The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-29
STRONG FOR HARRISON.
New York Falls in Line With
Other Republican States.
THE ADMINISTRATION INDoRsEp.
Depew and Reid Eulogize Harrison,
but Blaine Gets the Cheers.
THE ADMINISTRATION INDoRsEp.
the Ohio Convention Runs Smoothly,
Indorsing Harrison-MissouriR Repub-
licans Indorse the Administration.

II,
William A. Sutherland was chosen tempo
rary chairman. On taking the chair he
delivered an address upon the absolute
necessity of carrying New York in order
to elect the next president, and said:
We are entering upon no holiday excursion
We are facing a foe desperate unscrupulous
splendidly equipped, with appetite whetted by
recent stolen fruit and eagerly reaching fer
greater plumber. The victories SO far have been
evenly divided, aud It Is now the Democratic
turn. Could'the victory of 1855 be repeated in
1892? The margin vas only per cent in favor
OF the Republicans The speaker warned them
that the plurality Of HOOD votes which Harrison
received in lssS would not be sufficient to give
him the electoral vote in 1892, owing TO the
eelerity with which false returns are managed
and the true returns stolen. He declsred that
arrangements to rush through fraudulent re-
turns and issue certificates under them bad
been perfected by Tammany Hall He closed by
urging thorough organization in every precinct
OF the state as the only means OF achieving
victory.
Whitelaw Reid was appointed perma-
nent chairman, and on taking the chair
he received an ovation. He addressed the
convention at considerable length, thank
ing the delegates for the honor done him
and reviewing the history of the Republi-
can party. He said:
In state and national affairs our opponents
have made the campaign. We ask now but the
right, denial of which means revolution of a nom
partisan count This secured, we can carry
New York. and with New York we can carry the
nation. Whatever happens here or at Minneap-
oils, we shall go into this campaign with the
flag flying, on no still hunt for votes, but with
the principles and record of the party to the
front, and with candidates worthy of both. We
are for honest money, and we mean to fight on
that line to the end that any dollars issued by
the government shall be as good as any other it
issues or ever did. We are for the protection of
American industry and American workmen,
and we are for the Mckinley tariff, and for that
wise and fruitful system OF reciprocity.
When Reid referred to President Harri-
son as that noble man sitting under his
grandfather's hat in the White House,"
the house rang with cheers and laughter.
1t remained, however, for the utterance
characterizing Blaine as "that great secre-
tary, the matchless Blaine" to bring the
time was deafening.
After Mr.. Reid had closed his remarks
great shout went up for Depew and con-
tinued until that gentleman came to the
stage. He said, inspsrt:
The Democratic legislature has left Albany,
and the Republican convention is here. Morn
ing always follows night, The Democratic
party for the first time in many years has had
possession during the past winter of every
branch OF our state government 1t has demon
strated what it could do and then
taken preliminary appeal to the peo.
pie, and the preliminary appeal has
been answered at the spring elections in every
township and city in the state. The fraud here
emblazoned upon the armament was seen in
Rhode Island and redeemed by that state
When ex-PiesideEt Cleveland made his famous
pilgrimage to Rhode Island he interspersed his
political patitudes, which his hearers do not
understand, with quotations from the scrip
lures, with which he is very familiar. He went
with what is called the Democratic triumph in
Albany behind him, and, searching through the
Scriptures, selected from the Becalogue Thou
shalt not steal," and the people of Rhode Island
instantly elected a Republican governor and
legislature.
After speaking IN eulogy of the Nc
Kinley bill and saying that the stand of
the party is for honest money, Mr.. Depew
continued:
No honors could be heaped any higher than
those that already rest by the common consent
OF his grateful countrymen upon the head of
James G. Blaine lApplause We daily read
-
poten ates, but we turn to the choice of the
American people. the free choice OF the people
We point to his speeches in all parts OF the
country, under all possible conditions with SO
much versatility and extreme felicity: to the
extreme cleanliness of his life, his patriotism as
soldier, his power to go into the state
department when its head was temporarily
disabled and be great foreign minister; to go
into the finance department when its chief was
nj md ha ful n inf nd
to be at all times the full measure of the chef
magistrate OF sixty-hv millions OF pAople: and
we say TO hereditary legislators: "Tne-e is the
choice OF the people - Benjamin Harrison.
Match him" lApplause.l
mo presidency can honor him more
than the laurels of love and esteem placed
by the people upon the head of James G..
Blaine" said Mr.. Depaw. and the tumult
which broke loose could not be restrained
for many minutes.
]. Sloat Fassett then made brief ad-
dress, following which the platform was
read.
The platform re-afhms the platform of the ma
tionaI Republican convention of lsSS, and con-
graduates Harrison on the success of his admin
istraiion; indorses Republican revenue leslsla-
ton and the Mckinley tariff act; commends the
wisdom and sagaeity of HaTrison's cabinet and
especially the chief cabinet officer, Blaine; in
dorses Harrison's declaration in favor of an
honest dollar, and commends the Republican
members in congress for having secured the de-
feat of the silver bill, saying the people Of the
United States continue to look to the Republic
can party to maintain the good faith OF the. ma
ton in all matters of finance, pledged il is to
keep any dollar bearing the stamp of the United
States at par with gold, and repei any assaults
OF reckless advocates OF free and unlimited
coinage of silver The platform denounces
the treatment of the colored people in
the South as barbarous and continued for the
sole purpose of perpetuating Democratic con-
troll of that section; srraigns the Democratic
party Of the state for cons piracy against the
constitutional rights OF the people in falsifying
official election returns, removing faithful
county officials and pardoning duly sentenced
criminals, theft and suppression OF the public
records, overriding the decision OF the court of
appeals and various other revolutionary and
criminal acts which eulminated in reversal of
the political majority OF the legislature as de-
terminei by the verdict OF the people; de-
nounces the legislature thus feloniously
constituted and the acts of said
legislature, and says: While these
crimes were plotted and pe-petrated by
David B. Hill and his fellow oonspiraiors the
Democratic party, except individuals who re-
fused 70 sanction the revolutionary measures,
made Itself full partsker IN guilt By its greedy
seizure OF the fruits of felony and the vicious
and shameless use of q fraudulent majority in
the legislature. The platform summons the
electors to unite in the defense OF the purity of
the ballot and the legally expressed Will OF the
majority, AMI the convention invites all people,
regardless of previous party lines, to join in
condemnation and rsbuke of the larceny OF the