Hammond, of Baltimore,
Md., a few days ago were married in
a cemetery over the graves of the bride's
nnaUi
WATERY GRAVES, I
Numerous Deaths by Drowning lal
Various Places. H
Nameroaa reports of deaths by drowning K
have been received from various parti of H
the country. B
Five children were drowned in the Ohio H
River, at Neville Island, a few miles west of H
Pittsburg. Psnn., the other afternoon. They H
were Paul Pittock, aged three; Rnfus Pit- H
toelr, nine; Maggie Pittock, twelve, andH
Ada Pittock, fourteen?children of T. H
C. Pittock, a prominent business man? H
and Edna Ricnardson, aged thirteen, the H
daughter of a railroader. The children wer* H
plavmg in a buggy that was standing on the K
high bank of the river, jumping up and
down in their play, and the buggy toppled! H
over the bank, throwing all into the water.' H
The current was very swift and only onsH
body was recovered. B
Three boys, the eldest eloven years
wAiinffMf nlnn WOffl Hrownftd In
auu VUO JVUM^WOB UIMW, " ? - - -- ?? ?
lake at New Libson, N. J. The eldest was
the son of Joseph C. Lotts, Superintendent
of the Burlington County Almshouse farm,*
and his two companions were Inmates at
the Almshouse. They were bathing and one
of them got beyond his depth. The others
went to bis assistance and all were drownwL
Mrs. George Van Hise, well known In
Trenton, N.J., was drowned in the Delaware
River a few days ago. Mrs. Hise waa
temporarily insane. It is not known whether
her death was the result of suicide or accident.
Frank Weston and George Murray, aged
six and eight respectively, quarrelled on a
boom at the foot of Mason street, Grand
Rapids, Mich. Frank tried to toss George
into the river, and both fell In and ware
drowned.
Two (brothers, Joseph and Arthur
Fournier, aged fourteen and eleven year*
respectively, were drowned while baching
in Taunton River, Fall River, Ma3s.
\7hile bathing in the Morris Canal, at
Newark, N. J., ten year-old William Besett
was drowned.
THE LABOS WORLD. t *
_ - \
New York cash girl* get 11.50 a weefc *
Thi formation of a National organisation
of engraven has been set on foot.
The Californians are alarmed by report!
that Japanese cheap labor is being brought
in.
Chinese laborers are to be imported into
Africa to teach the natives how to cultivate
tobacco.
AiraTRAiXAir colonies are proposing con*
blned action against the importation of
colored labor.
The sponge industry of the Bahama Islands
employs 500 boats and nearly 5000
Workmen and boys.
It is calculated that the aggregate annual
income of the working classes of England is
about II, 500,000.003.
The National Federation of Sailors, recently
organized in Chicago, is taking steps
to form an international organization comprising
America, England, India and Australia.
A law in operation iu Missouri compel*
railroad companies to fill or block all
switches, frogs and guard rails with the best
known appliances for the protection of euv?
ployes.
Governor Flower has' issued a pardon
to Joseph Barondess, tU9 leader of tne New
York Cloakmakers' Union, who was oon?#am
av+a*?4>? n <? mrtnjv M
Vlt'bCU CU1U 9DU(^UV;?U IU1 VAHWI viu^ *mvmv^
a condition of ending a strike.
The report of the Secretary of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers to tne convention?
at Chattanooga, Teno., showed a membership
of 26,000, with a protective fond 0<^H
180,000 and a general fund of 940,000. KE
The superintendent of the new elevated
road in Chicago makes all applicant* for^H
conductorships sing him a song or two. Ha^H
is determined to nave clear-voiced young
men who will not mumble hoarsely the^H
names of the stations. HI
15 the United States the average expendi-^H
ture per family is stated at <011 in thecotton^H
industry and only $394 in the woolen indua-^H
try, a difference of 1*217, while the differenci^H
in income is only #5. and that In faror
the industry in which the expenditure P?^H
t a mi I J is least. VH
KILLED AT THE MONUMENT?
Lightning's "Work at the Big Or?aA
Statue in Chicago. |j|
Three persons were killed, two serioualj^H
injured and the Grant Monument in Llncoh^H
fark slightly damaged in a short but fiarc^B
thunderstorm which visited Chicago, 111.,
few nights since. The killed were Lewifl|
Myer, Lira. Shelbv, of Chicago, and an tm^^H
known man. The injured were Harr^^H
Philips and Mrs. Mattie Olson, also o^H
Chicago. Bfl
The catastrophe was the result of a bolt o^H
lightning which struck the monument in th^H
corridors of which nearly fifty person^H
sought shelter. At the first signs of the apH|
proaching storm, Lincoln Park in which tn^H
monument stands, was covered with peopl^K
who had prepared to enjoy the cool of th^H
evening. The storm Degan with
slight shower which rapidly de^H
veloped into a smtll hurricane, accom^Hjj
panied by a downpour of rain, vivid fiashe^H
on lightning and 'terrific pails of thunder^H
When its fury was at its height, a blindin^H
flash struck the statue, taking its cours^H
dire:-tiy tUrough the little crowd which ha^H
sought safety in its enclosures. Every bod
with the exception oi mrew mea,
to the ground but all were uninjured excepHE
those named. The bolt did not strike th^H
bronze figure oi! Grant and the damage t^H
the monument will be covered by a fei^H
dollars.
A DETEEMINED SUICIDE. I
Einrlinjj Her Child to Her, a Womai^H
Lies Down in a Pool of Water.
Mrs. Mary Clark and her child, two ao^H
a lialf years old, were found in a stream
water back of her housa in Hubbardstoi^^H
Mass., a few afternoons' agi^H
She had tied the child / to h^Bj
with a piece of apron and then jumpjd int^^B
the water lying face down. The water otbe^^H
wire would have been scarcely enough
drown her.
Got a Lanch sn Him Onc?. h8m
A certain small Tom was sroing oi^H
tn innchonn hv invitation, sava
New York Times. Ilis mother wjKl
anxious he should behave well, bii^H
wisely recalling that simplicity is
essence of all true politeness, ga^H
him but once caution: "Act, TonHB
as if you were at home; take wh^H
you want with a 'Yes, please,' ar^H
decline anything with a polite
tbank you;' be as honest as at o^H
own table"?trusting that with
confidence established the continu^H
home sowing of preceDt and examp^H
would bear its fruit. At night ToHH
reported results. "I guess I did
right, mother," he said, "thougbflfi
got a laugh on me once." "Wh^H
was that?" inquired his moihe^H
"Well, we had baked apples, aiflE
when it came my turn to ber serv^^B
Mrs. C. said: 'And now, Tom, whi<^H
apple do you want?'" "You told he^H
of course," interpolated his mothe^Hj
as the boy hesitated a little. "Y^H|
know I have often explained that itHB
pood manners to give a cnoice wn?w
one is asked." "Yeswmother, I to^B
her, and that was the laugh. I sai^H
The one I want is none.'"
Studlod About Everything.
The modem idea of combination
teaching was well illustrated t^H|
other day by a small boy, who w^^n
asked what he studied in the publ^H
schools. He answered: "Oh, ever^H
thing?free-'and drawing, an'cookiz^H|
an' bacteriology, an' music, an' speHH
brum analysis, an' sewin' on buttonHfl
an' agricultural chemistry, an' dis^Hfl
washin', an' everything."