Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-17
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SARATOGA, N. ", Sept. 16.--There
was little anticipation OF pyrotechnic
scenes in the convention TO quicken the
political pulse. Breakfast was indolently
discussed and duets, trios and squads of
delegates sauntered down the hill to the
rink barracks from o'clock until 10,
when the convention should have been
called to order. As the time approached
the gulf-like rink filled more rapidly.
The policing Of the hall was better than
yesterday and promptly at 10 a. m. the
convention was called to order.
THE PLATFORM IN FULL.
After presentation of the decision In
regard to the County Democracy the
committee on resolution reported the
following platform:
First-The Democratic party of the state
OF New York, in convention assembled,
renews the pledges of its fidelity to Demo-
cratic faith and as regards national issues
reatfrms the doctrine of the national plat
form of 1884 and 1883 endorsed by the
popular voters in those years and so over
wheliningly ratified by the popular verdict
in the Congressional elections Of 1890.
EMPHATIC FOR SOUND CURRENCY.
We now, as then, steadfastly adhere to
| principles of sound finance. We are
against the coinage of any 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 Is damned up at
nome as a false pretcnoe; but an artful
hindrance both a return to free bimetalic
coinage, and as tending only to produce a
| change from one Kind of mono-metalism
to another. We therefore unite with the
friends of honest money everywhere
in stiglnatizing the Sherman pro-
gresslve silver basis law as no solution
of gold and silver question and as tit APP
pendit TO the subsidy and bounty swiadle,
The Mckinley worse-than-war tariff, the
Blaine reciprocity humbug the squandered
surplus, the advancing deficit, the defective
census, the falsified representation and the
revolutionary procedure Of the billion
dollar Congress, all justly condemned by
the peoples great uprising last November
a verdict which renewed next year will
empower Democratic statesmen to guide
the peoples councils and to execute the
peoples will.
DEMOCRATIC RECORD IN NEW YORK.
Second-We congratulate the people of
the state upon the beneficient results
which followed the election of a Demo-
cratic assembly last autumn. That victory
secured the election of Democrat TO the
United States Senate, a representative in
full sympathy with the popular majority
on great questions of Federal policy. It
gave the state the lowest tax rate in So
years; for the first time in generation
freedom from taxation for the general
purposes Of government. 1t gave New
| York city the means of securing rapid
transit, a boon which the Republican
| legislators had for years denied It gave
the people the shortest legislative session
in II years--a tribute to the faithful in
dustry of the Democratic assembly by
| whom this result was achieved in the in
tercst of economy and good legislation.
Our pledges to the people contained the
| Democratic platform of 1887, 1888 and 1859
| were promptly redeemed by the Demo-
cratic assembly in the passage of the fol-
lowing measures First, A bill to enumer-
ate the inhabitants of the state prepara-
| tory to areapportionment of senate and as
sembly districts; bill to reapportion the
congress districts in pursuance Of the
Federal statute and upon the basis Of the
recent Federal census; bill to provide for
a constitutional convention in accordance
| with the wish of the people as declared by
large majority of the polls in 1896; bill
to revise and consolidate the excise laws
measures intelligently and equitably
| formed carefully regulating the sale of in
toxicating liquors; prescribing just fees
for licenses and prescribing all needed re-
strictionsi for the mantainence of order
and the good of society; several bills to
| ameliorate the condition of agriculture and
labor and to lessen the burden of district
taxation.
| REPUBLICANS ARRAIGEED.
| All these measures passed by the Demo-
cratic Assembly in obedience to the de-
mand of the popular majority, were de-
feated in the Republican Senate by the
| representatives of the minority of the
people. Thus has the Republican party
continued to betray the peoples interests.
1t defes the constitution and denies fair
representation in the legislature to
| 1,30OOO0 new inhabitants of the state by
| refusing to pass an enumeration bill, the
| preliminary step to the abolition OIL Tie
| present Anticipated apportionment
of senate and assembly districts
which is based on the census of 10
years ago. 1t not only conspired with the
| Federal census bureau to deprive the state
of an additional representative in Congress
| and the electoral college by a fraudulent
count of the inhabitants III New York, but
it refuses to comply with the command of
its own Federal Congress to rearrange the
"a Congressional districts Of the state so
that each shall contain as nearly ms prac-
ticable an equal number Of inhabitants.
/ 1t ignores the emphatic declaration of
| the people who. by a plurality Of 1913 900
| votes, recorded themselves in favor of q
constitutional convention. 1t insists upon
| the passage of sumptnary laws, which
ndedlessly interfere with the personal
liberty OF law-abiding citizens. 1t demon
strates the hypocrisy Of the professions by
twice recording itself in the legislature in
| favor of a prohibition amendment and
| then refusing to make provisions for Its
submission to the people except at a
| special election not desired by prohibit
tionists and at an unnecessary expense of
over $500, 900 20 the taxpayers.
1t refuses to amelorate the conditions of
wage earncrs by enacting just and con-
servatiVe laws in their interest. 1t shows
Its subserviency to the moneyed interests
by ignoring the demands of the agricul-
tural and working classes for reforms in
methods of taXetions. 1t coyertly lends
its influence to the restricting of manhood
suffrage.
Il indicates its hostility TO home rule by
its effort az neddlesome legislative inter
ference with the affairs OF large cities IL
encourages expensive legislative iuvesti-
eating committees whose investigations
degenerate into strikes for political patron
age upon the official authorities Of Demo-
cratic municipalities. Ii inflicted hostile
blow upon the best welfare and prosperity
OF the state by depriying New York
of the Worlds Fair, because the Republic
can leaders could not control its board of
directors. BY that act New York was de-
pryed Of the benefit of the expenditures
of hundreds of millions of dollars within
her borders; by that the interests Of every
wage Garner, every merchant, every Turner,
every manufacturer, every householder,
every artisan, every railroad and transpor-
tation company were cravenlv sacrificed.
The people will not forget that the most
conspicuous agent in this partisan crime is
now the candidate of his party for gov
ernor. Against that record Of misrepre-
sentation and betrayal the Democratic