Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-02-25
THEY'RE FOR HILL.
New York Democrats Favor the
Senator for President.
Delegates TO the Chicago Convention
Instructed to Cast New
York's Vote for Him.
THE PLATFORM.

Monday afternoons session OF
the democratic state convention
Gen. Sicbles was made permanent
chairman. James W. Ridgeway, of
Kings county, next handed up the re.
port of the committee on resolutions,
which was read by Secretary De
Freest. The paper, constituting the
conventions platform, is as follows:
1.-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 plat
forms from 1876 TO 1888 well as in our state
platforms concurrent with the opening of Gov.
Ttlden's brief and the close Of Gov. Tills long
thrice-approved and alike ilfustrious service in
the chief maTistracy Of the Empire state"
The platform includes here the prin-
ciplcs of the party adopted by the
state convention in 1874, and colnpar.
ing them with those of the present day,
announces the strict adheren ce of the
party thereto, and continues:
New York State Platform, 1892.
1--WE now, as then steadfastly adhere TO the
principles of sound finance
I'VE are against the coinage of any silver
dollar which is not of the intrinsic value of every
other dollar of the United States. We there
fore denounce the Sherman silver law under
which the tenth of our stock has been exposed
and all our silver output is damned up at home
as a false pretense but actual hindrance Of
return free bimetallic coinage as tending only
TO produce a change from one kind of mono
metallism to another
1--WE therefore unite with the friends Of honest
money everywhere in stigmatizing the Sherman
progressive silver basis law as no solution OF
the gold and silver question and as fiji
appendage TO the subsidy and bounty swim
die, the Mckinley worse than war tariff,
the Blaine reciprocity humbug, the squan.
dered surplus, the advancing deficit the
defective census and falsified repre-
sentation and the revolutionary procedures OF
the 81 600 100000 congress-al justly condemned
by the peoples great uprising last November
Qs9O)-a verdict which, renewed this year 1892,
will empower democratic statesmen TO guide
the peoples councils and to execute the peoples
will.
Instructed to Vote for Hill.
After recalling with pride the admin.
istration of ex-Gov. Tilden. and in
dorsing emphatically that of ex-Gov.
Hill, the platform instructs the dele
gates to the national democr attic con-
vention to cast the vote of New York
for David b. Hill for president.
Cheers for Hill
David Il. Hill was read the air was
shaken by an outburst that made the
bunting culver. The resolutions were
unanimously adopted and committee
was appointed to wait upon SEN
ator Hill and request him to
appear before and address the
convention The appearance of the
senator was the signal for another
terrific outburst. Senator Hill made
speech in which he sincerely thanked
the convention for the honor conferred
upon him. On the silver question he
said:
Silver
"The Sherman silver law now transforms the
federal coinage power of silver and gold into an
instrument for the gradual expulsion of our golt
for the establishment of an exclusive basis ana
for the permanent reduction Of every American
dollar by 80 per cent or more below the level of
its true value during the whole period of our
free bimetallic coinage from 1892 to 1873 Shall
such a law stand? There has been no
such legislation for free men since
Cromwell called the law of Eng
land tortuous and ungodly tumble The
demand for repeal of these ediets of the billion
dollar congress has extorted from republican
leaders their published purpose to refuse re-
peal Repeal is not a proposal to stop at the
tariff of 1883 a finality.
Ideas of Tariff Reform.
Tariff reform will remain and require pro-
gressive solution with the wise and polite
method of abolishing, whenever practicable, one
after another one indefensble tax at time,
where the two Mckinley laws to-day replace the
tariff Of 1888 But l do not finch backward from
the advance line of entrenchment which the
democrats of New York have won. kept and
viii guard. I do not shirk deadly grapple
with the republican revolutionists whose ban
ners no longer fly the tariff Of 1893, but now fly
the mad Mckinley laws and the wild Sherman
law and mock US from the citadels OF power"
The speech was intently listened to,
and while not broken often by APP
plause, was cheered loudly. At its
close the band played Three Cheers
for the Red, White and Blue" The
motion to adjourn came quickly, and
the convention at $50 p. m. adjourned
sine die
National Delegates Named.
The national delegates at large
chosen are:
Roswell P. Flower, Edward P. Murphy, Jr,
Gen. Daniel E. Siekles and Henry W. Slocum.
Aternates, Manton Marble, John Bigelow, Sid
ney Webster and Alfred c. Chaplin.