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__ HE PEOPLE'SJORNAL VOL. .6.---NO. 26 PICK ENS, S. C., T'URSIAY, JULY 16, i&6 OblE DOLLAR A TEAR. Silver Men in Control. THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. SENA'TOl DANIEL THIE TILMPO IRARY CHAIRMAN. An Bloquent Adtdress froa the Great Virginian-The Tarifr and Currency Issues. The opening tight in the National D)iocratle Convention upon the ton pot-ary chairman resulted In Ia completo victory for the Silver men. Sonator Daniel, of Virgina, was olected over Senator David 13. Hill, of New York, byi a vote of 5.51; to :Ii'. The aIlI)nnoulnce ment of the vote wias received with great denc'stration. of applause. Senator Joncs, of Arkansas, it. I'. Keating, of Nevada, and Selnltor \Vhite Were appointd to escort Sena tor Daniel to the platform. As the comii jttee appearle(l on the platfom witl the Virginia Senttor the demonstrations of the silver men1 wore renewed. Senator Dauiol having the appelarlce of an old-tioi states man, smooth face, long hir and wear ing the conventional frock coat, look ed as if ho had stopped out of some picture of the Senate of the past. lie bowed plrofoundly in response to the ovationl h received. IEscorted by the coiiuittee, Nr. Daniel passed to the platfoil, where, when he appeared, he was received with an imumense eruption of cheers and yells. The band helped the thing along with " 1-ail to the Chief," an(i thoro Were more cheers. When order was restored Mr i*. lar rity said : " Gentlemen of the conven tion, I have the honor of i ntt-oduciing as your temn porary chairm1an the lon. John W. Dlaniel, of Virginia." When the delegates and everybody else in the house wvro yelling and cheering, Chalirman hartrity p)assed the gavel over to Mr. Daniel, wh~o took it and spoke as follows : Mr. Chairman of the National Demo cratic Convention : In receiving firom your hands this gavel, as the t ,nm po rary presiding ollicer of this convun tion, I believe I express a sentiment which I am sure is unanimous that no natio,:al convention was ever presided over with more ability or with more fairness than by yourself. 1 can ex press no better wish for myself than that I may be able in some- feeble way to make my conduct by your model and to practice by your example. (Cheers.) The high position, gentlemen, to whicl you havo chosen me, involves both a great pe-sonal honor and a keen responsibility. For the honor [ thank you. The responsibility I would wholly be inadcquate to bear (lid I depend upon myself, but your gracious aid will make it easy and its burden light. That aid I confidently invoke from you . the sake of the gr<:at cause under ioso banner we have fought so many bit es and which now demands of us suC"b\ Ataunch devotion and such loyal servir I regret that my name should har.' -t brought In even the most coArteoi, and serious complication with thatg f my distinguished frieind, the great seuator from Now York, (applause,) but the ve.ry fact that I have permitted it to bo done refutes the suggestion that has been improvi dently made on this loor that either I or those whom I have the honor to replresent, would ever heap indignity upon that brave and Illustrious head. (Great ap)lause.) No candid man, no dIispassionate jud gment, gentlemen, can over misinterpret your meaning. The Senator from New York himself thiows as5 you know and as I know that there is no personal ity in the pre1fer ment which has been given to me. lHe mu lst, know that the w hole counltry waltches' these proceedinogs and mlust know that it is solely luo to principle that this great majority of Democrats standsl for and they know I stand with themi. (Appilause.) And that it is given in the spirit of the instruction5 received b~y these representati ves of the peole, from the people1, whom all t').mocrats will ever bow to as the pur iest and original source of all powe'r. T1he birth of the Democratic party waIs coeval with the birth of the sovereign ty of the people. It can never (lie until the dleclarationl of American indopen de'nec Is forgotten and that sovereign ty is crushed out." (Great applause.) I am happy, gentlemen, to know that as the majority In this convention Is not personal, neither in any sense Is It sectional. It blends the palmettocs and the pines of Maine andl South Car olina. It begins with the sun rise in Maryland1 and spreads in to a son burst in Lou isiana and Texas. (A plause.) It stretches In one unbroken coinumn aLcross the American continent, from the Atlantic shores of the Old Diom in ion and Georgia, and It shows its sil very beams over the golden gates of Call ifern ia, (applause): it sends Yorth its piloneers from i 'ly imo th IRoek an)d waves overC the golden wheaZt licids of lDakota. It hats Its stronghold In Ala humna and Mississippi and1( Its outpost0 in Minnesota, Fliorida and Oregon. (Applause). It sticks like a tarheel, (applause)d(Own In the old North State, 15md It writes sIxteen to one on the sad dlebags of Arkansas with the traveler. (Loud alplause). It pours dlown Its rivulets from the mountains of West Virginia and makes a great lake Ir. New Mexico, Arizona. Wyoming, idaho, U1tah, Nevada, Montana and Colorado. It standl(s guar-d around the national espItol In the Isltrict of Co luinhia. (chieers), and it camps on the frontiers of Oklahoma. It sweeps like a prairio tire over Iowa and Kansia', and pults upi a red l ight on the confines of Nebraska. IIt maishmals Its muassive battalions in Ohio, Inudiana, Illinows and MI esourl. Last, but by far from least, when I see this gr'and array and think of the lit ish gold etandard that was recently unfurled over the ruins of I t publIican iprom ises at St. ILouiis, I think, too, of the battle of New Or leans, of wh11ich It Is said :There 81t00( .1 ohn I ull Iin martial piomip, but there e oldi Kentuoky."' ( Applause). reth ren of the ILast, thore is no 51outh, there is 1n0 North, there Is no F~ast, ther-e Is no West In this upris ing of the people for AmerIcan eman cination from the conspiracy of Europ can kings, led by Great Britian, whiol seeks to destroy one-half of the mono; of the world and to make America manufacturers, merchants, farmer and mechantksmoro hewers of wooc and drawers of water. There is one thing golden, which permit me, in the same good humoi which has characterized your conduct, to commend to you here. It is the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Forgel not the greed of devils and that an a) solute acquiescence in the will of thc majority is the vital principle of the republic. Democrats as I trust you will ever be, acquiesce gracefully in the will of the great majority of your fellow Democrats and only ask to ge with them, as they have often gone with you. (Applaube.) Do not forgot. gentlemen, that fra thirty years we have supported the men that you have nmed for Presiden. Secretary Sey mour, Greely, 'Tilden and Hancock and twico Cleveland. Do not forget that we have submitted cheerfully to yourm conpronmised platform and to your repeated disItsters to their fulfill nient. To get at the last convention of the Deinocrat.ic party ir 1892, you )I'o9huieId you'ri stIerVices to bO in favor of the use of both gold and silver as a standard money of the country, for the Coinlage of hotih gold aild silver without discrim insating against either metal; and that the only question left open was th ratio botweeu the metals. [Do not forget-and I refer to the fact in no inferior sense--that just four1' years ago in a Democratic convention Iin thi, city the New York delegation stood here solidly and immovable for a can didate committed to the frco and un Iinited eoinage of silver and gold at a ratio of 16 to 1. And if we are still for it, lot it not be forgotten that wo owe It in some measure to their teach ings. (Applause). That we owe you much, guntlemen of the l'ast, is read ily acknowledged and will be ever most gratefully re mem bered. We owe you much, gentlemen of the con vention, and for what we owe you of the EIast is the force bill and the McKinley hill, and the Sherman law, the triple infamy of Republican logis lation. The first was aimed not more at -u-La2tl than at the great cities of the lEast and -AtA among thom, the great i)emocracy oT1w~grk, with its magnilicent patronage. .t-.5,4 I1 got its death blow in the Sonato, btl tliere was not a sin-Ie Democrat In New York or New England to vote agains; it. No man In this high noon of ou' country's fraternity can revive foro bills now in this reconciled and re united republic. Our opponents them selves have abandoned them. There is none that can stand between the union of hearts and the union of hands that Grant in his lying vision saw was coming on angels wings to all the sons of our coimmon country. When Chica go dressed Southern graves in flowers she buried bectionalism under a moun tain of fragrance. When Southern soldiers yesterday cheered the wound ed hero of the North in Richmond the South answered back: * Let us have peace; peace, union and liberty now and for'ccr.' As the majority of Democrats Is not sectional neither does It stand for any privileged or class legislation. The ac tive business men of this country, its manu fa -turers, merehants, farmrom's, sons of toil, in counting' room, factory, field and mine, know that the contrac tion of the currency sweeps away with the silent and resistless for of gravita tion th annual prolits of their en terprise and investments. They ki ow too that the gold standard means con traction and tbic organization disaster. What hope is there for the country and what hope for the Democracy un less the views of the majority hero shall be adopted Y D~o not the people know that it. was niot silver legislation ha legislat ion dictated by iLbc advo cates of the gold standard that has caused andl now continues the financial dleprtession y Doi they not know th at w eni their dlemiands upon01 the [Democ :'acy' were compieid with ini 1593 andl the~ SherInIILIanhw repealed w.ithiout a subistitute that the very States of the l'last lihaIt dhemandIIed it tu rned( arainu.-t the IDemnocracy that gran ted it andl swept away their majority in a torrtent of ballets y' Ilad the silver men had thelir way then inustead otf the goldl mnonomnetal ists, wvhat stormns of abum~ woul 1h iore today'1) be emp)t~Cied upo their head but the( people, ap~lylinrg the power of nmemiory andl analysis alike to discover the causes of thelir arrested pro'sperity, need not, go to find thenm. They do not forget when Democr-acy came to power in 189)3 it Inherited froma its Republican pr'odecessror the tax sys tem and the currency system of whi:-h the McKinley law and the Shermaiar law were the culminating atrocities It came to power amidst a panic, wht Ich litly followed upon01 their Olnat tineni with strikes, lookouts, i'iots and civic commotions, while the scenes of peat&ce ful industry in l'ennsylvania had be. comoi iiitary camps.~ Besides manifold oppressive featurea the McKinley law had thr',wn awa) fi fty millions of revenOmue derIived froar sugar' undler the specora'li plea of a fret break fr8si table and had siubstitu tei bounties to sugar- planters, thus d~o creasing 'revenue and incereasintg ex p~end iure, thus burning tihe candle a1 both endts and1 miaking the people)1 paa at least for tihe allegedl free breakfast 1" ronm the joint operations of tihe Mc Kinley law and Sher'man law an ad verse balance of tr'ade was for'ce( agaiust us in i893, a surpllus of one hun dred millions of dollars In the treasura was converted into a deficit of sovonta mill ions in 18941, and engraved bondm prep~ared~ by a Itepublican Secr'etary t< borriow money to suppiort the govern mnent, wer'e tihe ill omens of tihe pr'o organized ruin that awaited thle incom lng D~emocr'ats, and a depleted treasur my Mor'o significant still, the ; cry au~hora (of the ill-starred Sherman law make shift were already at confession upo)0 tile stool of penltence, and wver'e beg ginp D~emocr'ntlc help) to put'ou(at tiu con ilagraition of disaster that the, themselves had kindled. So far as revenue to support tihe gov enment is concerned the D~emocrati par'ty withl but a slender' maj~ority ii tihe Senate was not long in pr'oviding iand bad not the Supreme Court () the United States r'ever-ed its somtle< do)ctrine of l100 years, the income 'ax ineor'poraited in the tarilf bill. wo't, since have abundantly supplied it. The liep~ublican party hlas now r'e nonncd th crednf Ins latfrmm -n of our national pledges and presente( r the country the issuc. of higher taxeo 1 more boids and less money. It. hat J proclaimed at last, throwing away the I disguises, the British gold standard. We can only expect should they sue cOed, my countrymen, ia spechimen 01 panic and a. long proti acted period of depression. Do not ask us then to join them ii any of their propositions. Least of all ask us not to join them upon the moncy question and fight a shami battle over a settled tar, for the money question is the paramount issue before the American people and it Involves Americanism more than any economic issue that was ever pre sented at a Presidential election. We pray you, no more imakeshifts and straddles. Vox not the country with your prophecies of smooth things to come from the British-I teiuIlican propaganda. (Applausi.) Tho fact that the European nations Ire going to the gold standard renlers it alI th, more inpractieablo that we should do so, for the limited stock of grold In the world would have longer division and a snaller share for each nation. 'r V'ous pred ictionlI have been Jlpromptly refited When IOsperi 1.3y WI 1r01ph. ciel to coie 11pon tlhe ulnie-wI iti,,nal ri,e'II of time Sleriman latw. I--tLe;L' of protecting tih trethuiry r ..ve was prophie(Aod it wouhi jIo, an jrIpire cedlenitedl rait was Ironmpitly rm It and two hundr d awl mixty-tW,, I.. lions of horrowl- g'oldhave u>e:, :r. ellicenImt to garante it ner.. e, stead of castinigij foredgn vapital to .w to us it has tiM tihir ted tihm 1 w1,0W of Jr,;'; to 'urope and the greenbaek nbotf e ane the Shermnan noites whlich are- piu-t a; pityab le In ilver a4 in gold havi: b''*rn iaed to di p the gold out of t he tri.. - uiry of the( Uniteu States atndi to mitrrr it In tbou strong box of the war lords of Eu rope. Instead of reviving huisi nes this policy has depr-css(ed it. I nstead of increasing wages this p$oli)0icy ais further decreased thein. Inrastead of imultiplyinrg opportuniti!s for (nlialoy. ment this paolicy hilts 1mul itiplied idlers. instead of increasing the pricos of our products this )oicy has lowered themin, and it is estiiated at about, 1.5 per cent. in tbreme years. I nstead of reviving conlidonco tihe policy ias banlsheid confidence. i nstead of bring ing relier it ias brought, years of miserVy and for thiis reaSoln it h as ('oi tracted tho cur'rontey of tho Un ited '%' - four dolars a heiamd for every niian;1'td. %" and Child since Novetimbiher I1, I83 an~' ud ,t' - qis. vast aggroegate, Cotllrtaciitill the pr i- . . ld ]andt of lianufactured goods anti ofs,, g agricultural and mereautile p. has fallen. The public revenues have '.... wages of labor have Ra. ad e thing on the face of the tar:". has . but taxes and dehit whoet hs-e - dened. while on the other r;ar. & lignidation has been nimi:r. isec No nation can ca : frC- r.. dependent that is not grets er. , . ostabli-h and mnaintain a :narcea. m tem of its own. i Great avp'.ause. To pretend that this foremost ard richest and most powerful nation in lt e world cannot coin its own money with out suing foe' an internationai agree mont at the courts of European auto crats, who have none b'it primary interests to subserve. has for man' years been held out at Presidentia'l election ; have made use of such an agreement and have failed afterwards and we have never in our history had an international agreem nt on a money system and none of the founders of this republic ever dreamed that such an agreement was essential. We have had three international conferences in order to obtain it and to wait longer upon them is to ignore the interest of our own people and dgrade our na tional dignity and to advertise to all mankind our i mpotenco and our a folly3. T1he majority of this conventionm maintain that, this great Amearican nation, without duoondence upon11 European nations for~ anytlihng that they produce, and with European na tions deplendenat upon01 much that we prIodunce. is ftul ly catpable of restoring tis colnsti tu tion3 mI1oney~ Syst'5 oA llf gold( andi silIver' at eqatl ity wt icLh each other. Ad a~Iis our I fathercas ini 177I'001e ctld our11 naitionail I ndeplaledece oIf allI the worldi, so to-thry' haus theC great I3emao cra'Itic partlty, founde by(013 Thloma Is .1 (f fe rsonm, the azuthor oIf t haat d eel aration, appeaolred i'L roin Cicago( to dleclaro the linunial Ind(eende'nco of the Uit ed States oIf atll other unations and( toa invoke all true A mier'icanis to assert, it lby thiair suffriages at the 1)o1ls, thaat (oltur)1 coutry may be placedO~ whIere she bly right belo~ngs as to the frecst, as tihe foremost, as tile mo1st parosper'ous andI happy nation that evear blessed tile life of malnind uplona this globo. -Ex-Seeretary oIf the T.Lreasumry' Ie'os ter testi lied betfore thle ways and1( means colmmitItee of the I lousc, Iivye weeks be forec I resident C leveland begain hIas i~resent toirmi, that the n rvenueis y'id d eId by the htKiiley tarif wouli not, he1 enloughm, ini is op iio, 1by $oO,00,. (100 a year to prov'ide for' the needs ofi titi Govern menat. " Thiis one fact," say Ih Iliatrtfor'd imeaas, "eknbocks out atll tie atrguiietats oIf .Mley103 and the par'tisani pr~s that, thme pre'(sent titfI ii tile (causo of thleca mbatrrmasmiont (If thet ttreasuray and rtarLIdation (of buisiness. Ileause tihe Siipremo Court deoclared unconsti tutionial onofeattur to (f thet pres' ent tar if latw to whIch the It mieublicat p~arty made no eppos itioni whatever thit reovenlues atre~ insullicient. I hit thaev at posibl lagerthamn they woulld Imav( 10e i the Inloy Act lad remain etd ir for'ce." --A pinter' in "ma~king up"' tha forml," getting r'eatdy to pr'inlt, took a handfu~tl of type fr'om time tail end (If firte item, andl by mnistaike puat It aigaints the firtst part of a funeral potico. Ii the paper' it r'oad 1like tis: '"Tme il boar'eiis lowered thec b~ody Inmlto the a'so, and as It was Ocosignled to tim lianmes there wore few if any recgrets for time old1 wreck had been an OyOsoru to tile toawn for years. Of courise thleri was intdiavid ual loss, bitt that wmas cover' ed by insurance.'' The11 widowv thin1ki time editor wrotte the obituar'y thamt wai: beOcaulse the lamenltedl Jartner (of lhe joys and Sgmrrows owed 1111m fiv yearlOt suabscripItion. TIake warninog, delini (quenmts. - Is a great fault to h)0 conltinuall' I fault-finding. hman and Hill. AN EXCITING EPISODE IN CHICAGO. C1111'11,30 AND H1 IdSICs FOL TiIbI MAN. lie Makes a littelr Attack Upon Clevelanl anir Deles the Galt lerles. Ono of the inost exciting episodes li the National Donocratic Convention was the debate oi Thursday hotweeni Till man and 1 IIl on tio eu rrency issue. Tito pres report IH itsa follo ws : Senator Blen Tillman, of South Car (li.a, joiited the stage to open the pt't, debato In h1hal of frto colinage. A triking figurec he was as he faced tibe audiene68. With no pretersiionH in drr-H4, sIhaby ciOated, wearingI a heavy ilvier chbain icro-s his lbr#iast, li in 6. I t ,jy 'I i:w i lte f:yE:8i of thfe 20,00ti$ I.o p14 r :t.. Thie:y r tL tw)viard hi rue at's h we : ani ant~ gonst. if . thle i:k. nInlcJ i fig for, ws h e',f i': i f"; a. f,.' ( :' It r 0; /;?. f, i -fe:aI1, t i r,:. h r b r j ' -, o.,, - ':- .01 9: fa ',6:........... . . (heer,, muingled with htib,c itr. Mr. lichardson, who was W ig tibe gavel , Iih th aid of the as Hihtal tl g a 61t-it-eLL- .s-, sudbd.-Ily qu1- y pressei(d the deontrat,en. II is first,si. tenoi slowed thlut le had a good, well Iodul it,ed voice, ht tas he lrocetuled ho pitehoid it I i key so Shrill that It t grated likhe ai i. I t was chelautoris tie from the hogi1111ig. Tillman reali-/ed that so far ais 1-1 1 galleries woro contcornieil, hIo facod nill au11di(ieeO which he folt was largoly hosti l. Ik.lie in trod iudced hii1f to theis hy iying that, le ce ume before them as he was ; lot. as " the lying newspa pIeros had represientltedim Is to le." A roudti of applauSse groeeted this an- 5 noutncO1leent. but it was drownie'd inl the I storms of hisses 'froim till galleries . -hich was inreased tO at porfet whir'. Of a..; 110 - P h 6 iErpen-t:"d a manr Ra eI and dreissn tLe 'a. .er - he s o.ed that the mnan who - hi- S uth C.rolina forgot the h-is 1.ory of the revolution when that State kept the fires of liberty. This pro voked a wild demonstration. "South Carolina, i .1860,'" he said, led the light in the Democratic party which disrupted it." "Secession," ho continued, while the galleries hissed, " brought about the war, the war which emancipated the black main.' " Now," he added, sweeping his hand through the air above h is head, "wo are leading the light to omancipate the white slavOs." Th11is tLimo the sil vor. m11oln had their inninrgs, but they did not IpIlauid very louidly wh.lt he dleclaredi that wViths ~ond(1itions r ~eersod < he was61 wlinitg to a~ga in see the D~emo As\ lhe lprocee(ded thei gallo:'ioes aigain ih issedl anid several t ime~ the sergeant at-arms thtrealtefnod IC) ear the gal-i leries. Tihe silver men had a chance to) shout their approval when he (IC claredl that they were adopting a new I )cclaration of I ndopondence of "'I6 to I" or hush,. Th'Ie storm of hisses Iisedl forth again when he repudiated the diial that this was a sectional con test. "'I say it is a1 sectionial issue6',"' he cried, "and6( it wll i pre'1vail."' A fter' the p)yro tehnte1 C expressions., so characteristic (of thbo man16, lie drifted inLto staltitics t~o show Lthe( bondalsgo of the Souith and West Lto the iiast, and1( thiese dr y higur es gave the galliorios another opportounity to cry himi downs. "T''sim, Lime, timie,"' they shouted. Th'lis rousedl the Senator alga is nLto angry resentment,. Hoe pacedl the platforma like an enraged lion. "I know, I know,'' he cried, wvithi arma aioft, "you are .(raInst us. TIhoro is not a paper in Lhbs city that is not in the power (if thes money inlluoiinees. TIhiey wviii not give 'us a fair- showv. They chsaracterizo us8 a- howling dor v ishes aind silver I unaiticsb' Ialny of the dolo~gates crowuoui up, the aisles 66ndl stood at the foot of thle stg6suyng i ntenitly the fcaituires of t~ihe masn becfore them. Hunautor T.'ii ila declred tha Li~t the onl1 y way to avert a1iCVi rvlution was Lto seh-et, a mniI whiose record wol d lit the platformi. Soon the hissing began again at. some11 rail 1utteranco and the South Cunrol inlian took occalsion to say thaut "fousr years aigo the NOW Yorik Senator was18hissed15as 61am now. Where is Nw Yori'k no0w ? Where is New York's leader ?-' lFrom the gal Ier cam~5iie Liib. 'ry, "lin the sou5p,'" wViihih brousght down4 'I a wave of cheers fori liili, topp~edi withs a foalm (if hisses. Tillniin stayedi, waII iig for th e noiso Lto5 ssidie, 1and1 thsen puSttinrg hiis lhantd beifore'li. hismouth for a speakiing Lru6 pot, callied likhe a' fciloihor in deLiline "Yo enn'16 ju5st a1s v;ol ui indelrstand that I am65 goinig to hiave' my say If I standl~ hero uti L sundiiown ."' le waIs p~ermittedl to go on with coim palrativo0 <idet for the chairman had pleaddI withs the alud itors and1( throat eneid to) clear the galleries, lHe suir prised isis hsearers ano1w by' an6 attack oni Senator liiill hSoauis'i th l(Seonator fr-omi New York hadt refused to make the first speech on the pilatformn and gi vo the S''uthi CaIrol in man lll the reply. Incidentaily Ito sid of 1ill11 " tie desp'isedi the I 'resident of the -United SLtte. in l8I; since then he has hsad~ case to moicre thaln despiiso him 1.'' lie scoredtilli for' atssusinng the sole of aplogisL for the admiinis I"lint, as Grover Clevnhand sannds for gold-" ho begau. wheuupon a '11ur. riah for Cleveland !" was ahotiuted, wiich d row quito a hearty response from the galleries. The attaek on the l'resi dent which followed did not find any .iatrikcd demonstration of approval. "Now, I wiLn you all to listen," Till man shouted, aid then ho read the substitute resolution, which follows: "We denounce the administration of 'resident Cleveland as undemocratic itnd tyrannical, and as a departure from these principses which are chorished by all liberty loving Americans. The veto power has beeni used to thy.v..-t !i.o will of the people ats ex pressed by their representativez; in Congress. The ap pointive power thas been used to sub sidizo the press, to debauch Congress and to overawe aund control the citizens ub their free excreIse of thier constitu ionl 1 rights las Voters. A plutocratic ICeF'otis1t Is tl1us sought to l- eStUb. Ilsth(ei on th u I-111in1 of the repu bli. "We repudiate tlle corstrutii ilated on he fimiwnanial piank of the ueocratic National Convenjtion ,' nroary CarlI H I': asi eontrag to th lain mrinlng of 1-lfrg|iii V/"p t anid 1% > Ijg an $At: of blua faith, (6 i'zrVr1ij th.e: to:'r to j r,:(); n or T igin' :of 0alefr ,r ,( : f ' rej t,-, Statrr, 1'':'- *ay -rt :rit, rare b xot -r--or .. pt;~ra-- rf authiouiy CZ,.; (/, t".'~ r);ir.': Il,;Lk:u ',v o a i~i-l 6 .: .i~z rI of jri --.."' -1 - m id rio.t j.- r- fj U1thl: <:rt~r,: ro~ading .-.,C~. wa-, or riy irrr. r r~~r w tna w r ig to> thll- ro-1 r tr.: ira . j:r;':-s. t, r>a. whoi h l ;ie: ate !iilsh mt I.:.. . r, t .r.; ,I r - daay of thei: Onivent,(bi ly h ':-.:.OC,.r. a ro:iaark l MIse of stiag -. tt ar,; at tlr: U1m1 11h10 u11.,' en hahit, . .r .tid o tl a t(liestlon, but1 he waH nowis.. lown. Heim11tor Tilhlniian conlud-d by ple(dg ig South CI2aro'.Iiiia's sol id vote to any nd )i stridgit sllv er candidate. A , bi: lesenulded from the stiagn the delegatLV' et uip Ia great, s hout for 11111. Sonator 11111 ascendled the platfor mr m id a iporfemct ttoribm of tptpla l sif. . 1i6. hook the hand of the prishlig oUiLer(f .nd theln, wit'lh a smilo, howmul hin ii :nowladgmeti tto I tIhe shoutin g, geo. it-ulatting crowd. Moln wereon mthirt hairs waving- hunkoreliefs, ungs, and ossing lats in the air. As the iirst -101am0 of 'ound ecihed aid flowed it, t''O :-MeWne die away than it would -a.e upam eheered and re 3, 1 *...,: 1J H began that readily ,he ga lie said he wou in tmpto f ow er answer the Senator frum South Caroiina. ".I can ray to him," said Mr. Hill, "that I am a .)emocrate, but not a gold bug." Again the deionstration broke 'orth and lasted half a minute. South Jarolina, with all its power, proceed !d l r. iill, could not driv e him out of Ahe Democratic party. Ie came here in a im ission to uuite, riot to div ido; to build up, niot to destroy, not to plot for victories, not to plot, for defoat. The great Empire State has stood for years is the Gibraltar of Democracy. Mr. MIl said ho deprecated attacks oi ,hose who bol ioved in the froo co inage >f silver at l6 to I. I-1 had always ,reiated men of tis opinfion w ithi ie peet and 1he would (do the sameib today. L'o himi tI': question was one on which non fairly di ffered. Ie believed that ,hio best course for' this convyen tion to >uirsuo was to tiako the first great step owardl international b imetail linm. The (InitedI Status cannot safeay gnoro the molCnetary systems of the old Iations and yet thu majority pha formn onitailned no wordl favorabie to thbis dt ;rabilo end. ft contai nedl no sugges ,Ion of what should ho (1ono if the arai ty coul 1n rot bio mintai nedl on t.he he Oxper(imenIt o (f lb to I. Th'le fact contnot, lie igniored (if thie reat, produ actio oIi(f slilver in thiIs nounitry. Could the peole, even in pir'ed witn thu spirit, (if ''6 make nopperci the equial of goldI Could they bu It the ir eyes to the quelostioni oif the produ tctin oIf theO mentals. "I beien ive," declarIedl Seinatii' Ifiill, "that, thbe coulrse foir us to take is to de' alare for- itnterna uti(nail metallIiami and itOp there." Aside from the silver' question, Sen Eator Hill went, on, why had the pl1at rormii gone Into thu gr-eentbackc' quiestioin? Whty htadl it gonoe into the g uestion of han ks and bonds ? lie htoped that, the( xiounrsel of w.'ise, calmii, coiol-Iheaded mreii wouhil preCvailI. Whfat was the adlvantage lie asked, of plfacing oin thei plattformii an implied pledlge for tht Issue of paper curr'ency ? i)eimocrath tnradlition had always favored hard mtoney. TIhie Seunator fr'om Arik ansai had dolreld that the Platform said what it, meant and meant what is said lIe challenged somel 0on0 who was ti follow 1.1im, to exlain what this pliani meanLOt. 11 l enoutned~ the declaratior oif a policy for tihe issue of paperC monos as suicidal. Th'~e income tax pilanli also hoe scathingly criticized. II stooId amazed, lie said, that the fol lowers of Samtuei Tilden w ho all hi Ii'!e opposed0( it, should now seek to com iti their party to thIs rid icudl scheme. It would drive (iuit oif the party i)e mocrats wh Io had growna gray in~ It servicie t. mnake roomt foi' thtose whf had lost, thoir p(o4i tiomn in thte paty. "I thitl convon tion, after fdeclar'inl for free silvyer,'' he said, "' nominate any candidate baut one, yoaur Poplisti frIends will nominate a ticket, an your' free silver fiends will jolin hland with themi." "No, no,'' shouted a delegate. "Alt,'" asked Senator 111ff, "' who( I the'o in tis convention to speak fo that wing of the liuoblicant party. TIs1 set the gold men to chooering Thbe dIemfonstraltion was11 renewedii wh' Mir. 11111, with an inclinationt of i head towar~id a lIttle eoteii of s iIven bof torsa fromt th~e S't. I.ou Is cfI oventtionI gr(Iope on theo pfatformt lhe saId:" see on this pl1at form a number oif di timruisahod grentleman who are couanse inig this I)Olicy. T1hey nVo3r- voted thiu lhimocaltie ticket in their lives." 6 \e want to build up the Domo cratic party," ho said, " not tear it down. We love and honor the pr-inci PlIS (If .1 tIforson and Jackson who were for hard Ionoy. If we aro true to the old faith, if we stand by the tradiitionial policy of the 1)emocratic stilits of the past, thon wo will win; if we put them aside, then we are lost." The gold delegates elimbed up oil their chir1s anWid joined the gallnEis In the demonstration in honor of their chai1On is he descended from the plaitfori and resumed i1s seat In the New York delegation. THE PLATFORM OF THE D[MOCRACY, 1)ECLAlit AT ION (11. P'ARTY VMSl (1I'l' S. A Mnmtuhi tirwaii alnEl 1. iineqivocal linenmnt--Ne StradiEte on the l''111nnCial Ques-1tiOnl. Tle following is the platfo Itrm as in ally agreei d upon by tLE, comittee ol reo.ltLitimin to) bI- auhmIttEto thE con Ventijonj : We., the I :Inocrats of L11he United Statafs, in) national convention assem bb,':d, <jo re.atllemi ouir alle~giarico to thosec grIat isenLial prinucipics Of justico inld Ii borty uipoll wlicIh our- institutionis ar: foled, itaild which the Demioeratic party I.1 advocatd fron .ufierson', tim: to our ownl .freedon of speecii, fIio'rn'lii of the press, freedorn of oln I li J iCi, Ulf: JIrEss(EIv'at,[I Of jI(i'SOIrial rights, the E#lUality Of all citizenIIS Ie fort.. th law. and the faithful observ ann f cuniu ioa liffmitations, D1n ri!ng aLhe.e y-, the Demiocritie p -irty lia., rEhi.-Ated Lit. t iiie cy Of sel fib inte-to) thl EiitrLlizltionl of If% rIMii:t power. aid stei flastly inain1taine'-d the. intlb --ity to thll dual1 H(e lo! of V ernment-1114!11 c.,tablibheil by t ihe fl111b.rs oIf tL i,- republic of repilil I ice. I :ndeit gu 'lidanCeI anld teachings t ib !eat pri 1E i pll of local sEli-govern. ni,. . foundit-, hjl!.,, expre-ssii in thO fnitlna..-:'- iof rights, (If thle State and in t. '1. ' ritioi of Li 10clie L thity of -U. e' . thElpowi r granic ted by tr r~.-.'. oai,n t,! tio: Cnit-dl Sutte"s. rr th at thl: mfoney que-stionl i, paramroar tit,0 atl others at, this timne, fl,"'-itis t,:to t~o the( fac(t that the cvfrat, .onstitution name114S HilverI an,1d gitog.tl.her aLs the mlonley meltals of thL -i niti Ed States, and that the first coinage law Ea1'ed by Congress under the constitution imitde the Silver dollar the monetary unit and adinitted gold to free colnagel at a r ;a&e upon the -ilver do1 ar. and impO6tbI~~f - the peCop e. \\e are unalterably o- mono metalli km which hab locked last thei. prosperity' of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism Is a British pulicy and its adoption ilas brouight othcr nations into tilancial servitide to London. It is not only un-American, but anti-Am erican, 1111d it Canlt be fastened on the United States only by the stiffness of that spirit and love of liberty whicl IOClaime Id 111 pitical independence in 176 and won in the war of the revo lution. We demand the free and unlimited co~liage oif both gOild and1( silver, att the pre'senlt legal ratti() of i16 to I, without waiting for thu aid or con sent of any other niation. We'L diemanld that, the statndaird silver- dillar~ shall bo) a full legal tender, E:l'taliy with gldi, for atll such 11 lilation ats will prcven t for the fuituLre the demonliejtizattlion of atny kind (If legal tender money by prilvate con traci. We are opposed to the hisilng of in tcrest-beaing b)ond(s of thbu United States ini Lime1 of p~eace, atnd condemin theotralhick ing w ith ban king syndicates which, in exchange for bonds and atL an enIormnous profit to themselvyes, suply the LVedur'al TJreasuiryjwith gohld to main tini the pol1icy of gold mf~oometatllismn. Congress ialone has power to coin and issuo1 money and IPresIien1 Jackson de clared thait Liiis power couIld not be dlelegated to corporations or Indlivid ualIs. Wt', thInEfore, denounce the is suri ance of1 notes as money for national bantlks in doerogitilon of the constitution and we demand thait atli paper which is miado legal tender for1 plublic and pii vate debts or1 wh ichi is receivable for tdues Lo the Uited States sh all he issued b~y the government of the Un ited States atnd shadi 11) rteeemable in coin. \VI, hold thlat taiff dut ies ab oub he I 1ev ied for pitrpose sof reve nue, such dut~ies to h)o 5o iad justed as to oplerate e quall1 y thioughout, the coun itry and1 nolt to dIiscri miinate between class or sec t ions, and th at taixat ion shoubilll ie lii itedi by the needis of tuhe G overanenit, honestly and ec~lonmicallIy admini ter ed. We denounce its distiurbhing Lo busi81ness the lI opubl icani Lthreatt to re s tore the Mch' inley law which hats 1twice been1 condeimned by thlE people ~iIn National elect! ioins, iand whIiichi, c enaceted und -ic I' h false plea (If prot)ec ai tioin to homo10 i. ( u Eur iis, provedl ai pro. - lie breeder of trust i and moniopllI es, s enriebed the few at thne expIOnse of the m niy, restri ctell trade, and deprilved Lihe prod ucers (If the great A mnerican stalels of access to their natural I Until the mioney3 qu iestion Is settled Iwe are o)ppos~ied to any agitation for futher chaniges in oui triffY laws ex SceptSuch~ as are necessary to meet the s delieit ini re venue caused by the ad verse a decision olf thne Supremoifl Court on the incomie tax. But for this decision by Sthe Supremoe Court,, there would be no delicit in the revenue uinder thne latw palssed by a Decmocratic Congress in Sstrict puIrsuiance of tihe uniform dc cisioni of that Court for- neatrly oine hundred years, that courtahaving In that decision eustained constItutional objetions to its enactmnenit wich~ had prevlinusly been overruled b~y the ablest judges who have ever* sat on that ,benich. Wo declare that, it is the duty I of Congress to use all the constitution -al power which remains after that do' - cis Ion. or whIch may come from its rn vorsal by the courti as it may hereafter be constituted, so that the burdens of taxition miay be equally and impartial ly laid to the end that wealth may bear its duo proportion of the expenses of the Government. We hold that the most ollcient way of protecting Amorican labor Is to pro vont the Importation of foreign pauper labor to compete with it in the h1om1e market, and that the valuo of the home market to our. American farmers and artisans Is greatly reduced by a vicious nonotary system which depresses the )rices of their products below the cost of production, and thus deprives them of the moans of purch'ising the pro ducts of our homo manufacturers. Thoabsorption of wealth by the few the cunsolidatLion of our leading rail road system --nd the formation of trusts and pools reo a ire a stricter con trol by the lcdera I government of thoso arteries of commerce. We demand the enliargemnent of the powers of the iltr-Stato comIlierc commission, and sich restrictions and guatrantceos in the control of railroads as wili protect the peodCl from robbry IId oppression. We (lenounce ti0 )rolligate waste of tim umoney wilrung from the pp01)10 by OIppressivoe taxation an(l tho lavish ap iropriations of recent Iopubliclan Conl grosses, which have kept taxes high, wile the labor that pays them is un eimployed and the produc ts of th' 1)00 ple toil are depressed in price till they no longer 'ep)ay the cost of pro duction. Wo domianoi a return to that sim p ieity anid 0eonomny which befits a democratic govern ment and a reduc Lion in th no umber of useless ollices, the salaries of which drain the sub stance of the people. We denounco arbitrary interforence by fedoral authoritIes in local alfairs a. a Violation of the conlstitution of the U1 ited States and a crimo against froo institutions, and We slecially object to go Verm ent by inmju netion ats a new and iig lly dIange rous form of opl)pression by which federal judges, in contempUllt of the laws of the States and rights of itilzen, hecome at once legislators, jud ges amd executors, and we approve the hill passed at the last session of the lnitel States Senate and now pending in the 1 louse of Repwesenta lives, relative.' to oitemIII pts iII federal couirts and providi ngz trials by jury in cermtain cases 0! Contempt. No diseriminattion should he indulged by the governmentof tIh 'nitedl Stat'e in favor of any of its debtor.:, We ap prove of the refusal of the ''ifty-trni Contlres to past the Pacific railroad funiing b..and dei nounce the efforts having ah -. .. N .rrtie resources to entitac n,l and while they remainTrt ,4 hold that thle otlicils appointed to atth minister the government of any Terri tory, together with the District of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona lido residents of the Torritory or dis trict in which the duties are to be perform.ed. We recommend that the Territory of Alaska he granted a delegate In Con hres and that tho gonral land and timber laws of the United otates b etitne whic sahd T drriesrey. b We rextien ou thmathyt the rioryo ple of Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty and independence. We are opposed0( to life tenure in the publ1ic service. We favor app~ointments based upmon merit, fixed terms of omile, and suc h an administrationi of the civil service laws as will afford equal oppor tunities to all citizens of ascertained fitness. We (declare it to be0 the unwritten law of this rep~ublic, established by customi and usage of one hundred years and sanctioned by' the examplles of the greatest andl wisest of those who founded andl have maintainm d1 our gover'nment, that no man should be eligible for a third term of the P'resl dential oflice. The federal government should care for and improve the Mississippi river and other great watci ways of the re public so as to secure for the Interior States easy andi che c), transportation to tidewater. When any waterway of the republic Is of suficient importance to dlemand aid of the government such aid shmouldl be extended upon a definite plan of eon tInins work until perma nen t improv~~)iemenit Is secumred. Conflid ing ini the justice of our cause and the necessi ty of its success at the poll11 we submit the foregoing deciara tion oi(f princiles 'oindJt prpmoses to the conisiideirat jiidgmen t of the A morican plel. Wie ivite the support of all citiztein wvho aipirovo thom11 anid who desirie to have them mado effoctive tl~brough legislation for the relief of the peiople and the restoration of the country's prospecrity. -Seimator Rainos, of New York, is ihighly3 leasedC~ with the results of his l iqiior tax 11aw, and1 thus far he has recason for being pleased. He says that when the bill was before the leg is 'atuiro last winter he cetimated that tihe total receipts undler the operations of the law would be $10,000,000. In figuring upJ thme State tax rate the compl~trollher esti matedl that the State's share of thie revenue would be $2,500, 000. The senatoi insisted that the State's share would be at least $3,300, 000, but was willing to compromise on $2,000,000. The receipts to date, he declares, demonstrate that his original figures were correct. It is stated that tihe total will go as high as $10,500,000, butL he thinks that the rebates under the law will take away nearly if not qjuito $500,000. A committee was ap.. lolited b~y the legislature to examine into the workings of the law, and this committee wiil meet at Albany on the 15th inst. The (question of strengthen ing the law so as to prevent evasions and more severely punish violations will be0 conisldod, andl it is likely that the committee will take up the investi gation of the subject of impure and adulterated beer.