The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-02-25
MR.. HILL ENDORSED.
HE is ENTHUSIASTICALLY INSTRUCTED
FOR FOR PRESIDENT.
The Protest of the Cooper Union Meeting
Rejected by Unanimous Vote-Full
Text of the Platform Adopted by
the Convention.

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 22.-Sunshine
and the booming of cannon opened
the convention today and such crowds
as filled the streets never before have
been seen at the state capital. A great
mob surged about the state commit
tee headquarters, where at 10 O'Clock
the Grace-Anderson committee was
to make its formal "kick,n but it
must be said the mob was more inter-
ested in getting tickets for the con-
vention than in the fate of the anti
Hill men. Grace showed his face
promptly on time with body guard
of Anderson, James Byrne and Colo
mel Monroe.
A motion was made by Cochran to
table the protest and the resolution
was put and carried. The committee,
headed by Anderson, withdrew from
the scene of the kick, and the crowd
poured forward toward the conven-
tion hall. Chairman Murphy called
the convention to order and named
the temporary organization decided
by the state committee at the morn
ing meeting.
Major j. w. Hinckley escorted
Judge Beebe of the court of claims, to
the chair. His speech was warmly
received throughout, but the greatest
applause was accorded his reference
to Senator Hill, "under whose leader
ship the Democracy of the state has
never lost BATTLE" Three cheers
and thrice three were given, while the
David B. Hill club kept up the en-
thusiasm with peculiar cry.
Secretary Defries called the roll of
the convention, and as the names of
prominent Democrats were read they
were greeted with wild applause.
A resolution was adopted making
provisions for the appointment of COM
mittees on credentials, permanent or
ganization, platform, delegates and
electors. The present state committee
was continued in existence until next
year. The convention then took re-
cess until $3.50 o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The hall was crowded as at the
morning session when Chairman
Beebe called the afternoon session to
order at APO.
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permanent organization was presented
and adopted. General Daniel E.
Sickles was made permanent chair
man, and when introduced by Judge
Beebe received an ovation. General
Sickles spoke at some length. James
w. Ridgeway of Kings county next
handed up report of the committee
on resolutions, which was read. 1t
renews the pledge of fidelity to the
great cause of tariff reform and to the
whole Democratic faith and tradition
as affirmed in the national platforms
from 1876 to 1888, as well as in the
state platforms, concurrent with the
opening Of Governor Tilden's brief
and the close of Governor Hill's long
and thrice approved and alike Illus
triOus service in the chief magistracy
of the empire state. 1t then declares:
First-Gold and silver only legal
tender. No currency inconvertible
with coin.
Second-Steady steps toward specie
payments. No steps backward.
Third-Honest payment of the pub
lie debt in coin, and the sacred preser
walton of public faith.
Fourth-Revenue reform, Federal
taxation for revenue only. Nogovern.
ment partnership with protected
monopOlies.
Fifth-Home rule to the limit. No
Capitalization.
Sixth-Equal and exact justice to all
men; no partial taxation.
Seventh-The presidency a public
trust, not private perquisite.
Eighth - Economy in public ex-
pense, that labor may be lightly
burdened.
Ninth-We steadfastly adhere to
the principles of sound finance; we
are against the coinage of any silver
dollar which is not of intrinsic value
with every dollar of the United States.
We therefore denounce the new Sher-
man silver law. under which one
tenth of our gold stock has been ex-
ported, and all our silver output
damned up at home, as not only a
false pretense, but as an actual him
drance to a return to free bi-metallic
coinage, and tending only to produce
a change from one kind OF monometal-
ism to another. We therefore unite
with friends of honest money, ever
stigmatizing the Sherman silver
law as no solution of the gold
and silver question, and as a
fit appendix to the subsidiary and
bounty swindle of Mckinley, worse
than the war, the tariff the Blaine
reciprocity humbug, the squandered
surplus, the advancing deficit, the
defective census, and falsified repre-
sentation and revolutionary procedure
of the billion dollar congress, all justly
condemned by the peoples great up
rising last November (1S90), q verdict
which was renewed this year (1S02),
and which will empower the Demo
ratio statesman to guide the peoples
councils and execute the peoples
wills.
The Democrats of New York refer
with grateful pride to the iDflexible,
sound finance views of Governor
Hill, who by efficient economy
throughout his long administrative
career accomplished the practical ex-
tinction of our state debt; has faith
fully urged with a powerful
and practical advocacy the
nations release from the bondage
of unequal, unnecessary and unjust tax
alton imposed by the tariff of 1888 and