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Show Will Senator Gorman Be the Democratic Nominee. Great Enthusiasm at Each Mention of Hi3 Name at the State Convention at Baltimore-Synopsis of the Convention. Baltimore, July 30. It is well known that United States Senator Arthur V. Gorman is a candidate for re-e!cctiou by the next General Assembly Assem-bly of Maryland, and that his name has been mentioned frequently for presidential presi-dential honors. Attention has been centered tipan him, and also upon the state convention of his party, which was held here today. Although Senator Sen-ator Gorman was unable to be piVoC-nt the convection was unanimously for him, as was shown by the resolutions adopted and the frequent and rapturous applause whenever his name was men tinned. Xot only does the platform recognize his signal services to Democracy, Demo-cracy, but a special resolution endorsing endors-ing lum for re-tlec:-ion to the senate gives evidence of the esteem in which he is held. One enthusiastic speaker said that th- "leader in defeating the force bill would be the next president of the United States." Hon. Raines Coinpton, chairman of the state central committee, called the. convention to order at noon. Ex-Governor Henry Lloyd was selected chairman. chair-man. The preliminary organization being completed and nominations in order, Dr. Frank T. Shaw, of Carroll county, placed in nomination Frank Drown for governor. The following is a synopsis of the platform adopted: After condemning candidates nominated by the other parties it takes up matters of national interests andjeontrasts unfavoranly the administration of President Damson and the late Republican congress w ith the administration of President Cleveland Cleve-land and the Democratic congress. It declares the Republican administration of congress has disregarded the pledges of its party with regard to civil service reform and reduction of taxes incident to the tariff. Civil service commission in the United States as a whole to-day, it declares, is a partisan organization doing political service for the administration adminis-tration by which it is employed. President Harrison and the Republican Republi-can congress, it continued, found on U eii advent to power a large surplus in the treasury left by the econimical Democratic administration. The stir-I plus told a plain tale on the people, demonstrating that the taxes imposed by the Republican administration are in excess of th- needs of the government govern-ment economically administered and therefore unnecessary and unjust. In the place of the reduction which the people were led to expect, the plat-torm plat-torm says that the finances of the country have been mismanaged and wild speculations and commercial disasters dis-asters have billowed in its train. The surplus was wanted in extravagant expenditures ex-penditures and the unjust and" unnec-cessary unnec-cessary taxation continued. The Republican party found on the advent of Harrison to office, it savs, a people no longer divided by sectional lines but prosperous and thoroughly united. The Republican partv through the agency of its speaker" had deprived de-prived the Democrat of their rightful right-ful seats and sought to perpetuate its power and destroy the autonomy of several states by means of the notorious notori-ous Force bill. ihe Democratic party, it say?, is deeply grateful to the senators and representatives rep-resentatives who contributed to the defeat de-feat of the obnoxious measure, and more especially to Hon. Arthur P. Gorman, whose leadership contributed ii it w the ueteat. The existing tariff system, the platform plat-form declares, casts an unnecessary burden upon the people, tends to accumulate ac-cumulate enormous wealth in the hands of the few and promote monopolies. monop-olies. These abuses it believes can on ly bo corrected by the election of a president and congress pledged to a careful and thorough revision of the tariff sy stem. ! A dollar in gold coin and a dollar in silver coin should h of equal exchangeable exchange-able value, the platform declares, "in ' all markets of the United States a:.d any attempt to depreciate by legisla- ; tion either of these metals ought to be deprecated and condemned." The platform closes with an en dorsement ot senator Gorman for reelection re-election by the next assembly to the senate. From first to last the convention was more of a ratification meeting and orv-atioM orv-atioM to Senator Gorman than a party convention. |