, 1892-02-23
duce a change from one kind of mono
metalism to another.

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as no solution of the gold and silver ques-
ton and as a fit appendage to the subsidy
and bounty swindle. The Mckinley
worse-than-war tariff. the Blaine recipro-
city humbug. the ~squandered surplus, the
advancing deficit, the defective census
and the falsified representation and revo-
lutionary proceedings of the billion dollar
congress are all Justly condemned by the
peoples great uprising, a verdict which
if renewed this year will empower
Democratic statesmen to guide the peoples
councils and execute the peoples will.
The platform recalls with proud memory
the inflexibly sound nance of Governor
Tilden, who led the Democratic party in
pushing on the compulsory Republican
advance 10 a current coinage redemption
1t also refers with grateful pride to the
infexibly sound finance of Governor Hill,
who by his efficient economy has accom-
plished the practical extinction of the
state debt; has faithfully urged the
nations release from unjust taxation. and
likewise. with a statesman's energy and a
true foresight of the ~seventy-cent dollar
pushing for birth in the body OF the
Sherman silver law, has taken up the
peoples cause, assailed the Republican
degradation of silver money and led the
advance OF the Democratic party OF New
York to that solid ground of high Justice
upon which they stand today without
discord or division, demanding with him
that every dollar coined in these United
States shall be the equal of every other
so coined, and demanding the redress of
their present shameless inequality.
The Democrats of New York, says the
platform, point to the nomination of
Hill to the Office of president as a fit ex-
PRESTON of the Democratic faith and ira
dition and of our settled purpose to
rescue this perverted government from
the clutches Of autocrats and plutocrats.
from the spendthrift administration, of
this excessive tax and debased money. The
delegates selected by this convention are
instructed to present to the national
Democratic convention the name OF
David B. Hill-a Democrat who has led
his party from victory to victory for seven
successive years and who has never known
defeat-as a candidate for president of
the United States" The delegates are
further instructed to vote as a unit. The
PEOPLE of the state are congratulated upon
the suspicious opening of Flowers ad-
ministratlon.
SENATOR HILLS SPEECH.
When the passage instructing for Hill
was read the air was shaken by a tre-
mendous outburst of applause and after
the resolutions were unanimously adopted.
A committee was appointed to wait upon
Senator Hill and request him to address
the convention. He soon arrived and
Gen. Sickles presented him to the au-
dience in these words: Il present to you,
gentlemen OF the convention. the young
hickory of Democracy. our next presi-
Dental candidate. David B. Hill" Then
came more cheers and when the noise
had finally subsidized sufficiently Senator
Hill spoke at considerable length. He
thanked the gentlemen of the convention
for the unanimous vote which made
known their approval to authorize the
representatives of Democracy of the
country and which will be recorded
in the annals of the national convention.
A ~reawakenlng of the Democracy all
over the land, he said, Is the most aus
picious sign of the times. All our trou-
bles, all our dangers at this very hour, af-
ter so many years of Republican rule,
flow from unconstitutional legislation by
the very men who sit in shivering fits
over what the Democracy will do with
power. The Democratic party Is one
WuOoc CECeu uhS ever Oteu u btTlCI
Interpretation of the constitution and the
confinement of the government to a few
specific granted powers. He commends
these contrasted facts to his fellow coun
trymen Tor meditation. The Republican
party neither trusts the people nor obeys
them. 1t now requires another upheaval
at the ballot box like that of 1890 to be
convinced that the wicked work of the
billion dollar congress must be repealed
and the peoples will obeycd. We are
advancing, said he, to the final renewal of
the nation ) verdict on a mad IDsensate
reign of autocrats and plutocrats. whereby
their verdict. now scoffed at, shall have
efficient execution in the election of both
branches of the federal congress and the
federal executive obedient to the soyer.
eign peoples will. The Sherman silver
law, said he, transforms the federal coin
& power of silver and gold into an in
strument for the gradual expulsion of
gold, for the establishment of an exclus-
i've basis aud a permanent reduction of
every American dollar by 30 per cent or
more below the level of its true value
during the whole period Of our free BIZ
metallic coinage from 1892 to 1873.
Turning his attention to the tariff, the
senator said the cause of tariff reform has
io'OiN kiCdb pidCtiCdl dufduCe.
Secretary Manning, in his report of 1886,
advised congress to begin practical tariff
reform by a single act-an act for free
wool. One year later the secretary's
report was writ large" in the message of
the president. Now, FIVE years later, one
of our most enlightened economists, David
A. Wells, writes the chairman of the
ways and means committee that the path
of progress which Secretary Manning
blazed first aud alone is the true path.
It is a maxim of sound policy, better
fitted to win elections that lose them;
better divide into chapters the lessons of
a long campaign of education; abolish
whenever YOU can one indefensible tax at
a time. This is true progress. His
speech was loudly cbeered and at $50 D.
m. the convention adjourned sine die.
The national delegates at large are:
Roswell P. Flower. Edward Murphy, Jr.,
Gen. Daniel f. Sickels. and Henry w.
Slocum. The alternates are: Manton
Marble, John Bigelow, Sidney Webster
and Alfred G. Chaplin.