The Platform Committee. sylvania, G. L. Johnston, of Iowa, Ro- the roll the Convention adjourned until bert M. Bashford, of Wisconsin; Charles II A. M. to-morrow M. Vallandingham. of Missouri; H. J Lynn, of Tennessee; Michael D. Barret, of New Jersey The Report was unanimously adopted. Mr. Smalley, of Vermont, then said he was instructed by the National Committee to offer the following resolution: The following is the Committee on Plat- Resolved, That the rules of the last Democratic Convention govern this body until otherwise ordered, subject to the following modification That in voting for candidates for President and Vice-Presi-land, C. J Gwynn, Massachusetts, B. F dent no State shall be allowed to change its vote until the roll of the States has been called and every State has cast its vote. Mr. Grady, of New York, offered the following amendment to the resolution: When the vote of a State as announced Butler, Michigan, S. E. Farsney, Minnesota, J. C. Wise; Missouri, W H. Phelps; Nebraska, J S. Sterling Morton; Nevada, D. E. McCarthy New Hampshire, Henry Bingham; New Jersey, James A. McPherson, New York, Abram S. Hewitt; North by the chairman of the delegation from Carolina, J. S. Carr, Ohio, George L. Consuch State is challenged by any member verse, Pennsylvania, Malcom Bay, South of the delegation, then the Secretary shall | Carolina, Leroy F Youmans; Tennessee, call the names of the individual delegates Albert T McNeil, Texas, D. C. Gidfrom the State, and their individual pre-dings; Vermont, James A. Brown; Virgiferences as expressed shall be recorded as the vote of such State. After discussion the question was then put, the chairman of each State delegation announcing its vote as follows: nia, P W McKenny, West Virginia, Henry G. Davis, Wisconsin, J. G. Jenkins. The committee on Permanent Organization met in the evening and decided to recommend to the Convention the name of 24 Colonel W F Vilas, of Wisconsin, as permanent Chairman, and that the remaining 5 8 14 4 officers of the temporary organization be 72 made permanent. ΙΟ 12 25 21 6 21 39 8 14 17 7 12 10 37 695 SECOND DAY'S SESSION. The Convention was opened with prayer 8 by the Right Reverend Bishop McLaren, 18 of the Diocese of Chicago. 3 5 17 Minnesota, The call of the roll on the original resolution was then dispensed with and it was unanimously adopted. Mr. Cummings, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution instructing the Committee on Resolutions to give a hearing to the committee of the Irish National League in favor of excluding aliens from acquiring real estate in America. Mr. Taylor, of Arkansas, submitted the This question having been disposed of report of the Committee on Credentials, in the roll of the States was called and the which he stated that in Massachusetts, a chairmen of the several delegations named contest appearing in the Twelfth Congresthe delegates chosen as members of the sional District, your committee, after a full Committees on Credentials and Resolu- investigation of the facts, unanimously tions. On the completion of the call of recommended that the parties, Joseph Referred. Callan, E. McLearned, A. L. Perry and lay not in the hope of mere party victory, George H. Bloch, be admitted to this Con- 'in clutching the spoils of office. The opvention, and each shall be entitled to a portunity was pregnant with mighty possihalf vote. bilities of good to men. The air was alMr Heenan, of Michigan, offered a res-ready filled with vapors of visionary olution for the reduction of taxation to a schemes addressed to various interests and revenue basis. factions. It is the party of Jefferson and Mr Taylor, of Arkansas, chairman of Jackson to-day as formerly, and the printhe Committee on Credentials, reported ciples they promulgated are its principles the list of delegates with an amendment now. It is the party of the people; of giving territorial delegates the right to economy and honesty in the administration vote in the Convention. of Government. It has shaken off the Mr. Randolph, of New Jersey moved, venial and time-serving, and has recruited an amendment that the territorial dele- from the ranks of its opponents the best Fates be not allowed to vote. The amend- and wisest. The Democracy are ready to ment was rejected and the report adopted. ' continue such exchange. In conclusion, Mr. Gallup, of New York, offered a resolution demanding such a revision of the tariff as shall lessen the duty upon those articles which supply daily the wants of the farmer, mechanic, artisan and laborer number of other resolutions were offered and it was finally decided to refer them all to the Committee on Platform. Permanent Organization. he counseled moderation in their action and bespoke a generous forbearance for himself in the discharge of his duties. "I thank God, fellow-citizens, that Although we have been out of power for a quarter of a century, we are to-day, in all that makes adherence, and confidence and zeal, as much a party organized for aggressive war as when the banners of victory were perched above our heads. The report of the Committee on Permanen: Organization was then made, the name of WH. Vilas. of Wisconsin, being presented as President, with a list of vice-presidents (one from each state) and several secretaries and assistants, and that the secretaries and clerks of the temporary organization be continued under the permanent organization. " 'The Democratic party, fellow-citizens, since the war time, commencing with reconstruction, with our hands manacled, with our ballot-boxes surrounded by the gleaming bayonet, with carpet-bag rulers, with the voice of free men who pay their taxes to the Government, stifled-the Democratic party has lived to see through all this misrule the day come when in a great majority of our states the Democratic party has resumed its control, its power. It has The Chair then appointed as a committee to escort Mr Vilas to the chair the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana Hon. WW Armstrong, of Ohio, Hon. your House of Representatives, and but WH. Parsons, of Georgia; Hon. John for treason stalking in the Senate ChamN. Henderson, of Texas Hon. Johnber, we would have that, too. A. Day, of Missouri, Hon. Mr Sparks, of "We want men there whose very lives Illinois, and the Hon. Smith M. Weed, of, and whose very names would be a platNew York. Mr. Vilas, in taking the chair, returned thanks for the honor done him, not as a recognition of himself, but of the young Democracy of the Northwest. It was their fair due. It was a tribute to their lofty zeal and patriotism. They hailed it as a presage and prototype of the coming triumph. form to this people; we want men there who shall, in all the departments of the Government, in its Department of Justice, in its postal affairs, its Interior Department, everywhere, follow its servants with the eye of the ministers of justice, and see that every cent that belongs to the Government shall remain with the Government; that no tribute shall be demanded, This Convention was assembled to con- except the tribute that is due the Governsider a great cause; to pronounce a mo-ment; that no assessment shall be levied mentous judgment. Its import and value upon 100,000 office-holders, who are paid one hundred millions annually, five mil- | nated McDonald, of Illinois, which was lions to go into a corrupt political fund. seconded by General Black. These, we thank God, will be corrected when the Democratic party shall get into power once more. We read of the enunciation of principles by the Republican party. They tell us they have civil service reform, and yet they demand, in the next breath, from every federal office-holder of the 100,000, his tribute to the corrupt fund that shall be paid out to the voter at the polls. They tell us that they have a pure government, and yet not a solitary felon has been condemned in the flock of those who have stolen their millions from the treasury Mr Snowden, of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution for the call of the roll of the States and for the placing in nomination of candidates for President and Vice President. Mr. Clunie, of California, moved its reference to the committee on platform. The nominations should not be made until after the adoption of the platform. The motion was rejected. tions now. A motion was made to lay on the table Mr. Snowden's motion to make nominaThe question was taken by a vote by States and resulted in the negative. The vote on call of States was finally announced as yeas 282, nays 521; so the Convention refused to lay the motion on the table. The vote in detail was as follows: State. Yeas. Nays 19 New Hampshire State. Yeas. Nays Alabama I Arkansas 14 California 16 Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New York North Carolina 8 Pennsylvania 16 Rhode Island 8 14 4 19 72 22 Kentucky-James A. McKenzie nominated Carlisle. New York.-Mr Lockwood nominated Grover Cleveland, Carter Harrison seconding the nomination. Ohio. John W Breckenridge, of California, nominated A. G. Thurman, which was seconded by Durbin Ward, of Ohio. A motion to suspend the order of business was made and carried and then at 6.20 the convention took a recess until 10.30 A. M. to-morrow. EVENING SESSION. At 8.05 the convention was called to order and a resolution was offered by Mr. Henry, of Mississippi, expressing the regret and intense admiration of the convention at reading the statesmanlike, patriotic letter of Samuel J Tilden, in which he made known the overpowering and providential necessity which constrained him to decline the nomination to the Presidency, condemning the fraud and violence by which Tilden and Hendricks were cheated out of their offices in 1876; expressing regret that the nation has been deprived of the lofty patriotism and splendid executive and administrative ability of Mr. Tilden, and appointing a committee to convey these sentiments to that gentleman. Adopted. At 9 P M. Morrison, of Illinois, chairman of the committee on resolutions, stepped to the platform to present the report of that committee. The reading of the platform was con 24 cluded at ten o'clock. 23 Virginia 24 16 8 West Virginia 16 2 13 5 Vermont Arizona 6 13 Dist. Columbia 26 14 Dakota Montana 25 New Mexico I 8 Washington Wyoming 6 N 2 2 2 2 2 2 THIRD DAY'S SESSION. The convention was called to order at 11:10 and the proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. George C. Lorimer, of the Immanuel Baptist Church, of Chicago. The unfinished business of yesterday, being the call of States for nominations, was resumed. Mr Hoadly of Ohio was placed in nomination by Thomas E. Powell of Ohio. Delaware.-Attorney General Geeorg Gray nominated Bayard of Delaware, which was seconded by Col. C. E. Hooker, of Mississippi. Indiana.-Thomas A. Hendricks nomi- vernor Abbett of New Jersey. Senator Wallace of Pennsylvania, nominated Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania. The nomination was seconded by Go The Nomination made Unanimous. 2 ..4 The question was then put on Mr. Menzies' motion to make the nomination unanimous which was triumphantly carried. John W Cumming of Massachusetts McDonald...... seconded the nomination of Mr Bayard. Thurman.. The names of the candidates were then announced as follows-cach name being greeted with cheers, but by far the greatest demonstration being for Cleveland: Thomas Francis Bayard......of Delaware, Joseph E. McDonald..................................of Indiana, John G Carlisle.... ..of Kentucky Grover Cleveland... Allen G Thurman. Samuel Randall. George Hoadly... .of New York. .......of Ohio. ..of Pennsylvania, The Convention then at 1:25 took a recess until 5 o clock P M. EVENING SESSION. At half-past 5 o'clock the evening sessof Ohio. ion was called to order, and the first busi|ness done was the adoption of a resolution electing Mr Vilas (Chairman of the Convention) as Chairman of the committee to notify the nominees of their selection as candidates The candidates having been all presented the convention at 2.25 took a recess until evening. General Butler presented the minority report which was debated, and defeated by a vote of 7144 to 974 切り The Platform was then adopted. After a motion to adjourn was lost, the call of States for the nomination of President was ordered, and resulted as follows: Naming Candidates for Vice-President. The Convention then proceeded to the call of the roll for the nomination of a candidate for Vice-President. Mr Searles of California, nominated Mr Bacon (Ga.) said he was commissioned by his delegation to present the name of General John C. Black, of Illinois. Judge Black expressed his appreciation of the high and unmerited compliment. paid him. It was almost absolutely a surprise to him, but he had come here as the spokesman and representative of another citizen of the Republic. He had put his hand in the hand of Joseph E. McDonald, and while that gentlemen's name was before the Convention, he (Black) could not appear as in any sense his rival for any position. He, therefore, respectfully declined the nomination. Mr. Pinlow (Kan.) presented the name of Governor George W Glick. Ex-Senator Wallace (Pa.) said that he nominated as a candidate for Vice Presi then (1 o'clock) announced by the Clerk dent a man conversant with public affairs for verification. throughout his whole life, an honored statesman, a pure and upright citizen, a victim of the grossest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people-Thomas A. Hendricks. [Cheers.] Mr. Searles (Cal.) withdrew the nomination of Rosecrans, The other nominees were all withdrawn, one, by one, so that Mr. Hendricks' name alone remained before the Convention. Hendricks Unanimously Nominated, The motion was agreed to, and the Clerk proceeded to call the roll of States. The result was the unanimous nomination of Thomas A. Hendricks as the candidate for Vice-I'resident. The Chairman announced that there had been 816 votes cast, all of them being for Thomas A. Hendricks, and that Mr Hendricks was therefore the candidate of the National Democratic Convention for Vice-President of the United States. The Convention then, at 7.25, adjourned sine die. Cleveland. IST BALLOT. 2D BALLOT. | McDonald. | Bayard. Thurman. | Cleveland. Bayard. Hendricks. Democratic Platform. Adopted at Chicago, July 10, 1881. The Democratic party of the Union, through its representatives in National Convention assembled, recognizes that, as the nation grows older new issues are born of time and progress and old issues perish. But the fundamental principles of the Democracy, approved by the united voice of the people, remain, and will ever remain, as the best and only security for the continuance of free government. The preservation of personal rights, the equality of all citizens before the law, the reserved rights of the states and the supremacy of the Federal Government within the limits of the Constitution will ever form the true basis of our liberties, and can never be surrendered without destroying that balance of rights and powers which enables social order to be maintained by means of a continent to be developed in peace, and local self-government, but it is indispensable for the practical operation and enforcement of these fundamental principles that the Government should not always be controlled by one political power. Frequent change of administration is as necessary as constant recurrence to the popular will. Otherwise abuses grow and the Government, instead of being carried on for the general welfare, becomes an instrumentality for imposing heavy burdens on the many who are governed for the benefit of the few who govern. Public servants thus become arbitrary rulers. This is now the condition of the country, hence a change is demanded. The Republican Party. The Republican party, so far as principle is concerned, is a reminiscence. In practice, it is an organization for enriching 8 7% 12% those who control its machinery. The 3 frauds and jobbery which have been brought to light in every department of the Government are sufficient to have called for reform within the Republican party, yet those in authority, made reckless by the long possession of power, have succumbed to its corrupting influence, and have placed in nomination a ticket against which the independent portion of the party are in open revolt. Therefore a change is demanded. Such a change was alike necessary in 1876, but the will of the people was then defeated by a fraud which can never be forgotten nor condoned. Again in 1880 the change demanded by the people was defeated by the lavish use of money contributed by unscrupulous contractors and shameless jobbers who had bargained for unlawful profits or for high office. The Republican party during its legal, its stolen and its bought tenures of power has steadily de683812452 cayed in moral character and political |