Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-31
DAVE HILLS DELIGHT.
HE HAS TO EXPRESS 1T IN A MESSAGE
TO THE PEOPLE.

Plans of tho Democratic Majority in the
New York observation-disclosures
First and Foremost-An Objectionable
Feature of Electrocution to Be Wiped
Out
ALBANY, n. Y, Dec Special i
Governor Hill gave out this evening the
statement of the Democratic State Commit
tee in regard to the Legislature. Governor
Hill feels confident that the session will be
Democratic majority will insure continu-
ance of Democratic control
One of the first measures to pass will be a
census bill. A bill will ALSO be introduced
to abolish the ''press gag" features of the
electric execution bill. These and the ap-
preparation and revision bills are the gist of
the sessions business.
The State Committees statement is ad-
dressed 'sTo the People" and is signed by
Edward Murphy, Jr., Chairman; E. A.
Beardsley, Secretary, and D. G. Griffin,
Chairman of the Executive Committee. 1t
begins:
The Democratic State Committee ought
not to fore 20 this opportunity to call public
attention to the achievements of the party
sured by the decisions of the highest judicial
tribunal of the State. Democratic officials,
by the result of the late election. will, after
January !, continue to fill every State Office.
Democratic majority, greater than has
been witnessed in many years before, will
exist in the Assembly. A majority of the
Senators now holding certificates of election
are Democrats beyond question, and suffi-
cient in number to secure the organization
of the Senate and passage of every measure
for which the people have long waited, and
Democratic party upon its regaining control
of the legislative branch of the State gov
ernnent.
These achievements of the party are not
more important than is the vindication
which they afford of its course and its lead
ership during the memorable contest for
legislative control which has just ended. No
single act OF a Democratic Executive during
the pendencv of that contest has failed of
approval For such vindication he could
well afford to wait in patience and leave
unanswered the malevolence of a hostile
and partisan press.
At the very beginning of the contest the
counsel FOR Democratic candidates rendered
to their Republican opponents proposition
for the judicial determination of the ques-
tions involved. That proposition their on
ponents were finally forced to accept by a
public demand which they could not resist.
and every incident which has awakened
public condemnation found its origin In the
unwilingness of Republican counsel to ac-
cept these propositions and to abide by the
agreements based thereon.
Gu the subject of redistricting the COM
mittee says:
Chief among the measures which the peo-
ple expect from Democratic Legislature
are an enumeration of the Inhabitants of the
State and apportionment of Legislative re-
presentation based thereon, and Congress
sional apportionment. So influential has
that demand become so universally is il sup
ported. that it could not have been resisted
except by a most partisan Republican Legis-
lature.
In conclusion. We remind our brethren
the Union that no more auspi-
cious circumstances ever surrounded the
party in New York than now in
spires its hopes and expectations for the
future. We ask of our friends elsewhere to
perform well their respective parts in COM
ing contests and we assure them that the
Democracy of New York is determined and
capable to realize their highest expecta-
tions.