The record-union., 1892-02-23

cratic party of New York to that solid
ground OF high justice, upon which they
stand to-day, without discord or division.
demanding with him that every dollar
coined in these United States shall be the
equal of every other dollar so coined, and
aenlandlng redress of their present
shameless inequality"
The Democrats Of New York, SAYS the
PLATFORM, point to the nomination of Hill
10 The Office Of President as tit express
sion OF Democratic faith and tradition,
and OF our settled purpose to rescue this
perverted Government from the clutch of
autocrats and plutocrats, from a spend
Ihflig administration. excessive and de-
based money"
The delegates selected by this conven-
tlon are Instructed to present to the
National Democratic Convention the
name OF David B. Hill, a Democrat who
mas lei his party from victory to victory
Tor seven successive years, and who has
never known defeat, as candidate for
president OF the United States. The del
egates are further instructed to vote as a
unit. The people of the State are also
congratulated upon the suspicious open
ing OF Flower administration
when the passage instructing for Hill
was read, the air was shaken by a ire
mendous outburst Of applause, and after
the resolutions were unanimously
adopted, committee was appointed to
wait upon Hin and request him to adj
dress the convention. He soon arrived,
and General Sickles presented him to the
audience III these words: Il present to
you, gentlemen of the convention, the
young hickory of Democracy, our next
PRESIDENTIAL candidate, David b. Hill"
linen came more cheers, and when the
noise finally subsidized sufficiently, Sen
ator Hill spoke at considerable length.
fh4nyaH - IL.
Ventlon Tor the unanimous vote which
made known their approval to authorize
the representatives of the Democracy of
the country, and which will be recorded
III the annals of the National Convention.
"A reawakening Of the Democracy all
over the land" he said, ''is the most au-
splclous sign of the times. All our
troubles, all our dangers at this very
hour, alter so many years of Republican
rule, flow from unconstitutional legIsla-
tlon by the very men who sit in SILVER
ing hts over what the Democracy will do
with power. The Democratic party is
one whose creed has ever been The strict
Interpretation of the Constitution and
confinement of the Government to few
specific granted powers"
lie commends these contrasted facts To
MS 1elIow-countryme for meditation.
The Republican party neither trusts the
people nor obeys them. 1t now requires
another upheaval at the ballot-box like
that of 1890 TO be convinced that the
wicked work of the billion-dollar Con-
greSs must be repealed and the peoples
viii obeyed.
The Sherman silver law, said he, trans
forms the Federal coinage power of sill
yer and gold into an instrument for the
gradual expulsion of our geld, for the
establishment Of an exclusive basis and
the permanent reduction of every Ameri-
can dollar by 80 per cent. or more below
the level OF its true value during the
whole period Of orr free bimetallic coin
age from 1892 to 1873.
The national delegates at large chosen
are: Roswell p. Flower, Edward Muir
ply, Jr., General Daniel L. SickIes and
Henry w. Slocum. Alternates: Man
ton Marble, John Bigelow, Sidney Web
ster and Alfred c. Chaplin.
Ihe convention then adinnrned