Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-11
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.

The New York Democratic State Conven-
ton assembled in Albany on the 3rd instant
Clarkson n. Potter was chosen permanent
Chairman. On taking the chair he addressed
the Convention, when the following was
adopted: .'lT
The Democracy of New York, in Conven.
ton assembled, send greetings to the Dsmoc.
racy of cur sister State, New Jersey, and
congratulate the voters Of that State on the
nomination of the patriot and soldier, George
B. Mcclellan. ,
After the committee on contested seats had
made their report, among other matters, ex-
Guiding the anti-Tamany delegation, which
action was received with great applause, the
platform was adopted. The following are its
salient points:
The people having in the last Presidential
contest elected by an overwhelming popular
and clear electoral majority the Democrat.
ic candidates for President and Vice-Presi-
dent, and the will of the nation thus constitu.
tionally declared, having been wickedly and
boldly nullifed by means Of the grossest
usurpation and frauds of Returning Boards,
protected and adopted, if not instigated BY
the party in possession of the Government,
and rendered practicable by threatening
array of military force:
Resolved, That at this, the first Convention
of the Democrats of this State held since the
consummation of this great crime, it is not
only Just and 6t, but it is the plain duty in
the interest of Constitutional Government and
in the vindication and preservation of the sa.
cred right Of the majority to choose their lru-
Ter, to denounce with the warmest indignation
the stupendous wrong, and We hereby de-
nounce, condemn, and hold it up to universal
execration.
Resolred, That this duty of setting mark
of infamy upon this transaction, and prevent
ing any quick forgetfulness or easy condonation
of it, and from raising a tempting precedent
for future outrages, rests especially and pecu.
liarly upon the Democratic party of this
State, and whose most illustrious leader was
the President, actually chosen by the nation.
The resolutions here endorse the late House.
Resolved furthermore, That as the present
National Administration, by its withdrawal
of troops from the South and its cessation
from the mischevous, unconstitutional and
oppressive interference with the internal affairs
of States has, in that respect, departed from
the vicious precedents of the Republican par
ty, and has followed the course marked out
by the Federal Constitution, it is, therefore,
entitled. in that particular, to the approval of
good citizens.
The financial plank reafirms gold and sill
yer the only legal tender, no currency incon-
vertible with coin. and steady steps towards
specie payments. 1t was resolved, Furthermore,
that we are opposed to the granting of SUBJ
sides by the government to corporations or in
dividuals for the construction of railroads or
other internal improvements as unnecessary,
beyond the scope of Federal power and inevi.
tably producing corruption.
The following ticket was nominated For
Secretary of State. Allen G. Beach; Comp
troller, Frederick P. Olcott; Treasurer, Jas.
Walker; Attorney General, Augustus schbon-
maker; State Engineer and Surveyor, Hora-
ito Seymour, Jr. After the appointment of a
State Central Committee, the Convention ad.
journed.