The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-12
NEW YORK REPUBLICAN CON-
VENTION.

COnkIing's Speach-The PIatfOrm-Cor-
nell for GOVernOr.-A Fine Prospect
for a Republican Victory.
| SARATOGA, N. Y, Sept. "a. B. Cor
nell, Chairman of the state committee,
called Metropolitan convention to erder.
| u. S. Senator Conkling, who, as he en-
tered the hall, was loudly applauded,
was unanimously appointed temporary
chairman. He said: "We meet as rep
resentatives of an historic organization.
in which many of US have grown old,
but our hearts are as young, warm and
true as in days long gone by. Recipro-
eating all your kindness, / like to re-
ceive it as an omen of concord and har-
mony in all the convention proceedings,
to be crowned by popular success. l
congratulate you on the suspicious
promise for our party and the republic.
The attending dangers that now ap-
pear in public affairs: first, the preten-
sions of states rights; second, imitation
third, disposition to trample on the
liberties of part of the people. The SEN
ator referred TO the resumption of specie
payments, and said our finances, if let
| alone, SVill be safer and better than they
have been for many years; abundant
crops will be gathered, and this abund-
ance will bring prosperity.
The senator proceeded to discuss the
financial issue at some length. HIS ref
erence to the quiet man-meaning Grant
and his veto of the act intended to
check and defeat resumption, by repeal
ing the law fixing its date, was greeted
with vociferous applause. As was claim
ed for the Republican party, it had eff
fected resumption and made every paper
dollar as good as gold. Following re-
SnmntIOn hQQ come q renewed h4~CinnCc
! prosperity, and all that is wanted is to
keep off the hands of scheming men
| from interference with business, by leg
| islation, and all will be well. Republi-
can ascendency means maintenance and
resumption of prosperity, and the Re
publican ascendancy would be sure and
easy if all the votes of the country could
be freely cast, but this, unfortunately,
could not be, because in parts of the
country the vote was not free. States
| rights again once more raises its head.
It declares there shall be no free cleo
tiOns; there shall be no fair count. The
majority in the two houses of con-
gress, at its last session, took the
government by the throat, and then
threatened to strangle it to death
unless the president would sign bills
which he knew to be unrighteOus and
unjust. Jury laws which have stood for
more than eighty years were Frustrated,
and the jury box prOstituted. This was
in order to give license to unlawfulness
on election day and every day; the army
was manacled not only on other days,
but on that very day when it should be
most ready to act in support of national
liberty. This was all for the purpose of
strangling the election in behalf of bru-
| tai candidates. Four southern states are
certainly Republican by large majori-
| ty, and two more are on the same side, if
their votes could be recorded, but there
will be no contest in the next presiden-
tial election in the south. There Will be
no election there worthy of the name.
| Every vote will be registered for the
Democratic candidate, whoever he may
be. This done, only Al more votes will
be needed. New York has 81 of these
votes, and this must be known and I'M
| derstoOd. Thus a great responsibility
rests upon her. She will decide the
contest of 1880. The action of New
York this year will go far toward de-
Gliding the question. The action of New
York this year will decide whether the
tax-paying people shall rule this coun-
try or not.
Referring to party differences in the
past Conkling claimed that all of them
had been settled, and the party was a
| uuiL NO WHICH WAS OF
wrong in the past, now the Republicans
stand together on every essential or living
issue. We know that Democratic sue
ces now would mean sectional domin-
alton, consequently, with a ticket and
platform to be here made the state could
only be lost by inattention and neglect
| New York, imperial as she is, must this
year go to the head of the Republican
column. To this end let us now and
here pledge ourselves and each other.
Vice President Wheeler was invited to
a seat on the platform, but he had pre-
viosly left the hall The mention of the
Vice Presidents name and that of George
William Curtis during the call of
roll of delegates, brought forth great
cheers. After the appointment of COM
mittees recess was had.
! The convention having reassembled
eX-collector Arthur, chairman of the COM
mittee on organization, presented the
name of William A. Wheeler for perma-
nent president. Upon being conducted
to the chair, Mr.. Wheeler made a short
speech, in which he said that the policy
of seeking 10 starve the government into
submission to the rebellion was initiated
at Fort Sumpter, and eXemplified by the
Democrats in the late session ofcongress.
The speech was a general arraignment
of the Democratic policy and record dur
ing and since the late war, a eulogy of
the Republican party, and an appeal for
the necessity of continuing the latter in
order to maintain and enforce the results
achieved by the sword, and to secure pro-
lection to every citizen in every right,
regardless of his color. condition or
| locality.
Charles E. Smith, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, presented the
1 ENlI nd .
mously adopted.
We, the Republicans of New York,
pledging ourselves anew to national su-
premacy, equal rights, free elections and
honest money, declare
First, That the republic of the United
States is nation and not a league. The
nation is a supreme within its own con-
stitutional sphere; it is girded with
power to guard its own life; TO protect
its own citizens; to regulate its own
laws. The opposite doctrine of states
sovereignty IS the baleful mother of Null
| ificatiOn, Secession and anarchy. Re
publicanism stands for national supre-
macy in national affairs and states
rights in state concerns. Democracy
stands for states sovereignty, with its
own twin heresy that the Union is
mere confederacy of states.
Second, To refuse the necessary sup
plies Tor the government with the design
of compelling the unwilling consent of
the coordinate and Independent branch,
to odious measures, is revolution; to re-
fuse appropriations for the execution of
existing and binding laws, is nullifica-
ton. We arraign the Democratic re-
representatives. in congress as guilty both
of revolutionary attempts and multiplying
schemes, and we reprobate their action
as calculated to subvert the constitution
and to strike at the existence of the gov
eminent itself.
Third, The safety of the republic de
mands free and pure elections. The
Democratic congress has attempted die
tation by caucus, by threats of starving
the government, and by months of dis
turbing agitation TO break down the
national election laws. We denounce
the effort as a conspiracy to overthrow
: the safe guards of free suffrage, and to
open the ballot box to the unchecked
domination of rifle clubs of the south
and repeaters of New York We de-
/ clare our Incorporating opposition to
: any repeal of just protection laws; and
the Republican senators and representa-
r tives in congress for their resistance to
this attempt and President Hayes for his
: veto message deserve and receive ouI
7 hearty approval.