Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-13

manufactures and thereby increasing the amount and profits of home labor. We be- 1 lieve i'll lcvying our taxes and duties upon l luXuricS and those articles, and those alone, where manufacture needs protection to save 1 invested capital and well paid labor To carry out this policy and that of administra- tive reform we have placed at our head one whose acts in the past, whose wisdom integ- rity and tirmnesS are all sufficient guaran- tees for the future; one in whose hands the | business interests, good name and fame of l the country are safe Grover Cleveland l Tremendous applause.) Opposed to us is party that ill its national platform proposes ] to make whisky free, but equalizes that in 1 its state platform by a proposition to in ! crease the tax on the whisky dealer; a party which ill its platform condemns those things l called trusts. organizations which limit pro- duction, fix prices regardless of cost, dictate | the wages of labor, crush out small dealers and strangle competition, while the embodied spirit of organized Repub- l hcansn, its ''uncroWned king" defends these same trusts and declares them to be private l affairs, with which the government has noth- l ing to dO party which reVokeS it's declara- 1 tion of 1884 that the tariff should be revised and now professes to believe that the difficult ties under which We labor can be best re- lieved by free whisky, and taxing necessaries ; | that believes ill paying bOunties to few at the expense of all: that believes in a re- 1 stricted market rather than that of the world and erecting a Chinese wall around | American ndustries-this it calls by the high l sounding but deusive name of protection to 1 American labor and saving the home market This policy is one which renders possible and l invites monopoles and trusts, increases the | cost of living. epricheS a few at the expense l of the many, restricts the commerce of the country and tie field of American enterprise | It is a policy of the past. The candidate too | is of the pasta historic name. While the 1 American people have a great respect for his | toric names, they do not vote for them The | experiment. was tried in this state last fall
 when the bearer of one of the grandest names | in American history was taught that govern mental power and official power do not de scend by inheritance in this country This is not a campaign of sentiment or passion. Our appeal is to the sober sense, the brain, the in teligence of the American people. The cry of free trade and British influence cannot | avail against us. The issue we present is clear and well defined Our leader has the | courage of his convictions. He is one who 1 dares to do what he believes to be right l With such leader and such an issue. and with full full faith in the intelligence of the | people, we enter upon the campaign with an | abiding confidence that the Chinese wall | which our enemies have erected around 1 American commerce and labor for protection | of monopoies and trusts, and that the bearer of the historic name will both go down before the oward march of a triumphant Democ- racy. Great applauseO
 When Mr. Herrick had concluded his speech | he called for the report of the committee on resolutions, which was submitted by Chair man Gilroy, of Tammany Hall and read by the secretary as follows:
 THE PLATFORM
 FrSt-The Democracy of the state of New i York, in convention assembled, heartily ap- prove of the platform adopted by the national | Democratic convention, held at St Louis in
 June last, and in Grover Cleveland and Allen
 G. Thurman we recognize tried and true ex- ponents of the principles therein expressed
 MT. Cleveland's letter of acceptance, by it's
 state1nent-"We have entered upon no cru sade of free trade. The reform we seek to
 inaugurate is predicated on the utmost care | for established industries jealous regard for the interests of American labor, and a sincere desire to relieve the country from the | injustice and the danger of condition l which threatens evil to all the people of the land"--has truly interpreted the Democratic
 platform, and tn that letter he has clearly
 presented the vital issues pending before the
 American people.
 Second-We hail with patriotic satisfaction
 the bold, aggressive and stateslnanlike mes
 sage of President Cleveland upon the fisheries
 question, vindicating the rights and proclaim
 ing anew the dignity of American citizenship
 We Congratulate our country in that it has a
 president who, knowing the right, dares
 maintain it.
 Third-We commend the efforts of the | president to enforce the laws relative to i'm
 ported contract labor. Such efforts have
 revealed their weakness and the insufficiency
 of our immigration laws so far as applicable
 to criminal paupers and contract laborers,
 and we therefore recommend thorough revision of the laws in relation to such immi-
 grafton and imported contract labor, so that
 our country shall not be made the refuge of 1 the dangerous and criminal classes of other
 lands, shall not be burdened with the support of their paupers, and that our workingmen