Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-23
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.

= AAO AASAOs OVAAPA0S0A-A 0SEVDS AWSAOEu1s
After the nomination of Cleveland for
governor, the Democratic convention at
Syracuse, N. Y, took a recess, and upon
the balance of the ticket was
taken up. For lieutenant governor the
name of Mayor David 3. Hill, of Elmira,
was the only one presented and he was
unanimously nominated. General Henry
w. Slocum, of Brooklyn, was nominated
for congressman at-large, no other name
being brought forward. The ballot for
chief judge of the court Of appeals result
ed William G. Rugar, OF Onandaga, 21O :;
Rufus w. Peckham, 1G3. Mr.. Rugcr's
nomination was made unanimous.
The platform reaffirms that adopted in
1874. 1t charges that the Republican
party in Congress during the last session
has demonstrated its continued submis-
sion to corporate power and its gross ex-
travagance and inability to conduct
the..passagc of the arrears of pensions bill,
condemns the river and harbOr bill, de-
mands reform in the civil service, tho pro-
lection of American citizens abroad, the
amendment Of the shipping laws, the pas
sage of laws to protect the purity of pri-
mary elections, the regulation of railroad
COI pOldGkUuSs St I6tOIIu vi Ltl0 Ls1EIl
and tax laws.
Sections 10, IL and IA are as follows
The public welfare demands that the
various questions relating to chartered
mOnopOlies and the methods of transpOr-
tatiOn should be met and decided, and VIC
are in favor Of the adoption Ofmeasures to
restrict the growing power of such mono
poles. They should be subjected to the
Sk,r rsof Co.
provided by law. All unjust discrimina-
tions in the transportation of passengers
and me rchandise should be prohibited. The
charges of corporations which have taken
the property of private citizens for public
use should be limited to tho cost Of sevice
with reasonable profit, instead of the
mercenary exactiOn of "all the traffic
will bear" The laws should be SO revised
that taxation may be reduced as far rs
possible, and that personal and corporate
property may severalIy pay their fair pro-
portion of taxes.
We affirm the policy always maintained
by the Democratic party, that it IS of the
first importance that labor should be made
free, hoalthful and secure Of just remun-
Grafton that convict labor should not
conc into competition with the interest OF
law abiding citizens that tho labor OF
children should DO surrounded with such
safeguards as their health, their right OF
education and their future as useful men,
bers of tho community demand ; that
workshops, whether large or small should
DO under such sanitary control as will in
sure tho health and comfort of the en-
ployed, and will protect all against un-
wholesome labor and surroundings that
labor shall have the same right as capital
to combine for its own projection and
that all the legislation which cramps ill.,
dustry, or which enables the powerful to
suppress the weak, should be repealed !;
and, to promote the interests Of labor, we
recommend the collection of statistics and
information respecting the improvements,
the needs and the abuses of the various
branches of industry.
We also arraign the Republican party
for its Wholesale gift of the public lands
to railroad jjobbers, thus robbing tho mass
of the people of their rightful inheritance,
and We demand that, SO far as possible,
these lands shall be reclaimed and reserved
for occupation by actual settlers and we
request the Democratic representatives in
Congress from the state of New York to
use their power to secure this great bless
ing.