Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-10
THE POLITICAL POT.
New York Republicans Start
1t Boiling.
j. SlOat FasSett Nominated for
Governor.
The Usual Platform of Stale Plati-
tudes Adopted.
A Vast Amount of Enthusiasm for Blaine
at Deacon HarrisOn's Expense.
The Massachusetts, PrOhi-
bition Convention.
Associated Press Dispatches.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y. Sept 9.-At noon
General Knapp, chairman of the state
central committee, called the Repub-
lican state convention to order. In
General Knapp's address, he said sue
cess this year meant success next year,
whether the party was led by the SOL
dier and statesman now occupying the
executive chair, or by that "matchless
man from Maine" At this there was
wild and tumultuous applause and
cheering. Some one proposed three
cheers for J. G. Blaine, and they were
given with vim.
w. w. Goodrich was then chosen
temporary chairman. He made an ad-
dress in the course of which he pointed
with pride to the record of the Repu5li-
can party since its foundation, and said
four years of Democratic rule convinced
the people of the duty of recalling the
partial power conferred upon the party
which had been on the wrong side ever
since the days when it championed the
extension of slavery into the free terri
tories of the northwest. AT the last
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majority of the lower house of congress.
This was accomplished by campaign
OF colossal lying and deception.
He pointed with pride to the pure, sa-
gacious and conservative administration
OF President Harrison to the growing
commerce of the country under reciproc-
ity with our American neighbors, in
duced by the matchless foresight of Sec
1oi hA al n
ranking with the navies of the other
great maritime powers of the world.
The speaker reviewed the tariff ques-
tion at great length, and spoke in nigh
praise OF the Mckinley bill. Upon the
subject of silver he said: San honest
dollar for an honest debt. We applaud
the courageous utterances of President
Harrison in his recent speech at Albany
This is to be the campaign OF education,
and not of deception. The Republican
partynever fears an investigation of its
practices. The Democratic party is like
the lizard, changing color according to
its environs. At the south 1t stands for
prohibition in the north for free
rum on the Pacific coast and in the
mountains it demands free coinage OF
silver; in the Ohio convention it adopted
free coinage plank bya bare majority,
and placed hard money upon it, and at
the east it demands gold and silver
coinage on an equal basis. We sorrow
fully behold the governor of this state,
as he stands like modern Colossus,
with one foot in the executive chamber
at Albany and the other in the senate
chamber at Washington; his hands
grasping the lever of the Democratic
machine which he controls by filling
the public offices with his subservient
tools; his eyes greedily fixed OH the
presidential chair, on which he will
never sit; pandering to the liquor inter-
ests playing with the question Of honest
money; cheating the laboring man by
defeating for years the Australian ballot
system; obstructing the entire legisla-
tion of the state 10 prevent an investiga
tion OF his partisan acts; rising to no
higher level chan ward politician.
Verify. the coming contest is that of
Hillism grated onto Tammanyism
against the political conscience of the
voters of this commonwealth, and on
sucn issue we shall suffer no defeat"
When reference was made by Good
rich to President Harrison and Secretary
Blaine in connection with the recent
reciprocity measures, there was hearty
cheering about evenly divided between
the two.
The usual committees were appointed
and a recess taken until p. m.
When the convention reassembled
this afternoon, permanent organization
was effected with James M. Varnum, as
chairman. He delivered an address of
great length, the telling points of which
were enthusiastically received. He eu-
logized reciprocity and the doings of the
Republican party during its existence );
spoke highly of the tariff, and in regard
to finance, said he was confident the
convention would not hesitate to pro-
claim in the clearest and most emphatic
terms its adherence to the principles of
honest money so ably and we'll ex-
pressed by President Harrison. He
trusted, too, that the convention would
not hesitate to place itself on
record in favor OF practical and intel
ligent amendment to the ballot reform
bill, so thoroughly emasculated and
shorn of its good uses through the mach
nations of David B. Hill; in favor of
some more intelligent and rational regu-
lation of the liquor traffic, and of the
protection OF civil service reform laws.
Varnum paid his respects to "theg great
Democratic octopus, Tammany hall,
which now holds tine city of New York
in its grasp, and is preparing to extend
its tentacles over the entire state"
There was no room for doubt as to the
relative volume Of applause when Var
mum referred to the reciprocity policy of
the administration as the work of Ben
jamin Harrison, and especially of Secre-
tary Blaine. A generous outburst greet
ed Harrison's name, while tumult
arose when Blaine's name was mem
toned. A cannon just outside the hall
was fred at the moment to swell the
clamor.
A letter was read from Andrew D.
White withdrawing his name as a
gubernatorial candidate. Then Senator
O'Connor, Of Binghampton, placed in
nomination for governor J. Sloan Fas-
sett, of Chelmung. T. NJ. Farthing, of
Erie county, nominated Philip Bercker,
of Buffalo. James II. Potts, Of Troy
nominated General Carr, of Rensselaer,.
William III. Williams. of BROOKLYN,