The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-02-25


Senator Hill, and plainly limiting at his
choice as New York's presidential can
didate. Secretary DeFreest then read
the list of delegates, and after the call
of the roll for the appointment of COM
mittees the convention took q recess
until 4 p. m.
At 4:l5 Chairman Beebe called the
convention to order. Daniel Griffin
presented the report of the committee
ON credentials, which was adopted.
john e. Dayton made the report of the
committee on permanent organization,
naming General Sickles for permanent
chairman, The report was adopted and
General Sickles was introduced amid
loud and continued applause. After
the applause had subsidized General
Sickles thanked the convention for the
honor conferred in choosing him to
preside, and proceeded to arraign the
Republican party for the Mckinley
tariff bill, the force bill and extraya-
gance in the conduct of the aeountry's
business. Referring to Senator Hill
and the presidency, the general said:
We shall present the name of a gallant
leader whose banner is inscribed with
many victories, and under whom the
Democracy of New York never has been
and never will be defeated; leader who
was elected to the senate of the United
States without the expenditure of dol
lar; a leader we love because the enemies
Of the Democratic party hate and fear
him; a leader in whom the veteran sol
diers of New York have always found q
steadfast friend; a leader whose success is
always the triumph of his party; q leader
whose relation to the presidency of the
United States would give to the whole
people an administration guided and d.
rected in all of its measures by the prin-
ciples, the policy and the traditions Of
Jefferson and Jackson.
Every point in General Sickles' speech
was applauded vigorously. Vhe men.
ton of Senator Hills name at its con-
clusion was the signal for round after
round of applause. Mr.. Sulser, from
the committee on resolutions, presented
the report of that committee which was
read by the secretary as follows,
The Platform.
The Democratic party Of the state Of
New York in convention assembled 70.
news the pledge OF its fidelity to the great
cause of tariff reform. and to The whole
Democratic faith and tradition, as at
firmed in our national platforms from
1876 to 1885, as we'll as in our state plat
forms concurrent with the opening Of
Governor Tildep's bEief, and the close ot
Governoi HIPS long. thrice approved and
alike illustrious service in the chief mag.
istracy of the Empire state.
/. Gold and silver the only legal ten
SAr: no currency inconvertible with coin.
2. Steady steps co, - =. specie paymsatsi
no step backward.
8. Honest payment of the public debt
In coin; sacred preservation Of tbs public
faith.
f. Revenue reform, federal taxation for
revenue only; no government partnership
with protected moDopolies.
5. Home rule to limit aud localize most
jealousy the foreign powers intrusted ia
the public servants, municipal and fed:
eral; no Capitalization.
6. Equal and exact justice to all men;
no partial legislatson, no partial taxation.
z. The presidency public trust, not a
private perquisite: no third term.
8. Economy in the public expense that
labor may be lightly burdened.
We steadfastly adhere to the principles
of a sound finance.
We are against the coinage of any silver
dollar which is not of the intrinsic value
of every other dollar of the United States.
We, therefore, denounce the new Sher.
man silver law, under which one-tenth OF
our gold stock has been exported and all
our silver output has been damned up al
home, not only as a false rretense, but an
actual hindrance of the return to free bi.
metallic coinage and as tending only to
produce change from one kind of mono,
metalism to another
We therefore unite with the friends OF
honest money everywhere in stigmatizipG
The Sherman progressive sI1ver pasIs, law
rs no solution of the gold and silver guess
ton, and as fit appendix to the subsidy
and bounty swindle, the Mckinley worse
than-war tariff, the Rlaira reciprocity
humbug, the squander.-i sni pl,s, tn adj
vancing deficit, the ds;oe.lye census and
falsified representation a1d the re7olu-
tionary procedures of the billion dollar
congress-all justly condemned by the
peoples great uprising last November,
$500, a verdict which renewed this year
1S99 will empower Democratic statesmen
to guide the peoples councils aud to exc
cute the peoples will.
After reviewing the record OF the
Democratic party in New York the
resolutions strongly urge. Governor Hill