Ihe Centre Democrat, DIRECTORY. DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFIOERS Oongross, Hon Jno. Patron, Btate Senator, Hon, W, W, Brrr, Clearfield Representatives, Hou. J, A. Woonwanp, Hou. L. Ruoxe, Pr osident Judge 40th Dist, Contre and Montingdon Hon, A, O, Fussy, Bellefonte, Awmociate Judges, Hon. C. Musson, Hon, Daxter Ruoavs, QOouaty Commissioners, Jxo, C, Hexprason, Jno. D, Deoxas, M.D. Fanixs, MATTERN, ——————— Oom missioners’ Clerk, Sheriff, Row'r Cook, Ju. Deputy Sheriff, RB. K, WiLsox, Prothonotary, L. A. Bonasrres. Treasurer, Cravs Goss, Reglater and Clerk Orphans’ Court, Jxo. A. Rure Recorder, dno, F, Hakren, Dep puty Recorder, Perlstine District Attorney, J. 0. Mey ex, Coroner, Dr. Il. K. Hoy. County Detective, Cap’t A, MuLLEN, LODG Es, sel'sfonte Lodge No. 208, A. Y. M_ meets on Tues Ay 1 ght on or before every full moon. Bello # Obapter No. 241, meets on the first Fri ay night of every month, Counstans Commandery No. 33, K.T,, on the second of every month, Hats tot No 15a, 1. 0.0. F. meet every Thurs lay evening st T o'clock at 1.0. 0. ¥. Hall, opposite Jush House. Bellefonte Encampment No. 72, meats the second and fourth Mondays of each mouth in the Hall op- posite the Bush House. Bellefonte Council No. 279,1 of U, A. M. meets every Tuesday eveaing in Bush Arcade, Logan Branch Council No. 141, Jaunlor Ocder U. A M. meets every Friday evening. Bellefonte Cunclave No. 111,1. O. H, meets in Har ris’ New Building the second and fourth Friday eve ning of each mouth. Bellefonte Pencitiles Co, “BB” 5th Reg. NX. 6G. P moots in Armory Hall every Friday evening. I~ A Pp CHURCHES. Presbyterian, Howard street. Rev. Wm. Laurie Pastor Services every Sunday at 10.304 w. and 7 » sm. Sanday School (Chapel) st 2.30 ». mw. Prayer Menting (Chapel) Wednesday at 7-30 7. x. M. BE Church Howard and Spring Streets, Rev. D . Monroe, Pastor, Services every Sunday at 10.30 a. Mm. and 7 v. wu. Sunday School at 2-30 r. Mm. Prayer Meeting Wednesday at 7-30 p. x, 8c. John's Protestant Episcopal Oburch, Lamb and Allegheny streets, Rev. J. Owwald Davis, Rector Services every Sunday at 1830 a. wx, and Tr. = Prayer Meeting Wednesday and Friday evenings. St. John's Roman Catholic, East Bishop Strest, Rev P. MoArdle Pastor. Maw at 6 sod services 1900 4. wu. sod Tr x a a Ea Reformed, Linn and Rpring streets, Rev. W. HH Bnyder Pastor, Services ev ry Sunday at 10-30 4, x and 7 ». nm, Sunday School at 2.30 ». x. Prayer Mooting Wednesday evening at 7.00, Lutheran, Bast High street, Rev, Chas. T. Steck, Pastor Services every Sundsy at 1030 A. x. and 7 », uw. Sunday School at 230 r. x. Prayer Meeting at 1-30 Wednesday evening. United Brothers, High and Thomas Streets, Rev Wertman, Pastor, Bervices avery other Sunday st 1030 a. x. and Tr. x. Bunday School at 9 4. nu. Pray- Meeting Wednesday at 7-30». x. A.M _E. Church, West High Street, Rev. Norris, Pastor. Bervices every Sunday morning and evenin Y.M. C. A, Bpring snd High Streets. Genera Meeting snd Services Sunday std r mw. Library and Reading Room open from 8 4. %. to 10 ». w, daily. Cleveland Nominated. THE FORMALITY OF A BALLOT DISPENSED WITH. An unprecedented Scene of Enthnes iasm— Electric effects of Mr. Dongh- tery's Eloquence— Waiting for the P lat- Jorm, 8r. Loris, June 6. <The Demoeratic National Convention to.day broke the racord with the greatest display of en- thusiasm ever witnessed in a simliar body. For over tweonty consecutive minutes the 12000 people filled the of he great Convention hall with » vol | ume of undiminishing applause com. parable with nothing on earth, pehaps, save the. resr of the Fa'ls of Niagra. It was the utterance of these words: | give you a name entwined with victory. I nominate Grover Cleveland, of New Yosk. The speaker was Daniel Dough- tery, of Tammany Hall, New York, with head proudly erect, every fibre of his fine features quivering, every nerve of his noble figure tense, the magnifi- cent voiced orator was alternately thrilling the vast audience and holding it spell-bound. When at the climax of bis eloquence he named for the first time the man who was uppermost In ih the thoughts of all. It was needless to utter another word. Mr, Doughtery paused for a moment to gaze over the hundreds of frantic, cheering delegates at even the more frantic thousands of speciators Yeyond. High above the forest of heads wer waving innumerable red bandanas, Hats and canes were being pitched into the air, while the ghesting was becoming so terrific that no single eathuasisst could hear his shout in the one overpowering gen oral applause, At this moment, in the mammoth picture of the Capitol at Washington which covered the wall far above the platform and in view of the whole Convention, the doors were seen Lo swing back and the smiling face of President Cleveland beamed out on his admirers: Everybody in the Hall seemed fairly beside himself with the excitement. The stone bust of the President near the Speaker's stand was crowned with a wreath of green snatch od by almost frensied hands from among the decorations of the platform. Long-polled Btate banners among the delegates were being whirled wildly in thie air, whem suddenly the convention with » mighty shout, discovered Danl, Dougherty climbing on a chair in the New Yorkers on the floor, He was waving aloft an American flag. As if moved by a common impulse, the stan dard bearers of the different States all pamed toward New York, ach seeking to resch Dougherty's emblem with his tall stall and toss it to the roof, At this moment the hundreds of American eagles orig aonting the railings of the gallery were being torn off, and their : tip to ead, were flappiog with the use sistuoes of the nearest speoators, men and women alike. the people, Chairman Collins at lengih interposed, and alter repested eftoris directed their attention tall Kene tuckian who stood beside him, This to { Was gi nilem an, Delegate MeKenzie! second the nomination of Cleveland, | and aroused the Convention to newed outburst almost at the frst word, by declaring that there was but Democrat iu the country wore popular than Mr. Cleveland —the queenly wom. an he bas made his wile, Again the convention was in an uproar when the epesker gave un brand-new title to the & re one lender of the Republicans ~the “Flor. | entine Mosaic from Maine, Mr. McKenzie moved to now suspend | the rules and make the nomination of Cleveland abeolutely unsnimus. But everybody wished to join in seconding Cleveland, and everyone was given a chance. Then the thing was done with onejextraordinary hurrah, The other many features of the day in the con- vention was the four-cornered struggle between the Thurman men, the Gray men, the Tariff Reformers and the Pro- tective Tariff element. The Thurman delegates were eager to have the nomi- nation for Vice President made af once, while the enthusiasm was at a fever heat. They were re enforced by the Tariff Reformers, who were incensed st the'lelay on the Committee on Platform and eager to administer a rebuke. The Gesy men were using fabian tactics and had able allies in the Protectionists, Roswell P. Flower, of New York, and Daniel W. Voorhees, of [udinoa, were the opposing leaders, the latter being regarded as the spokesman of Gray. | Though outoumbered many times over the phalanx under Voorhees ing a most determines every inch in a way that threatened to develope ugly feeling. Just when th ngs peresented a particularly squally aspect was mak- 1 fight, contesting White, of California, in the interest of the “old Roman,” poured oil on the troubled waters. The postponement asked for by Voorhees by White on broad grounds and in minner as magn \nimous as it was unex | pected. Theadjournment was in pesce. Many left theball with dark forebodings | regarding what might take plece in the Platform Committee before the Conven. | tion should have reassembled, but the great majority of the delegates fell to discussing on their way out from the hall the exciting details of their own prodeeedin gs. Presiorxr Covring’ Srercn--Mz. Doven- was advocated RRLY's Noxivarion or CLEVDLAND. Sr. Louis, June 6. —At 1022 A. M the Democratic National Convention W 5 called to order by the temporary chairman, and prayer was offired by R Missouri pecially invoded the Divine blessing ev: J, Green, of who es upon the members of tie Conventios who had been intrusted by the people wi te of the States of the Union formance of an important duiy. A h the p* resis ring the Intion was then adopted tend thanks of the Convention to gifs « gavel, and directing that the sone placed in charge of a Nsiooal Cw mittee for use al Dm Conventions. ENTORCENEOT OF THE MINROE DOCTRINE The Chair laid before the Conveutiu credidentials of de'egates from Alask and they were referred to the Commit- tee on Credidentials, T. J. Campbell (N. Y.) seat up to the desk, so that it might be read, a long preamble and resolutions prepared by himself vnd signed by a large number of prominent Democrats, declaring that the perpetuity of the Republic de. mavds the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine in all its length and breadth that territorial aggrandizement by for’ eign Powers in America should be dis- couraged and discountenanced by every meansin the power of the United States; Government: that it is highly wise that this Republic should maintain friendly relations with our sister Republics— Mexico, Central Americ and South America—and with other home‘ruled Powers of America; that we should ex- tend to them our friendly sid to main’ tain themselves and protect themselves from the encrorchment of Foreign Powers, and that if necessary to main’ tain our supremacy on this continent, the Republic of the United States, we should be prepared to declare and maintain its authority by every means in the Power of a great nation. The resolution was referred to the Commit! tee on Resolution without debate. INDORSING THE PRESIDEY'S. Mr. Mallory (Fla) offered the follow log, which was referred to the Commit tee on Resolutions: Resolved, That this Convention here’ by approves and indorses the principles of Tariff Reform enunciated by Presi. dent Cleveland in his first message to the present Congres, and to the policy recommended by him for the practies! application of those principles to the administrat.ons of the Government we give our unqualified and universal sup. port. The mention of Cleveland's name rado delegation for its fature was the signal for a round of applause, outstretche: mime wings, six feet from | which sgnio broke out as the rerding i of the resolutions was completed, In sheer metoy to Committee on Uredidentinly, submitted { C, McGuire, of the Cuurch faction. The committee also found in favor of admit | delegates from Alaska, man, H Ingersoll (Tenn) | Committee; Roswell P. Flower (N- Y.) ( floral sheilds, which h d { ed the letter My, Weber (Aln.) Chairman of the tha report of that Com.nittes on the Dakota contested case, The Committee found in favor of W, F. Siecle and G, ws ting Messrs. Dulaney and Garnet The report was agreed to. PERMANENT ORGANIZATION, The Chairman then called for reports from the Committee on permsnent or- ganization, and Mr, Cassidy (Pa.) its Chairman, reported that it had uoani- mously agreed upon General Patrick A Collins ( Mass.) for permanent Chg The anvouncement was reccis H ommended | ed with loud applause and cheers WAS red as Secretary. and one delegate {rom each State as Vice President, and one as Assistant Secretary. The Cemmittee farther recommended that the rules of the previous Conven- tion shall be in force during the pres ent Convention, with the modification that no State shall change its vote for. President und Vice President until the cll of States shall have been complet’ ed. The report of the committee was agreed Lor Cosirman White Chairman Barnum, then announced of the National and John O'Day (Mo.) a committes to escorl the permanent Chairman of the the committee was precoesding to the place Convention to the stage. Just as where Mr, Collins sat in the Massschu- celts two pages appesred besriog two to the Convention to be presented at its permiosent organization with the Hon. David R. Mayor of St. Louis. The largest of these floral upon the Convention singe, was a mag been sant com pliments of Francie offerings, which were pleced of pificent shield Jacqueminot roses upon which in white roses was inserib- ay As borne to Collins, these test the plat armin arm Mr. Flower monisls were form Mr. with Mr. Baroum and marched down the south aisle, and his | appearance was greeted sith a storm of cheers which grew in volume as he mounted the steps of the platform and stood by the side of Chairman White, {competent adm nisirator {eral Dovernment in its iu | { Lhe bar of public reas What diff rence is there two parties 7 between the the d ference The Damocratie ereod was by of the people, but Every Danone at kn ws not penged | Jetlorson for a BEC JON OF A Cine for wll time, These | priveiples conserved and expanded the Republic in all ite better days A & riet | wdiierence to them will it to | | to d iY, pire serve Bo the D moerary of the end, od y believe with Jef! ryon in, to ui ns in Lhe pas Firs'. Equal and exact jostios mon, of whatever state or persuasion, | religious or pol tical. | | | Second, Pesce, commerce and hones i friendship with all nations, entungling | allinnces with one. | Third, Support of the State Govern ments in all their rights as the most rns, nnd the ris 5 COnoy Kirest DULY Linst anti-Repub cin tendencies, Fourth. The preservation Got Whole constitu tional vigor as the sheet anchor of our pence and safety abroad, Fifth, A jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe lopped off by the sword of revolution where corrective of sbu-es which are peacesble means are unprovided, Sixth. Absolute scquiescence in the decisions of the majority the vital prin- ciple of Republics, from which there is! oo appeal but to fo ce, the vital princi- | ple and immediate parent of despotism. | Seventh. A well disciplined millitia, our best reliance in peace and for the | first moments in war. E ghth. The supremacy of the civil | over the military authority. Nioth Economy in the pubic ex- penses, that labor may Le lightly bur dened, Tenth debits and the preservation of The honest pavment of I our ur pub. ! faith Eleveoth. Encouragement of agrical- ture and of ecommerce as its handmaid Twelfth, The diffusion of n and arraignment of all informe | abuses at a. i | Fre edom of the press, | | of i of Thirteenth. Freedom of religion, Fourteenth Fifteenth. the Freed mn the person under protection the habeas corpus, Sixteenth. Trial by juries impartially selreted, Add to these the golden economic rule that no more taxes should be levied Are upon the people 10 any way than who grasped his band and waited the appiause to dieout. When some- | like had been restored Chairman White said : Thanking you for the favors you have | extended to me and for | i thing quiet your indulgence accorded me so far in the proceedings | of this great Convention, | take pleas. ure in introducing to you your permans Hon Patrick A i ins, of Massachusetis, ent presiding officer, Cal SPEECH OF PREMDEST COLLLINS Mr Mr | Collins thesilver gavel presented by the White then passed over to Co.orado delegation, and retired of There | snot} burst applause, snd | ded Mr. Collins said : | this place ey t bad sul Fo stand by your favor in «0 ofien filled by the formost men in i# a distinction of jrarty, the | an honor grateful. In perfurmiog the delicate and difficult which you have assigned me I can senrcely hope to justify the wis fom of your choice, | shall at all times need a continuance of your indulgence and courtesy, as well as your full oco- operation to promote order, decorum snd good will, until, these proceedings are brought to a happy close. We represent in this Convention more than 30,000,000 of the American people. We bear the commission to act with all the wisdom that God has given us to protect and safeguard the char cter and fo, | ch | sm profoundly service Lo {1 i orate } { domain to our territory, | Our peo; le. | sre here to-day representatives necessary 10 meet the honest expenses of government, and you have a body of principles to sin against which has been political death to every party hitherto, be sin against which in the future will HILCal suicide, Demo- i r True to these principles the party fouzht successfully ou foreign wars, protected our citizens in every clime, compelled the respect of all nations for our flag, sdded imperial and insured peace, prosperity snd happiness to all the Federal Whig and Know-Nothing par. False to these principles, great ties went down never {0 rise, and we of the party that has survived all others—the united, triumphant, invincible Demo- eracy —prepared to strike down forever | the last surviving foe in November. | Our standard must be the rallying | point now and in the futare for all good | citizens who love and cherish republi. ean institutions, who love liberty regu- | lated by the constitution and law, who believe in a Government not for a class or for a few but a Government of all the people, by all the people and for all the people. This bas been the asylum for all good men from over the earth who flee from want and oppression and mean to become Americans, But we invite and welcome only “friends to this ground and liegemen"” to the Re | day. I | one central idea and when | by | twenty-four years, till at last the Amer | | nad the whole Union necessary victory. | ward typical American citizen {at the election, took the oath of {in the presence of the multitude —a day ining of a new one, { of usurpation of power by the isathority of illegal institutions of the Republic ss the fathers founded them. In a time when the world was King: ridden and pauperized by the privileg. ed few —~when men scarcely dared to breathe the word “liberty,” even if they understood its meaning the people scattered along our Eastern coast, with a sublime heroism never equaled, broke from all traditions, rejected all known systems, and established, to the amaze. ment of the world, the political wonder of the ages, the American Republic, the child of revolution nursed by philoso: phy. The band that framed the immorta) Declaration of independence is the band that guided the emancipated country to progress and glory, It is the hand that guides us still in our on- ward march as a free and progressive people. The principles upon which our Government can securely rest—upon which the peace, prosperity and liber. ties®f the people depend—are the principles of the founder of our party, the apostle of Democracy, Thomas Jef ferron, Our young men under 30 have heard moras in their time of the olssh of arms and the echoes of war than of the principles of government. It has been a period of passion, force, impulse and emotional politics; so that we need pot wonder that now and then we hear the public. Our institutions cannot chaz to meet hostile wishes, nor be s0 much as sensibly modified save by the peace. ful and deliberate action of the mass of our people in accordance with the Con- stitution and the laws of the land. Whatever problems the present has or the future may present, so far as poli tical action can affect them, will be dealt with by the American people within the law. And in the future as in the past, the people will find securi- ty for their liberty and property, en- couragement and protection for their industries, peace and prosperity, in fol- lowing the party of the American masses which will ever shield them against the aggressions of monopoly and power on the one vide and on the other the surgings of chaos, While almost all the rest of the civil ized world is darkened by armies, crushed by Kings or nightmared by conspiracies, we alone enjoy a healthy peace, a rational liberty, a progressive prosperity. We owe it to our political institutions, to Democratic teachings, at least as much as to the exuberant soil. The man is not a good American who, knowing what we are, by aot or word experimeat or (bought, in any way will attempt to weaken the founs dation of this splendid political struc ture—~The Republic of the United Biates, Wo moet to.day under condi- question sked and searcely snewered. i #eemed as if the shadows of deat c¢los- ed nhout us when the day of victory secined almost us fur away ss the day of general judgment, It could nos then be said that we met We Democratic for spoils or personal advantage. met to ke. p the fires of liberty alive till the dawn of a teites we were a party of misfortune, t must also be sgreed that we were HY party of undaunted eoursge and inflex- | Irie princip es. Mwenty-eight years ago the Democratic party, rent in frag. ments, heated by feuds that only time could allay or punishment destroy, met | as it looks now, merely to settle in an- | | gry mood the terms upon which they | become exiles from power By their mand dicsensions they elected to to defeat rather than wait for the 2 | ng influen e of tim» Lo close he Lthiast mitigated bregch, To the younger men of day the act seemed wsyicide, by insanity, Their madness transfers ed 10a minority of the American peo ple the political government of all. Fat party, whatever the honesty and re-pectability of its members, however patriotic its motives, was not brosd or nations: at its base, It had almost but that idea was set in the Constitution and crysia’ iz-d into law it ran a career o! riot that appalled all men. The history of that period of political debsuchery is too sad and familiar to Americans to recite it anew, The Republican party —some times peacefully and sometunes by force, shmetimes fairly and sometimes fraud succeeded in holding power | ican people, no longer coudoning its faults or forgiving its sins, hurled from power and again committed the the our political affsirs. the historic party of admipistra-~ tion of the well-earned the We won by dence of the country in rectitude | of our purpose, by the aid of chivalrous | and conscieocious men who could ho | longer brook the corruptions of Repub* It was a great, The day on ' licsn party. { Grover Cleveland, the plain staightior- chosen office #0 lovely snd so perfect that all nature seemed exuberantly to sanction and to | celebrate the victory the close of the old era and the begin- It closed the era force, of genersl contempt for constitutional limitations law; profligate and plain of glaring | and uospeakable corruption; of narrow | sectionslism and class strife; of a party whose good work had long been done. It began the era of perfect peace and perfect union of the States, fused in all | Republic their sovernity into a federal public service conducted with absolute | integrity and strict economy; of reforms pushed to their extreme limit: of com- and prehensive, sound safe policy giving security and confidence to | sll enterprise and endeavor —a Demo | oantie Administration, faithful to its mighty trust, loysl to its pledges, true to the Constitution, safeguarding the interests and liberties of the people. And now we stand on the edge of an- other era, perhaps a greater contests with a relation 10 the electors that we have not beld for a generation —that of responsibility for the great trust of gov ernment. We are no longer authors, but scoountants; no longer eritios, but the criticised, The responsibility is ours; sod if we have not taken all the power necessary to make that responsi. bility good the fault is ours not that of the people, Wa are confronted by a wily, un sorupulous and desperate foe. There will be no speck on the record that they will not magnify into a blot, no circumstance that they will not torture and misrepresent, no disappointment that they will not exaggerate into a re- volt, no class or creed that they will not seek to inflame, no passion that they will not attempt to rouse, no fraud that they will not willingly perpetuate, They fancy indeed that there is no im: posture too monstrous for the popular credulity, no crime that will not beecon: doned. Bul we stand at guard full armed at every point to meet them, Our appeal is not "to passion nor to predjudies, to class or faction, 10 rece or creed, but to the sound common sense. the interest, the intelligence and patriotism of the American people. The administration of President Cleveland has triumphantly justified his election, It corpels the respeot, confidences and approval of the coundiry, The prophets of evil and disaster are dumb, What the people see Jo the Govern mont of the Union restoren to its an’ cient footing of justice, peace, honesty aad unpartial enforoemont of law, They see Lhe veterans of the civil war grant* od pensions long due them to the amount of more than twice in number sod nearly three tisaes in the value of those granted under any previous Ad tions new to the Democrats of this gen. i ministratin, They sar mars than 39, a ¥ | Who-e fears of Democratic rule were | played upon by demagogues four yes'g it | to | Constitution | confi- | dererved, | i which | that day marked | Federal | financial | ’ eration, How often we stood in Con 000.000 acres of lond, recklessly and ventions of the puss when to others ft! of the thilieun regime, restored to healt of the tilly held by the Hes ed ile gronlees rapt tae ub man for the bonest seitlers. They see the negro, ag not only more fully protected than by his pretended friends, but bonored face was never hooored before, Ihiey see a financisl policy under which reckle « practically Lg aR ulation bs teessed snd capital freed from distrust, { They see a financial policy under which | rockliss bas practically | erased and capital freed from distrust. | Thev sve for the first time an bonest the the employes speculati mn observance of the law governing » d Leh 4 | * establi-hment, ns of the political sinand for tribute in roles offices Lier of dismisses) Fliey | abolished snd expenses of administra- Soe tion reduced, while improved methods have lifted the public service to high | efficiency. They see tranquility, order, in an watchlul, steady, safe and security und equal justice restored | the land i pairiotic Adminstration -the solemn | promises made by the Democracy faith- { fully kept. It isan booest Goverment I! this record seem the blood-thriluog by honest m n. prose, if 14 lack | element, if it be not lighted with lurid | fires, if it cannot by illustrated by a py~ | rolechoio difplay, if it be merely the (p ian record of a constituiional party {in a time of peace engaged in sdminis- | trative reforms, it is because ihe, people | of the country four years ago elected [not to trust to sensation and ex peris {ment however brillisot and alluring, helm ina ttesdy hand with a fearless trastworthy pasriotic man behind it. Upon that re- | but preferred to place the cord and upon our esrnest efforts, as | yet incomple e, to reduce aod equalize { the burdens of taxation, we eoter the | canvass and go to the polis confident hat the free and intelligeat people of Will say, i { well done good and faithful servants. this great country will say To the patriotic independent ditizens their old allegiance and came to our support, snd | who four years ago forsook { who since that time have nobly sustain” {ed the Administration, the Democ:atiz party owes a deep debt of gratitude. {that they have been reviled and insult: led by their is not { only a signal compliment to their char- former associstes | acter and influence but another evi. | dence of the decadence of the Repub- | lican party. Blind worship of the ma- | chine —~the political Juggernaut —is ex- | acted from every msn who will take | even standing room in that party. The | Democratic temple is opea to all; and {if in council cannot agree in all things, our motlo In essentials, | unity; in non.essentials, liberty, in all we in: things, chan To ali gO yd men we LAE y in; good wiil ne'er halted at the door-stone, Come [with limited but smple powers; of a | As four years ago you voted with us lo | reform the Administration, to conserve well-being of join with as ithe work so what re- our institutions for the our common country, so | again in the aj proval ol well accomplished, vw complete We ask you to | remains undone. member that it is a fatal error to weak- en the hands of a political organization by which great refortas have been acheived and risk them in the hands of their known wsdversaries, Four years ago you trusted tentative- ly the Democratic party, snd supports ed with zeal and vigor its candidate for President. Yo: thought him strong in all the sturdy qualities requisite for the great task of reform. Behold your splendid justification! No President in the time of peace had so difficult and laborious a duty to perform. His party had been out of power for twenty-four years, Every member of it had been almost venem- ously excluded from the smallest post where administration could be studied. Every nlace was filled by men whose interest it was to thwart inquiry sod belittle the Administration; but the master hand came to the helm, and the true course has been kept from the beginning. We need not wait for time to do just: ioe to the character and, services of Provident Cleveland, Honest, clear sighted, patient’ grounden in respect for law and justics, with = thorough grasp of principles and situations, with marvelous and conscientious ladustry the very incarnation of fSrmuess=—he bas pobly fulfilled the promise of hi party, nobly met the sxpectstions of his country and written bis name on the soroll where future Ameicans will read the names of men who have been supremely useful to the Republic. Fellow Democrats, this is the initial meeting in a politieal campaign destin. to be memorable. Lat no man here or elsewhere belittle or underestimite the strength or resources of the opposition. But great as they are, the old Demos oratic party, in conscious strength and perfect union, faces the issue fearless Iy. SYMPATHY EXPRESSED FOR GENWAYL SHERI DAN, Rerolved, That this Coavention take necasion £5 expat Il wi la d sore
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