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rVOL. XXI PICK ENS, S. C., THURSDAY, ,1 UNE 30, 1892. THE MAN OF D)STINY. CLEVELAND NOMINATED FOR PRESI DENT BY THE DEMOCRACY. Tho Tickost t1. Cmpale,, i,d.. by 1i Nonil saatioat of Sto vcni.vo f.r Vice-1'reNidte-vat. ultvevanew Swvwt jvo,ytiv,ig itd-foro if i al. 0C%iAo, .llnev23.--The D)emooratic National Convei,ion was calitd to or der on Tuesday by Chairman irice at a quarter to one o'clock, who introdtlced Rtev. John Roiisu o open the procet d. Ing with prayer. Win. C. Owen, of Kentucky, was niiade temporary ciair man, and on taking the chair he ad dressed the Convention as follows: "Two great dangeis i menace the Democratic party, one is external, tle other internal; the first is the oi gan ized machinery of organized calpital supported by tle whole power of gov ernment; the si cond is the teii(eney among Denocrats to mniake issuit 6 among theinselv s. Two needs there fore stand before its indispensible to success--unity and harmony. Of the one this chair and gavel stand repre sentative; it renuains for you to siipply the other. I i this spirit I gre,!t you, fellow Democrats, as the ad%anci guard of the grand ariny sent l or ward to blaze the .athway to victory. How momentous is .ur rc-sponsibility I need not tell you. If you work in wis dom the millions toiling in shop and mine and lield will rise and call you blessed. The roll call of the republic attests that its heart and its conscience are with us in our war with the repre sentatives of greed. Tihe best thought of our party i.s a platform that eial lenges approbat ion and invites tle support the people. We can sic ceed; we muist. do miore; we inust dle serve suceiis. Above the wreck, if netd be, of selfish ComulbinatiIois we inust rear a temple to the plain people and build a shrine so broad that, every lover of his kind may l(eel. the bur den imist be liftd from I Le it back of toil, and to that end it has a right to denand that whouver bears oIlr- bain iler must lilt it above t lie smoke of conlict, and the (lin of atctioi, that every Democrat of the U-nion may fol low its lead in exultant, and irresisti ble Combat. Let uts not mistake. 'The gravity of the sit uation demands the br(wdest patriotism and every needful sacrifice. Our work but begins here. Under the suns of sunimer and frost, of autuinn we iust, carry it forward with unfaltering COurage to a trium phaiit cluse. This agaili iust. be a campaign of C(dication. The studify o* the corn litid began in the Ve.t and South and Ilu.t be- carricd io every hamlet of tie East and Nortli. The people must learn their true relation to tile tax gatherer. They iust learn that no railroad president champion the tribui.es of the people, no taskmnas ters write our tarili bills. They mrst learn, too, t hat I or personal and pol.i cal advantage tie country was me v'',uced ny a threat ul war iid they will learn with shanie and regret that on the (lay the war-like nietsage of tile President was read in the halls of Con gress a peacel lii iesponse of the little eight by ten Republic ot Chili accept Ing the terms 01 the .'resident's ulti Matum was read inl every capital of the world. Our oppomieits must be measured by their deeds and not by their professions. The Fifty-first Congiess wrote the blackest page in our legislative history and became a thing o the past. It challenged the approval of the people and they responde(d inl toiles o potelt that it seemed the voice of God. Viti a unanimity that finds no parellel in the history of popuiiar governmecnt they deterniuned that a billion dollars was far too much to pay l(or such a, museum of' freaks. 1t we hut permit it they will stand by their verdict. 'That our cause may tiumph)i let us wouk in kindness. .In the heaSt of' con tension let us not forget that our political brothers may be just as honest and perhaps bette r informjed ; imiipelled by one purpose, the pulblic good, we will free ourselves I rom buekerinigs and heart-buirimings 11hat, char'acte'riz,ed the Rtepublicani party whch i its mar S shal, Key, went U0wn a t Ailiea1>o;s before the miailed legions of Ihle breadl and butter tnrigado. The speaker'svice plenel MItefi to tihe fartherrat recesses of the galleries and his remarks weie chelered to I hei t chio At the close (of Owen's sp)reeih, upon0i motion of' Jelegaute White, of (.aif'or ia, the roll was called for' the consti tutin 01 com iulttees on crodintmis, on rules and( ord('r o1 biisizness, oi per' mainent orgoniz/atiol ndil resolu Lions, each State to iinm one mi.e.niber of each commit tee'. All resoluitions anid commnunications to) tihe i co'ventioil werte ordered referred to the re.aln Lions commrit,tee. The hall was packed to su1 l',atioin. every avaihable space in thle i11mmeinse builing being occuipiedl byS spectat.ors and delegates. I )elegate 11(o1ima11 of Ogden, announced that heo had received a t.elegram from Portland, (Oregon, the strongest Rtepulblican city on theu coast, that It has given I,(000 Ieiniocratic mia 9 jolity, instead of 2,(00 Republic1i m jority, which hIad previously been tiie case. Delegate Campbell, of' I llinois, thlen offered this: Rlesolvedl, 'Thfat this conivtention Ien der its p)rolound sympathby to tha;t dies tinguished Amlericanif,.lameHIs . I Maine, In the heavy aitlihetioni wich kfias be falleinhimi. Its reading was inteiru pi ai ii illh the loudest ap~plauIse up to that time and when the reading was hiluihd the resolution was adopted uinatnnnlouls ly. Sevett of the Maine dele'gatio~n, inl behalf of the Dlemnocratic pai'ty of Maine, thanked the delegates for thle sympathy they hand extendled to time distinguished- resBidenit of thleir State. "God forbid," he said,"that the l)eimoc racy of Maine or of any other State should hesitate to ten<ter thir 83 mopa. 4 thy in the presernce of that grim tyrant who Wipes out all politIcal lines and levels all ranks. From the misfortumne and bereavememnts which have come upon the dIstinguished gentleman In } the past two years, It may ho said( that one woe treads upon another's heels, 60 fast (10 they follow. Only in ia I)eie.' crat.ic national .convenition can we," Mr. Sevett said in conclusion, "exten'd to him the sympathy wich comes from every State." Mr. Sevett's re marks were greeted with loud applause and cries of "Good, good." The Covention then adjourned over to Wednesday when it reassembled at i halfpast eleven o'clock. Prayer %vas I offered by the Rev. Alfred Henry. None of the committees being ready to report Senator Palmer, of Illinois was invited to address the Convention. A committee brought Senator Palmer to the front, and when the gray-haired Senator was seen comingdown the aisle to the desk a cheer went up which soon grew. "Gentlemen," cried Chairman Owenls, "it is not necessary for m1e to introduce I to you this war horse of Democracy. Mr. Palmer put his hearers in a pleas- I ant rio,d at once by a eoimical story and some light, comments on I le crowd. t The key note of Mr. Paliner's ta,k was unity and co operatioi. "We want no I skulkeri in this great light. Every man mntist work,' Ie said, at the sen- I timerit was cheered roundly. "Select a soltd, firil Deinocrat for this cont'est and put the banner in his hand and then rally about liim," said Palmer. "Iill is thf nian," came a voice froin 1,1p in the shadows beneath the roof, and the nate of the New Yorker was cauight, ip and shouted until from shore of sea of laces in lower regions a shrill hiz s shot out into the clatter of sounds. It. prew until the cheers and hisses died away. When t he aged speaker claimed l1li noi,; would be Demoerati c, the shouters I were wild in their enthusiasm. The committee on permanent organ ization then reported Wim. L. Wilson of West Virginia as permanent chair- 1 man, S. P. tlieerin of Wisconsin for permnanent secretary and the list of as-. sistant and vice-presidents and secre taries by States. On taking the chair Air. Wilson spoice as follows: Gentleien of the Convention: I thank you heartily for this honor. I shall tiy t> meet the duties of the high position to which you call me with a spirit of fairness and equality that Is Democratic. This Convention has a high and patriotic work to perform. We owe much to our party. We owe much to our country. The iiission of the Denocratic party is to fit-ht for the under dog. When that party is out of power we mnay be sure that there is an un der dog to light for, and that the under dleg is generally the American people. When that party is out of power we may he sure that some party is in control of our Gov, ernment that represents a section and not the whole country; that stands for a c'a?s and not the whole people. Never was this truth brought home to its more defiantly than by the recent Conven tion at Minneapolis. We are not deceived as to the temper and we are not in doubt as to the purpose of our opponeuts. 11aving taxed Us for years without excuse and without mercy, they now propose to disarinl its of futcr power to resist their exac tions. liepublican success in this cam paign, when we look to the party platform, the party candidates or the utterances of party leaders, imeanls that the people are to Ib stripped of their franchises through force bills in ordar that they may bo strip ped of their substance through tariff bills. leree government is self-government. There is no free governmiet where the people do not control their ow-l elections and levy their own taxes. When either of these rights is I nken away or diminished a breach is made, not in the outer defence, but in the citadel of our freedom. For years we have beei struggling to recover the lost right of taxing ourselves, and now we are threatened with the loss of the greater right of governing ourselves. The loss of one follows in succession the loss of the other. When you confer on the Government the power of dealing In wealth you unchain every evil It can prey on and eventually destroy free institutions, creating excessive taxation, class taxation, billion-dollar Con gresses, a corrupt civil service, a debauch ed ballot-box and purchased elections. In every campaign the privilege of taxing peo ple will be bartered for a contribution to corruipt them at the polls, and after every vietory a new McKinley bill to repay these contributions with taxes wrung from the I people. For every self-governing people there I can be no mnore mnoimeutous question than thatt of taxation. .It is the one, as Mr. .luirke truly saidl, around wvhichi all the great battles of freedom have beeni fought. It is the question out of which grow all the issues of government. Until we settle this 'luestion wisely, peirmanently and justly wve build all other reforms oil a foundation of sand. We and the g reat party we rep) rosenit ate to-day for tariff t'eform, because it Is the only gateway to a genuine Demio crat ic government. Thh diistinguished leader wvho p)resided ov'er the Republican Contvent.ion byoastedl that he0 does not know whlat tat lif reform is. Whoever said that, kh- t us1hop, with that (charity which en diireth aimll tin mgs and believethi all things, that lie is truly as ignorant as ho vautnt.sI hiimsel f to bie. Unitforhinately the people are not so ignorant of the meaning of pro0 teetiitn,f )Of.rteet.lon which is (dealt to themi1 in Ithe hill that hears his name. WVe see thaut nmeaning " written large'' to-day in prostrated agriculture, in shackle'd ecom muerce, in striekeni iindhustrties, ini the ecni pulsory idtlenIess of labor, in law-miade wvealthi, int the discontent oif wvorkinmgmeni and the despair' of the farmer. Th'ley knowv by hard expterience thar, protection as a system iof taxation is but anm old craft.y rechemeu by whtich the rich compel tihe pioor to pay the expense of the Giover'mnment. They know by hard experience that pro tieeioni as a system of tribute Is but, an old erufty schmeme by which the powers of tax ationi ol thei people is imade the privato progerty of a fewv of the people. Tariff re-) forum imeans to readjust, this system of tax at.ion amt i o urge awvay thIs system of tri -, bulte. It means that wYe hiavo nuot reached ti.m goal (if perfect freedom so long as any citizenm is foret d by law to pay tribute to anly otler, and( iuntil our taxes are propor tionied to tihe ability and( duty of the taux pay'er rather than to his ignioranlce, hia weakness andit his patienice. Governor Me-] Kinley charges that thme D)emocrat.ic party ( believes in taxing ourselves. I am afraid, gent tiemnen, we mullst admit thmis chtarge. What rIght or ecuse have we for taxing anybody else with a continent for a count,ry, w ith I reedomn anmd in telligence as thme instrut im1ents for its dteveopmen~its? We stand dis graced ii the eyes of mankind if wo cannot and1( if we do niot suipport our owni Govermn .mment. We cant thirow, that support on other' Peole oitly by beggary or by force. If wi' uise onie, we are a pauper nation; ifj we use the other, we are a p)irat,o nationi. TUhe l)etuoeratic part,y dtoes not Intend thmat we shtoul be citiner'. No tmore (toes It ini tend thatut they shall falsely call It taxing I other people to transfer our taxes from the possessioni of those who own the probp'rty of tihe c'otry to thoste who (10 the wvork of time coun try. It huelleves that frugalIty is anm (essetital viirtiie of free govermnent, 1It believes flhat these taxes shoul lie limiited to public nteeds ain be levied by a la1in rule of practice anid 'coniomvi. But., gentletmen, we are cifronted with I a new cry In thtis cantpaignt. 'The liepubhli canm party, says Governtor McKinley, now t stand(s for protectioon and( reciprocity, lie was for p)rotection alone wheni lhe framed his bill in the llouse, or rather p)ermit ted hIs beneficIaries to framte it for htim, at firmly resisted all efforts of the statesman from Malieto annex reciprocity to it. No wonder that lie favors recif roclity ad ded by tIhe Senate. You may expWjre the pages ofI burlesque literature for a more 8su prenmely ludicrous exhibltioin than the so-cal led re ciprocityof the McKi..e bil,. I.i o eciprocity at all. It is ictaliation, and Yorst of all, retaliation on our people. it )unishes American citizens for the necessi les or follies of other people. It says to a ew small countries south of us: "If you Ire forced by your necessities or led by ,our follies to make broad higher and carcer to your people, we will make shoes id sugar higher and scarcer to our peo A.'. And now we are told that recipro ity is to be their battle cry. Already we tre regaled with pictures of BenIJ. 1arri on clad in armor and going torth to bat le for reciprocity on a plumed steed. Aniple Simon fishing for whales In his niother's rain barrel, and In great triumph apturing an occasional wiggle-waggle Is lie only true realistic picture of the recip ocity of the McKinley bill. We are for irotection, that protects and for reciproci y that reciprocates. We are in favor of Irotecting every man in the enjoyment of he fruit of his labor, diminished only by as proper contribution to the support of lie Government, and we are for that real eciprocitv, not through dickering deplo inacy and Presidential proclamations, but >y the laws of Congress*that removes all innecessary obstacles between le Aineri an producer and the markets lIe is obliged o seek for hiN products. But, gentlemen, I must not keel yCu 'roni the work that is before you. Let us ake up the work as brothers, as pat- lots, is Deniocrats. In so large a convention as his, larger in number than any previous rathering of our party, and repretenting a arger constituency than ever before assiem led in any convention, it would be strange, )>iniously strange. if there were not soine lifferences of opinion on matters of policy Ind some differences of judgment or of pre ereie as to a choice of candidates. It is sign of free Democracy that it is many 7oiced and within the Ilinits of true freedoim umiultious. It wears no collar, it serves io masters. We cannot shut our eyes to ,hc fact that many whio have heretofore lollowed our flag with enthusiasm are to lay calling with excusable inipatience for minediate relief from the evils that en ,oipass then. Whatever can be done to 'clieve the burdens, to restore the benefits md increase the prosperity of the people md every part of them within the linits md according to the principles of free rovernment, that the Democratic party lares to promise, that it will do with all its night. Whatever is beyond this, what wer is incompatible with free government md our historic liberty, it dares not pron so to anyone. Inveterate evils in the body )olitic cannot be cured in a moment any nore than inveterate diseases in the human ysteni. Whoevor professes the power to lo so is hinisel f deceived or himself a de eiver. Our party is not a quack or a Yorker of miracles. It is not for me, gentlemen, iipartiil ervant of you all, to attempt to foreiiha low what your choice should be or ought o be in the selection of your candidates. Cou will make that selection under your >wn sense of responsibility to the people -ou represent and to your country. One bhing only I venture to say. Whoevermay >e your chosen leader in this campaign no telegrani will Ilash across the sea froin the ,astle of absentee tariff lords to congratu ate hi, but from the home of labor, from the fireside of the toiler, from the hearts of all wio leve justice and equity, who wish and Intend that our matchless heritage of freedom shall be the common wealth of all our people and the coiion )pportunity of all our youth, will come ip prayers for his success and recruits For the great Democratic host that must itrike down the beast of sectionalism and ;he Mo!och of monopoly before we can iave ever again a peopie's Government, 'un by the people's faithful representa Aves, Mr. Wllson't declaration that the Democratic party would never permit, I is to become either a pauper or pirate i.tion was cheered roundly. The state nent that reciprocity of the McKinley )ill meant rather retaliation and retal ation against, our own people was ap plauded heartily. Simple Simon fish ng for whales in his mother's rain )arrel and catching occasionally a wig ,le-waggle preseited too true the real stic picture of reciprocity :according to .he irescnt Re1puiblican plan. 'TIhis shasracterizamtion aroused laughter and ;houts of applause. Quick, impetuous ihoumts greeted the statement that the D)emocratic panididate would not re ~eive congratulations from the foreign sastles ot protection barons of this ounmt ry. Delegate l'helps (of lissouri Li.ein pre entedt in behalf of the miners of' Ais onr a gaval of zine, a protest against hie tariff upon that metal. As the hlining hammer' was held aloft by the 3hnairman a great shout wvenit up anid iearty c'lapping of hands. The roll was theni ordered called for 1aming biy States of their natioii.l :ommiinitteemen and meniiber-s of thei motification committee. D)on I )ivk inson1 Oiide( a motion that thle conlvention ake a recess until 5. p. mi., anid the con ,ention agreedl at 1:44 p. m. to do so. I efore Iihe ope'ning of the afternoon ~ession tickets were beiing sold upon5 he ciurbs outside the hail for $12 to $15 ne(hi. The atimosphiere was charged hieav ily with moisture. The meni in Lte galleries took ohT their coats. Ilow lie women maint.aine'd lite none but Lhemselves kntow. he New York delegat ion, wvith r~okeri ait thme head, came fi rst into the 'iall and( a genuii no TIammnany yell eaped forth I rom bench rows directly behinld that alternate. A cry of' 11111 went up but sound like escaping steam shot out fronm the Iloor anid grew to a whistling, hissing storm. Th'le great hrong, however, subsided when Chalir nan WVilson thumped the desk and the ession had began. Prayer was offered iy Rev. Thlomias Reed of Cedar R apidls towa, and lie was applauded when ho 'lThe templer of the aud(ience was rletarly one of qtuick demonstration. A )andl of brass andi reed instruments started "Anmericai," while the conveni ,on was awaitIng the resolutions com nittee, and strains of the familiar iymn brought huundreds to their feet md( cheers from all, Dui Bgnonm of Georgia imovedi to ad ourni until 11 a. ii. to- morrow. Yells of dJerisioni greeted him and t he notion was scarcely put before the coni renition b)y the chirL before it was iriedl in a storm of "noes." A t 6;:2- Charles 11. Jones ofMAisourni :hairmnan of the resolutions cormmit ee, appearedi upon the platform. Ad lrossing the convention, ho said: "I mw instructed b)y the committee on res dutions to present to you as the report tf the committee the following resolti 1(ons and move their adhoptlin. "In order thatt you may more dIls inctly hear what the committee has )repamredt 1 intendl to ask the gentleman rho is as familiar as myself with the >hraseology oif the platform to read It or ime. Anid whien it has bcen readl I hlall nmove previouts quiestlonl upon the midoption oft plat fornmi. |Cries of "1no, to, no."] T.X E. P'atterson of Colorado advanced IContinued on fourth page.1 TlE PLATFORM kDOPTED BY THE RECENT NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Itiuicog Arralign tnt of th Itepibli cami 'arty for Itol)biig ithe lt-oplo Throtigh tie Operation of the Me itallv Tarift law-A Strong li,ociment. C111A,o, ,lune 23.-The followin-, .s the platiorm of the National Demo racy its read before the Convention yes Lerday: Section 1. liepreseitatives of the Democratic- party of the United States, in national convention assembled, do reaflirm their alleg4ance to the principles of tie pa[rty ats formulated by JefFerson and exemplified by tle long Ind illus trious line of his succvsor11 inl Demo cxatic leadership, from Madison to Cleveland; we believe the public wel fare demands that these principles ho applied to the conduct of the Federal government through accvssion to the power of the part,' that advocates them; anld we solenmIly declarc thaL the iced of return to the principles of Free popu hir gover1nmelt, based on home riule and ini(ividual liberty, was never more urgent than now, wfhen the tendency to centralize all power at the F(deral Cap ital has become a menace to the reserved rights of States that strikes at the very roots ;f our government under the Con stitution as framed by the fIal:ers of ti republic. Sec. 2. We warnI the people o out common country, jealouis for the preser. vation of their free institutions, that th( policy of Federal control of elections, to which the Republicain party hias comi mitted Itself, is fraught with the gravesi daniers, scarcely less momentous thati woula result from a revolution practi. cally establishing a monarchy on tIh ruins of a republic. It strikes at the North as well as th< South and in jures colored citizens evei more thin *hite; it means it horde oi deputy marshals at every pollin, placc armed with Federal authority; outrag of the electoral ritlits of the people il several States; subjugation of the col. ored people in control of the party in power and the revivin. of race antagon isms now happily abated; of the mosl peril to safety and happiness of all; n measure deliberaely and justly describ edl by a leadinur Republican Senator at "the most infamous bill that ever crosse(d the threshold of the Senate." Such a policy, il sanctioned by law, would mean the dominiean of a -ell, perpetuating oligarch) of olice-liolders, and the party first entrusted with itb machinery could be dislodged Ironl power only by an appeal to the reserve( rights of the people to resist oppositiot which is inherent in all self-governin communities. Two years ago this revolutionar policy was emphatically condemned b, the people at the polls; but in contemp of that verdict theRepublican. party ha defiantlN declared in its latest atthorita tive utterance that its success in Ilih coming elcetions will mean the enact. ment of' i force bill and the usurpatiot of despotic control over elections in al the States. Believinia that the picser vation of' a republican government ir the United States is dependent upon thif policy of legalized force and traud, wc invite the support, of all citizens who de sire to see the Constitution maintained in its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto which have givenl our country an .undred years of unxamled p'os perity, and we ledOge the IDemocratic party, if' it be entrusted with the power. not only to the (defeat of the force bill, but also to relentless opposit,ion to the Republican policy of pr'ofligate expendi' ture, which, in the short space of two years, has squandered an enormous sur 1)lus iand emptied an overflowing treas. ur'y after piling new burdens of taixation upon the already over-taxed labor o1 the country. Sec. 3. We reiterate the ol t-repe'ated dleclairationi ofthie D emocratic Iarty that the necessity ot the government, is the only justification for taxation, and whenever a tax is unnecessary, it, is un. justifiab)le; that whlen the custm hiouse ta xation is levid upon 101 articl es of'anyi kind produced in this countfry, di fleren ces between the cost, of labor hero andc labor abroad, when such dIiflerence ex. ist.s, fully measures any plossible bene fits to labor', atal( the enn'mous add(ition. ail impositioni of t.he existig tariff' fall with cruishing force uipoin our lfarmere and workimizien, anrd hor th e imere ad. vanttgc oif a fewv whiomi it enriches and exact, from labo)(r a grossly tun just shari of the exp)enses of t,be govern'mienat, and( we dlemand such revisioni of thle tatriil laws as will iemnove their ihjuit,ous ino. qlualities, lihbten their o'~pp ressionis andt put, theni on a constitutional andic eqluit, ilec basis. But ini making a redluct,Ion li faxes, it, is riot, profposedl to iinjjure any domestic industries, but, rather to p)ro mote their healthy growth. From the foundation of thi govrnmmnt, the taxes collected iat the custoii house have been the chief source (If F"ederal revenue. Such they muist con)Ltiu to bie. Moreover, maliny iimiustiies haive comec to rely uplonl legislation for succes sfl continuiance, so thait, any chani ges ol law must, lie at(, vei'y st,ep regardfuli of the labor anid captl thius involved. TIhis process of reform must, lhe the sub-l ict, in the e'xecu'tion (of this ilaini die L,ate of' justice. We deniounice the AtleKNmley tariifF lawt eunacted by the Fifty-lirist Congress as the culminating at,rocit,y of chis legis lation; we endorse the eflorts made by the Democrats (if the piresenit Congress to modif'y its most, opplressive feiatures in the direction of !ree raw imaterials tnd cheaper marufatcttredl goods thiat anter into generai consumption; and we )roi'Use its repeal as one of the beneti 3cint results that will follow the action >l the peCople in entrusting power to the l)emocratic pIarty'. SInec the MecKinley ,arifl' went into operation t,here have >een ten redluctions of' wages of' the Ia >ormng men to one0 increase. We (eny hiat, there has been any incrcease of' prlo~ plerity to the :,ountr'y since th ut, t,arifl' gent, into operation, and1( we Point, to lullness and distrces, wage reduec,ion md s; rikes in the iron tradle as the best possible evidence that no such p)rosp)er ty, has tnaultd frnm the Mcllinley Acn. We call the attention of thoughtful Americans to the fact that after thirty years of restructive taxes against the importation of foreign wealth in ex. change for our agricultural surplus, the hoies and farms of' the country have become burdened with a real estate mortgage debt of over two thousand live hundred million dollars, exclusive of all other forms of indebtedness: that in one of the chief ugricultural States of' the West there appears real estate mort gage debts averaging $165 per capita of the total population; and that similar conditions and tendencies are showii to exist inl other agriciltur.a exportin! States. We denounce the policy whieli f6sters no industry so much as it does that of sherill. Sec. 4. Tr ode interchange on the basik of reciprocal advantages to the countries participating :s a time-honored doctrine of Democratic faith, but we denloiice sham reciproci 'y which jug-les vitli the people's desle for cilar."ed i'ri'n markets and Ifeer exchanges in pretend ing to establish closer trade relations for a country whose articles of export, are almost CxViusively airicultural produe0 wiLl other countries that are also agri cultural, while, crevf-in,g i etustom house barrier of prohibitive tarifi taxus aniitist the richest countries of' the world thit stand ready to take oulr centire sIurplis of products and to exchan-%,e therefor commodifies which are necessaries and comforts of life amlng our people. Sec. 5. We recogMIze in trusft anld combinations, which are designed 1.0 ein able capital to secure more than its juist, share of the joint product of capital and labor, the natural consequence of pruhi bitive taxes, which prevent free compe titii, which is the life of' honest trade, but, we believe thir worst c vils can be abated by law and we demand a rigid enforcement, of the laws made to pre vent and control them, together with such further legislation inl restraint (f th:ir abuses as experience may show to be necessary. See 6. The lepublican party, while prolessing the poicy of recciving public land for small holdinugs by actual set tlers, has given away the peopl,31.1 heri tage till now a few railroads and non. resident aliens, individual and corporate, possess a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. T!he last Democratic administration revereed the imlprovident and unwise pulicy of the Republican party touching the p1ublic doualin, and reclaiimed from voi pora tions and syndicates, alien and dolomes tic, and restored to the people nearly one hundred million acres of valuable land to be sacledly ield as homesteads for our citizens, and we pledge ourselves to continue this policy until every acre of land so uulawfully held shall be re I claimed ald restored to the I Cople. 1 Sec. 7. We denounce the Repbliian legislation known as the Sherman Act of D890 as cowardly and a make-shift Fraight with possibilities of danger in the future which should make all of its t supporters, as well as its author, anx lous f)r its speedy repeal. Ve hold to . the use of' both gold and silver as the standard money of the conitry anl to the coinage of both gold and silver with out discriiminatirig against either netal or charge for mintage, 1ut, the dollar unit for the coinage of both metals mu t be of equal intrinsic value and ex, hane able, or be adjusted through interna tional agreement or by such safeguards of legislations as slall insuire the main tainance of the parity of the twoi metals and the e<qual power of every dollar at all times in the milarkets and inl the pa y ment of debts; and we d.em%an1d that all lpapler currency shall be kept at Par with andl redleemable in such coin. We iii. sist upion this policyv as especially necc essary for the protec:tioin of the fifrmiers and labormng classes, the first and most deftenseless victIms of' uinstablle i miney andii fluctuat,ing currency. Sec. 8. We recommiend that the pro hiibitory 10 per cent. tax Iin Sate bamnk issues be replealed. Sec. 9. Public ollice is ia puiblie Irist. WVe ieaflirm the dem'o ationi of the I )emi ocratic N afionial Conivenitionl of' I S7 Itor a reform of' the civil serv ice amid we callI for ami honiest, eniforcemenit of all laws of a P resi denif, ais ini re'(cnt l(epIulie;umi convyentuins, by dele:;a1t ions compi hosed Ilargel y of his iap poinitees, hioffin (Ifli ce at his pileasuire, is ia Scandialous Hat ire upon free ploplar institutions and11 a startling inaursition of' t,be methods ';y which a President may gratify his ambi tionii. We dhenlounce the 1101icy unde Ir which F"ederatl oflfec-hiolers uisuir c'on. tro)l of patrty conivenitionts in) S-tates, andii weC Ipledge thme D)emocratic 1arty ito' a relorm of' these and all ot.her' a buses which threaten in divblhual liberty andiI local self-government. Sec. h0. Th'le Democra tic pai ty is the on.ly party that has eveir givenm thle 'ounmt.r y a foreiarn pol1icy conisisten t andI vigorous, comple!ling res pect abrIioad amid miapirimg confidnece at. home. WVhiile avoiding entangling 1 aices, it hats aitmedi to cultivate fr'iemllly relat ions w ith other nations and especially w ith our nie ighbor's in the A mericani conitinent i, wvhose dlestinley is closely linikedI w ith 'tir owni, and1( we yiew wi thti alrim the tend(enlcy to a polic~y of irr1itationm amid bIlister which is liable at any ti me to conifroint us with t,he alter'nate of hiuim il iation or winr. We favor thle inaint en - anice of a navy strong e'nough for iall purh poseCs of iationial defense andm to proper ly manintaini the honior and dmoity of the counmtry abroad. Sec. II. This countiry has always been a re loge of the opp ressed from ev'ery land, exiles for coniscienice sakhe, andl ini the spliri t of the foundhers oIf ouri government. we ocmidemn the oppreicssionm practiecd by the Russian goveirnmeint upon01 its Lut,heran andl Jewishi subjects, aind we call upon our national govern menmt, In the interest of julstile and h u mlanlity, bly all ju. ist. andl f'ropeir mieans, to use its promat andl best ('Iforts to brimg about, a cessation of these ci'uel i)ersecuitions mi the (dominlions of t,he Cztar and secumre to the oppressedl equal rights. WVe tender our profound andl earnest, symupathy to thCice lovers of' freedom who ar'e struggling for home rule and the great cause oif local self' goverunment in Ireland. Sec. 12. We hieart,ily iapprove aill legitimat,c efforts to pr1event, the United Stat,es from being used as a (dumping groundI for known crmuIa nd m.fe-, sional paupers of Europe, and we do mand ait rigid enforcement of the lawf agami't Chinese immigration or the im. portation of forcigu w3orkien under con tract to degrade Amnerican labor and. leISSCn its wages, but, we condeon and denloulnect any an1d all attempts to re strict the imini-ration of the industrious and worthy of foreign lands. Sec. 13. This convention hereby re news the expression of the applrclatioI of' the patriotism of the soldiers and sail ors of the Ilion iml war for its preserva tion, atl we havor just and(] liberal pen sions lor all disabled Union soldirs, their widows and depetident,s, but we de m1am111 that, te work of the l'cnsion Of lico shiall be dotie industriously, ini partially anld hIoiiestl'. We denounec the present a(lllllstration of that oflice as incompet1'ALent, corrutIL, disgraceiul 1111d ihionest. seC. I 1. T,he 'ederal government lioul:h 4-are for and improve the Misss sippi rver and oiher vreat waterways of the repiblic, so a4 to sevure for itterior States easy 4i4l chla trainsportatiol Lo Lidt water. Wlien any waturway of the r hlibi is of, julci im1ortance to de m11ani aid of, ihe1o govenlinlt that such should I ('N 'cllieI by a definlite IlaI of (cont1inuw)us Wor'k un1til thle permlanlent inmprovenment is secuired. . J. F ior! 1th ItI I-M8 o 1n Lional deen1ces, the p)rullloLoI of commlier:0 be tweeni States, We recogrniz,e the early coll4trucio ol i the Nicaraugu tutal amid its proteC-ionk aga ;inst Coeg '0n10ro1 as o11 ,-reat inmortunwe to the- lnited StLttes. Sec. 16. 1 %ccogn izing the World's Columbian Exposition as a natioual un dertaking of vast impoltalnce inl which the genieral govermn111elit has invited the Co-operiatioln of all t1he powers of the worbI, .'.nd apprcciatin,g the neceptance l lany of such pmwer-s of the inlvita tiion extendd, and the broadest liberal ell'orts being made by them to contribute L.) the randeur of the undertakimg, We are of tie I opmnion l that C1on4ress siiul make suen necessary fiinaicial provision a1s Shall ho r<cuisite to the mainteaice oi the liatiollial hollotr an(d public l1tih. Sec. 17. P ipular ediuatioll hviig tle only sale basis (of popular suiffrae, We Iec(Omm11eid to the several States Lhe imtost liberal appropriatiios fOr pu1blie sch'ools; i'ec colllloIl schools are tie nursery orf' --ood government and the3y have always rececived thje lo.4tvring, carc 1)f the )emocratic part'y, Which tvo every lieans ilureasill- Imtelligence. F'reedoit o education hein,- an essential ol civil and religious liberLy, as well a a ilecessity for the developmetit ol intelli. gelee, Must nlot he interilered witL 11n1 ler any pretext whatever. We are op p)ose! to muta.c inlterierecce wit,h pareitat rit-its and rights of conscience in thi educatio Of clildrein as anl Inf rinlgenio1 ot tile undanental D mocratic doctiin thta the largest inlivihil liirty coi Si3tClt With the riglts oi others itisure: the highest type If A mcrican ciIzen shil) ai1l the best !,rovernment. Sec. I S. We approve the action the p1resent ouse ofRepresentatives it pa1sSilig hi1ils- for iW nmisSion i1tO ti< liion is States l the iTerritories o New Mexico Ill Ar;zot, aid we fivoi the early admissionl ol a1l Territoric.1 laving the ilecessary popl)ation and re. SOiures to admiit t,Lem to St Itehoml and while they remlaini Territor-ies We hol thatt thle o1ficials appoinited to aId. iiister file governmenll of :my-Terri Lor. y, to"etherl. With thie D)istrict of C;ol0inbia anid Alaka, should be hmi fide rexidents of the ''erritory or districl inl which their Iti'm's are-c to be perlormed. Tihe Demlocratic pa rty believes mn homt11 rule andi the control of their own affairs by thi ieo(01le of i.he viciniage. Section l'. i. We favor legislatijon - Congress'U~ andlt State I kgislatures-tL protect Lihe hVex Id limbs h of1 rail way enuet~O iit l I)Xiotherpubian(arty, iii parti'i4'ularl'y the liepulician Sente, fori caing1iL the dleiat of' mea'~sur es ibene liia~l andii pote Ctive' to) tis C;wsX of: Sec. 22. We are) Lin sieor o th inrY :' the torioussetn pa.yteii; 01r tue ihingeii liontraIt onit hbo, andiIll for1 irlibiltig eiiploymentu in iiietoriets lof chbreni z uiilitenii years o ai. tuniptarylaw a-< anu si terfeenke ith ithe Sil.v:nall hsof th eite hIen. i'ieI. I nltisccI l,a iernilo crincil tu'hi sllijij theu inaticwa athte An fire:)1 ieople, I y tvr askta teie bn (x"tni st)1Lx11114 rtii I.TI tba ll. ofepatresi (Oi ter hitithr 'hiy beebae Lo) csyl fthin alled inoe,tiis wastitithie to stiitnllej , iLtl y . re f healt a i st ti LttCOl~i (Ler wich the01 iceilil haf. ow Tei odnunhition wa meregnie the tIchll was to ti c111 here1d. A Cyhmse atls grted tot i the estei ii tkiand ing the Sheinley Act, ullerence bto Feeral fieri the wnatiotu(i oven in CllenedCat 1 rterile iyealrl. i ah >roib he ofute orea ilrladwral lt teierl icheeed TlO)hr tchoo hlawl otan ewasW eaeuy itenedb tiefoatal pintuate 0), the Indo ealy pery nt.ehe byor shoutslloilapprov.a. e! ionl feature ta the platormtwhie sucthe te call oh liied tenient as oth e tari ntui weny radistl totisfy cnoicl withswt promno umult vigoi.. Neal,o ihi waangnzd andrsntokl)I all wodt reighe debaen JnsoS.Luisntion ber ofhagrean majti itle of time onteDemocrati bealy oha' the coedera tee on resolutions, I wish to say that we, accept te amendment of the gentleman from Ohio a- an addition to section 3.'' At this 1)oint of Jones' remarks there arose such t tumult in the chamber of hisses and applause that his voice was drowned and he could not be heard. AF ter waiting patiently for some moments Joaes retired in despair. Neal de manded a roll call oi his motion to strike out and substitute. The roll was called and resulted: Ayes, 564; nays, 312. The 111inois vote was first announ-ted as 33 itye au 15 no, but, the chairman of the (delegation atnounced that under the instructons of the Stat ' 'conVentiOnl enforcing the unit rule, tihe vote of State would be 48 a-e. Delegate Mazyck of Minnesota eutered a protest againist Ili% delegation being recorded as a unit in the negative. and Wallace of 'eitsylvalnia did the same; also some others, but Ch airinan V ilson ruled that wherever instructions for a init rule had beeti given the vote woull be recorded as reported by the chairman of the delegation. Several '-tatea voted under the init rule ulder protest. PaLterson ol Colorado then took lie loor and preseited a minorlLy report on the silver plank. It is 11niential wid the inajority plank, cexet tihat It re:ais "throuih tile tree coitmaige of both old and silver,'' instead of "throi,_h the coinall oef bo1tl gold and silver.11 I'attmrson enleavored to deliver a free silvr speech, but was interrupted by cries of "t,im. McKenzie of Kentucky sugested.that, the silver mitter be Iecoiti n. tted to the resotlittiois cominittee. [('rits of -No, l'attrsonl imoved the a.lopt ionl of hii sibAitute for the silver plaik. 'Ile lMotion was tit :iild declared losi The Chairmant: The <question ik now on the adoption of the platform, Tis m1otion w%ts Voted It biy Ve:is anld nays atd Carriv'd. I)uvo Shiaw Not laynch1ed. Tihe I"lackville espondntoft the Athluta Constitittin claims to havo seen IDa\v Sh , who was supposed to have been lyInched in Latirens County holm. I tile ago. I f ISlaw's statement is true, Const ablu .J ol A b rcrombie will tind himlisell Imt an exceedingly awkiward aid iipleaseit posit ion. 110 certainly merits ievere piunlishimtit for his das tardly conduct, while acting ai an of ficet of the law. Tle Solithi Carolinla IPers Came very Nie:ir telling the truth. Dave Shaw was thrown into a glilly . covered with briar.s, and left for dead. '.'lTe would-be inuilder vas not perpe trated by a masked mob of lifty or seventy-five, has been sworn to by Con stable .lohn Ahererombie, hil, by a party of eight, of which tile colistable was leader. A umong i his latter number - were .J. 11. Hlopkins, Jim Iall, Williati 'A i"brcroulbie, W. I lopkins and Will - Watkinls. The corespondent says a relative of the uilortate 11n11 ii l formed hni where tho erstwhilt (hde I0.ve could be fiild id he iinimediat.e ly set out, for the spot. lif- w.s st retched on a ragged (11ilt that lay On the floorof the log 11utt. Hfis head was batidaged with blood-stained clot ls, aitli both eyes baly Swollen. As I ent ered the door, with a groan he arose to a sitting posture. If, was Some time before he woud eligago freelY in eon -,versaLion, and it was only after coi siderable eflort, he vas persuaiidttil to tell the whole story oI his mititreit imientL. lie coilmenced by taking from Ili,i head the handag(t that concealed four gashes, one of which was miiori1. F0ian four inche long, an11( laid bare the TIhe( statemenet h le iniade, althioughi solinewhiat condeni3tsed, is ais follows: "Al r. .J oIhn Al berctromi 1)4, accomlpai-i ed fby Mr. .Jita Ilaul. Mr t. Will Abercromn ble' anid W ill Wa :tkints caine to tmy house andit arrested( i no, ont thte 2th of' laist luonith, at abot1 3 o'cloc(k in the even ing. Th'fey tied mny hatnds very tight with a rope, andf took mie to Ailr. 11op km is's, wvhere th ey pu it 1143Il in his b arn and( kept 1( tiiiutil after (lark. While I was ini the barin, i1 r. .1 oh n Ahbercrotm hie wenit (lf andi( got tip a1 crowd of 111en1. At ft.ir dfark the ty t(iok me out11 and14 said ;thIey were' l.o4ing to (carry 1ne to4 ' Tial .Itustice If l lit:ns. I gLot v'ery scarei-d, and14 ask 4i temi to pleas0 niot take mew until miorniiL. Air. .1 ohni A h ercroiinile tohl I ne t o 'shiut moy ( a I was fthe onily olne in tIhe p)arty whfo waldketnI, all the rest ei ther road hor-se back or ini hbuggi es. WhI en we got as far as Tain yard FordI, M Ir. .1ohn Abher croilitbi(3 dlimountedf and lead me across the (reek ont a log inuned1(1iaitely below the foid. \\ heln we got over tile creok lhe told 11n4 they inteindedl to kill mne if I didn't tell who broke into Mr. I lopkinis's store. 'rThe rest, of the tmen hadl hitched their horses wheni we cau tght up). Thei1y dfragged inc otut of the road Into a pine thicket. MAr. .1. If1. IIopkins tighttened the rope arndti m1 iy wrists, then, thfrowintg it o)veri at npiin mb, aill caughit the ro)pe, antd drew mvte upi from the ground. begged and prayed to the ni to not to1 kill mte, hitit they replied wvi th curses and harder blows I romi sticks, withf whtich they were beatinIlg me. 'Thtey shot ofl' their pistols, and1( one of t he gentlemen shot mei through [,he hlip." "'I eiOd out thiey 1had shot me0 to (lath but they paid nto aitteintioni andi COin tin ued. to h.f.t me still harder. Mr i. John Abercrombhie threwv a handfulf of' red pepper onii my bleledinIg back and t.he agony is cautsed was feartifu. Alfter I had beeni stuspended by my wrists for ant houtr andi a half aind conld bear the horrible ordheal no0 lotnger l fainted. kinow inothintg of whtat happeneid tromi then on. Whien I revived I found my self fying fin a patch of briars abiout t.wo iles (downl the swvampl. I will ne(ver t orget the paiin 1 felt. "'I half crawled and ha:lft walked to my cousin's hiouse~ aboiut ai 1mil1 away. 11ie gave me 511( someynewlothes, put~ me in a wagon1 and1( brought me14 as8 far ais Clintoinwaird, S. C. I walked fromi there here, spetndmig nigh ts with colored WVhen tol to go to Colum111bia and re p(lrt thle wh'lole thing to Governor Ti'll man lie seemetd ter1ror-.stricken, andl ex claimed th:'t lie wouldn1't go near Laur ('ns co)unlty aigain for alhl the gold mn the world, lie said lhe was gofin t.o Th'onuas v'ille, Gia., where lie had some relatives Iiviing. If is back pre'sented a sicken infg spectacle, belig a s011(1 pussfing sore. 11Ie disclaimed ever having broken into Mr. IIopkIns's store', anld Is of the opinion that his treaitmecnt was ibrutal and nin ut.