Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-29
MILLER ---CRUGER.
Republican Nominations in New
 York State.
PROGRAMME CARRIED OUT.
Rumsey for Judge of the
 Court of Appeals.
AN UNEQUIVOCAL PLATFORM.

ness, Which Moves Along Rapidly and Quietly-An the Nominations Unani- mous-Warner Miller Outlines the Plan
 of Battle-The High License Plank In-
 serted ip the Platform.
 SARATOGA, Aug 29-The programme of the state Republican convention, outlined in these dispatches yesterday, the convention then being engaged in organizing, was car ried out to the letter. Gen. TracyS address as temporary chairman was lengthy, and was read from manuscript. After the ap- pointment of the usual officers and commit tees, recess was taken
 On reassembling Chairman Husted, of the committee on permanent chairman, reported Gen. George s. Batcheller, of Saratoga, for permanent chairman, and long list of vice presidents and other officers. Gen. Batchel- ler's speech was well received.
 Upon the conclusion of Gen. Batcheller's address, the committee on electors at large reported the names of William II. Seward, of Cayuga, and James s. T. Strauahan, Ot Kings. The report was adopted ;.nd the gentlemen named were declared elected. Mir. Young, of Queens county, offered a reso- lutiOn that hereafter a ratio ot r'preStuta- tion ill all Republican district, county and assembly district conventions i'll this state
 
 at the last presidential election as follows: "One vote for each town, and one vote fO1 each 100 voters, and one vote for every frac- tion of 100 votes over fifty votes, cast for the last Republican candidate for president of the United States
 MT. Young explained that the object was to secure full representation to every loyal town under all circumstances. He asked unanimous consent for it's consideration. Ina tDf fly>c cfot, mttee with power.
 The state committee was empowered to fill all vacancies on the state ticket, and to re- move any electOr found to be ineligible
 Gen. Curtis offered a resolution that in the death of Gen. Sheridan the world has lost one of its greatest military captains, the armies of the United States an officer who will always be regarded as one of the most distinguished commanders, the comrades of the late war one of their most brilliant and patriotic leaders, his family faithful bus band and good father, and that the con- vention tender to Mrs. Sheridan expressions of their sincere condolence and sympathy. It was adopted by rising vote ill silence
 Nominations were then i'll order, and Sena- tor Sloan, of Oswego, took the platform to nominate the Hon. Warner Miller. After eulogistic speech he moved the nomi- nation of Warner Miller, byTacclamation. Great applause)
 The nomination of MT. Miller was made unanimous by exclamation, the delegates rising and cheering Justify.
 A committee was appointed to notify Mr. Miller of his nomination and request his presence.
 Commissioner C. N. Tantor, of New York, then, i'll a brief speech, nominated Col s. Van Renssalaer Cruger. of New York, for lieutenant governor.
 MT. Smith, of Buffalo, nominated John B. Weber, of Erie county.
 The order of nominations was here sus- pended upon the appearance of Hon. Warner Miller, who was escorted to the platform amid enthusiastic cheers and applause
 Mr. Miller addressed the convention as follows:
 Ut is impossible that 1 should properly ex- press my feelings at this moment, or prop erly thank you for the unmerited honor which you have conferred upon me- I ac- cept your nomination (great applause) with a full appreciation of the responsibilities and burdens which go with it. 1 believe we are united party, and that I am to have unaui- nous support, I would not be your can- didate
 ''I congratulate you that we are to have a contest this year upon principle and not upon candidates. The Chicago platform is one of the broadest AmericaniSns It distinctly announces 1n stronger terms than ever used before in any platform the doctrine of pro- lection to American industry and labor, We accept the challenge given us on that question. The platform is equally strong in it's declarations in regard to the protection of the rights of American citizens at home or abroad. And it is equally pronounced in its determination to maintain a wise and just diplomacy in all of it's dealings with foreign nations unmoved by neither buster nor anger. This convention will heartily ratify that platform.
 ''1n addition to this we enter a great state contest on principles only second in import ance to those of the national contest The party will doubtless declare in favor of seek ing out fraud and corruption in all govern ment departments The Republican party, whenever it has had control of the state, has never failed to give it a wise and economi- cal administration. We are also to submit the question whether any particular class of our citizens, by combination and the use of money, shall be able to boast that theyscon- trol and own the state government ill any of its departments. We hold that governrnept should not be by cliques or classes, but by the people, and we shall ask the people to say whether any class shall control the state government in the interest of any portion of the people less than the whole people
 'The Republican party in the past may have halted at times; it may at times have stood still for. a =,r>9ment but never, in its history, has = moved backward tApplause.l Shall the party which has led every reform for twenty-five years continue to maintain the government on the principles it has es- tablished; whether the party which has made of our people one great nation; which has established universal freedom and suffrage; which saved the union; which organized our finances so that we met the stupendous ex- penses of war, and before the closed had paid one-half of the vast debt and main tained the credit of the nation, that it stood higher than that of any other govern ment in the world; whether the party of Lin coin and Grant, and the great ideas which they set in motion, shall control this govern ment, or whether it shall be turned over to the reactionary force who propose to turn the wheels backwards and undo, so far as our material and industrial interests are concerned, everything that has been done by uS