Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-17
MEN AND PLATFORMS.

MEN AND PLATFORMS. | Roswell F. Flower Placed at the Head of the Democratic Ticket in the Empire State-Charles HI. Allen Nominated by the Hay State Re- publicans.
 SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 16.-The demo-
 cratic state convention has adopted plat
 form and placed the following ticket in
 the field:
 For Governor-Roswell F. Flower of New York
 For Lieutenant Governor-William F. Sheehan of Buffalo.
 For Secretary of State-Frank Rice of Ontario county.
 For Comptroller-Frank Campbell of Bath, Steuben county.
 For Treasurer F. Danforth of Chenango county.
 For Attorney General-Simon Rosendale of Albany.
 For Surveyor and Engineer-Martin Schenck of Rensselaer,
 The platform renews the pledges of its fidelity to democratic faith, and as regards national issues reaf6rms the doctrine of the national platform in 1884 and 1888.
 On the money question the platform reads: We now, as then, steadfastly ad- here tp principles of sound finance. We are against the coinage of any dollar which is not of the intrinsic value of every other dollar of the United States We therefore denounce the new Sherman silver law under which one-tenth of our gold stock has been exported and all our silver output has been damned up at home az a false pretsnse but artful hin- drance of return to free bimetallic coinage and as tending only to produce change from one kind of monometalism to an other. We therefore unite with the friends of honest money everywhere in stigmatizing the Sherman progressive silver basis law as no solution of the gold and silver question and as & fit appendix to the subsidy and bounty swindle, the Mckinley worse-than-war tariff, the Blaine reciprocity humbug, the squandered surplus, the advancing deficit, the defective cen sus, the falsifed representation and the revolutionary procedures of the billion congress-an justly condemned by the peoples great uprising last November, a verdict which, renewed next year, will empower democratic statesmen to guide the councils and to execute the peoples will
 The rest of the platform is devoted principally to an arraignment of the re- publican party. The following resolution was passed as bait to the colored voters:
 Resolved, That this convention views with qualification the growing friendly feeling to- iow-citizens in this state; and they are welcome to our ranks with the assurance that within our party discrimination on account of race or color is discountenanced.
 Immediately upon his nomination for governor MT. Flower sent his resignation as member of congress to the secretary of state at Albany. Governor Hill will order a special election to fill the vacancy at the general election in November.
 MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS.
 BOSTON, Sept 16.-The triumph of the young men was notable feature in to- days convention. Charles H. Allen of Lowell was nominated for governor.
 The platfo rm most cordially congratu- tates President Harrison on the vigor, wis., dom and purity of his administration, which has won the esteem and confidence of our own people and the good will and respect of the other nations of the world. The great qualities of courage, firmness and judgment which have marked his course, are implicitly relied upon by the country for deliverance from the impend- ing perils of crude and reckless projects of legislation.
 It congratulates the republican party and the country also upon the firm main tenance by the present national admins tration of the principle of civil service re- form and upon the extension of it's appli- cation to navy yards and other branches of the public service.
 The silver question is disposed of in the words: It is of paramount im- portance to the whole people to maintain the only true and safe standard of value in money; every dollar issued by the govern ment, whether paper or coin, should be as good as every other dollar; and ss we know that the nations are interdependent in all monetary affairs and that the expe- rience of every civilized country proves that it is absolutely necessary to social progress and to the highest prosperiety of any country to have and to keep the stan dard measure by which all its products are are measured and exchanged essen- tially the same as that of the worlds international standard of value and exchange, we are unalterably opposed to the unlimited coinage of silver by this country excepting upon uniform international ratio to gold, and under simi- lar restrictions and conditions both as to the government and to individuals as per vail in other leading nations of the world. We condemn the democratic party for its endorsement of free silver in the party platforms in Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Michi- gan and eighteen other states. The posi- tion of the democratic party on this most vital question is full of peril to the coun- try. The few members of that party who hold sound views thereon only emphasize the dangerous attitude of the party; their party controls them, and they are power less to direct or influence party action.
 A long paragraph is also devoted to pro- lection, showing how it has worked to the best interests of this country.