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NEW YORK REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION.
The Nominations.
THE SPEECH III HON. LYMAN
FIREMAN..
Comments of the N. Y. Pres, Oh
CoDklipg's Course.
THE ACTION OF THE CONVENTION
CRITICISED.

ROCHESTER, September 81. The following
nominations were msde upon the re-assembling OF
the convention this morning:
John L. Churchill, Secretary of State.
FRANCIS sylvester, Comptroller.
VIM. l.. Bostwick, Treasurer.
Granville Tremaine, Attorney General.
Howard Sottle, State Engineer.
Only two hundred and fifty members of the con-
ventlon remain here; the rest have gone to their
homes.
The work of the convention being completed.
Lyman Iremaine was called for and addressed
the body IN relation to the magnitude and impor-
lance Of the coming canvass.
The speaker said the democratic party boastful-
y declares that having got controi of the SOL
nj South, they propose to capture New York and
few other northern states, and thus get control
oil the national administration for another twenty
hVe years Let them get control of this State and
republicans will have little hope of re.cuiny it
rom Their hands again in ten wears. Are the 10y
men Oh this State ready TO hand the government
over to them !?
The speaker proceeded at some length to review
IN the Southern States the outrages upon republi.
| cans there. and asked how loyal men liked the
| idea OF being again subjected to the dictalion OF
| the solid south.
Mr.. Ware-Who made a solid South
1Icmainc-DOnt revive issues that were laid at
rest yesterday. Let us turn TO the future and
unite our efforts to ward oil disasters that threaten
revival OF dlsloyal democratic rule. New York
20 '"N W wv llOlu luls lOIt anu lile
plans of the enemy will fall to the ground
lie argued that the republicans could carry the
State this year, stimulated by the fact that we
have the u. S. Senator at stake. lie closed with
an appeal for unanimity and earnest work.
The convention then adjourned sine die.
The Herald says of Senator Conkling's action
yesterday, that he has drawn the sword and
thrown away the scabbard. The only significant
thing IN the platform is its animus OF intense hos
tility to the President.
The Times says there was too much of Senator
Conkling at Rochester, yesterday. Ii criticses
the platform severely, as well as the action of the
convention, and says "a republican campaign be-
gun under such auspices, is beref; in advance of
its most effective weapons, and is brought down
to the level of knaves and schemers who head the
democratic cohorts Of ignorance, superstition and
vice.
The Tribune says Senator Conkling made the
gathering at Rochester a demonstration against
the President not only hostile, but fierce and con-
tcmptnous. For Conkling and his followers il is
row war TO the knife. The true representatives
OF popular sentiment are the minority who voted
with Curtis.
The people will take what is sensible in the
platform, and disregard what is angry and ill.
timed. They will work with Conklng and his
friends for the common veal support the nomi.
nees of the convention, but have it understood
that they are not hostile to the President, even
though they may not believe that the wisdom of
his actions has always kept pace with the purity
OF his purposes.