Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-10-01

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which have driven our own merchants out
Of business shall be swept away, and that
| that the conduct of business between the
people and the government shall be made
as simple and inexpensive as possible.
The people OF the state having declared
by large majority their opposition to the
| contract system In prisons, we are opposed
\ to contract convict labor In any form and in
favor of a proper substitute that will en-
| ploy convicts according to thestate account
| system.
We favor prohibiting the employment OF
children In the factories and other indus
trial establishments in the state under IA
| years Of age. We favor limiting the hours
| of labor to 10 hours per day for all women
employed In mills and other Industrial es-
tablishmrnts in the state.
We are In favor OF such legislation as
shall insure to honorably discharged sol
| diers and sailors OF the late war for the pre-
servation OF the Union priority In certiflca-
| ton under the Civil Service laws and regu-
latlons OF this state and the cities thereof
and. upon passing such examination sue
cessfully, priority In ceriilcation and ap-
| pointment over all other persons.
We favor lengthening and improving the
locks of the canals, thereby doubling their
| capacity and reducing the cost of transpor-
tation between the lakes and the ocean.
The efforts OF the Republican legislatures
| OF 1884 and 1885 having proved inadequate
|
| OF counterfeit compounds in stimulation
| OF genuine butter and cheese the product
| OF the dairy, we demand the enactment OF
such laws as shall effectually protect the
people. by prohibiting such a fraud and
| deception. ~
We oppose all sumptuary and other laws
that interfere with the constitutional right
OF personal liberty and favor the enactment
OF such excise laws as shall be alike Just to
all, considering the claims of all and pro-
tecting their individual rights.
The platform was adopted without a
dissenting voice.
Frederick Cook of Rochester, was
nominated for secretary of state on the
first ballot.
A. A. Chaplin, the present incumbent,
was nominated by unanimous consent for
comptroller.
Dennis O'Brien, the present attorney
general was unanimously renominated.
Lawrence j. Fitzgerald of Cortland,
was nominated for state treasurer by
acclamation.
Nathan Sweet of Albany has been re-
nominated for engineer and surveyor.
At 2.45 p. m. the convention adjourned
sine die.
SKETCH OF GOVERNOR HILL.
David Bennett Hill, tho Democratic
nominee for governor of New York, was
born in Havana, Schuyler then Chemung)
county, N. Y, in 1874. His ancestors
were New Englanders. He wns educated
in the schools of his native place, and
went to Elmira in 1862, where he COM
pletod his law studies, and WINS admitted |
to the bur in November, 1864. He has |
ever since continued to reside and |
practise his profession in Elmira, |
raridiy gaining prominence at the bar. |
Since lad Mr.. Hill has taken |
an active personal interest in political |
matters. He hns always been firm, con |
sistent Democrat, and early became a |
leader and controlling power in the party |
iu his county and district. He wns |
elected member of assembly for his |
county in 1870, when he was but 81 years |
of age, and was reelected in 1872 In his |
own city Mr.. Hill has served one term in |
the common council as alderman from his |
ward, the strongest Republican ward in |
the city. AT the expiration of that term |
he was chosen mayor of Elmira, leading |
his ticket largely, although his opponent |
WINS strong candidate and q popular |
man. For number of years Mr.. Hill was
tho proprietor of the Elmira Daily |
Gazette, the leading Democratic organ of |
the southern tier. He was elected lieu |
'tenantgovernor in 1882, and became |
governor on the resignation of Mr.. Cleve-
land last February.
THE MUawUMps.
The Ledge,''s New York correspondent |
says; The question of the hour, over |
topping the Saratoga nominations is,
what will the Mugwumps, or Republican |
Civil Service reformers do ?-thNt is, the |
Republicans who voted down MIR. Blaine |
and, pro tempore, gave their suffrages to |
his Democratic opponent. These gentle |
men are an important political quantity |
III 80 close state as this, and in all |
human probability the result of the COM
ing election depends upon their action. |
Thus much is admitted, as d matter of |
fact, by close observers regardless of par
tisan partialities or preiudices
For the moment, then, il looks as if /
the Independents, or Mugwumps, were
about to stampede back into the regular
Republican camp.A sign in that direction
is vigorous editorial turning its back |
against the Democratic convention and its /
work in this mornings Times, Repub- |
ioan journal, which, us every knows, per
formed very substantial service for the
Cleveland ticket last fall
1t is tolerably clear that the Times is
not going to support the Democratic
ticket, and, as thnt journal has numerous
and important following, its position
naturally excites the apprehension of the
Democratic managers. Not less porten-
tious are the cautious outgivings of the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (the biggest
Mugwump of them ALI, from his noun
tain eyrie in Peekskill, iustifying the OK
pectation or suspicion that he, too, is
going to support Davenport, ,Gnd not Hill,
for governor. The pnstor does not like
the protective plank in the platform, nor
the working of the "prohibition" issue
but he takes down all the rest without n
why or wherefore. Then, on the |
heels of this comes dispatch
from New Haven announcing that |
the four leading Mugwump leaders of
the Nutmeg state are ont with an open
letter emphatically denying that they \
have any connection whatsoever with the |
Democratic party, and that they only |
acted with it during the last campaign |
because they did not have confidence in
Mr.. Blaine's personal honesty. Tho de-
duction from all this is That the Deinoc |
racy may as we'll prepare to shoe their |
own row." and get on as well as they can |
without the outside help that served them |
SO we'll in the Inst Presidential campaign. |
The EUcling Post, another Mug |
wunp, it ought to be added, also takes |
position with the Times. In its issue this |
afternoon it recommends that "Republi- |
cans, who, exercising nm Independent |
judgment last fall, voted sfor Grover |
Cleveland for President, should now vote |
for the Republican candidates for COVER |
nor and other state officers" The editor |
himself says he will vote for Ira Daven-
port.
A REPUBLICAN VIEW.
The special correspondent of the |
Philadelphia Press, writing from Saratoga,
takes this view of the ticket: The ticket |
will poll every Democratic vote in the
state, particularly in tho rural districts.
1t appeals squarely TO the cheesepress
aud hmyloft Democracy. Governor Hill,
narrow, vindictive, partisan and good
| fighter, is a man after their own heart.
/ His canvass for the nomination shows
that he understands school-district can
vnss, and it is OH such campaigns that
| Democratic success must rest as Samuel j.
Tilden knew and praetieed. The two un-
known equations in the fight IRE the id
ministrntion and the New York City fight.
Edward Cooper, there is now no manner
of doubt, was the choice of the admins
tration, and at the eleventh hour he was
aided by patronage and the personal re-
presentations of William G. Whitney.
The announcement came too late for use