Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-13
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.
THE CONVENTION AT ALBANY.
Tammany and Irving Halls Ex-
cluded A Ringing Platform
Honest GOVernment-HOme Rule
and CurbIBg of MOnOpOIIes De-
manded-The Ticket Headed by
Hon. VIM HI. Purcell.


ALBANY, N. Y, October 12.-At 1:30
O'Clock this morning the Committee on
Credentials, of the Democratic Convention,
decided to admit only the New York county
delegation, to the exclusion Of Tammany
and Irving Halls.
The Tammany delegation will leave for
New York at 3 o'clock. The weather is cold
and rather bleak. The attendance in the
hall and on the stage is much thinner than
yesterday or last night. Printed
circulars, signed by the Executive
Committee of the Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club of Brooklyn, have been
distributed among the delegates, addressed
to the Kings county deputation and to the
members of the convention, strongly oppos-
ing any compromise with Tammany, and
arguing that their exclusion will strengthen
rather than weaken the Democratic party
of New York
Chairman Hill called the convention to
order at 1925, and announced that the first
business would be the report Of the Com
mittee on Contested Seats. Mr.. Peckham,
from the Committee on Credentials, re-
ported the contests, which had been con
When the decision in favor of the New York
county Democracy was announced there
was some cheering, but not very
much. Mr.. Peckham concluded by moving
the adoption of the report, and asked for
the previous question. There was no op-
position, and the report was unanimously
carried.
Mr.. Halliday, from the Committee on Per-
manent Organization, presented their re-
port.
The name of Erastus Brook for Perma-
nent Chairman was received with applause.
The report was adopted without dissent,
and Mr.. Brooks, on being escorted to the
chair, addressed the convention at consider
able length. After expressing his abhOr-
renee Of the crime which had deprived the
country of its President. he said:
sit is impossible to forget at the
first meeting of the Democrats
OF this State in convention since
the defeat of our national standard
bearer that his vote In November last was a
thousand in excess of the vote of the in-
augurated President. Nor can it escape
our memories that in the canvass
of 1876 distinguished citizen
o. our own commonwealth was
made President by the constitutional
election, both In form and substance, by a
numerical majority in excess of a quarter
of million OF votes. 1t becomes the Demo
cratic voters Of this State neither to forget
the past nor TO forgive an offense which
practically disfranchised two States of our
Union ard thousands of American citizens
in order to make a man President who had
received neither a constitutional vote nor
an honest election. The present time is
propitlous, in this State at least, for resto-
ring power aud responsibility to the Demo-
cratic party" He declared the Democratic
principles In brief to be honest elections;
honest men in office; honest money for the
people, With gold and silver as the only Ger
tain standard Of value; a tariff for revenue,
which, while it affords all necessary means
for the liberal support of the government In
paying all its debts and meeting all its OBJ
legations, gives ample protection to every
great interest In the country; free ships
upon the seas by the restoration of Ameri-
can commerce lost to us by the follies of
legislation and home rule for our cities,
and, as far as possible, in our towns and
counties.
'In the name Of right, justice and liberty
we also demand the diminution of that cen
trail power in the Federal Government
which makes the States and people servants
of the Federal patronage and power" Re
viewing the course Of the Republican party
during the twenty years in which 1t had
held power, he commented upon it's extrava-
gance and the exposure of the fraud and
corruption which had marked its career.
The star route swindles had cost the gov.
ernment more than 81, 900 600 in unnecessary
taxation. He referred to the attempted re-
duction of appropriations by Democratic
Senators. In one session they did succeed
In reducing the appropriations SAC, 900.
In this State, when in power, during FIVE
years. of control, Democratic legislation re-
duced the State debt from fifty one millions
to nine milli0rs of dollars, and State taxes
from sixteen to seven millions.
The report of the Committee on Resolu-
tions, after pledging the party to the princi-
ples set forth by the New York State De-
mOcracy in 1874, 1875 and 1876, ard those
o. the st. Louis Convention, repeat the
declaration that the people were defrauded
of the fruits OF victory in the elections of
1876, and assert that they were also defraud-
ed by fragrant corruption in the
election of 1880. Reform through
out the Federal administration is
still necessity. The continued disclosures
of new and hitherto concealed plunderiug
of the peoples funds by inner rings in the
Treasury, Post Office and Interior Depart
ments demonstrate that reform is now more
than ever a necessity. 1t remains likewise
for the Democracy of the State OF New
York, and. is their first political duty, to
resume and carry on TO sue
cessful completion the great measures
and policy of administrative reform begun
in 1874. The resolutions denounce the as.
sassination of the President as a crime
against authority, against free institutions
and against humanity. They renew the de-
mand for the refunding of the national
debt, declare gold and silver to be true legal
tender and the basis of all paper mediums.
and insist upon the payment of the principal
aud interest OF every dollar of the public in
dehteduess.
"R9af justment is reputation, and the
act of the Northern Republican leaders In
giving the support of that party to repudia-
tion in Virginia, in Mississippi, Minnesota
and other States is a national disgrace,
dangerous as a precedent aud destructive OF
the public credit"
The resolutions demand a thorough and
immediate investigation iuto the star route
and other frauds upon the Federal Treasu-
ry, and the vigorous prosecution, already
too long delayed, of all of the participants,
both high and low, and assert that the
money stolen by these plunderers from the
Treasury was used as corruption fund in
the last Presidential election. After Wig
orous arraignment of the Republican party
on its legislative record in this s ate during
the late session of the Legislature, the reso-
lutions declare In favor of such reform by
trative action in the civil service of the
country, as will substitute for the present
periodical scramble for spoils a wise system
of appointment and promotion, by which
the incumbencY of the subordinate offices
shall be regulated by law and depend on
merit only, and demand that no assessment
shall be levied upon public officers for po-
litical purposes.
The public welfare demands that the
various questions relating to chartered
monopolies and methods of transportation
should be met and decided. "We are in
favor Of the adoption of measures to restrict
the growing power Of such monopolies.
They shoud be subject to the supervision
of commissioners established by public
authority. All unjust determinations in
the transportation of passengers and mer-
chandise should be prohibited"
After a strong protest against the ten
dency TO Capitalization in the policy of the
Republican party, the resolutions definitely
challenge a comparison of the record of
the Democratic party with that furnished
by the factions, which were once the Re-
publican party of this State.
The report was unanimously adopted.
The convention then proceeded to the nomi-
nations. VIM. Purcell, of Rochester, editor
and proprietor Of the Rochester Union, was
nominated for Secretary of State; George
81. Lspham, of Yates, for Comptroller; Ros-
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