The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-31
EVENING SESSION

EVENING SESSION
The Convention reassembled at seven O'Clock but
was not called to order until twenty five later
REPORT OF COMMITTEE CONTESTED SEATS
Mr. EGAS OF Kings county, chairman OF tho Com
mittee on Contested Seats, reported US tollows:-
in tho
and after hearing both sides in all the contestng dele
The case Of the eonss; in the First assembly district
NiagarH the committee recommend the adoption OF the ol
Rescved That having failed to elect delegates to tho
vention the district unless tho
s"s .e Spar W saasms Ss
ing TO cast one and hsf votes in this Convention
esa,s. Msssrs George Green W. s. Wright. Iu the
by Abutus Perry having been regularly elected they be
In the case Of the contest in Assem- y district OF
Weschcser the committee the adoption Of tho
Resolved, That the delegation headed by Ambrose II.
In the beg leave recommend that
lowed this Convention without the right
s % be given e 'es EG% the
HENRY g. scGDDxa Secretaries.
Mr. SHAY Of the Ninth district Of New York, moved
that in the OF the First district OF Wcschester
the report be amended by substituting the delegation
headed by Mr.. McManon.
Mr. MITCHELL OF New York, said no hoped the re-
Mr. GREEN. OF Niagara, opposed the report in tho
o! his district and urged that ali OF lhedelegates
each side be admitted with the right of each side
cast vote and half
Mr.. JACOBS, OF Kings county, moved tho previous
question, which was carried and the report OF the
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
Mr.. KELLY, OF New York, from the Committee on
Permanent Organization, rose and was received with
applause lie reported the following permanent Of
fcers.
p,esiieas-ilir"m Gray. Of Chemung.
shpmaa, j. j. Mccormsck Henry A. Gnmbiston, Patrick
Ksenaa Marvin s. Ba,.ls, .uliu, Blamen,ha. EDWARD
William voorhis James Connor .rman vander1ec L.
H.D .ss. ssas sss Il EEs 1s.s, H " a
H. French William H. Warren William Burton Chester B.
H. n Howard George n. Holmes. julius Cohen stanley
Ie,piing seseaaries-Hiram Calkns and 4 o Perrin.
see,eaSe,,.J l. Steele James donovan Zachsriah
l. sangs5 owen Murphy samusl A. Lewis S,,a ocaI
Woods Charles "a Lodewick, John Reed j. G. Gage i.
Beers George brown Leonard season Charle, D. Curtis
S se sad Tard
MI JOIN KELLY, OF New York, moved the adoption
The CHAIR appointed Messrs. Purcell of Monroe, and
Jacobs OF Kings to conduct tho permanent President
to the chair
cuAiRxAS's SPEECH.
Mr.. GRAY, on taking tho Chair addressed the Con.
GgsrLrMss OF rnn CoSvEsrIoS-on behalf OF my
constituents. well as behalf OF myself thank
YOU the distinguished honor you have
fcrred upon me. in calling upon to
preside over your deliberations. | shall omit
The usual address made on such occaslonn | doubt
not that every in this Convention IL perfectly ac
quaintcd with the .ssucs upon which the parties
aivded, aud OF tho reasons why the general admins
traion OF the government OF the United States should
be displaced Tor QUO moro competent-(applausc)-
and beg here gentlemen to suggest that the eyes OF
.niI nation 9 upon Us ana inns Ipnvcnph
that the eyes OF the people OF other
nations are watching US with great concern in
regard 10 the things we may do aud thor effect tho
nation al large Our duties here will bc Of the greatest
importance. Perhaps no convention ever sat the
OF New York having in Its charge matters OF
great Importance TO the people ut large, covering the
whole space OF these United States aud upon your
deliberations, gentlemen, may depend Their welfare
Ii viii depend upon the captains and standard bearers
you select whether or not We shall prosper AZ we
should do, or whether are still to be under the
govcrnnent-thc perpetuation OF certain govern
ment OF tue United states Your deliberations
may be benefit TO the nation at arge-and DOUBT
NOS will be-than the whole benefits that have been de-
rived or can be derived from the healing waters that
flow from the springs with which we are surrounded.
Now gentlemen, your chairman will DO happy 10 carry
out the desires OF this Convention.
PRESIDENTIAL kLEcroRs
u. MAGoSx, Jr., from the Committee on Electors re-
ported tue following Electors At Large :Mcssrs Hora
ito seymour, whose namo was received with long con-
tnued applause, and John Kelly whose name was also
greeted with decided applause Tho following were
Beach, Thomas II. Rodman Edward Rowe, Thomas
ID. Jones. Oswald Ottendorer, Thomas NackcIiar,
Anthouy Dugro, Augustus schell, rrcucriCk smythc.
Joseph j. O'Donohue. Samuel y. Bargcr, Jordan L.
Mott. james H. Holdan, William Voorhees,, Addison 7.
Jones, Eli Perry, Atherton Hall, Henry d. Graves
William j. Avcrili, Daniel Il. Judson Edmund a. Ward
Ansel Foster, James McQuade, y. Lynch, Calvin A.
Hathaway, GEORGE W. Knowles, William q. Dyer, Fred
erlcK o. Cable John McDougall, Jerome Ioc Charles
H. Benedict Cyrus Clark, and Peter sheldon
The committee also reported resolution authorizing
the state Committee to nii any vacancies that may
occur. The report and resolution we're adopted.
PLATFORM
Mr. ERAsrUs ERooKs, IRON the Committee on Iseso-
lutious said II gave HIM great pleasure say that The
committee had agreed UNANIMOUSLY In reporting tho
following resoutons:-
The democratic party New York hereby with cordial
unanity ratiy the noin OF the Louis National
Democratic Conversion Of samuel 8. Tiiosn tor