The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-09-25
THESTANDARD BEARERS
Flower and Sheehan Nominat-
ed by the Democrats. sGa.
CHAPIN's FIGHT FOR FIRST PLACE.

htice tor SecretHTy OF Stute, NnWpDeh
for Controller, Rosendale for Attorney
General, Danforth for Treasurer and
schenck for Engineer.
SARATOGA, Sept. 17.--The Democratic
state convention has adjourned after nom.
mating the following ticket:
For Governor-Roswell p. Flower, OF
jefferson.
For Lieutenant Governor-William F.
Sheehan, of Erie.
For Secretary of State-Frank Rice, OF
Ontario.
For Comptroller-Frank Campbell, OF
Steuben.
For Attorney General-Simon W. Ros.
endale, of Albany.
For State Treasurer-Elliott Danforth,
of Chenango.
For State Engineer-Martin Schenck, Of
Rensselaer,. r.<rs
Flower versus Chaplin.
Flower was nominated on the first bal.
lot. The total vote cast was 317, Of which
Flower received 1874 and Mayor Alfred c.
Chaplin, of Brooklyn, 43. Kings county
voted solid for Chaplin.
John p Adams, chairman of the Kings
county delegation, moved to make the
nomination unanimous. Three cheers
were given for Kings county. When the
convention had quieted down little, Mr..
Adams said that this was the result OF
the action of the Kings county delegation
at q meeting held in the morning The
oth
clamation, and the convention adjourned
after heartily cheering the ticket.
The Platform.
The following platform was adopted
amid thunderous applause:
The Democratic party OF the state OF New
York, in convention assembled, renews the
pledges of its fidelity to Democratic faith, and
as regards national issues reaffirms the doc.
trine of the national platforms of 1884 and lsSs,
indorsed by the 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 prin.
ciples OF sound finance. We are against the
coinage of any dollar which is not of the in.
trinsic value of every dollar of the United
States.
We therefore denounce the new Sherman sill.
YER law, under which one-tenth of our gold
stock has been exported and all our silver out
put is damned up at home as q false pretense
but artful hindrance of return to free bime-
tallic coinage and as tending only to produce
. change from one kind Of metalism to another.
The Sherman Law Denounced.
We therefore unite with the friends Of honest
money everywhere In stigmatizing the Sher.
man progressive silver basis law as no solution
Of the gold and silver question, and as fit ap-
pendix to the subsidy and bounty swindle, the
Mckinley worse-than-war tariff, the Blaine rec.
tprocity humbug, the sQuandered surplus, the
advancing deficit, tho defective census, the fal-
Siied representation and the revolutionary pro-
cedures Of the billion dollar congress, all Justly
condemned by the peoples great uprising last
November, q verdict which, renewed next year.
will empower Democratic statesmen to guide
the peoples councils and to execute the peo.
pies will
We congratulate the people Of the state upon
the beneticent results which followed the cleo
ton OF q Democratic assembly last autumn
That victory secured the election Of Demo
crat TO the United States senate, representa-
tive In full sympathy with the popular majority
on great questions Of federal policy. It gave
the state the lowest tax rate Of thirty-six years
and for the first time in Il generation freedom
from taxation for the general purposes of gov
ernment. 1t gave New York city the means of
securing rapid transit-a boon which Repub-
iican legislatures had for years denied. 1t gave
the people the shortest legislative session in
seventeen years, tribute to the faithful indus
try OF the Democratic assembly, by whom this
result was achieved in the interest of economy
and good legislation.
Pledges Redeemed.
Our pledges to the people contained in the
Democratic platforms Of 1887, 1888 and 1859 were
promptly redeemed by the Democratic assem-
bly, in the passage of the following measures:
]. bill to enumerate the inhabitants of the
state, preparatory to o reapportionment of
senate and assembly districts.
z. bill to reapportion the congress districts
in pursuance Of the federal statute and upon
the basis of the recent federal census.
8. bill to provide for n constitutional con-
ventfon in accordance with the wish Of the peo-
pie as declared by large majority at the polls
in 1886
I. bill to revise and consolidate the excise
laws-a measure intelligently and equitably
framed, carefully regulating the sale Of ntozi-
eating liquors, prescribing Just fees for licenses
and preserving all needful restrictions for the
maintenance os order and the good of society.
3. Several bills to ameliorate the condition Of
agriculture and labor and to lessen the burden
OF direct taxation.
The AppOrtionment Question.
All those measures passed by the Democratic
assembly in obedience to the demand of the
popular majority were defeated in the Repub-
lican senate by the representatives of the mi
party continued to betray the peoples interest.
1t defes the constitution, denies fair represen-
tation in the legislature to l,3O0 600 new inhabi-
tants OF the state by refusing TO pass an emu
meration bill-the preliminary step to the abo-
!ition OF the present antiquated apportonment
Of the senate and assembly districts, which is
based on the census Of sixteen years ago. 1t
not only conspired with the federal census bu.
reau to deprive the state Of an additional repre-
sentative in congress and in the electoral col
lege by fraudulent count of the inhabitants Of
New York city, but 1t refuses TO comply with
the command OF its own federal congress to re-
arrange the thirty-four congress districts of the
state so that all contain nearly rs practicable
an equal number of inhabitants.
1t ignores the emphatic declaration of the
people. who, by plurality of as5 200 votes, re-
corded themselves in favor OF q constitutional
convention.
Concerning Prohibition.
II insists upon a passage of sumptuary laws
which needlessly interfere with the personal
liberty OF lawabding citizens. demonstrates
the hypocrisy Of its professions by twice re-
cording itself in the legislature In favor of q
prohibition amendment and then refusing to
make provision for its submission TO the peo.
Die, except at special election not desired by
?rohibitionists and at an unnecessary expense
II over SU'0,GO to the taxpayers. II refuses to
ameliorate the condition of wage earners by
anaptiuv iust md cnp Ioxy Ia, %l.;