Consistent Adherence to Democratic Principles

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Excerpt from Consistent Adherence to Democratic Principles: Addresses, The First as President of the Democratic State Convention, at Concord, May 20, 1896, The Second as President of the National Democratic Ratification Meeting, at Manchester, October 6, 1896, With an Appendix Containing the Democratic Platform, A With the presentation of the addresses, contained in this publication, it has been deemed fitting that they should be prefaced by a brief review of the political career of their distinguished author. Harry Bingham, a native of Concord, Vt., the son of Hon. Warner Bingham and Lucy (Wheeler) Bingham, born March 30, 1821, a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1843, under the presidency of Nathan Lord, has been engaged in the active prosecution of the profession of law, at Littleton, since the year 1846. In all this period he has been actively identified with the Democratic organization in New Hampshire, and a distinguished exponent of the principles of the party. From 1846 to the war period he held no public office, and was not a candidate before the people. He was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives for Littleton in 1861, and was re-elected in 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1868, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1889, 1891, and was candidate for speaker in 1862. He was a state senator, for the Grafton district, two terms, 1883 to 1887. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1876. He was always a member of the committee on the Judiciary, in the terms of his legislative service, and in 1871 and 1874, the years of Democratic supremacy, he was chairman. In 1867 he was United States Treasury agent, under President Johnson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.