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From the Greeviile News. Columbia,S. 0 , Sept. 21.?The sov j erign body of the South Carolina de i mucracy assembled at 12 o'clock today in the hall of the house of rep ! resentatives and put forward its can didates for State officers and presi dential electors. The convention was a quiet and uneventful one. There was no contest except in the matter of a platform, on which subject the convention was treated to some mag j nifieent speeches by Genera! McCra j dy, Colonel Iiaskell and John Gary j Evans. j The speeches of the nominees were I brief but to the point and were well j received. The convention was large I ly composed of new men, plain, un taught farmers, who allowed the busi ness of the body to be carried on al most entirely by a few leaders. Dr. Sampson Pope presided with dignity, ability and fairness and re ceived a vote of thanks. The conservatives did not in any way attempt to obstruct or delay tLfe convention, only demanding the ayes and nays once and then on the ques i tion of the adoption of the platform on which they wished to place ihem selves on record. On the contrary they endeavored m every way to fa cilitate the business of the bodv. The electoral ticket is composed of j men who will vote for Cleveland and j Stevenson. Shortly before the convention ad journed, a resolution was passed re quiring candidates for electors to file within ten days, with the State com mittee, a pledge to cast their votes for Cleveland and Stevenson, and that failing to do so, their places will be filled by the committee. There seemed to be no third party sentiment in the convention and every reference to the loyalty of the body to the party was heartily cheered. The consei vatives stood by their j candidates to the last, formally plac ! ing each one in nomination and east- j iug their entire vote for them The j Tiilmauites had 2o4 men in the con- j veution and the conservatives 50, i Ge >rg'. town not b<-ing represented. : During the morning both factio* s ! held caucuses, the Tiilmauites in the | convention hall and the conservatives in the court house. Th? former was secret. The conservatives selected an electoral ticket for which to cast a complimentary vote and passed a ree- ' olution binding themselves not to j interfere in the least with the Town- j send-Beuel attorney generalship fight, j ; whatever might be the preference in : the matter, but to cast their votos for j Col. \V*. Perry Murphy firpt, last and j ail the time. They also decided to j oppose strenuously any attempt to inject any undemocratic Oca!a ideas into the platform. Just before 12 o'clock the Tillman caucus adjourned i till 3 p. m. I At 12 18 o'clock, State Chairman j J. L M. Irby ascended the speaker's i stand, called the convention to order : and stated its object, j John Gaiy Evans nominated for ! temporary chairman Dr Sampson Pope, of Newberry. lie was nnani i uiously elected, in a brief address he j congratulated the white people of i j South Carolina that they were still | i united and that although the third j ! party had made progress in other I Southern States it had obtained no j ! foot-hold in this State. He predicted I for Cleveland and Tillman the largest i j majority ever given by the democratic ! party of South Carolina, j 0* L. Weeks and L. L. Mellichamp ; I were chozen secretaries. The roll of counties Wfss called and each delega- j j tion handed up a 1 i^t of its members j ; The roll, as corrected, was called and j disclosed, tin? presence; of o'-'d dele I gates. Georgetown was not repre I sented. As there were no contests, on : motion the appointment of a com : mittee on credentials was dispensed ! with. The temporary organization wa3 ' made permanent and one vice pros ! ident from each congressional district I was elected as follows: First, VV. S. ! Barton, Orangebti'g, second, W. II j Mauldin, Hampton third, I) K. ! Norris. Am]- rson; fourth, E ? Allen I Spartanburg; fifth, Ira B. Jones, Lan j caster; sixth, J (). Byrd, Florence; | j seventh, T. VV. Stanhnd. Berkeley. ! j A committee on platform and res- ! j olutions was appointed, each delega- { ! tion suggesting its own member, as! ! follows : Abbeville, II. J Kinard; Aiken, j j John Gary Evans; Anderson, 1). K. ; ! Norris; Baruwell. S. (;. Mayficld; i Beaufort VV. J. Verdior; Berkely, .1. i ' B. Morrison; Charleston, Edward i McCradv, i>; Chester, T J. Cunning-j ; ham; Chesterfield. D. M. Barentine; | Clarendon, S.A. Netties; Co'Ieton, j L. E. Porter; Darlingon. J M. VVad I dill; Edgefield, II il. Towm*; Fair- | ! field. J. M. Galloway; Florence, !> ? | j McVYhite; Greenville, T. T. West- j j moreland; Hampton, W. II. Mauldin; j IXorry, J. i\ Derham; Ivershaw. T. .1. I Kirkland; Lancaster, ,!. 0. Elliot; ! ; Laurens, T. B. Crews; Lexington, N. ' G. Wannamaker ; Marion. J. G. j ! Haselden ; Marlboro. J. X. Drake ; '. Newberry, C T Wyche; *>t:<?i?<t*-, I W. M. J. Stribling; <>:>.* gei urg. J ; 1>. Felder; Pickeus, E. S. Griffin ; I Richland, John C. Mask. :' : SpaUau i bnrg, E. C. Allen ; Sumter. R I). | Lee; Union, J. W. Gregory ; VV il I liamsburg, J. S. Graham ; York, W. !J. Miller. j I). K. Norris. of Anderson, was I made chairman of the committee. * p*oti?j] was made to take a recess until ^> ^ P- m- ^:ll^,ls substitutes ] as to the hoar were offered and after ; taking several votes and getting the ' chairman badly mixed, adjourned, i Adjournment was taken to 4 o'clock ! in the afternoon. The T.llnianite cau ! ens met at 3 o'clock but during the hour intervening thai time and tiie ; reassembling of the convention they i were unable to accomplish any I thins so that immediatelv after the j convention was Called to order they i adj< urned it for one hour, cleared the i hall and went again into a caucus. I Especial pains were taken to exclude I the newspaper men and they were ! pursued Irow place to place and finally ejected. Everybody not known to be a Till man delegate was put out and the caucus proceeded with its delibera tions' with Gen. J. Walter Gray, of Greenville, in the chair The caucus went into an election for a candidate for attorney general. D. A. Townsend, of Union, and W. 0. Bcnet, of Abbeville, were nomi nated, each receiving a fair share of applause. The roll was called and I resulted : Townsend 151 ; Benet 114 Townsend was then declared the nominee of the caucus. A ticket of presidential electors was agreed upon. At 5 o'clock the convention took an other recess of thirty minutes waiting for the committee on platform to report. At 5 35 p m. Chairman Pope called the convention to order. A committee was sent to wait on the platform committee and ascertain at what time they would be ready to report. The platform committee replied that, they would be ready to report in about fifteen minutes. The committee immediately afterwards en tered the hall. The chairman, D. K. Norn's, handed in the amendments to the constitution which had Heen offered with a favorable recommenda tion They were nearly all of minor importance and were unanimously j adopted. The constitution as a whole I was then adopted A resolution simply eulogistic of the j Columbia R?sister and of the work of T. Larry Gantt in the campaign was unfavorably reported and the conven tion adopted the report The major ity .of the committee presented the psatform. It reaffirms the principles of democracy as ''enuciated by Thomas Jefferson and amplified and illustrated by his successors in leader ship'7 and pledges loyal support to Cleveland and Stevenson. Its adop tion was moved and Edward McCrady, Jr., offered as a substitute a platform nearly similar except that it requires j the.candidates for presidential electors to pledge themselves to the State executive committee to vote for Cleve 1 md and Stevenson and bind'? the nominees for congress to pledge them selves co abide by the democratic caucus at Washington. He made a ringing speech advocating the substitute and cited as precedents the action of the parly in 187(5, 1SS0, 1884 and IS8S. He was replied to in a strong speech by T.C. Wyclie, of Newberry, declaring: that there was no danger of ! of the Tillmanites going out of the: party. He said the committee had j reported a resolution endorsing Cleve land and Stevenson and there would not be a dissenting voice when it was passed. Col. John C. Haskell advocated the adoption of the substitute, and said the party in South Carolina should j accord with the principles enunciated by the national democracy Colonel Haskell made an eloquent and power ful speech urging the convention not to take a false step, but to acquiesce in the decision of the majority of the party. John Gary Evans defended the com mittee and platform, making a for cible speech, and moved that the substitute be laid on the table, The ayes and nays were called for by General McCrady, under the rules of the South Carolina house of representatives which had been adopted. The chairman did not seem disposed to allow it, but was prompted by some of his parly to do so, and the roll was called. It resulted, ayes, 260 ; nays, -16. bo the substitute was tabled. The majority platform was then adopted. The following executive committee was chosen : Abbeville?J. Y. Jones. Aiken?John Gary Evans. Anderson?W. A. Near. Barnwell?A. II. Patterson. Beaufort?H, D. Elliott. Berkeley?T. \V. Stauland. Charleston? John M. Kinloch. Chester?T. J. Cunningham. Chesterfield?E. N. Redfearn. Clarendon?S. A. Nettles. /Till. ? Tl \?T ;i I l/Olleton?;i. r>. VV liiiarns. Darlington ? A A. Candy. E IgeGeld? H. H. Towns. Kailheid?0. NT. Buchanan. F orencc?R. M. McCown. Greenville?F. VV. Cray. Hampton?T. .1. Riley. Hurry ? J. P. Durham. Ivershaw?T J Eirk'and. Lai.caste ?ira B Jones. Laurens?.lohn L 11by. Lexington C. M Etitd. Marion ? -J 1). Montgomery. Marlboro? YY 1) Evans. 3S evrberry ? Sampson Pope. Uconee W .1. Strib?ng. ?ratigcbuig?0. 1? Lownian. Piekons?T. Robinson. Kich'and?C A Douglass. Sparlanluirg \ L Bennett. Sumter Frank Mellet Union- - A C. Lyles. YVilliamslmrg - \vm P. Conner. Y-ork?D. E. Finley. The convention ;i< 7 30 o'clock went info an eleeti ? ff"?r State oflieers and it was agreed (hat nominations should 1m* without speeches John Gary?.Evans nominated for governor Benjamin Ryan Tillrnan and was followed by numerous seconds C A. Douglas nominated John Sheppard, who was also numerously seconded The roll r>f counties was called, the chairman ol each delegation announc ing its vote. Tin; ballot resulted : Tillman 264, Secppard 50. The announcement was received with I applause. j For lieutenant governor, E B. ; Gary and J. L Orr were nominated. ! Gary was nominated, 26 t to 50 1 ; was decided to nominate the remain [ der of the ticket in a block. The I Tiilmauites nominated the present i officers, except that D. A Towusend j was nominated for attorney general, j The consei vatives placed in nomina i tion their entire ticket The Tillman i candidates were nominated, the vote being the same as that for governor. A committee was appointed to in form the nominees of the action of the convention, and in their absence a motion was made to go into an elec tion for electors. The Tiilmauites nominated their caucus ticket as follows : Electors at large, Earnest Gary and J. \y. Stokes. First district, C 0. Tracy. Second. T. S. Williams. Third, J II. McCaila. Fourth, L. P Walker; Fifth, J. T Brice. Sixth, L W. Nettles. Seventh, J. S Hart The conservatives then nominated the following : At Large, Samuel Dibble and E. B. Murray. First District, George D. Bryan. Second, D S. Henderson. Third, W. C. McGowan. Fourth, T W. Woodward. Fifth, W. B. Wilson, jr. Sixth, Jeremiah Smith. Seventh, W. F. Colcock. The Tillman candidates received the same votes as the candidates for State offices and they were declared elected. The nominees were escorted in and Governor Tillman was introduced amid great applause. lie said this convention was different from any other that had ever assembled in ,the State, in that they came direct from the people. The chief issue in the campaign was whether or not he should be re-elected, but the people I had again placed the banner of pure j democracy in his hands. He wished to extend to those who had opposed him the right hand of fellowship, and hoped all would work together for the good of the State This elicited thunderous applause. Short speeches were made by Gary, Tindal, Bates, Towusend, May field and Farley. ! The latter was enthusiastically ! greeted by cries of "rabbit foot" and great laughter. Ellerbe was absent. Blease, from Newberry, offered again the resolution commending the ' Columbia Register and after some j opposition it was passed. The con ! veution at 9.30 o'clock adjourned. C II H. Tiilman's Plan Refused The board of trus-ees of Cleinson College have met and considered the fate of that institution, and the re suit is that, nothing is to be done until win ter abouL the reopening of the work. ; The board met at Pcodlcton on j Thursday night in pursuance of the call I issued by the chairman at the sugges J lion of Governor Tillman, The trus tees present at the meeting wore Messrs. I Tindal, Simpson, Bradley, Johostone, : Hartia, Waunamaker, Bowen and Nor I ris. j This mcotiog was to consider the ad j vis-ability of using a portion of the $33, J 000 of the Morrell fund recently ob i tained from the National Government, the money to be refunded when the other funds that Clcmscn gets come;, in, or to be refunded by an act of the Leg islature. Although the act giving the college the fund provides that it must only be I spent for equipment purposes and not j for buildings, unless a sure refundmeot j was provided for, Governor Tillman I urged its application, saying he felt sure I there would be no trouble about the j refunding. He did so in order that the { work now practically at a standstill might continue. Secretary of State Tindal has jast re turned from the meeting and he says "the work oa the buildiogs will be car ried on as usual with the assistance of the convict labor at Clcmson. i The board did not think that it had } any legal right to misappropriate the J money unless there was an absolute certainty that it could refund it when the college oneued its doors The trus tecs have every cent of money on which they had any claim. It must be re membered that the funds derived fiom iho Hatch bill are used exclusively in the experimental work. The station is doing fine work, aud now has an exec! lent crop. Considerable canned goods have been put aside for use when the college opens. It was decided th"?t a meeting he held daring November, when the true ci n ditioo of affairs will he derived aud a ' report of the progress of the work and n< o is of the college be made to the Leg islature." It may he mentioned here that in December ami January rhe privilege tax money which the college gets and the annual payment from the Clemson bequest will be available and the work on the buildings can then bo renewed, even though too Legislature docs noih D C . I ri g. 1 >vernor Tillman, when asked about the aetiou of i ho board declined to have an y thing t ? say until he sees Mr. Tiu dul ? The Slate, IDth. The Penitentiary Plum. Capt J. \] Jarnigan, of Marion, is tlie first recognized candidate for the position of superintendent of the pen itentiary, which will be vacated by the election of Superintendant Talbert. Mr Jarnigan is now captain of the guard, and in the line of promotion. II?; is a prominent alliancenian and has j for years been the door keeper of the j i rde- at its State Convention. Per- j haps a significant telegram is the follow ing: "To W. J. Talbert: Accept congratu lations. You can't keep a working j man down, nor a squirrel on the ground. B. F. Perry." It is whispered around that Mr. Ferry ; will Li' a candidate for the place before c t.ext legislature.?Columbia Corres pondence of The News aud Courier. I Speech of Senator David B. j Hill, of New York. j Brooklyn, N. Y., September 19 ? j There was a great outpouring of Dem ocrats in this city tonight. The Acad l emy of Music coahi not accommodate j the crowd that rushed with frantic haste j to receive good positions from which to J note every action of Senator David B. | Hill io the de'ivery of aD address ti at J bas been awaited anxiously by all Dem ocrats. The Senator's voice was low and cairn as he began, but gradually he wanned up, and before a minute had passed he had uttered a phrase that earned wild applause. This was when he said that before the Democratic Na tional Convention at Chicago he was a Democrat and he was a Democrat still. He said he spoke as a Democrat to Democrats. Prior to Senator Hiil's speech the usual resolutions were presented and adopted. Besides pledging the support of the Kings County Democrats to the ticket, it attacked several measures advocated by the Republicans in co niggardly terms. iiill's description of President Har rison's message a9 an ingenious article, bis refutation of the statistics of Com missioner Peck's now famous report, and his treatment of the force bill caused perfect storms of applause. The excitement in the audience was noticeable as the Senator drew towards the close of his address. He had spoken for over an hoar and not once had he mentioned the name of Cleve land. The excitement increased as Senator Hill stated that the Old Guard would do its duty, and a perfect hurri cane of applause, yells and cheats broke forth when, after one grand phrase of deepest meaning, be closed with the names ' Cleveland and Stevenson." The Senator's tact and the ingenious ness of the climax to his address was recognized by the enthusiastic audience by rising en masse and cheering him to the echo. Hills peroration also furnished Con gressman Breckinridge. who followed, with a cue for the openiog of his own most eloquent address. senator hill's address. Senator Hill said in part : I am re minded of the fact that it was in this edifice upon a memorable occasion in 1885 that I had the honor of express ing to the intrepid Democracy cf Kings County the sentimeot, "I am a Demo crat," and under the existing political situation I know of no more appropriate place or presence than here to declare that I was a Democrat before the Chi cago Convention and I am a Democrat still. The National Democratic Conven tion of 1892 has passed into history with its record, its triumphs and its dis appointments. The wisdom of its ac tion is not now to be questioned. It was the Court of last rc?ort established by party usage as the final arbiter to determine the conflicting interests and claims of candidates, States and sec tions, and its decision will be accepted with loyal acquiescence by every true and patriotic Democrat who recognizes the necessity of party organization and discipline and respects the obligations which he assumes in its membership. From this time forward imperative duties are imposed upon us. Factional appeals should now ceate, the spirit of resentment should be abandoned, State pride should be subordinated to the general good, real or fancied grievances should be dismissed, personal ambition should be sacrificed aud individual dis appointments should be forgotten in this great emergency which demands from us all the exhibition of widespread and lofty patriotism. Permit me to repeat what I had the honor of expressing to the Tammany Society on the 4;h of July last, before the echoes of our National Convention [ had scarcely died away, as follows : "Our course at the present time is j plain in the approaching struggle ; the ! Democracy cf New York should present J a solid front to the oommon enemy. Loyalty to tho cardinal Democratic | principles and to regularly nominated candidates is the supreme duty of the hour " [ reiterate those sentiments now. The Democratic position is a safe, logi cal, conservative and just position. No j tariff except "for the purposes cf reve- J hue only," and then limited to neeessi- ! tics of the Government honestly and j economically administered, is a doctrine j which appeals to the good sense and 1 s"und judgment of every honest and j thoughtful man. With the constantly ! j increasing expenses of 'he Government j I and tho enormous amount of money j annually augmenting required by the j I growing pension list, those tariffs, I which mu*t nccossariiy bo exacting to j meet thc?Q expenditures, wiil be for ! many years t;> come amply suSeient to ! I afford iticidentiy ail the protection which the u:ost ardent advocate of tho | system can reasonably ask. More than this ouj.'ht not to be conceded to any- j j body. President Harrison in his inge- : I bfous letter of acceptance endeavored to S ! place our parly in a false attitude by j ! calling attention to the tact that while our platform in 1 S^4, roadopted inj ! 1888. contained an express plank, upon j j this quo.-tion of equalization of wages, yet it was emitted in 1892, and asserts that vre have changed our position. 1 j hog to differ with him. There has been I no change. If is not always practicable to place in a platform tho detail-* of : proposed legislation. The platforms of j 1881 were elaborate and lengthy, und it was dcirable to simplify them i General principles were stated in 1802 rather than particulars as in ?S84 i j There is no conflict between them ! There was no necessity for a repetition 1 lof that plank, as the party's position j upon if had teen evidenced by the ! j Mill's bill, which had not boon passed : before the national conventions of 1884 : j and 1 888 were held j Parties are to be judged as much by their records as. their platforms \V stand not only upon our p'aifrrn) ni" 1892. bur upon the Mills bill, which was the a'est general Demoerari : leg- ; j islation upon tariff subjects. Tiia! bill was as good an exposition of our princt ' pics as any elaborate platform could [possibly be. If I were asked to define as concisely as possible the whole Dem ocratic policy I should state it substan tially as follows: "We favor tariff for 'revenue only, limited to the necessities of the Government economically admio I istered, and so regulated in its applica tion as far a* practicable as to prevent unequal burdens, encourage productive industries at home and afford just com pensation to labor, but not to create or ! foster monopolies." I These are the cardinal principles I uoon which details of all tariff legisla tton should be ba-=ed. I said in the campaign of 1S8S, in my opening speech at the Academy of Music in New York city, that if [ believed that rhe Democratic party favored absolute free trade [ should not advocate it, and I repeat the statement here tonight. I have read with care ail the arguments nrged by two very able apostles of pro tection,, Governor McKinley and Sena tor Aldrich, but l fais to discover that they present a single tenable ground upon which protection pure and simple can be constitutionally defended. I insist that neither the Democratic party nor I have changed our position upon this question, but that we stand where we have ever stood. Tariff reform does cot mean free trade. Our opponents misrepresent our position now, as they have ever done since the famous tariff message of 18S7. In that historic message our candidate expressly repudiated the sug gestion that be wa3 entering upon any crusade of free trade He did not de mand that our tariff laws should be wiped out of existence. There is no satisfactory evidence that the McKinley bill has increased our prosperity in any degree or advanced the wages of a single workingman. It is undoubtedly true that in this State the aggregate amount of all wages paid the year after its passage may have been greater than the aggregate amount ! paid the year preceding, but that does not prove any increase in the rale of wages paid, and only shows that some new industries have been established or additional men employed in others, and it does not appear that such in crease has been a^y more than the usual natural increase occasioned by the steady growth of the State. It may possibly also be true that there have been a few less strikes during the past two years .than during the preceding two years, bu* this may be attributed j to the moderate and good judgment of our labor organizations, rather than to the effect of any tariff law. I know this much, that the Democratic party j will be entirely content to permit every workingman whose wages have been increased since the passage of the McKinley bill to vote the Republican ticket, if our opponents will conseut that all those whose wages have not been increased shall vote the Demo cratic ticket, and upon that basis we wiii carry the country by a million ma jority. We should not, however, permit our position to be misunderstood. We are not seeking power upon the "calamity" issue, but with all good citizens we re joice in the prosperity of the country and trust that it may continue: but we insist that the country has been pros perous not because of the McKinley law, butin spite of it. The plain truth is that this policy of protection cannot much longer stand against the tremen dous pressure of public sentiment, for the cause of industrial emancipation is marching on. There is another issue is this cam paign of equal if not greater impor tance than the tariff, which affects toe rights and liberties of every citizao. j The Republican party seems to be irre vocably committed to the passage of the : Federal elections bill, generally known i as the force bill, and although it must I be evident to most of the patriotic and ! thoughtful members of that organisa I tion that it is a pu>ce of political fooKsh I cess, only equalled by i's mendacity, I there has appeared for them no escape \ from its advocacy. It is an impeach ! mcnt of the good sense of the Republi can leaders that they should press the ! consid?ration of so offensive and unwise 1 a measure at this or any other time, I especially in view of the fact, now ap I parent to everyone, that it absolutely ! prevents their party receiving a single ! electoral vote in a third of the States of the Union, and although as partisans ; vac may rejoice at their folly, yet as citizens wo deplore their threatened at tack upon the free institutions of cur country, ?Jever before so imperilled. The bill has been well described as a "menace to liberty"?the liberty of the North as well as ./? the South, ;he lib erty of the black as well as of the white, the liberty of every citizen, no matter to what party he may hr.ppeu to belong. It is conceded that the measure is with out precedent in th? history of the country. For over one hundred years the Gov ernment had been successfully conduct ed, yet no such morsures as this had ever been proposed. '1 Ik* RepulFican oarty in the days of its greatest success and g'ory had never ventured r.o sug gest a scheme of this character to per petuate its power. In those days e-f its prestige and honor, under honest lead ership and with patriotic met beds, it appealed to the intelligence, loyalty and emotions of its foi lowers to sa-fain its supremacy, but not. to fraud, force, Federal bayonets or arbitrary proced ures against its opponents. I It. to no! firm- tonight to enter into any elaborate present a t:on of the details of this bill, it is su&?etit for ns to know tiiar. the <>:i!y purpose cf the measure is t.? control for partisan advan tage our elections. State and Federal, (.'hie'" supe*visors are authorized to em ploy whatever United States troops they may deem noctssiarv, at the polls or elsewhere, for the purpose of carrying the law info i (Tec? The homes of citi zens may b' ruthlessly invaded, and swarms of officials, strangers to the people of the locality, may be employ ed : arbitrary arrests, without warrant, max fellow ; old men may be dragged to i -tant Courts upon the technic;:!' charges tolerated under this law ; decis ions of State a?:d local Courts may he set aside : federal (.f?cials are to taiie part to the count end may handle the ballots, and a reign of terror may Lc instituted whereby legitimate and hos est electors may be intimidated by a well concerted and obnoxious display of governmental power. This is an epitome of what may be attempted and accomplished under the Davenport scheme to promote "purity of the ballot box" ia the several States: of the Union. The law would be expensive in its' operation, dangerous in its enforc?menV and is of doubtful constitutionality. It would drag Judges iuto politics, de grade the army, weaken re*pect for* Federal authority, provoke conflicts be tween the races as well as between the' people and the military, and the present era of conciliation and good feeling would be superseded by the prevalence' of the spirit of bitterness and hate. The bill if a desperate attempt \<S prop up the failing fortunes' of a once great political party ; it was conceived j in political animosity, is arged from the" narrowest and worst of motives, and is unworthy a place among the statutes of the American Republic. Th? Demo cratic party desires free, honest and fair* elections everywhere. It desires them' not merely because they would inure te" its beoeSt, but upon the unselfish and high ground that they are essential ko* the preservation of our free institutions. Our party has suffered much in the" past from the corrupt and tyrannical election methods of our adversaries. The Republican party id the party of wealth, plutocracy, of corporate and of protected monopolists. Ours is the' party of the plain people, men of in'od erate means, "the bone and sinew* of the country " We have neither the' disposition nor means to corrupt oar" elections and our partv has been fore-4' most in the most legible efforts of re7 cent years to place upon our statute' book those reform election laws under* which corruption, bribery and intimida tion are rendered difficult if not impost sible. There has been no such condition of affairs at the South as to justify the en actment of the Davenport measure. Itr is true that colored people in large numbers are there voting the Demo c-atic ticket, but this affords no suffi cient reason for taking away from thenf or from as the control of their or oar' elections. The colored people were not freed from slavery to become the slaves of the Repulicaa party. The South isr loyal, honest and capable, and if per mit'ed, as it should be, it will work outr its social and ether problems in its own way without injury to the colored race, injustice to the North, or to the Repub lican party, or danger to the electite*. franchise. In any event the majority of thV American people will n?v?r approve fr measure which threatens their liberties/ legalizes unfairness and absolutely guarantees partisan victories to the un scrupulous party that dares to enact it. Fellow citizens, I need not urge ybtr to the performance of your full share vi this campaign. Kings County was/ never known to falter in its duty. The* interest involved demands the greatest' sacrifices and our highest and best ef forts. It is the welfare of the old Dem ocratic party, which we all love so well, which is at stake. I plead not for indi-" viduais, but for the cause, fn ? great contest like this men are nothing, butr principles are everything Our candi dates represent our principles, and oar" principles cannot prevail without the election of out candidates. The contest may be a severe one, but so much more* glorious will be the victory if we w*in. You need have no us'eas?h?ssf, "The* Old Guard" will do its duty. Look out for ra;v recruits. T believe that a larga majority cf the people of this country; are convinced of the rightfulness of DemoTatic principles and want them ttf j r >vail. But the election will not win itself and there must be complete organic tion. I repeat the injunction 1 uttered before the Democratic Convention at Albany in February last ; "'It is" our duty to organize ! organize ! organize I" With this motto inscribed on oQ'r ban ner. "Public ofiice is a public frost," supplemented by the other Sentiments' which ? have endeavored to present to" you tonight, "No public taxation for private use" and "No force bill," let us: close up our ranks and buckle oar armor for the fight, with the determina tion to do ail in our power for the tri-; umph of our party sod the eleotion of our honored standard bearers, CVeveh?d and Stevenson. Indiana For Cleveland, ''Cleveland will carry Indiana,'* said William Dudley Ponlke, of that State, at the Albemaile Hotel fester* j day. "He will ai so carry en o?glr* J other States to make his election sure. ! New York, of course, is an important j factor, but it seems that the Demo ! ents are united here and are in good ! condition to make a winning fight."' "How will the Western States' which the Democrats are claiming cast their votes ?" . . "1 would not be surprised it Wis consin and Illinois were Democratic,* and there is some likelihood tha? I South Dakota will also go Democratic'. ! 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