The morning news., 1892-02-23

gressional district said district electors to be
nominated 10 said committee BY the delegates
from the several congressional districts and in
any case where the delegates from the con
gressional districts are unable TO agree upon a
choice for district delegate or presidential
elector they shall report that fact to the com
mittee on delegates and electors, which shall
determine the selection subject to the approval
Of the convention
A case exactly covered by this resolution
was presented from the Twenty-first con-
Rressional district, composed Of Clinton,
Essex, Franklin and Warren counties.
Under the above resolution the question
was referred to the committee on delegates
and electors for determination.
A recess was then taken until $3.50 o'clock
p. m.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Bleecker hall was as crowded as at the
morning session when Chairman Beebe
called the afternoon session to order at 4 20
o'clock.
The report of the committee on contested
seats favored the seating of the setting dele
gates in the contested cases in Albany aud
Chautauqua. The Oswego contest was
withdrawn. The report was adopted.
The report OF the committee on perma-
nent organization was then presented and
adopted. Gen. Daniel E. Sickies was made
permanent chairman and when he was in
troduced by Judge Beebe he received an
ovation Gen. Sickles spoke as follows:
The democracy of New York and of the na-
tion approach the presidential campaign Of
1872 with deep sense of the responsibility i'm
posed upon them by the signal victories of
lSSO and 1891. We cannot fail to see the mani
Test purpose # the people of this country to
dismiss the Republican party from any further
control of the federal government The state of
New York has often had the good fortune to be
honored by the choice of one of its citizens as
the champion OF the national democracy. If
we shall again be invited by our comrades in
other states to put forward a candidate for the
chief magstracy Of the union, we are prepared
to ask their suffrages for a statesman whose
record. already places him in the group made
lilustrious by the names of Van Buren,, Wright
Marcy, Seymour and Tilden. We shall present
the name of gallant leader whose banner
is inscribed with many victories, and
New York has never been. and never will be
defeated; leader who was elected to the
Senate of the United States without the ex-
penditure of dollar; a leader we love because
the enemies of the democratic party hate and
fear him; a leader whose success is always the
triumph of his party; a leader whose election to
the Presidency Of the United States would give
to the whole people an administration guided
and directed in all of its measures by the prin
ciples, policy and traditions of Jefferson and
jackson.
James W. Ridgeway of Kings county
next handed up the report Of the committee
on resolutions. which was read by Secretary
De- FreeSt.
THE PLATFORM.
The following platform was adopted:
The Democratic party of the state of New
York in convention assembled renews the
pledge of its fidelity to the great cause of tariff
reform and to the whole democratic faith and
tradition as affirmed in our national platforms
from 1876 to 1888, as well as in our state plat
forms current to the opening of Gov. Tilden's
brief and the close of Gov. Hills long, thrice
approved and alike illustrious servIce in the
chief magistray of the Empire state.
NEW YORK STATE PLATFORM, 1875.
81. Gold ard silver only legal tender; no cur
rency inconvertible with coin.
2 Steady steps toward specie payments;
no step backward.
So Honest payment of the public debt in
coin; sacred preservation of the public faith.
u. Revenue reform; federal taxation for
revenue only; no government partnership with
protected monopoles.
IS. Home rule TO limit and localize most ieal
ously the few powers entrusted to public serv-
ants municipal and federal: no Capitalization.
&C. Equal and exact justice TO all men; no
partial legislation; no partial taxation.
". The presidency public trust, not pri-
vate perquiste; no third term.
- Economy in the public expense that labor
may be lightly burdened'
THE PLATFORM OF 1891.
New York state platform of 1891:
I'VE now as then steadfastly adhere to the
principles Of sound finance We are against the
coinage OF any silver dollar which is
not OF the intrinsic value Of every other dollar
of the Unitei 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 heme as
false pretense, but an actual hinorance of a re-
turn to free bimatallic coinage and as tending
only TO produce change from one kind of
monometalleism to another.
will ho fri ds -
honest money everyehere in stigmatiziag the
Sherman progressive silver basis law as no solu-
tion of the gold and silver question ana as a fit
appendix to the subsidy and bounty swindle
the Mckinley worse than war tariff, the Blaine
reciprocity humbug, sQuandered surplus, ad-
vancing deficit, defective census and falsified
representation and revolutionary procedures of
the billion-dollar congress, al. justly condemned
by the peope's great uprising last Novem Der
QS90), verdict which. renewed next year (1S92l
will empower democratic statesmen to guide
the peop,e's councils and to execute the peo-
pies will.
"The democrats of New York recall with proud
memory the inhexibly sound finance of Gov.
TiIden, who not only administered the state
government with frugality but who also with
unequaled ability and unhagging resolution
demanded thorough reform of she tariff tax
alton and likewise, with stateman's energy
and foresight, assailed the shameless degreda-
tion Of our greenback currency and led the
Democratic party in pushing a compulsory
if not also to that coin payment of the same.
where to as we'll the faith OF the UHited Stakes
is sol.mnly pledged"
The democrats of New York refer with CRATE
full pride to the nfiexible, sound finance of Gov.
Hill, who by efficient economy throughout his
long administrative career has accomplished
practical extinction of state debt, has faith
fully urged with powerful and practiced ad
vocacY the nations release from bondage Of
unequal, unnecessary and unjust taxation i'm
posed by the tariff of 1888 and the repeal of the
superadded impositions of the two Mckinley
energy and true foresight OF the
70-cent dollar pushing for birth in the body of
the Sherman silver law, has taken up the peo-
ple's cause, assailed the republican degradation
of the peoples silver money and led the ad-
vance of the Democratic party of New York
with unfaltering steps to that solid ground of
high Justice and equity upon which they stand
to-day absolutely without discord or division in
this behalf, demanding" with him that
every dollar coined in these United States shall
be the equal of every other dollar so coined and
demanding redress of their present shameless
inequality"
Tie democrats of New York with proud hope,
vet with perfect Difference TO their brethren of
other states and cordial estimation OF their
renowned leaders as worthy standard-bearers
of the peoples cause, point to the nomination
of David Hill to the Office Of President as
a fit expression Of the whole democratic faith
and tradition, and of our settled purpose to
rescue this perverted government from the
clutch of autocrats and plutocrats, from
spendthrift administration, odious taxes and
deeesed money.
In obedience to the mandate of the demo-
cratic voters OF New York the
delegates selected by this convention
are instructed to present to the democratic ma
tional convention the name OF David b. Hlll as
a candidate for President of the United States;
a daruocrat ghn has led mis- Darty from victory