The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-09-24
new YORK RAIDS!
They Nominate Davenport for
Governor and Gen. Carr
for Second Place.
They PrOmulgate n Platform
Consisting of Denuncintions
of Democracy.
They Oppose silver Coinage and
Find FauIl win Cioveiand,s
Appointments.
a shrewd Attempt 20 Catch the
Labor Vote, Win Protec-
ton Raft.
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.
Davenport and Carr Nominated.


SARATOGA, September 23.-Thc
second day of the New York state
republican convention. During the
night there were many conferences
and the committee on resolutions
heard several delegations.
The chaplain of the Senate
Rev. DIR. l.. V. Lccch urged
the committee to take square,
bold stand on the temperance
question and recommend constitu.
tional amendment, regulating or pro-
hibiting the liquor traffic. The ma
jority of the committee were op-
posed to formulating any temperance
planks.
Trains this morning bring large
numbers of delegates to the demo-
cratic convention which meets to-
morrow.
II was not until half past 10 that
the chaplain offered prayer. Immc
diatcly thereafter 4 sscmblyinan
David Healy was voted Permission to
address the convention in behalf OF
the labor interests. At the close of
Healy's address the committee on
resolutions reported platform which
was unanimously adopted.
THE PLATFORM.
= no platform adopted to-day by
the Republican state convention is as
follows:
The Republican party of New York
/. That the provisions of the exist
ing civil service laws of the state and
nation should be strengthened and
extended to all grades of the public
service to which they may be appli-
cable, so that the selection of admin
sirative officers in the civil service
shall, so far as possible, be governed
solely by capacity and fitness. w,
insit on the enforcement of these laws
by all public officials, not only in the
letter, but also in the spirit
Honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors, who are shown
by competitive examination to pos
scss.. the necessary requirement.
should be given preference in certiti
cation aud in appointment.
| 2. That the laws affecting the gov
eminent of cities should be simpli
fled SO as to enable the people to fl
responsibility with ca c and Ger
taiDty.
3, That we demand of congress tn
passage of an act putting an end t
the enlargement of the stock @
money formed of silver or based o
silver. The maintenance of the gol
standard of the purity with gold I
ali kinds of money III use is esscnti!
to the prosperity of our country, an
the restoration of silver to the fol
mer position rs good money throug
equality with gold before the law,
majority of commercial nation
must remain till accomplished, th
chief aim of our monetary policy.
A. That we emphasize the demau
of the last national republican co
vention, that the imposition of duti
upon foreign imports shall be mad
not for revenue only, but that in raj
ing the requisite revenues for Il
. government, such duties shall be
levied as to afford security to o.
diversified industries and protecti'
TO the rights and wages ofthe labor,
10 the end that active aud intellige
labor as well as capital, may have
Just reward, and the laboring IN
| his full share in the national pre-
perity To tho persistent threat
the democratic leaders to overtime
this policy, are due the prese
troubles Of trade and the pr
: alysis of industry. Until {
full effects of the revision
1888 can be fairly estimate
agitation for change in the tai
law Is d gratuitious assault on I
wages of labor in all branches of pl
:. duciion, and all the interest of tr
O iic. We are opposed to the int
duction of any system of free tra'
g the inevitable effect of which wot
y be to destroy our mills and factor
and to carry down American was
= to the standard of the old world.
II S. That while we cordially eado
= the dying sentiments of the gr
~ soldier and citizen, U. s. Grant,
n favor of harmony and good feeli
n between the north and the south,
a insist that an end shall be put to {
g criminal evasion of the guarant
II of equal, civil and political rigl
,s promised by the constitution
a every free man. The right of 5
m TRACE must be maintained, free a
untrammcllcd, aud II that right is
,r lawfully denied TO any part of
n. people of any state its representa-
Ir IN congress aud the electoral coll,
,r should be reduced.
n. 0. That the legislature havi
pursuant TO the will of the people
al pressed at the polls, abolished
system of contract labor in the p
ons of the state, We urge the en-
ment of laws tendingto distribute
widely and equitably as possible
burden of competition with free lal