The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-10


by those antagonistic elements, but
the democrats of New York took no
such position. The democracy would
carry New York for Thurman,
Bayard, Mcdonald or Randall, but
not for Cleveland. New York was
safe state if the democratic party was
kept solid, but not otherwise.
REMARKS OF MIR. CoCHRANE.
Mr.. Cochrane, of New York, in be-
half of the minority of the state dele
cation, came to the platform to sec
ond one of the nominations,b but want
ed to go into statement of New
York politics, to which Mr.. Bragg, of
Wisconsin, objected, and against
which he made the point of order,
which was overruled.
Cochrane declared (amid shouts of
incredulous laughter) that no person
felt more kindly than he to Mr..
Cleveland, but he was too old friend
of his to wish to see him nominated
for the presidency. He was asked to
give the name of the candidate whose
nomination he seconded. His answer
was that he would name a
man who never could be
called guilty of a single
act favoring corporate institutions;
man who has never prostituted eX-
ecutive power to veto bills that were
conceived in the interests of labor; a
man whose hair had grown white in
the service of his country-he meant
Mr.. Thurman, of Ohio, but he did not
name him. Why. he asked, should
the democratic party plunge into the
dark and subject the future fortunes
of the party to the hazard of lottery?
Why should they thrust their hand
into the bag and draw out number
which might turn out to be the regen-
orator of the party-a Moses-or turn
out to be false prophet, whom
it would be better not to
have discovered? He warned
the convention against a repetition
of that insanity; that folly; that fatal
ity which had affected the democracy
for the last twenty years. He hoped
all these burning questions would be
left to be settled by the state of New
York. and that the convention would
pause before it invaded that unwil-
ling state, and he appealed to the con-
vention to ratify the nomination of
that grand cid democrat, Allan e.
Thurman, of Ohio"
PLATFORM COMMITIEE.
The committee on platform after
sitting till o'clock, this morning, re-
sumed its session at 10 and heard
number of delegations asking for in
sertion of planks for special interests
After hearing these claims for re
cognition the committee proceeded to
the choice of a subcommittee to
draft platform. The following gen.
tlemen were selected: Abram S.
Hewitt, New York; B. F, Butler,
Massachusetts,; j. Sterling Morton,
Nebraska; II. G.Davis, West Virginia;
Major E. A. Burke, Louisiana, w. R.
Morrison, Illinois; Henry Watterson,
Kentucky, and Geo. l.. Converse, Ohio,
The committee then adjourned till
| o'clock this evening and the sub
committee began its work. Because of
| wide divergence of views between the
members of the sub committee on the
tariff question-almost every shade of
opinion from free trade to protection
being representative work of form
ulating a platform will be long one
and the opinion is expressed that two,
possibly three, platforms will be pre-
sented to the full committee. Should
this be the result the session of the
main convention will also probably
be long one, and little hope is eX-
pressed by members that the report be
ready for presentation to the conven-
ton before late tomorrow, possibly
not then.
CONVENTION RUMoRS.
Here it may be stated the following
rumors created great excitement:
1t had been ascertained from gen.
tlemen occupying confidential rela-
lions with many members of the New
FORK delegation, that communications
were now being interchanged between
Cleveland's followers in the New Y ork
delegation and his friends at Albany
and New York City, with view of
all factions uniting on the name of
some New York man and the with
drawal of Cleveland. At o'clock in
the afternoon John Kelly received a
telegram from. a gentleman in New
York, occupying high position of
political trust in New York city poll
tics, enquiring whether the name of
Abraham Hewett would prove salts
| factory to Mr. Kelly. No reply had
been made DIT that hour. The inquiry
coming from such a confidential
source indicates that Cleveland's own
friends have suggested Hewitt's
name. Mr.. Kelly was represented as
being not unfriendly to Hewitt.
1t was said CleveIand's organizers
sought half an hours talk with But
Ter and rendered him the position of
secretary of the treasury under Cleve-
land, if he would come to Cleveland's
support on the first ballot. Gen. But
Ter promptly replied that he could not
consent to hold cabinet Office under
a man SO unskilled in politics as
| Cleveland. In making his reply to
overtures Gen. Buffers language was
more vigorous than elegant, but it
conveyed the contemptous idea above
mentioned.
A PETITION FROM TEXAS.
Mr.. Sweeny, of Texas. offered the
following petition:
To the representative of the DEM
ocracY in convention assembled:
We the undersigned repreSen ling
the labor population of Galveston
Texas, request your honorable body
to insert in your platform as form
atty, declaration to the effect that
the 3 hour law, as already passed,
should in future, be rigidly enforced,
and be no longer a dead letter upon
the statute books.
We also ask that it be recommended
and announced, as the sense of the
convention that there shall be ap-
pointed by the executive an officer
upon whom the duty may devolve as
commissioner in charge of the bureau
of labor and statistics, man who is
able to carry the endorsement and
meet with the approval of the labor
ing classes of the country.
On both of these subjects we
invoke your favorable consideration
ADJOURNED.
A motion to adjourn to 1870 a. m.
tomorrow was, upon call of states,
carried and the convention accord
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