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Show ST. LOl'lS CONVENTION. General .IcClcrnaiid Permanent Perma-nent PreMtUetit. Complete Or'iiniznt Ion Adjournment Ad-journment till H-I it i-daj . EVENING SESSION. The convention was called to order at 5.25. English of California, from the committee on credentials, reported that there were no coutested seats (applause), and that the states are all represented. A petition was presented for the admission of delegates from the District Dis-trict of Columbia. Tho chair said the petition, under the rules, goes to the committee on credentials. Tho Maryland delegate moved to amend the report of the credentials committee so us to admit tho District of Columbia delegates, Columbus Alexander and Mr. Ball, without a 1 vote. 1 Clymer moved to amend further by 1 including tho delegates from terri- j toriea. This being accepted by the mover of the original amendment, it j was adopted and tho report was then 1 adopted. Hanua of Indiana, from tho com- 1 mittee on permanent organization, reported for permanent president JOHN MCCLERSAND ol Illinois; also a list of vice presidents presi-dents and secretaries. Among them were tho following: From California, Colonel Jack Hays, vice president, George M, Cornwall, secretary; Nevada, John C. Fall nnd R. M. Kelly; Colorado, Sam McBridc and J. D. Marston; Kansas, Wilson Shannon and Samuel Donaldson; Nebraska, Alex. Beer and Charles McDonald, Oregon, R. R. Thompson, and H. H. Gilroy. A delegate moved to add to the reading secretaries E. O. Perrin, New York. Rejected. The significance of this motion lies in the fact that Perrin, who hf.s been reading read-ing clerk from the last convention, had been dropped for opposition to Tilden's nomination. General Fitzhugh Leo of Virginia and Dorsheimcr of New York were i appointed a committee to conduct; being absent Man ton Marble of Now York and Bocock of Virginia were substituted. Mr. McCIernand being conducted to the platform addressed the convention conven-tion as follows ; m'clekn.vnd's sriiEcii. Gentlemen of the National Demo-cralic Demo-cralic Convention : I thank you for the distinguished honor which you have done mo in directing me to preside over your deliberations. You are the delegates of the democracy of the whole Union of thirty-seven states once unuaturally estranged, but now firmly united iu one undivisi-ble undivisi-ble republic, brethren of one political family, with the same heritage f liberty, under oqual laws and HEIRS OF ONE DESTINY. Shall we preserve and transmit that great heritage; shall we make that destiny the most glorious in the his tory of a free people? If your deliberations, delib-erations, fellow democrats, to-day shall be wise, if your perception of the necessities of our time, our country, our politics, eh all be just and sagacious, saga-cious, il our sympathy shall be quick with the hearts of a great people, then beyond all peradventure we will transmit to our children and our childrcns' children unimpaired thin priceless heritage, and yours will b: a better renown thau the renown meat prized by the Romans "OOXDITORES IMPERIORUM." Far greater than the founders of empires are the preservers of rep i lilies. li-lies. There are no enemies of the , Union to-day on this continent, except that great administrative centralism which is congregating at the capitol the vital currents i which ougtit to flow out thru'i every part, giving life to the farilwr-est farilwr-est extremities ol the body pnlnic, and energy to all iU members. Centralism Cen-tralism and corruption have irn i -t-l upon ten Btates the rapacious TYBASNr OF CARI'KT UAO RULE, and sinco tho pcaco have addt-.l $200,000,000 to their debts. Tupy have infected the government of ur southern Btates and northern citii-d with the Binio disease of extravagance extrava-gance and fraud. They have debauched de-bauched the federal government itsoil and made tho names of scores ol it high officers and public men a public scandal and an open shame. T I it-record it-record is horrible. Incapacity, ve nality, waste and fraud, and the party which has been powerless Id beat down anu trample under, luot its CDrruptionists WITH BTL'1'ENUL'Ot'.-t i. r'KRONTE ty il pledging iUclf to a reform of which it has become incapablo. So that the party plulgt-d iislf to ri'stnrt; Bpecie payments, as it 1ms every year tiken us f.irttior from spot ii- payment, so it pledged itself to civil nirvict; reform re-form and then dropped nnd mockl its reformers; bo it pledged itsnlt to protect American labor, mid with iis monstroua custom limine luxation mi over 3.0U0 article?, it Im-j impoverished impover-ished American labor, A fow score monopolists, a few thousand corrup tionists have been enriched, hut capital in tho handB ol those who earned it by industry and saved it by frugality, ia everywhere distrustful and rusts, unused, while honest labor gosa ABOUT TUK STREET IIKOOIXO Hit K A I). Is this then tho final outcome of n century of republican self -government? Forbid it, gracious Gud! lint we have wandred fur from the right paths; wo must return to thn constitutional consti-tutional principles, tho frugal ex penditures and the administrative purity of tho founders of thu republic. repub-lic. This is the first, tho most imperious im-perious necessity of our day and nation. This jh tho appeal we havti to m.iko to our fellow citizens of every former political altiliution. Thit in the one supreme, commanding inmie to which all others aro inferior, all ntherB trivial. Jiufurm I Kclorm I Reform I II you shall reeog nizo this imperious neecHHity; it you shall guarantee in your platform tho Bucccsulul achievement of this arduous woik of national regeneration; re-generation; If you shall select standard-bearers true to your pledge, victory in tho November contest is already yours. Jnciirnnto tho vitnl issue of roform in your caudidalo and platform nnd tho stales that have honored Douglas and Lincoln, tho Rtates which honor Jfendricks nnd Thurman, Hancock and Parker, Bayard and Tilden those stales, with all their vast population, will rifin liko tho woods and tho windn that followed tho fluting Orpheus, will rie and follow you to victory. Belmont of Now York rose to rend a paper to tho convention, which he preceded with somo remarks, very indistinctively heard in tho confusion in tho hall, but which aro undurHlood to havo boon n nhan critioiiin of thn republican party and the administration, administra-tion, followed by somo suggestions as to the duty of tlio democratic leaders, whom ho characterised as having been too timid In tho tmnt, and loo much disposed to make candid jiUh and platforms to r.ateh popular vote rather than to declare uud uphold great principle!. Ju conclusion lie rend a series of resolutions: arraigning the republican party and denouncing it in detail, which were referred l the committee on resolutions. It being announced that the platform plat-form committee would not be ready to report earlier, the convention ad journed till 11 o'clock to-morrow : morning. ' After the adjournment, iu response re-sponse to loud cntlj, Dan Voorhees ol Indiana, aroe and addressed the convention. He appealed to the members of tho party to bury their differences of opinion if they had any nnd unite in the grand stiuggle against the enemy. The east and tho south he asked not to leave the northwest alone on the field lo be J scalped. They had no personal animosities ani-mosities to justify; but if there is one man who can get more voles than I another, he was the man for the 1 parly. The times were oo serious, 1 the issues too mighty, lor a personal , thought to intervene. Three limes in the last twelve yeais the north west had charged the enemy's lines under the leal of the gallant democracy de-mocracy of New York, and if it had to be so again, they would dress in parade, and even it it wan a forlorn for-lorn hope, they would fight like men. Voorhee was frequently applauded aud when he sat down there wero loud cries of "go on." ANTI-CHINESE PLAXK. Several different delegates have sent ; to the platform committee resolutions against Chinese emigration, in varying vary-ing phrase and force. These, no doubt, from informal expressions in committee, will bj incorporated. Judge Hage r's resolution declares specifically against the importation ot Mongolian women for immoral purposes, and men under servile hilor contracts, and invokes the whole power of government for it suppression. TILDEN LACKS A FttW VOTES. The best judgment in reviow of the day's work ia that Tilden's strength has waned somewhat. While he still holds a decided majority of deletMtes there is a growing ennviet-nn that he cannot secure two thirds in the convention, con-vention, but will Ull seventy-five short on the tiret ballot. I do not predict his failure because Til den s management generally makes him stronger in the convention from unexpected quarters limn anticipate,!, but uuless money sh:iil he freely u.-ed in certain qmirlers to defeat the com bination making to-oiulit 1'iLlen is in imminent danger of defeat unless nominated on the first ballot. In that case the present indications m-e. th-U Hendricks vill ala,j c shelved and HANCOCK OU 1'AI.KIIU come to tho front. Voorhees' speech was a good stroke by anti Tilden men, and elective in augmenting the influence o; Hendricks' Hend-ricks' friends against tho policy of Tilden's nomination. Tho-e who called him out also h.i-l in v e tht .objectof bringing him into pronu ! 'lence before the coiiv,M'-ion '.s a compromise tor one pla.1!; on the ticket, as there is a general fee ing that speci.il tfiorls should be m.ide to save Indiana hy giving her one candidate can-didate if possible. BAYARD t)OMIN'U L'i Midnight. Prominent Tilden men privately admit the loss of over thirty vote? since yesterday by diidntcgratiou. Kur i nat anee, Georgia will cost ntx teen votes for Bayard, a Tilden !'-jot !'-jot il iu one suit alone, as Til deti'ti strength in the (umth wa. l.krely based on the strength ot ti e assertion of hiii tympalhizers that u was the only cuiulid.-ttu ham 14 a chance of succes-. Tin; peraNt'-nt opposition from e.v Yorkers who denouiiio his wuak ins., hegini lo teli etU-clm-Iy. U looks uu.v hs il Tilden might. 1.01 b. I.ov 100 on the tiri ballnt. Tim so.itn generally gen-erally prtfen llayard, m -se v.ilc Hi the first lullot promise to he. un-oonr.irjr.g un-oonr.irjr.g to null lurlher draw fn.ni Tilden. Hitherto they mterilia-d him lo lh Tdden expediency. Yne Maryland Mary-land delegation learning that Tilden iikii were caWiiy llvit Biy.trd was re.idy to get out of his way, whenever Unit would uoininaiti torn, to-day lormally dticlarcl in U Uy trd wmild remain in Ihe race until beaten. Tne platform e-iiiiiiiitiei; i i work without cnnclndmi: 'h- tin.inei.il plank. It u rumored to he the principal dilli -ulty. Ktlorts ure ni-tk-in to cnmprotniie on a repeal ot Ihe rectirnplion n t, :o-d thu adoption of A vague pi ink tin the curreney n'lis-lion. n'lis-lion. iliilolmg is t'xp'Cttd early to-morrow. to-morrow. TJI.) KS I.I. K1UMT, flhicngo, 27. Thf J-nrmil St. n'fioa bm li u iiiixuiiin nave the convention w.-ll in htod and aro prepaid Id firoe hi- noruio-itioii as :oon ufc liny can g'-l prehroinnry ornaiiijsttinn out of ihti wny. Somo delegate believed lo h.j o,.j.M-d lo him have suddenly :md nirungly de-j de-j eided to vot'- lor hmi when wanted. |