The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-02-27
NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
The state Convention Meets. PASSES Res
OIutions. dominates Electors, Appoints
Delegates TO the National Convention
and Instrucfs Them for David Ii. Hill.


OIutions. dominates Electors, Appoints
/ Delegates 10 the National Convention
and Instrucfs Them for David b. Hill.
The Democratic State Convention of New
| York met at noon on Monday last, at Albany,
and was as enthusiastic as possible for body
| of men to be. Judge Beebe was temporary
chairman, and Gen. Daniel Z. Sickles perma-
nent. Every mention ofthe name of Hill by
the speakers was vociferously cheered, and
the ladies in the galleries were as demonstra-
tive as the delegates.
GEN. sIcKLEs's SPEECH.
Gen. Daniel E. Sckles was made perma-
nent chairman, and when he was introduced
by Judge Beebe he received an ovation.
General Sickles spoke as follows;
1.-The Democracy of New York and the ma
ton approach the presidential campaign of
! 1892 with deep sense of the responsibility
imposed upon them by the signal victories
of 1890 and 1891 We cannot fail to see the
manifest purpose of the people of this coun.
try to dismiss the Republican party from any
further control of the federal government
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 comrades in other States to
put forward candidate for the chief mag
istracy of the nation, we are prepared to ask
their suffrages for statesman whose record
already places him in the group made illus
trious by the names of Van Buren,, Wright,
Marcy, Seymour and Tilden.
"We shall present the name of gallant
leader whose banner is inscribed with many
victories, and under whom the democracy of
New York never has been, aud never will be,
defeated; leader who was elected to the
Senate of the United States without the ex-
penditure of dollar; leader we love be-
cause the enemies of the Democratic party
hate and fear him; leader whose success is
always the triumph of his party; a leader
whose election to 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 jefferson and jackson"
James w. Ridgway, of Kings county, next
handed up the report of the committee on
resolutions, which was read by Secretary
Defreest. The paper constituting the con-
vention's platform is as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
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, as well as in our
State platforms, concurrent with the opening
of Governor Tilden's brief and the close Of
Governor Hills long thrice.approved and
alike ilustrious service in the chief magistra-
cy of the Empire State.
New York State platform, 1874: First,
gold and silver the only legal tender; no cur.
rency inconvertible with coin. Second,
steady steps toward specie payments; no step
h, mad rrbir1 hopact of III
public debt in coin; sacred preservation of
the public faith Fourth, revenue reform
federal taxation for revenue only; no gov
eminent partnership with protected monopo-
lies. Fifth, home rule, to limit and localize
most jealously the few powers intrusted TO
public servants, municipal and federal; no
Capitalization. Sixth, equal and exact JUS
tice to all men; no partial legislation; no par
tial taxation. Seventh, the presidency pub
lie trust, not a private perquislte; no third
term. Eighth, economy in the public ex-
pense, that labor may be lightly burdened.
New York State platform, 1891: We now,
as then, steadfastly adhere to principals of
sound finance.
ave are against the coinage of any silver
dollar which is not of the intrinsic value of
every other dollar of the United States.
''We therefore denounce the new Sherman
silver 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 pre-
tense but actual hindrance of return to free
bi-metallic coinage, and as tending only to
produce a change from one kind of mono
metallism to another.
''We therefore unite with the friends of hon
est money everywhere in stigmatizing the
Sherman progressive silver. basis law as no
solution of the gold and silver question and
cit appendix to the subsidy and bounty swinde,
the Mckinley worse than war tariff, the
Blaine reciprocity humbug, the squandered
surplus, the advancing deficit, the defective,
census and fasiGed representation, and the
revolutionary procedures of the billion Con-
gress, all Justly condemned by the peoples
great uprising last November, $780, "A yer.
dict which, renewed next year, 1892 will
empower democratic statesmen to guide the
peoples councils and to execute the PEG.
pies will
1.-The democrats of New York recall with
proud memory the inhexibly sound finance
of Governor Tilden, who not only admins
tered the State government with frugality,
but who also, with unequaled ability and I'M
tagging resolution, demanded a thorough re-
form of tariff taxation, and likewise, with
statesman's energy and foresight, assailed
the shameless degradation of our greenback
currency and led the democratic party in
pushing on the compulsory republican ad-
vance 10 current coin redemption, if not also
to that coin payment of the same, whereto as
well the faith of the United States is solemn
ly pledged.
grateful pride to the inhexible sound finance
of Governor HILL who, by efficient economy
throughout his long administrative career,
has accomplished the practical extinction of
our State debt, has faithfully urged with
powerful and practical advocacy the nations
release from the bondage of unequal, annec-
essary and unjust taxation imposed by the
tariff of 1888, and the repeal the superadded
impositions of the two Mckinley laws; and
likewise with statesmans energy and true
foresight of the 70 cent dollar pushing for
birth in the body of the Sherman silver law,
has taken up the people cause, assailed the
republican degradation of the peoples silver
money and led the advance of the democratic
party of New York with unfaltering steps to
that solid ground of high justice and equity
upon which they stand today absolutely
without discord or division, in this behalf
demanding with hin. that every dollar coined
in these United States shall be the equal of
every other dollar so coined, and demanding
the redress of their present shameless inc
quality.
1.-The democrats of New York, with proud
hope, yet with perfect Difference to their
brethren of other States and cordial estima-
ton of their renowned leaders as worthy
standard bearers of a peoples cause, point
to the nomination of David B. Hill to the of,
fee of President as a fit expression of the
whole democratic faith and tradition and of
our settled purpose to rescue this perverted
government from the clutch of autocrats and
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