Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-23

mittee on Contested Seats favored the
seating OF the sitting delegates in the
contested cases in Albany and Chau-
tauqua.
The OSwego contest was withdrawn.
I The report was adopted. The report
Of the Committee on Permanent Or
ganization was then presented and
adopted.
General Daniel T. Sickles was then
made permanent chairman, and when
he was introduced by Judge Beebe, he
received an ovation. General Sickles
/ said
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 com
rades in other States TO put forward a
candidate for the Chief MagiStracy OF
the Nation, we are prepared 20 ask their
Sufrages for statesman whose record
places him in the group made iliuStrious
by the names OF Van Buren,, wright,
Marcy, Seymour and Tildeu.
I'VE shall present the name OF gal
liant leader whose banner is inscribed
with many victories, and under whom
the Democracy of New York never has
been, aud never will be defeated; a
leader who was elected to the Senate OF
the United States without the eXpendi-
ture OF dollar; a leader we love be-
cause the enemies of the Democratic
party hate and fear him: leader in
whom the veteran soldiers OF New York
have always found a steadfaSt friend; a
leader whose success is always the tri-
umph OF his party; leader whose cleo
tiOn 10 the Presidency OF the United
States would give to the whole people
an administration guided and directed
in all Of its measures by the principles,
the policy and the traditions of Jeifer-
son and Jackson"
James w. Rijgeway, of Kings county,
next handed up the report Of the COM
mittee on resolutions, which was read
by Secretary De FreeSt. The paper
constituting the conventions platform
is aS follows.
The Democratic party Of the State OF
New York, in convention assembled, re
news 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
1883, as well as ia our State platform, con-
current with the opening OF Governor Til
denis brief and the close OF Governor HIP
long and twice approved and alike Illus.
trious service in the Chief Ma6istracy OF
the Empire State:
First-Gold and silver, the only legal
tender; no currency inconvertible with
coin.
Second Steady steps toward specie
payments; no step backward.
Third-HOneSt payment OF the public
debt in coin. Sacred preservation of the
public faith.
Fourth Revenue reform; federal tax
alton for revenue only; no government
partnership with protected monopolies.
Fifth-Home rule, TO limit and localize
most jealOusly the few powers intrusted
10 public servants, municipal and federal,
no Capitalization.
Sixth-EQual and exact justice 10 all
men, no partial legislation, no partial taxa
tiOn.
Seventh-The Presidency public trust,
not private perG Guisite: no third term.
Eighth-Economy in the public expense
that labor may be lightly burdened.
NEW YORK STATE PLATFORM, 1891:
the principles of a sound finance.
I'VE are against the coinage Of any sill
yer dollar which is not of the intrinsic
value of every other dollar Of the United
States.
I'VE therefore denounce the new Sher-
man silver law under which one-tenth OF
our gold stocks has Oeen exported and all
our silver output is damned up mt home as a
false preteuse, but actual hindrance OF re-
turn 10 free bi-metallic coinage and as tend
ing only 10 produce change from one kind
Of mOnOmetalliSm TO another.
I'VE, therefore unite with the friends of
honest money everywhere in stignatizing
the Sherman progressive silver basis law
as no solution of the gold and
silver question and as a fit appen-
dix TO the subsidy and bounty
swin6le, the Mckinley worse than war Ia
riff, the Blaine reciprocity humbug, the
squandered surplus, the advancing deficit,
the defective census and falsitied represeu-
tatiOn, anu the revolutionary procedures of
the Billion Dollar Congress-all Justly con-
demned by the peoples uprising last No
vember (lS90l-a verdict which, renewed
this year OS92), will empower Democratic
statesmen TO guide the peoples counsels
and to execute the peoples will"
Tue EXAMPLE OF GOV. TILDEN.
The Democrats Of New York recall with
proud memory the infexibly sound finance
Of Governor Tilden, who not only admin
istered the State Government with frugal
ity but who also, with unequalled ability
and untiagging resolution, demanded a
thorough reform Of tariff taxation and like
wise with Statesman's energy and fore
sight asSailcd the shameless degradation Of
our greenback currency and led the Dem
Ocratic party in pushing 10 a current coin
ace redemption, If not also 10 coin payment
Of the money whereto as well 1.-THE faith of
the United States is solemnly pledged
THE RECORD OF GOV. HILL.
The Democrats Of New York refer with
grateful pride 10 the infexibly sound
finance of Gov Hill, who by efficient econ
orv throughout his long administrative
career has accomplished the practical eX-
tipction of our State debt, has faithfully
urged, with a powerful and practiced advo-
cacv the nations release from the bondage
of UNEQUAL, unnecessary and unjust taxa
ton, imposed by the tariff OF lSSS, and the
repeal of the super-added impOSitionS OF
the two Mckinley laws, and likewise with
a statesman's energy and true foresight Of
the 1O-cent dollar pushing for birth
in the body OF the Sherman sill
yer law, has taken up the peoples cause
assailed the Republican degradation OF the
peoples silver money and led the advance Of
the Democratic party Of New York with
uufateriag steps to that solid ground of
high Justice and equity upon which they
stand to-day absolutely without discord or
division, Ia this behalf demanding" with
him that every dollar coined in these Uni
ted States shall be the equal OF every
other dollar so coined, and demanding the
redress Of their present shameless Unequal
ity.'
GOVERNOR HILL, THE CANDIDATE OF NEW
YORK At CHICAGO: