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Nomination for President for the Democratic Party of 1888
No full textUnique document composed by the Nominating Committee of the National Democratic Party 1888 presented to Grover Cleveland for renomination during his first presidency. Signed by representatives from every state and territory within the nation.Courtesy of the State of New Jersey Division of Environmental Protection, the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Historic Site, Caldwell, New Jersey.Washington, D. C., June 26-th, 1888. - To the Honorable Grover Cleveland of New York. -
Sir: - The Delegates to the National Democratic Convention, representing every State and Territory of our Union, having assembled in the city of Saint Louis on June 5-th inst. for the purpose of nominating Candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States, it has become the honorable and pleasing duty of this Committee to formally announce to you, that without a ballot, you were, by acclamation, chosen as the Standard bearer of the Democratic Party for the Chief Executiveship of this Country, at the election to be held in November next. Great as is such a distinction under any circumstances, it is the more flattering and profound when it is remembered that you have been selected as your own successor to an office, the duties of which, always onerous, have been rendered of an extraordinarily sensitive, difficult and delicate nature because of a change of Political Parties and methods, after twenty-four years of uninterrupted domination. This exaltation is, if possible, added to by the fact that the Declaration of Principles - based upon your last Annual Message to the Congress of the United States relative to a Tariff-reduction and a diminution of the expenses of the Government - throws down the direct and defiant challenge, "for an exacting scrutiny of the administration of the executive power, which four years ago was committed in its trust to the election of Grover Cleveland President of the United States, and for the most searching enquiry concerning its fidelity and devotion to the pledges which then invited the suffrages of the people." An engrossed copy of that platform - adopted without a dissenting voice - is herewith tendered to you. In conveying, Sir, to you, the responsible trust which has been confided to them, this Committee beg, individually and collectively, to express the great pleasure which they have felt at the results attending the National Convention of the Democratic Party, and to offer to you their best wishes for official and personal success and happiness. - We have the honor, Sir, to be - Your Obedient Servants, - Patrick A. Collins, [sig.] Chairman; Thos. S. Pettit, [sig.] Sec'y; Jno. H. Caldwell [sig.] Alabama, Wilson E. Hemingway [sig.] Arkansas, Wm. D. English [sig.] California, Casimiro Barela [sig.] Colorado, Wm H Barnum [sig.] Conn, E.R. Cochran [sig.] Dela., John Triplett [sig.] Georgia, James S. Ewing [sig.] Illinois, AW Conditt [sig.] Indiana, Wm W. Baldwin, [sig.] Iowa, S. F. Neely [sig.] Kansas, Charles D. Jacob [sig.] Kentucky, John Fitzpatrick [sig.] Louisiana, R. W. Black [sig.] Maine, Wm S Wilson [sig.] Maryland, Chas. D. Lewis [sig.] Mass, Thos F McGarry [sig.] Michigan, John M. Allen [sig.] Miss, John Ludwig [sig.] Minn., Jasper N Burks [sig.] Missouri, X [X on this line for Nebraska missing here?], Jas. S. Mooney [sig.] Nevada, G. Byron Chandler [sig.] New Hampshire, Solomon Scheu [sig.] New York, Thos. W. Strange [sig.] North Carolina, M. V. Ream [sig.] Ohio, M S. Hellman [sig.] Oregon, R. S. Patterson [sig.] Pennsylvania, Isaac Bell Jr [sig.] Rhode Island, Leroy Springs [sig.] South Carolina, M. T. Bryan [sig.] Tennessee, W H Pope [sig.] Texas, John D. Hanrahan [sig.] Vermont, Basil B Gordon [sig.] Virginia, B. F. Harlow [sig.] West Virginia, R. B. Kirkland [sig.] Wisconsin, Jas Sullivan [sig.] Montana, Antonio Joseph [sig.] Mew Mexico, Wm M. Ferry [sig.] Utah Ter., J. R. Dixon [sig.] Wyoming Ter, J. J. Browne [sig.] Washington Ty, J M Silcott [sig.] Idaho Ter, L. Gardner [sig.] Washington D. C., John T. Carey [sig.] Alask
John Parvin
No full textOral history interview with John Parvin as conducted by Jerry Grover. Helen Parvin is also featured.INTERVIEW WITH JOHN PARVIN
WITH MRS. HELEN PARVIN
BY JERRY GROVER JANUARY 29, 2002
MR. GROVER: Why don’t you introduce yourself John?
MR. PARVIN: I am John R. Parvin. My middle name is Ray, without the “mond” on
the end. It’s just straight Ray.
MR. GROVER: When were you born?
MR. PARVIN: January 24, 1914.
MR. GROVER: So you just turned 88?
MR. PARVIN: I’m 88 as of last week.
MR. GROVER: Where were you born John?
MR. PARVIN: Gaston, Oregon.
MR. GROVER: Gaston, Oregon. So you are a native to the northwest.
MR. PARVIN: There’s only one reason I was born there. My father was a manager of
an apple orchard up in the [unintelligible] area. And my grandparents lived at Gaston, so
my mother went home to have her brat.
MR. GROVER: And you were “the brat?”
MR. PARVIN: That’s right.
MR. GROVER: Did you go to school in Gaston?
MR. PARVIN: No, I only stayed there long enough to get my diapers on and take off for
Hood River.
MR. GROVER: So you grew up in Hood River?
MR. PARVIN: My dad was a hired manager. He would rather have farmed for himself
so I grew up around this area.
MR. GROVER: Where did you go to school?
MR. PARVIN: Which school? High School? That was the old Vancouver High School
at “26” and Main.
MR. GROVER: Did you go to College?
MR. PARVIN: Yes, and no. I took college courses wherever I was stationed. But I
didn’t have any opportunities to go to College. That was in the depth of the Depression.
I was looking around for something to do. And I lived on a farm, but the farm wasn’t big
enough for more than one. My father had the farm. I though about it and said that if I
could find something, I would sink my teeth in, and do the best I could with it. I took all
of the Civil Service exams that I could come across. One was for Apprentice Fish
Culturist. It was with the old Bureau of Fisheries. In June of 1938 I was offered a
position at Spearfish. I was offered three or four positions, but that was the closest one.
So by that time we had our daughter. She was a month old when we left to go to
Spearfish. We drove. We had an old Essex. Have you ever seen an old Essex? They are
one of the poorest cars you’ll ever see. But anyway, we drove there and it us a week to
get there.
MRS. PARVIN: Ten days.
MR. PARVIN: Now you can do it in about twelve hours.
MR. GROVER: I see that your wife Helen is with you. Where did you meet Helen?
MR. PARVIN: What? [Mr. Parvin is hard of hearing]
MRS. PARVIN: Where did you meet me?
MR. PARVIN: She pushed my baby buggy! [Laughing]
MRS. PARVIN: I am three years older than he is. He has always told that I pushed his
baby buggy, but I don’t think so.
MR. PARVIN: And I will say this; she was the best. The best thing that I ever got was
her. She backed me to one hundred percent. We went to Spearfish, and I think that that
was the best move that we ever made. She became her own person. She was just newly
married and she was depending on her parents. She became her own person and made her
own decisions. I think that was a great deal because it carried through then to thirty-seven
years with the Fish and Wildlife Service, and/or the Bureau of Fisheries. Right
now, we have been married for sixty-five years.
MR. GROVER: That’s a fair amount of time! What did you first do when you first
went to Spearfish?
MR. PARVIN: What was my first duty?
MR. GROVER: Yeah, what did they have you doing?
MR. PARVIN: Grinding fish food. That was the first assignment. We had a power
[machine]… like a sausage grinder, about that long. It had a hopper like that. So you fed
the livers and spleens and various things into that. Then you had a mixer that you put
them in and it stirred them up. It put salt in them. The salt bound the spleen. That was
my first assignment. Oh, and my first Supervisor was Ted Kibbe. Have you heard of
him?
MR. GROVER: No, I haven’t heard of him.
MR. PARVIN: Well you better look. Ted Kibbe was, as far as I am concerned one of the
best Supervisors you’ll ever run across. He taught his people. He was a person who
believed in research. Ted Kibbe, K-I-B-B-E. I think he is long gone now. Because he
was older than I am. He was transferred from Spearfish up to the new Hatchery in
Montana. It was in Bozeman. Of course, Bozeman has become a Research Station.
MR. GROVER: A Technology Center, they call it nowadays.
MR. PARVIN: Yeah. But he was transferred up there. And he operated and got that
started. He was one that believed in research. And I believe one hundred percent in
research.
MR. PARVIN: How long did you stay at Bozeman?
MRS. PARVIN: He was at Spearfish.
MR. GROVER: I am sorry, how long were you at Spearfish?
MR. PARVIN: Have you ever run across Fred J. Foster?
MR. GROVER: Yes, I know the name.
MR. PARVIN: He was the original Regional Supervisor out here. He was there when I
came out there. I came out the second year on vacation to visit and so on. I took some
annual leave and we came out here. I went up to Seattle where the Regional office was, to
meet the guy. He transferred me the new Station at Carson. He didn’t even let me go
back to Spearfish. He was the Regional Director over the whole bit, so he can do that.
They had a new Hatchery up at Carson. Well you know where it is.
MR. GROVER: I was Manager at Carson. But that was in 1972. You must have been
there in 1940.
MRS. PARVIN: Somewhere in there.
MR. PARVIN: Well, the records are there. But I am sure that it was in 1940 when I
transferred to Carson. There was three…there were four people. There was Pop
Meyers. We only knew him as Pop Meyers. He was the Manager, only he wasn’t, he
was Superintendent. Because he was in charge of not only Carson, but the lower
Columbia River hatcheries there. There was The Little White, Big White and Carson were
the three that he was over. We stayed at Carson a while, and I was transferred to the
little Station out from Estacada, Oregon. It was Delf Creek at that time. It was a little
Trout hatchery, but we made a Salmon hatchery out of it.
MR. GROVER: How long were you there?
MR. PARVIN: I was there two times, probably for a total of about five years.
MRS. PARCIN: That sounds right.
MR. PARVIN: This was during World War II and our Secretary of the Interior had all of
us made exempt from military service because we were in food production because of the
Salmon. Then I was drafted and I sat there, and sat there and sat there. We got all ready
for her [Mrs. Parvin] to be taken care of. By that time we had two children. And nothing
happened. I got tired after a while and made a trip up to my original Draft Board, which
was Carson. They said, “Oh, didn’t we send you a notice that you were too old to be
drafted?” I was all of thirty! I said, “No, you didn’t.” They told me that I had been
deferred because of age. So I went back to work.
MR. GROVER: Were you at Delf Creek then?
MR. PARVIN: I was at Delf Creek.
MR. GROVER: How long did you stay there?
MR. PARVIN: Approximately five years. Delf Creek was one that kind got me. I have
a problem with, and I have had for many, many years, with blood circulation in my left
leg. I was talked into having an injection for a varicose vein that I had. It got away from
the Doctor and clogged some other veins. I have a problem, and have had it. But I guess
it doesn’t have anything to do with longevity!
MR. GROVER: No! After Delf Creek, where did you go?
MR. PARVIN: Then I was involved with the Civilian Defense. I was very deeply
involved with Civilian Defense. I said that if I was too old, I wasn’t too old for that. So I
did that as an extra to my job.
MR. GROVER: What kind of duties did you have for Civil Defense?
MR. PARVIN: What kind of duties? I organized the communities.
MR. GROVER: After that, where did you go for the Fish and Wildlife Service?
MR. PARVIN: I was transferred as Assistant Manager up on the Skajet [sic] River.
Then to Leavenworth.
MR. GROVER: What grade were you at that time? Had you been promoted?
MR. PARVIN: We were all SP grades. There is no SP grades any more.
MR. GROVER: Not anymore.
MR. PARVIN: GS, General Schedule grades is what there is. I was a GS-5 at that time.
MR. GROVER: And an Assistant Manager?
MR. PARVIN: Yeah, but when the Bureau of Fisheries was transferred to the Interior
Department, the grades went up to no one. When I retired I was a GS-13.
MR. GROVER: Who was at Leavenworth when you were there?
MR. PARVIN: Fred Bitle was there, but he was under me.
MR. GROVER: So he worked for you? O. K.
MR. PARVIN: In fact, I was also in charge of Entiat ‘til Roger Burrows came along and
wanted it for a Research Station. So I was moved down under John Pelnar at Coleman.
MR. GROVER: When was that John?
MR. PARVIN: When was that? I was at Coleman twice. I was in charge of it once, the
last time. And I was the Assistant Manager in charge of Production the first time. I think
it was for four or five years. It was before Eagle Creek was built. I took over Eagle
Creek.
MR. GROVER: About what year were you in Coleman?
MR. PARVIN: I know what year it was that I took over Eagle Creek. That was… [To
Mrs. Parvin] you’re going to have to tell me. You’ve got a better memory than I have.
MRS. PARVIN: For what?
MR. PARVIN: When did we move to Eagle Creek?
MRS. PARVIN: I don’t remember.
MR. PARVIN: It was in 1936?
MRS. PARVIN: No, it couldn’t have been in ’36.
MR. GROVER: Eagle Creek wasn’t built until almost the 1960’s, I think.
MR. PARVIN: I started Eagle Creek.
MRS. PARVIN: I know. But honey, in 1936 we got married, remember?
MR. PARVIN: Oh yeah. 1946, O. K.
MR. GROVER: That was during the War years. It would have been after the war,
wasn’t it?
MR. PARVIN: No, I didn’t move. I was there during the war, or part of the war. When
you get 88, your memory slips a little bit, just off the top of your head.
MRS. PARVIN: When we moved to Eagle Creek it was just nothing but mud.
MR. GROVER: How long were you there at Eagle Creek John? What was your big
program at Eagle Creek?
MR. PARVIN: I think we were there for about four or five years, is that right?
MRS. PARVIN: Something like that.
MR. PARVIN: Then I was transferred to Entiat to take that Station over when the
Manager there retired. They called Managers…
MRS. PARVIN: We went to Leavenworth twice.
MR. PARVIN: Oh yes, I know.
MR. GROVER: You said that you started Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery? How
long were you there?
MR. PARVIN: I don’t really now, but it was quiet a while.
MR. GROVER: But you were the Manager there?
MR. PARVIN: Yeah.
MR. GROVER: What was you program in? What fish were you raising?
MR. PARVIN: We were raising Coho [Salmon], Chinooks, and Steelhead. It was an
anandremous [sic] hatchery. So now I am about out of information on that. Water
supply was not a very good one. It was taken right out of Eagle Creek. And on a
Thanksgiving day, we had five inches of rain in the headwaters of Eagle Creek. It just
flooded everything. We made some unscheduled releases because the water was over the
ponds even.
MR. GROVER: Things haven’t changed. They still do it. It still happens! They’re
cutting the trees up in the watershed and…
MR. PARVIN: I started Eagle Creek, and we had a lot of things, problems that I had
never met before, but we made it. We got returns. We racked the Eagle Creek and forced
the fish to go into the holding ponds. We carried on a program. We got our original stock
of Salmon at Delf Creek from the Clackamas River. We took it and double racked at
section right at the mouth of Eagle Creek. And we took Eagle Creek fish, in other words,
and took the eggs from them.
MR. GROVER: These were Coho?
MR. PARVIN: No, they were Spring Chinook.
MR. GROVER: So the source of Spring Chinook at Eagle Creek came out of Delf Creek?
MR. PARVIN: Yeah. Delf Creek is a tributary of Eagle Creek.
MR. GROVER: Where did you after that John? Where was your next Station, or your
next Hatchery?
MR. PARVIN: After I left the northwest I was offered a position at Lamar,
Pennsylvania.
MR. GROVER: I had forgot that you had been back to Lamar.
MR. PARVIN: I was Manager. I think that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The Regional Supervisor for Hatcheries was trying to get somebody to operate Lamar.
The largest Hatchery in Region 5 was Lamar. They finally offered it to me. And that
was a wise deal for me because I operated successfully and made a good reputation in
Region 5. From there I was offered a position back in Region 1 as the Manager of
Coleman after John Pelnar retired. So I took that. For a “13” in that time, they required
time in three regions before you were eligible for the “13” in the field. That made me
three regions; 1, 2 and 5. I was eligible, and I was the only one they could find who was
eligible. So I got Dvorshak.
MR. GROVER: So from Coleman you went up to Dvorshak? Dvorshak was brand new.
MR. PARVIN: Yeah right.
MR. GROVER: You were the first Manager there.
MR. PARVIN: Yes, that’s right.
MR. GROVER: And you retired from Dvorshak in 1975?
MR. PARVIN: Yes, that’s my career. But I thought that you wanted some interesting
things about my first appointment.
MR. GROVER: I do, and I want to ask you some other questions too John.
MR. PARVIN: Go ahead.
MR. GROVER: I was going to ask you about some of the people that you hired. Did
you hire anybody famous, or somebody that really did well? Or a bunch of them?
MR. PARVIN: You know as well as I do that you don’t hire them. You get them
referred to you, but you don’t hire them directly. The only ones that you hire is your
temporaries.
MR. GROVER: What about the ones that you developed or trained?
MR. PARVIN: I am trying to think.
MRS. PARVIN: Don Jerzak.
MR. PARVIN: Yeah, Don Jerzak was under me at Coleman.
MR. GROVER: But he was a GS-9 then. He started out as a GS-1.
MR. PARVIN: Yeah, he was a “9” at Coleman.
MR. GROVER: What about some beginning ones. Did you have some new people that
you trained?
MR. PARVIN: Oh, lot’s of people!
MR. GROVER: Who were some of the really good ones that you had that turned out [to
have] good careers?
MR. PARVIN: Your asking me to dig up memories that I am having a lot of trouble
doing.
MR. GROVER: O.K.
MR. PARVIN: I trained a lot of people because I believed in training. I believe that
Managers should also be teachers. Oh, Jack Kinchloe was one of them. I got him out of
College and he thought that he knew the whole bit. But we found out that he didn’t. I am
not going to say anything but I had a lot of fun training him because when he first came he
was very egotistical. He was out of College and has a degree. I let him go saw off a limb
while he was on it, and things like that.
MR. GROVER: Jack had a successful career. He retired as Manage of Ridgefield, and he
had been for “NIMPS”. [?] He had been all around. He was a good hand, a good man.
MR. PARVIN: Kinchloe and I are very great friends. And he turned out to be a pretty
good employee I am sure. But I took him out of College.
MR. GROVER: Can you remember some other people that you hired? Or that you
trained, some young ones right out of school?
MR. PARVIN: He just didn’t know all of the answers.
MR. GROVER: Well there was a lot of time that we didn’t know the answers. And
that’s why you take fish up to Seattle and you find ameba or Jeridaculous [sic], the
leaches that were on the gills, the fresh ones.
MR. PARVIN: Eventually, at Dvorshak, I had a Lab under me.
MR. GROVER: And you were dealing with a virus?
MR. PARVIN: We had the virus a lot more that we thought we had. And in a lot more
places too. Do you know how they were passing it out? We found that out too. They
were using visceral from Salmon canners as part of the diet. And the virus was in that
visceral. My name is on a paper with… who was the Pathologist out of Seattle?
MRS. PARVIN: Burrows.
MR. GROVER: Burrows was a Nutritionist.
MR. PARVIN: Burrows was local.
MR. GROVER: There was Fred Fish up there, hum.
MR. PARVIN: Anyway, he was the authority. And he and I ran a bunch of experiments
at Leavenworth. He and I wrote it up. My name is on that. We found the virus that was
at Leavenworth and we found were it was coming from. It was coming from the visceral
that was used in the diet. It came out of Alaska.
MR. GROVER: I can remember those days, but after they started pasteurizing the
visceral they got rid of that particular disease.
MR. PARVIN: Pasteurizing was the next step. And the next step was pellets.
MR. GROVER: What other big issues were you working on? What other things did you
do that was important, or that were problems for you, or for the Service or fish culture?
MR. PARVIN: I’d better not say this, turn it down again.
MR. GROVER: O.K.
MR. PARVIN: People again. [It was] Jealousy between the Managers at Leavenworth
and Roger Burrows that was a problem. They were trying to cut each other’s throats all
of the time. I was in the middle. I was in charge of Production.
MR. GROVER: What about the Regional office in Portland, did they do anything? The
Supervisors in Portland, what did they do about it?
MR. PARVIN: I don’t think they did anything. They eventually transferred the
Manager to Washington, D.C. That’s one way to get rid of them. Take and give them a
promotion! And they have other things to worry about than personal deals.
MRS. PARVIN: May I say something now?
MR. GROVER: Helen, why don’t you speak a minute. You look like you’re getting
ready.
MR. PARVIN: I found the life of the hatchery man’s wife, was a rather lonesome. You
can’t make any good friends because the other people would accuse you of being partial.
That’s all I wanted to say.
MR. GROVER: But you worked at the Hatcheries too.
MRS. PARVIN: I cut fins.
MR. GROVER: You cut fins? Did you feed fish when John was gone?
MRS. PARVIN: I fed fish when he was gone, there are Delf Creek.
MR. GROVER: Did you cook for the visitors? Any surprise lunches?
MRS. PARVIN: Yes. Well, did I have any other choice?
MR. GROVER: Did John surprise you often?
MRS. PARVIN: Not after a while. After I made a few comments, why, he didn’t.
MR. PARVIN: She’s leaving out a very important thing. And that is encouragement.
She was my great encourager.
MRS. PARVIN: If I hadn’t done that, he would have resigned a long time ago. A long
time before he did. He wanted one Hatchery so bad, and he didn’t get it. “I’m going to
retire!” he says. And I talked him out of it.
MR. GROVER: What Hatchery was your great desire?
MR. PARVIN: The one that I thought I should have gotten?
MR. GROVER: Yes.
MR. PARVIN: The new one where the Lab is, Abernathy.
MRS. PARVIN: I did a good thing then, encouraging him not to resign.
MR. GROVER: John you said you had some stories to tell about Spearfish or
something, for the record.
MR. PARVIN: You mean just stories?
MR. GROVER: Yeah, reminiscing.
MR. PARVIN: You know, at the time when I took my oath of office, there was Leonard
Hunt who was a Fish Culturist at that time. There was one other Fish Culturist who
lived in that little house. I can’t remember his name. He was a newspaperman and
thought that he would try something else. Then when the war came they offered him a
job as a war correspondent. He took that and left Fisheries entirely. But there was me,
and two apprentices. There was the Fish Culturist, Leonard Hunt and there was Ted
Kibbe to begin with and John Harrington during that last part of my stay there. And a
story…
I came out of the little house I was living in. You know there’s a circular drive?
MR. GROVER: At the Hatchery?
MR. PARVIN: Yeah. I came out of the front door to do something, I don’t know what.
Leonard Hunt came running and he puts on his brakes. It was an oiled road. He squealed
his tires and backed up and went around the other way. I asked him when I got over to
the Hatchery, “What’d you do that for?” He says, “There was a black cat who ran across
in front of me! And you don’t ever run across a black cat’s path!” I laughed and I was in
his doghouse!
MRS. PARVIN: I have to tell you about this. We lived in a little house too, for a long
time. That little tiny house?
MR. GROVER: I think that one is taken down now.
MR. PARVIN: I can tell one on Ted Kibbe. We were invited up for dinner and we had a
little girl, Rose. She’s much more than a little girl now. She is in her sixties. Anyway,
she left a diaper up there. They had one boy, the Kibbe’s did. At about ten-thirty or so
in the evening there was a knock on the door. There was Ted Kibbe at the door with a
diaper. He said, “You don’t ever want to leave a diaper up here! We’ll have another
child!” There were considerable more superstitions then than there is now.
MRS. PARVIN: While we were living in that little house, I would go out and do my
washing and hang it up. There was a great big black snake that’d come out of the stone
wall and watch me, every time. I don’t know what kind of snake it was. It wasn’t
poisonous. But it was a huge snake, about that bid around, and long. He would come out
every time I hung out clothes.
MR. GROVER: On most of your stations, did you live on the Hatchery?
MRS. PARVIN: Most of them yes. As a matter of fact, we went to Leavenworth two
our three different times.
MR. PARVIN: One winter morning, we woke up. It was a weekend and I wasn’t on
duty. We had to take turns being on duty on weekends.
MR. GROVER: Where?
MR. PARVIN: The sun was shining bright and the temperature gage said thirty below
zero. We went out and it seemed nice. We went out for a nice long hike in thirty below
zero with snow on the ground. It was fun! Isn’t that right, M
Nomination for President for the Democratic Party of 1892
No full textUnique document composed by the Nominating Committee of the National Democratic Party 1892 presented to Grover Cleveland between his terms of office. Signed by representatives from every state and territory within the nation.Courtesy of the State of New Jersey Division of Environmental Protection, the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Historic Site, Caldwell, New Jersey.Grover Cleveland, - New York, - As members of the Notification Committee delegated by the National Democratic Convention, which assembled in Chicago, June 21st, it is our agreeable duty to inform you that, upon a single ballot, you were unanimously nominated for the Presidency of the United States. Nothing could evince the affection and confidence in which you are held by the Democratic party more positively than the fact that you have three times been made its candidate for that office. Your devotion to the principles of the party of Thomas Jefferson, your fidelity to every trust reposed in you by the people, your courageous, conservative and exemplary administration when the chief executive of the United States, and the prosperity of the country under that administration, have won for you the respect of every citizen. In the maintenance of the doctrines which you have so clearly expounded and so consistently advocated, and which form the basis of the declaration of principles formulated by the Democratic convention which has again placed you in nomination, rests the hope of the people for constitutional government. They turn now to the Democratic party that the blessings of civic and industrial liberty may be secured to them, and in response to the people's demand that party has chosen for its leader him whose public record conveys the guarantee that the will of the people will not be thwarted. It is, then, not only with a sense of profound personal satisfaction, but also with the assurance that your nomination is welcomed by every man who feels the burden of unjust taxation and the distress of unwarranted legislative interference with, the rights of the citizen, that we inform you, of the action of the National Democratic Convention and submit herewith its declaration of principles. Firmly believing that there is no other safe repository for the liberties of the people, and the welfare of the nation, than the hands of a democratic administration, we most heartily congratulate the country upon the opportunity presented by your candidacy for a return to the methods and measures of that party which has administered and will ever administer the government for the good of our country and in the interest of the entire people. That our cause - the people's cause - will triumph, we have no doubt, and judging the future by the past, the administration which you will give to the people of the United States will be directed by wisdom, statesmanship, integrity and patriotism, and will cause your fellow democrats to regard with the same pride and pleasure your future career as President of this great Republic, that they now enjoy in the remembrance of your former administration. - We are, sir, - Respectfully yours, - William L. Wilson, [sig.] Chairman.; Nicholas M Bell [sig.] Secretary.; Alabama Rufus N. Rhodes [sig.], Arkansas B.R. Davidson [sig.], California Stephen M White [sig.], Colorado Frank Adams [sig.], Connecticut Robert J Vance [sig.], Delaware Robert J Reynolds [sig.], Florida W. D. Chipley [sig.], Georgia John Triplett [sig.], Idaho G. V. Bryan [sig.], Illinois Thos. M. Thornton [sig.], Indiana William A Cullop [sig.], Iowa L M Martin [sig.], Kansas James W Orr [sig.], Kentucky John P. Salyer [sig.], Louisiana A. W. Crandall [sig.], Maine Edward C. Swett [sig.], Maryland L. Victor Baughman [sig.], Massachusetts Patrick Maguire [sig.], Michigan R. A. Montgomery [sig.], Minnesota C. M. Foote [sig.], Mississippi W. V. Sullivan [sig.], Missouri J. W. Walker [sig.], Montana S. T. Hauser [sig.], Nebraska J. A. Creighton [sig.], Nevada [no sig.],New Hampshire H R Parker [sig.], New Jersey Geo. H. Barker [sig.], New York Norman E. Mack [sig.], North Carolina K. Elias [sig.], North Dakota Andrew Blewett [sig.], Ohio R. R. Holden [sig.], Oregon Henry Blackman [sig.], Pennsylvania J Henry Cochran [sig.], Rhode Island Fayette E Bartlett [sig.], South Carolina Theo D Jervy Jr. [sig.], South Dakota Wm R. Steele [sig.], Tennessee W. A. Collier [sig.], Texas J. H. McLeary [sig.], Vermont Oscar C. Miller [sig.], Virginia A. Fulkerson [sig.], Washington John Collins [sig.], West Virginia B. F. Martin [sig.], Wisconsin James Bardon [sig.], Wyoming Robert H Homer [sig.], Alaska [no sig.], Arizona E. E. Ellinwood [sig.], Dist. of Columbia Henry E. Davis [sig.], New Mexico E. V. Long [sig.], Oklahoma [no sig.], Utah H. P. Henderson [sig.], Indian Ter. Solomon E. Jackson [sig.
Nomination for President for the Democratic Party of 1884
No full textUnique document composed by the Nominating Committee of the National Democratic Party 1884 presented to Grover Cleveland during his term as Governor of New York. Official presentation took place in Albany, NY in the Governor's Chambers. Signed by representatives from every state and territory within the nation.Courtesy of the State of New Jersey Division of Environmental Protection, the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Historic Site, Caldwell, New Jersey.New York City - July 28th 1884 - The Honorable Grover Cleveland of New York. - Sir - In accordance with a custom befitting the nature of the communication the undersigned, representing the several states and territories of the Union, were appointed a Committee by the National Democratic Convention which assembled at Chicago on the eighth day of the current month, to perform the pleasing office, which by this means we have the honor to execute, of informing you of your nomination as the Candidate of the Democratic Party in the ensuing election for the office of President of the United States. A declaration of the principles upon which the Democracy go before the people, with the hope of establishing and maintaining them in the government, was made by the Convention; and an engrossed copy thereof is submitted in connection with this Communication for your consideration. We trust the approval of your judgment will follow an examination of this expression of opinions and policy; and, upon the political controversy now made up, we invite your acceptance of the exalted leadership to which you have been chosen. The election of a President is an event of the utmost importance to the people of America; prosperity, growth, happiness, peace and liberty, even, may depend on its wise ordering. Your unanimous nomination is proof that the Democracy believe your election will most contribute to secure these great objects. We assure you that in the anxious responsibilities you must assume as a candidate, you will have the steadfast cordial support of the friends of the cause you will represent; and in the execution of the duties of the high office - which we confidently expect from the wisdom of the nation to be conferred upon you - you may securely rely for approving aid upon the patriotism, honor and intelligence of this free people. We have the honor to be with great respect. - Nicholas M. Bell [sig.] Secretary; Wm. F. Vilas [sig.] President; D.P. Bestor [sig.] Alabama, [illegible] W Fordyce [sig.] Arkansas, Niles Searles [sig.] California, M S Waller [sig.] Colorado, Thos. M. Waller [sig.] Connecticut, Geo. H. Bates [sig.] Delaware, Attilla Cox [sig.] Kentucky, James Jeffries [sig.] Louisiana, Ch. H. Osgood [sig.] Maine, Geo. Wells [sig.] Maryland, J.G. Abbott [sig.] Massachusetts, Daniel J. Campan [sig.] Michigan, Thos E. Heenan [sig.] Minnesota, Chas. E. Hooker [sig.] Mississippi, David R. Francis [sig.] Missouri, Patrick Fahy [sig.] Nebraska, D. E. McCarthy [sig.] Nevada, J F. Cloutman [sig.] New Hampshire, John P. Stockton [sig.] New Jersey, John C Jacobs [sig.] New York, W.D. Chipley [sig.] Florida, M.P. Reese [sig.] Georgia, A E Stevenson [sig.] Illinois, E.D. Bannister [sig.] Indiana, L. G Kinne [sig.] Iowa, C. C. Burnes [sig.] Kansas, Wm. E Haynes [sig.] Ohio, L.L. McArthur [sig.] Oregon, James P. Barr [sig.] Pennsylvania, David S. Baker Jr [sig.] Rhode Island, Wilson G. Lamb [sig.] North Carolina, Jos. H. Earle [sig.] South Carolina, Wm A Quarles [sig.] Tennessee, Jos. E. Dwyer [sig.] Texas, Geo L Spear [sig.] Vermont, Rob Beverly [sig.] Virginia, Frank Hereford [sig.] West Virginia, W.A. Anderson [sig.] Wisconsin, S T Hauser [sig.] Montana, W.B. Childers [sig.] New Mexico, G H Oury [sig.] Arizona, M.S. McCormick [sig.] Dakotah [sic.], Ransford Smith [sig.] Utah, N. B Dutro [sig.] Washg. Territory, John M Silcott [sig.] Idaho, E.D. Wright [sig.] District of Columbia - [last line has stricken out signature of John C Jacobs
Letter from J. R. Eakin to Arthur G. Ringland
No full textLetter (copy) from J. R. Eakin to Arthur C. Ringland about the alignment of 40 acres near the Buggeln ranch
Letter from Arno B. Cammerer to J. R. Eakin
No full textLetter from Arno B. Cammerer to J. R. Eakin describing the procedure for purchasing Bright Angel Trail
Letter from J. R. Eakin to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from J. R. Eakin to Carl T. Hayden concerning access to Rowe Well and the canyon
Letter from J. R. Eakin to Stephen Mather
No full textLetter from J. R. Eakin to Stephen T. Mather about expenses and reconstruction of the Kaibab Trail
Letter from Carl Hayden to J. R. Eakin
No full textLetter from Carl T. Hayden to J. R. Eakin regarding changes to the Grand Canyon National Park boundaries and the purchase of lands from William Randolph Hearst
Letter from J. R. Eakin to Stephen Mather
No full textLetter from J. R. Eaking to the National Park Service director about changes to the Grand Canyon National Park boundaries, and access to water near the Buggeln property on Desert View road
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