═════════════════════════════╤═════════╤═════════ │ First. │ Second. ─────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────── B. Gratz Brown, Missouri │ 237 │ 435 Lyman Trumbull, Illinois │ 158 │ 175 George W. Julian, Indiana │ 134-1/2│ ―― Gilbert C. Walker, Virginia │ 84-1/2│ 75 Cassius M. Clay, Kentucky │ 34 │ ―― Jacob D. Cox, Ohio │ 25 │ ―― John M. Scoville, New Jersey │ 12 │ ―― Thomas W. Tipton, Nebraska │ 8 │ 3 John M. Palmer, Illinois │ ―― │ 8 ─────────────────────────────┴─────────┴───────── The following platform was unanimously adopted: The administration now in power has rendered itself guilty of wanton disregard of the laws of the land, and of usurping powers not granted by the Constitution; it has acted as if the laws had binding force only for those who were governed, and not for those who govern. It has thus struck a blow at the fundamental principles of constitutional government and the liberties of the citizen. The President of the United States has openly used the powers and opportunities of his high office for the promotion of personal ends. He has kept notoriously corrupt and unworthy men in places of power and responsibility, to the detriment of the public interest. He has used the public service of the Government as a machinery of corruption and personal influence, and has interfered with tyrannical arrogance in the political affairs of States and municipalities. He has rewarded with influential and lucrative offices men who had acquired his favor by valuable presents, thus stimulating the demoralization of our political life by his conspicuous example. He has shown himself deplorably unequal to the task imposed upon him by the necessities of the country, and culpably careless of the responsibilities of his high office. The partisans of the administration, assuming to be the Republican party and controlling its organization, have attempted to justify such wrongs and palliate such abuses to the end of maintaining partisan ascendancy. They have stood in the way of necessary investigations and indispensable reforms, pretending that no serious fault could be found with the present administration of public affairs, thus seeking to blind the eyes of the people. They have kept alive the passions and resentments of the late civil war, to use them for their own advantage; they have resorted to arbitrary measures in direct conflict with the organic law, instead of appealing to the better instincts and latent patriotism of the Southern people by restoring to them those rights the enjoyment of which is indispensable to a successful administration of their local affairs, and would tend to revive a patriotic and hopeful national feeling.