The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-09-24
FLOWER Is THE MAN.
NOMINATED ON THE FIRST BALLOT BY
AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.
The Scene in the Convention Hall During
The Nominations and the Following
Speeches One of Wild and Stir
ring Enthusiasm.

/
SARATOGA, n. Y, Sept. 16.-It was
10 o'clock this morning when the
Democratic State Convention was
called to order. The committee on
resolutions reported a platform, a
part of which is as follows:
The Democratic party of the state
of New York, in convention assem-
bled, renews its pledges of fidelity to
the Democratic faith, and as re-
CARDS national issues, re-
affirms. the doctrine of
the national platform of 1884, and
1888, endorsed by popular votes in
those years, and so overwhelmingly
ratified by the popular verdict in the
congressional elections of 1890. We
now, as then, steadfastly adhere to
the 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, and we therefore denounce
the new Sherman silver law;
under which one tenth of
our gold stock has been exported and
all our silver output is damned up at
home, not only as false pretence,
but as an artful hinderance of re-
turn to free bimetallic coinage, and is
tending only to produce change
), from one kind of recommendation to an
other. We, therefore, unite with the
friends of honest money, everywhere,
in stigmatizing the Sherman pro-
gressive silver basis law as no solu-
ton of the gold and silver ques-
ton, and as fit appendix
to the subsidy and county
swindle of Mckinley, worse than the
war tariff, the Blaine reciprocity
humbug, the squandered surplus, the
advancing deficit, the defective CEN
sus, the 1alsified representation and
the revolutionary procedure of the
billion dollar congress-an justly
condemned by the people at the great
uprising last November-a verdict
which this time next year, will en-
power Democratic statesmen to guide
the peoples councils and to execute
the peoples will. Upon motion of
Mr.. Griffin, the resolutions were
adopted with cheers. The following
resolution, offered by Mr.. Canton of
New York, was also passed:
Resolved, That this convention
views with qualification, the growing
friendly feeling toward the Democratic
part of our colored fellow citizens in
: this state and they are welcomed to
, our ranks, with the assurance that
! within our party, discrimination or
;. account of race or color is discounten
Il anced.
a Then Thomas +. Gilroy moved t
! proceed with nominations and Mayo
~ Porter nominated Roswell p. Flowe
d for governor. In the course
: of his speech, he said, that thu
! Democracy of the state at their
primaries and district gatherings
l with unanimity rarely equaled, have
pronounced their choice of the person
| whom they desire to be made theil
leader by the delegates to this con-
vention, and closed with sketch OF
| Flowers career. Col. John r.. Eel
] lows seconded Flowers nomination
for governor in behalf of Tammany
: Hall.
Thos. Dewitt of Kings county,
after Fellows had finished seconding
the nomination of Flowers, mounted
the platform and placed Alfred G..
Chaplin in nomination for governor.
Mr.. Dewitt, in placing Chaplin in
nomination, said: 1--WE shall vote for
him at the beginning, and we shall
vote for him at the last" William
? f. Sheehan was nominated for
acknowledgement, Frank Rice was
{ nominated for secretary of state;
comptroller, Frank Campbell; treas
urer, Elliott f. Danforth; attorney
general, Simon Rosendale; topograph.
ical surveyor and engineer, Martin
: Schenck.
The vote for governor was as fol.
Chaplin AZ. AS the tumult attendant
| upon the announcement of the vote
subsidized into reluctant waves of APP
} plause it left standing on his fee1
among the Kings county delegation its
: chairman, Charles IL. Adams o
> Brooklyn. "I arise" he said, wher
recOgnlZeuJ W uoNe JIG uIdHlInOu'
nomination of Roswell p. Flower
The scene that followed was stirring
, indeed, and it was some time
= before Mr.. Adams, who re
5 manned standing, could be heard
: When quiet prevailed he added
"While we, of Kings county, return
, home with feeling that his claims
t are Just on the Democracy, which hal
D never yet faltered in the support of {
Democratic candidate and will no
now" This was the cause of a re
newed and wild enthusiasm. Adams
g motion was then adopted.
1 Then followed the other nomina
e nations, after which Mr.. Flower was
a escorted to the hall and spoke, every
+ man standing on his chair anC
:; shouting wildly. The candidate
l advanced to the platform with smiles
Y on his face When the Shouts of an