Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-13

The convention reassembled at : D. m. The committee on credentials being called upon for it's report, Mir. E. T. Woods, of New York, the chairman, submitted a report recommending that all the sitting delegates, including the sitting members from the two contested districts of Queens be confirmed in their rights to seats.
 The report was unanimously adopted.
 The committee on permanent organization reported for permanent chairman Hon. D. Cady Hel'rick. of Albany, also a list of vice presidents, headed by Alexander Moran, of Queens county, and a list of secretaries, headed by Nicholas Muller, Jr., of Richmond county.
 District Attorney Ridgway, of Kings and Gen. P. C. Doyle of Erie, were appointed a committee to escort NIr. Herric to the chair.
 Mir. Herlicl was greeted with great ap- pause. He addressed the convention as follows
 CHAIRMAN HERRICK'S SPEECH.
 GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION-I am grateful for the honor you have conferred upon me. and I congratulate the convention and the Democracy of the state that your deliberations have been harmonious and are to result in our presenting united front to the common enemy. The Democratic party has ceased to be party merely of opposition. and in its conventions it is no longer limited to criticisms, attacks and promises of what it will do if entrusted with power It can now refer to promises kept, pledges fulfilled, acts done and policies for the future deti.led For over quarter of a century, undismayed by disaster, unbroken by defeat the Democracy toiled and struggled on for what they be- ieved the right. A party having no reason for existence, except to love and hope for spells. could not have held together so long; but the Democratic party was founded upon and existed for principle; and clinging to the ancient landmarks which the fathers had erected at length, after many reverses of fortune, purified by its trials and adversities, the people have restored it to power The restoration, with its consequences was not only a victory for the Democratic party: it triumph for our form of government. 1t was declaration that there was no dom- hant Class ill this country; that the assertion that oniy a particular class of men was fit to govern was false; that the charge that one-half the American people were not to be trusted was a islander and q lie It was a declaration and proof that government by the people, for the people, had not perlshed from the earth. But our victory did not relieve the party of all it's troubles. Some of us were so accustomed to see the platform and pledges of the dom- lnant party violated after election that we thought that the regular and proper thing; and when for ourselves or our friends We sought place and found the law and the pledges of the party standing in the way we were both surprised and grieved to find that the administration we had chosen insisted in keeping it's pledges and enforcing the law Then, too, some of us had become so accus- toned to criticise and oppose the administra- tion that we kept it up even when it did come to be our own administration. We could not at once break loose from the lifelong habit of "being against the government y Daughter and applause,) Again, party long out of power and unaccustomed to govern-a party merely of criticism and op- position-had to become accustomed to it's own responsibilities. It had to formulate a positive policy of its own, founded upon the principles of the party and upon which its diverse elements could be united. But now those trials are happily over. We see that to keep party pledges and enforce the law was