Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-23
TRIUMPH FOR HILL.
New York's Democratic Con.
vention All for Him.
SENATOR NAMED FOR PRESIDENT.

| ing Delegation PrOmisea-Great Niobt 4
for the Michigan CIub-One Thousand
Guests at the Banquet-MckinIev the
Principal Orator.
| ALBANY, Feb. 23-Before the meetins
| of the state Democratic convention bera
| yesterday the state central committee met.
Its most important business being the dis.
| position Of the protest of the obiectinc
| Gothanites. \ committee of the obiectore
| appeared before the committee and urged
| careful consideration of their protest
| Bourke Cochran asked f. Ellery Ander.
son II 1t was not true that the protest was
| prepared before the convention was called
| or the date set. Anderson said the com.
mlttee met on the saturday night prior to
| the meeting of the state committee and
that there was rumOr at that time that
the convention was to be hello early.
Disposition of the Protest.
Thomas +. Grady said that he believed
that the committee had decided to protest
against the convention either as too early
| or too late, and also believed that the COM
mittee was simply opposed to candidates
and not alone to the date of the conven-
tion, and that the movement was simply
| antaSonIstic and nothing else. Cochran
| moved that the question referred to by the
committee, together with the papers, be
| laid on the table. The motion was unaI-
| imously adopted, and the protesting dele.
cation withdrew
The State Convention Meets.
Ihe Democratic state convention was
called to order shortly after noon. George
NJ. Beebe being temporary chairman. He
referred to HIM in terms of glowing praise
and was loudly applauded. After the ap-
polntment of committees, introduction of
resolutions, etc, a recess to 1 p. m. was
taken. and when the convention reaSsem-
bled General Sickles was made permanent
chairman. He also eulogized Hill and
| raised the enthusiasm of the convention
still higher The committee on resolution
reported the platform, which, opens with
a hearty Endorsement of Governor Hill,
and renews the pledges in favor of tariff
reform.
On Tariff and Finances.
1t then recites the planks of the Demo,
cratic platforms for 1876 down, among
which are gold and silver the only legal
tender; federal taxation for revenue only,
and economy in public expenses. We are
against the coinage of any silver dollar
which is not of the intrinsic value of ev-
cry other dollar of the United States. We
therefore denounce the new Sherman sill
yer law, under which one-tenth of our gold
stock has been exported and all our silver
output is damned up at home, as a false
pretence, but actual hindrance, of return
to free bi-metallic coinage and as tending
only to produce change from one kind of
monometalism to another.
Hill Nominated for President.
"We therefore unite with the friends of
honest money everywhere in stigmatizing
hnC
as no solution of the gold and silver ques-
tion, and as fit appendix to the subsidy
and bounty swindle, the Mckinley worse
than-war tariff, the Blaine reciprocity
humbug, the squandered surplus, the adj
vancing deficit. the defective census and
falsiied representation, and the revolu-
tlonary procedures of the billion dollar
congress" p" "The inf1eXibly sound finance
of Governor Tilden" is coupled with the
similar views of Governor HILL and the
close of the platform is as follows: "In
obedience to the mandate of the Demo-
cratic voters of New York the delegates
selected by this convention are instructed
to present to the national Democratic con-
ventiOn the name of David B. Hill as their
candidate for president of the United
states" and the delegates are also instruct
ed to vote as unit.
The platform was adopted and Senator
Hill Failed for and when he appeared the
convention went wild. He was introduced
as 'the next president of the United
States" He expressed his gratitude for
the Endorsement the convention had given
him and then opened on the Republican
party with a vigorous arraignment He
characterized it as a party of plutocrats
autocrats, public plunderers and party
that neither trusts the people nor obeys
them. He predicted an overwhelming de-
feat for that party at the next election,
and denounced unsparingly the billion
congress-" all of whose acts he said must
be repealed. He said that the task of de-
feating the Republicans was hard one.
The Democrats had no money while their
opponents were supported by those they
b ad subsidized.
An Appeal for Organization.
Organize, organize, organize, organize
cried the orator. Only this would make
success certain against the combined
powers OF public patronage and private
subsidy. The victory over Republican
resistance to the peoples will must be
made secure. The Republican president
stood determined to defeat repeal of the
acts of the "billion congress" and he with
his cohorts of autocrats and plutocrats
must be overthrown. The acts of that
congress were revolution. Shall they
stand? He then attacked the Sherman
silver bill.
The Sherman Act Must Go.
The Sherman silver law now transforms the
federal coinage power Of silver and gold into
an instrument for the gradual expulsion of our
gold, for the establishment of an exclusive sill
Yer basis, and for the permanent reduction of
every American dollar by 30 per cent. Cor
more below the level of its true value during
the whole period of our free bi bi-metallc coinage
from 1i2 to 1873 Shall such law standf
There has been no such legislation for free
men since Cromwell called the law OF England
"A tortuous and ungodly jumble.''
Tariff Reform the Issue.
He mailed to the mast" the flag of tar.
iff reform and indorsed the Springer plan
of proceeding until Democracy was in full
power and then would sweep away tine
whole "mad Mckinley law" He protested
against "novel subsidies for the few,"
called the certificates under the Sherman