Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-29

! permanently bound. The biggest majority
/ New York ever gave against Republican
candidate for the Presidency was not the
| latest. out tnat Of -, 900 in 1876 for Samuel
| /. Tilden. The smallest was the last IN
/ 1854. when the candidate who had
/ been swept into the Governors chair
/ the year before on the wave Of majority
! of nearly 20O. .OUO secured the electoral vote
/ Of the Empire State by plurality Of l,O4I
votes. Four years later we beat that same
man before the peOnle Of New York by
| IA. .373 votes They say he wants TO try II
/ again IL so the fxed and immutaole laws
/ of that old arithmetical progression which
we learned in our school days show what
/ he may look for next time.
/ If this is what the State Of New York
did to Grover Cleveland, whom she re-
spectS. what will she do TO David B. Hilll
| Whatever happens here, or at Minnespo-
| lis, one thing 1 know, we shall 60 into this
/ campaign with our. flag flying; on no still
/ hunt for votes TO be had by hiding our
| opinions. but with our principles and the
record of our party 10 the front and WIN
candidates worthy of both.
We are for honest money and we mean
/ TO fight on that line TO the end. Weare for
protection TO American industries and 10
the American workman, we are for its lat
| est embodiment, the Mckinley tarlf,
} which has disappointed its friends almost
as much as its enemies, so splendidly has II
vindicated the wisdom Of the Congress that
had the courage to pass it, We are fortnat
wise ana fruitful system of reciprocity
without injury TO protection with which
the name of the great Secretary, the match
less Blaine is forever identified.
DR.. Depew addressed the convention
ot ~ fHhFnnn
the address Mr.. Depew kept his audi
ence laughing and cheering.
J. Soat FasSett also delivered a short
address. Following the address OF Mr..
FaSsett the platform was read by the
chairman OF the Committee on Resolu-
tions. 1t is summarized as follows:
The platform reaffirmS the national plat
form of 1888; congratulates President Har-
rison on the SUCCESS of his administration;
endorses the Mckinley bill; commends Re
publican Congressman for the defeat OF the
| free siluer bill: denounces the treatment OF
| the colored people in the South as barbar-
Gus. and continued in defiance OF the laws
and the federal constitution; arraignS
the Democratic party of the State for
conspiracy, which involved the falsitica-
/ ton of official election returns; denounces
/ the Legislature for its violation Of the prln-
ciples of home rule, in enacting notoriousiy
partisan charter amendments and its other
acts, including the midwinter enumeration.
by which the population of the rural dis
tricts was diminished and the cities enor-
mously increased.
''Such abhorrent and dangerous meas
ures summon the electors to unite to defend
the purity of the ballot and the inality OF
/ the legally expressed will of the majority
and this convention invites all the people
regardless of previous party lines, TO join
in condemnation and rebu&e of the larceny
/ of the Legislature and the degradation OF
| the bench of our highest tribunal.
The Committee on Electors reported
the names OF Senator Frank Hiscock,
Thomas c.. Platt, Chauncey NJ. Depew
and Warner Miller to be GeleGates-at-
large to the Minneapolis convention,
with these alternates: Daniel Ii. McMil-
Ian, of Buffalo; George c. Buel, of Ro-
chester: J. f. Parkhurst, of Bath, and
| w. S. Weed, of Potsdam.
The Somml.tee also reported the
names of II. w. Sage, Of Ithica, and
Jesse Seligman, Of New York city, to be
electors-at-large. The report was
adopted and the convention adjourned.