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Show TELEGRAPHIC CENTENNIAL DEMOCRACY. MKKTIXt; OK TUB NATIONAL I'OWKNTION. A Tcinpanti-y Oi':iiiiz;i(ioti Kir'ertiMl. THE DELEGATES GET RIGHT DOWN TO BUSINESS. lieu ry IVutf irtni 'lompornrj Cliulrmiui . Moiun Nnter .Speechllj inft, but Xo lluiicwiiilte. slKETINti UK THE CONVENTION, St. Louis, 27. The convention aa-Henihlfd aa-Henihlfd in tho lure am) heautiful hiiil of the St. Ljuia Chaiubor of Cuiiimurce, which waa decorated Willi garliiiuia of li-avea, state cu.iU of arum, ilowors, etc. The weather is is very warvu and sultry, betoken in e; a thunder Btorni. Tho delegates wore promptly in tlieir placed, but it was l-.L'Uheloro the toiivention wan callul to oMer by lion. Augustus. Schell, chairman of tho national democratic committee. Meantime the military baud, perched iu the rear of the chairman's desk, kept the usaemblago interested by rendering various lively airs. SOU ELL CALLS TO OKUEH. Mr. Sehell, in calling the convention conven-tion to order, submitted brief remark upon tho purpose ol the convention to nominate tMndiduUe whose election shall change the government anil overthrow corruption. Administra live, reform ia demand by the American Ameri-can people (apphtuse.) The corrup lion now existing in the government must be eliminated. This duly mutt he confided to hands, not of those who nnw hold the government, but tu tliu democratic parly. The thing to he retormed cannot hu re funned by itself. The people are intelligent anu sagacious; they understand their rights and will not again confide their lutrtsts to the republican parly. He reftrred lo the democratic paity as THE HA1ID MONEY PARTY from beginning to end. It was a trick to try to saddle upon it the exit-ling policy, inconsistent with the haid money principle. All the acU authorizing piiper money as ft legal tender and the opening ot the supreme su-preme court sustaining its constitutionality constitu-tionality were during a republican administration. He referred briefly to the evil results of these act. The remedy is not by rapid contraction or increased currency, but the one remedy at this time is the REPEAL OF THE IlESUMPTION ACT, (Applause.) Do that and give the democratic party the rina of government govern-ment and their policy of economy and sound finance will bring specie resumption re-sumption speedily and safely. (Ap-plaiue. (Ap-plaiue. ) in ihia Centennial year of national independence, we have met to adopt ttie me. i na to restore tho cutintry lo its ancient prosperity; may we not hope now. after sixteen years of republicanism, that the democratic demo-cratic party may resume its rightful supremacy in the government? The rules that will govern the convention con-vention will ensure a good nomination, nomina-tion, and he exhortyi to wisdom in making the platform. At the con-elusion con-elusion of bis speech, lie nominated HENRY WAITER SON OF KENTUCKY for temporary chairman. (Applause.) The nomination was unanimously agreed to, and Mr. Barnum of Connecticut Con-necticut and -Mr. Ransom of North Carolina were appointed a commit'ee tor the purpose of conducting Mr. Wit:ersnn to the chair. Mr. U"atterS'"n buing presented was received with applause. He said: WATTERSON'a SPEECH. Gentlemen of the convention : We are called together to determine by our wisiiom whether an honest government, govern-ment, administered by honest men, ehail he restored to the American people, or to I DECIDE BY OUR POLLY lliat it is the destiny of tin country to pursue an endless, ever revolving circle of partisan pission and corruption, corrup-tion, unlit with the loss of our . material well-beinc we lose the pour man's best hope of civil liberty itself. Every citizen of the republic, be he of the one party or the other, feels and lias felt tor many a day the deprcs?iiig influence of hard time. We look ' about ua and wo see neglected fields! and vacant house?; the factory Is closed, the furnace door is shut; there ; aro myriads of idle hands; the happy activity of prosperous lite is nowhere to ho lound. Loyalists fatten while honest men starve. EMPTY TF1E MART AND SHITLESS THE DAY what is it? What has wrought ao great a change in the laud that under tho rule of an intelligent, progressive, constitutional party advanced within half a century from the condition of a handful of petty and squalid provincial pro-vincial colonies to ft foremost place among the nations of the earth? The reason of men must answer, partisan misrule and seotional ni indirection. in-direction. The republicans, my friends, are not alone responsible. With them rests the disgrace, WITH US THE FOLLIES. These twin agents of national mischance, mis-chance, working under the miserable rule of contraries, have kept the people of the north and south asunder, asun-der, and have supplied substance to i corruption. Tney have disturbed values; they have unsettled prices; they have made our whole financial nystern a cheat and a snare; they hftVA rlrivpn tho best elements of OUl political society into exile, nod have organizedjcharlatanism into a sort of a political parly, enabling the rogue to get a cheap advantage of his dupe, and sacrificing every popular inteiest to the lust of that oligarchy, which has become so encrcs'e l with power as to believo itsell entitled tD rule by tho stern force of its wrong doing. So much let us set down to the convenient con-venient pretext of war; so much to the long account of damages between THE NORTH AND THE BOl'TH. It is for you to say whether the same conflict, with consrqti oners imilli plied and magnified, shall, by your action, be inaugurated between the east and the west I shaii not undertake on an oe a-siou a-siou of tl-ii kind nd in a prrs',MH-f o imposii.i;, to enforce the lenu oi muiual forbearance. Nobody dnuhts our capacity lo make the tattle among ourselves. Entreating you to direct your energies to the common enemy, I ask indulgence only in my own buhulf. You have called me to a place nut oulv of distinction, but of ditliculty to n'place which rtquires the best training of a hotter man than lam. In taking it. I trust to your confidence and good nature and to a heart incapable of an unfair or unmanly un-manly act. The work before us should relate to ideas rather than to individuality, It is the issue, not the man, that should engage ua. Vc have i'oni hern lo make lim people', not our iiht, for a free no k-ns thai, an honest government; for the reform of tho puhlic Horvico and tho regeneration regen-eration of the public morals; for administrative ad-ministrative relief Jrom administrative administra-tive nihilism embraced in the SIMPLE CREED OF HOME RULE, reduced taxes and a living chance for the south as well as the north; for both the cast and the west. If anything any-thing comes from our proceedings it must spring from the spirit of aspiration aspira-tion mid fellowship which warmed tho followers of Andrew Jackson and Silas Wright, of Henry Clay and Daniel Wouster, whoso political descendants de-scendants meet together on common ground, nt least, lo wrost the govern-1 govern-1 moot of their fathers from the clutch of rings and robbers, federal, sUte and municipal, and who mean to extirpate extir-pate those, wherever they they are lound and whether they are republicans republi-cans or democrats. THE PRAYER AND THE RULES. The points of tho speech were emphasized em-phasized by frequent applause. At tho conclusion the chairman introduced intro-duced Rev. Mr. Marvin, who offered a prayer. The chair announced as temporary secretary Frederick O. Prince of Massachusetts, aud T. O. Walker of Iowa and S. K, Donovan of Ohio assistant secretaries; Dan Able of Missouri sc-rgeinl-at-arms. 1 Abbott of M ijschusetts moved a resolution adopting the rules of the last national convention until otherwise other-wise ordered. Liulcjohu inquired if this included . the TWO-THIRDS liUI.E. ( Voices Yes !) If so all right. (Applause. (Ap-plause. ) Tne chairman answered, "It does." The resolution was adopted. A QUESTION OP PRECEDENT. Smalley of Vermont offered a resolution reso-lution to call the states in order for the presentation of credentials, which was adopted. Wallace ot Pennsylvania, in order to have democratic precedents observed, ob-served, moved to reconsider the resolution reso-lution just, adopted. He urged that the stales should name their committees commit-tees on credentials and permanent organization before any other business busi-ness was done. He hoped there would be no innovation on past pre-ct pre-ct dents. Ye"d of New York insisted that the resolution adopted was in accordance accord-ance with precedent. Under it credentials cre-dentials are received only for reference to the credentials coinmitee. Wallace read from the otficial proceedings pro-ceedings of the convention of lSuH, to show that the first business was to mate the committees. Dooli'.lle of Wisconsin euggested that there be appointed a temporary ! reading secretary. He suggested that E. O. Perrin be appointed. The chair decided the motion was out of order. The motion to reconsider was rejected, re-jected, and the secretary proceeded to call the roll of states for credentials. Pilney of Illinois moved that E. 0. Perrin be appointed temporary reading read-ing secretary. Finch of Iowa objected. Perrin did not inherit the appointment appoint-ment if he had had it before, and the appointment should be left to the committee on organization. The chair finally deciJed the motion mo-tion out of ordsr. A Minnesota delegate moved the usual resolution to call the roll of states for committees on permanent organization and credentials. Adopt-ted. Adopt-ted. The roll was called and the com-nsUtees com-nsUtees named, Carroll of Tennessee moved that when the convention adjourn it be to o o'clock to-night, when the committees commit-tees just named shall report. Smith of Illinois moved a resolu- each stale be appointed ou resolution and that all resolutions relating to the platform he referred to the said committee wi'hout debate. Adopted. Wetd of New York moved that the chairman of each delegation send lo the name of its member of the platform plat-form committee. There being no objection, it was so ordered. THE FEMALE ELEMENT. Die chairman slated that the delegates dele-gates from the National women's sufl 'age association were present, tubing a hearing. (Cries of "Hear! .hear!") There being no objection, the chair announced that they would be heard. Weed ol New Yrork and Smalley of Vermont were appointed a coram it ten lo escort tho ladies to the platform. The chair announced that a lady had the floor, and refused lo hear any propositions, and Miss Phoebe W. Couzens ascended the platform and addressed the convention as follows : .'. Presidenf, and Gentlemen of the National Democratic Conventions The Centennial anniversary of our national na-tional birthday is also happily a Centennial Cen-tennial leap year. It is in order thou, I tak'j it, not only to receive proposa's from fair women but also to accept them. Taking advantage ol this right and your courtesy, I as a delegate with authority from the fair sex am hero not only to reaffirm lor them the principles of liberty and equality, but to sue for the hand of those here assembled in national convention, con-vention, and tho hand, Mr. President, ' must be neither larger nor smaller than a man's hand. In the good old days of our ancestors it was deemed '. an unpardonable oflcuce if the leap . vear privileges accorded to women were not unhesitatingly acquiesced in and he who did not joyfully say "yes" to the sweet maiden's coy wooing was I regarded wilhpupremo contempt, and in the isolation of single miscrable-ness miscrable-ness died ere his race was run UNWEPT, UM HONORED AND UNSUNG of woman. So then, gentlemen, if as a party you would live long and be prosperous and happy, give heed to the warning from out the gates of paradise, "It is not gxxl for man to he alone," nnd accept for your companion com-panion in the political household sin) who blends all the discordant e)e-men e)e-men s of life in true divine harmony, SWFET NATURE'S UfcTTKR, HA LP. James Madison said, '"Let it be remembered that it has ever been the pride of America that tho rights for which site contended were tho rights of human nature," arid gentlemen, we sk this recognition, not as women, wo-men, but as human beings. Our Magna ChnrU is equality ol rights, and to-day we sue for this, not by force of might and pever, but by the more potent voice of truth and ius-, ius-, tico, Bpeakiug to every man's conscience con-science in tones more persuasive than those which appealed to King John on the field of Kunnymede. Wo cannot assert this right by & ; resort to the sword. Wo confess our inability to thunder forth our claim from tho cannon's mouth, or lo fire shut that can be heard around the world; but in this grand Centennial year, when all others nre Irec, and vhen our minds, expanding to the music ol the ulteranceJ of Jefferson, of Hancock, of Adams and Patrick Henry; with minds expanding to a ionization of their grandeur; with pulses expanding fur the freedom they proclaimed, we would fin pluck a live coal from off the altar of our liberties that shall kindle in your souls a zeal for ALL RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL, ergo, tho universal humanity such as our fathers had when they thrilled the heart of tho people with the cry, "Taxation without representation is tyranny," aud with burning thoughts and noble utterances they wrote by the camp fires of the revolution that immortal truth, that all humanity is created FREE AMD EQUiL. GeutlemcD, we appeal to your sense of justice and right, using but the grand old truths of our fathers to support sup-port our claims, and here we rest our capo, commending to you, in closing, the truth that a sense of justice is in the aovereign power of tho human mind tho most unyielding of any. It rewards re-wards with a higher sanction, it punishes pun-ishes with a deeper agony than any earthly tribunal; it never slumbers, never dies; it constantly utters and demands justice by the eternal rule of right, truth and equality; and ou this eternal foundation of right, truth and equality we stand. COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. The roll of states was then called, and tLo committee on resolutions was appointed as follows : Alabama. L. P. Walker; Arkansas, L. N. Mangum; California, John S. Hagar; Colorado, F. J. Marshall; Connecticut, li. D. Hubbard; Delaware, Dela-ware, George Gray; Florida, J. West-cot West-cot t; Georgia, E. P. Howe! I; Illinois, John A. McOlernand; Indiana, D. W. Voorhees; Iowa, H. H. Trimble: Kansas, Thomas L. Davis; Kentucky, Alvoo Duval) ; Louisiana, K. H. Mann; Maine, Dr. Hastings; Maryland, Mary-land, George. F. Reamer; Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, Edward Avery; Michigan, William L. Bancroft; Minnesota, Daniel Bucks; Mississippi, A. M. Clayton; Missouri, C. H. Hardin; Nebraska, George L. Miller; Nevada, A. C. Ellis; New Hampshire, E. C. Bailey; New Jersey, Jos. W. James; New York, Wax. Dorsheimer; North Carolina, Thomas L. Clingman; Ohio, General Thomas Ewing; Oregon, M. V. Brown; Pennsylvania, Malcolm Hay; Rhode Island, W. B. Beach; South Carolina, Sam. McGowan; Tennessee, J. C. Brown; Texas, A. Smith; Vermont, J. H. Williams; Virginia, John A. Meredith; West Virginia, John J. Davis; Wisconsin, Alexander Mitchell. Various resolutions were sent up and referred under the rule without reading. At eight minutes before 2, St. Louis time, the convention took a recess until 5 p.m. " Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." Yours respectfully, U. S. Grant. This endorsement of a passage of Scripture by the president in a recent letter reminds us of tho story of a bashful, polite man who was suddenly asked to say grace at table. He had never done it in his life, and with much embarrasment ho stammered out: "O Lord, we thank you; we are much obliged to you. Yours respectfully. respect-fully. Amen." New York Hun. |