Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. ANTI-SNAP CONVENTION. C|eveIand's Followers in Session at Syracuse. TIVE SILVER BILL IN THE SENATE. Sherman's Speech Against
 the Measure. SCORES OF YESTERDAYS GAMES. The Irish Education Bill
 Passed.
SCORES OF YESTERDAYS GAMES.
THE SYRACUSE CONVENTION,

THE SYHACUSE JOIN VENTION. A Large Assemblage of Democratic Great Enthusiasm over the Mention of Cleveland's Name Speeches by ex-Mayor Grace, ex.Secretary of the Treasury FairchiId and Others - The Platform and the Delegates-at. Large.
 SYRACUSE, May 31.-The anti-Hill dem ocratic state convention was called to order at 1910 by Charles s. Fairchild, chairman of the state committee. Hon. John D. Herman was elected temporary chairman, and on taking the chair he addressed the convention.
 As the speaker proceeded the fact be- came more and more apparent that the body he addressed was in a temper of dem onstration. When MT. Herman reached that portion of his speech where he referred to the fact that the convention knew some thing about Grover Cleveland the entire body seemed to be upon it's feet with lifted voices, waving arms, slashing canes, waving fans and handkerchiefs, hats and umbrel- las. The ladies caught the enthusiasm of the moment and added to the scene the waving of their fans and handkerchiefs. The speakers reference toHoratio Seymour was met with quick recognition.
 Chairman Herman concluded his remarks at 12:56 o'clock. The usual committees were then appointed and the convention, at :25, took 8 recess until 3:30 p. m.
 The convention reconvened at 4:15, and the temporary organization made perma- nent. MT. Herman thanked the convention for it's renewed courtesy. The platform, as prepared and revised by the committee during recess, reads:
 THE PLATFORM.
 We, the delegates of the democratic party of the state of New York, assembled in convention at Syracuse, declare that the most urgent necessity of the Union is a radical reform in the administration of the federal government We declare that the democratic party alone is true to the peo- pie and alone can be trusted to administer the government of the nation in their interest. We denounce the repub- lican party for it's abuse of power during the last four years. Obtaining in 1889 control of the executive and both branches of congress, that party immedi- ately entered upon 8 course of extrava- gance, tyranny and fraud. It found the treasury in receipt of large and increas- ing surplus. But, disregarding the duty thus imposed upon it to relieve the people from the oppressive tariff taxation so long endured, the republican party through it's "billion-dollsr congress" enacted appropriations amounting to five hundred millions annually. It made most of these appropriations permanent, so that they cannot be reduced by the present democratic house of representatives with out the concurrence of the republican sen ate. It turned magnificent surplus into an eminent deficiency. It went to lengths of class legislation before unheard of by enacting it's Mckinley bill. It deprived the state of New York of it's just represen- tation in congress aud in the electoral college by fraudulent census. It dis played an utter contempt for economy and honesty by it's fraudulent administration of the pension office. It reached climax of partisan oppression in its strenuous endeavor to enact into law the infamous force bill
 Contrasted with this history of extrava- gance and oppression we recall with ever increasing satisfaction the wise and pru- dent democratic administration of Grover Cleveland. He pointed out in his message of December, 1887, the true mission of the democratic party, and, through tenn, victories of 1890 and 1891. All this has been remembered by our brethren in other states, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, l and New York, we emphatically declare, shall not be a blank space upon the demo- | cratic map.
 We denounce the Mckinley tariff; we ! declare that tariff is tax; ''that all tax ation is a burden;" that it should never wisely and economically administered. We condemn the present tariff, not only l because it is excessive and restrictive | of the commercial development of the l country, but because it has been enacted in the interests of few at the expense and for the oppression of the mass of the people. It is class legislation. It does not increase the receipts of wage earners, but it turns over to the protected manu- lecturers, ever becoming more and more rapacious, the federal treasury and the taxing power of the federal gov ernment to use for their own benefit, and itxleaves them to decide whether or not the wage-earners they employ shall re- ceive any part of this enormous bounty. It is an inexhaustible source of corruption; constant menace to free government. It has sapped the independence of industry and induces men to seek to grow rich by official favoritism rather than by their own exertions. An inevitable consequence is that the class in receipt of the vast pe- cuniary favors should seek to perpetuate their grasp upon the government by sup
 plying, in practically unlimited amounts, the money with which an electorate may
 be corrupted and popular government de-
 stroyed.
 The recent change in the policy of the
 republican party from 8 general system oi
 high tariff taxes to the reciprocity system
 is an admission of the vast benefits to be
 derived from the extension of our foreign
 trade and of the justice of the tariff re form principle. We approve the use ol
 both gold and silver money and we demand
 that all dollars whether gold or silver shal
 be equal in value to each other in fact az
 we'll as by declaration of law. We ar,
 opposed to the free coinage of silver by
 the United States alone at the existing
 rate of 16 to i because we believe tha
 free coinage at that ratio will resul
 in the immediate disappearance of golt
 from the business of this country, the us
 of silver with certain loss to every wage
 earner and every savings bank depositor
 with impairment of credit and disastrou
 disturbances of business of every kind
 We demand the repel of the Sherman sil ] yer law of 1880 as an obstruction of inter | national bimatellism and because it is rap
 idly bringing this country to silver mono
 metallism with all it's attendant evils. w
 recognize the necessity of an organization
 through which the party may direct it
 energies; but when such an organization
 claims to be the party itself instea
 of its instrument, when it suI