The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-02-24
ADOPTED A PLATFORM.


New York Democratic Convention Fin
ishes UP It's Work.
New YORK, Feb. 24.-At 4:l5 D. IN.
Temporary Chairman Beebe called the
Democratic convention to order and
Daniel Griffin presented the re-
port of the committee on
credentials, which was adopted.
John E. Dayton made the report of the
committee on permanent organization,
naming General Sickles for permanent
chairman, The report was adopted and
General Sickles was introduced amid
loud and continued applause. After
the applause had subsidized General
Sickles thanked the convention for the
homer conferred in choosing him to
preside, and proceeded to arraign the
Republican party for the Mckinley
tariff bill, the force bill and extraya-
ganSs4n the conduct of the country's
business. Referring to Senator Hill
and the presidency, the general said:
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
and never will be defeated; leader who
was elected to the senate of the United
States without the expenditure of a dol
Tar; a leader we love because the enemies
OF the Democratic party hate and fear
him; a leader in whom the veteran sol
diers of New York have always found q
steadfast friend; a leader whose success is
always the triumph of his party; leader
whose relation to the presidency of the
United States would give to the whole
people an administration guided and di-
rected in all OF its measures by the prin-
ciples, the policy and the traditions of
Jefferson and jackson.
Every point in General Sickles' speech
was applauded vigorously. The men
tion of Senator Hills name ut its con-
clusion was the signal for round after
round OF applause. Mr.. Sulser, from
the committee on resolutions, presented
the report of that committee which was
read by the secretary as follows:
The Platform.
The Democratic party of the state of
New York in convention assembled re-
news the pledge of it's fidelity to the great
cause of tariff reform. and to The whole
Democratic faith and tradition, as af-
firmed in our national platforms from
1876 to 1880, as well as in our state plat
forms concurrent with the opening of
Governor Tilden's brief, and the close of
Governor Hills long, thrice approved and
alike illustrious service in the chief mag
stracy of the Empire state,
l. Gold and silver the only legal ten
| der; no currency inconvertible with coin
2 Steady steps toward specie payments;
no step backward
3. Honest payment of the public debt
in coin; sacred preservation of the public
faith.
4. Revenue reform, federal taxation for
revenue only; no government partnership
with protected monopolies
s. Home rule to limit and localize most
jealously the foreign powers intrusted to
the public servants, municipal and fed
eral; no Capitalization.
g. Equal and exact justice to all men;
no partial legislatson, no partial taxation.
| !. The presidency a public trust, not a
private perquisite: no third term.
s. Economy in the public expense that
labor may be lightly burdened.
We steadfastly adhere to the principles
of sound finance
We 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 Sher-
man silver law, under which one-tenth of
our gold stock has been exported and all
our silver output has been damned up at
home, not only as a false rretense, but an
actual hindrance of the return to free bi-
metallic coinage and as tending only to
produce change from one kind OF mono
metalism to another
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 ques-
tion. and as q fit appendix to tho subsidy
and bounty swindle, the Mckinley worse
than-war tariff, the Blaine reciprocity
hnmbug, the squandered surplus, the ad-
vancing deficit, the defective census and
falsified representation and the revo1u-
tionary procedures of the billion dollar
congress-all justly condemned by the
peoples great uprising last November.
(1s90), q verdict which renewed this year
1aa21 will empower Democratic statesmen