Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-23

man silver law under which our
silver output is damned up at home, as
a false pretense, but an actual hind
rance to return to free bimetallic coin
age, as tending only to produce change
from one kind of monometallism to an
other. 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 question, and as fit
appendage to the subsidy and bounty
swindle; the Mckinley, worse than war
tariff; Blaine's reciprocity humbug; the
squandered surplus; the advancing de-
fcit; the defective census; falsified rep
resentation and the revolutionary pro-
ceedings of the billion-dollar congress,
all justly condemned by the peoples
great uprising, a verdict, which, renewed
this year, will empower Democratic
statesmen to guide the peoples councils
and execute the peoples will
The platform recalls with proud
memory the inhexibly sound finance of
Governor Tilden, who led the Demo-
cratic party in pushing on compulsory
Republican advance to current coinage
redemption.
1t also refers swith grateful pride to
the infexibly sound finance OF Gov
ernor Hill, who by efficient economy has
accomplished the practical extinction of
the state debt; has faithfully urged the
nation to release from unjust taxation,
and likewise, with stateman's energy
and true foresight of the 70-cent dollar
pushing for birth in the body of the
Sherman silver law, has taken up the
peoples cause, assailed Republican
degradation of silver money and
led the advance of the Demo
cratic party of New York to
that solid ground of high justice
upon which they stand today, without
discord or division; demanding with
him that every dollar coined in these
United States shall be the equal of
every other dollar so coined, and de-
manding redress for their present
shameless inequality"
1.-The Democrats of New York." says
the platform, "point to the nomination
of David Bennett Hill to the Office of
president as q fit expression OF Demo-
cratic faith and tradition, and of our
settled purpose to rescue this perverted
government from the clutch OF autocrats
and plutocrats; from spendthrift ad-
ministration, excessive taxes, debased
money. The delegates selected by this
convention are instructed to present to
the national Democratic convention the
name OF David B. Hill, a Democrat who
has led his party from victory to vic
tory for seven successive years, and
who has never known defeat, as can
didate for president of the United
States"
The delegates are further instructed
to vote as a unit. The people of the
state are congratulated upon the auspi-
cious opening of Governor Flowers ad-
ministration.
THE YOUNG HICKORY.
When the passage instructing for Hill
was read, the air was shaken by tre-
mendous outburst OF applause, and
after the resolutions we're unanimously
adopted, committee was appointed to
wait upon Hill and request him to ad-
dress the convention. He soon arrived,
and General Sickels presented him to
the audience in these words: II present
to you, gentlemen of the convention, the
Young Hickory of Democracy; our next
presidential candidate, David B. HILL"
Then came more cheers, and when the
noise finally subsidized sufficiently, Sena-
tor Hill spoke at considerable length.
He thanked the gentlemen OF the con-
vention for the unanimous vote which
made known their approval. OF his
candidacy for the presidential nomina-
| ton.
1.-THE reawakening of the Democracy
all over the land" he said, sis the most
auspicious sign of the times. All our
troubles, all our dangers at this very
hour, after so many years of Republican
| IL fr<y fr1ti nol clo
ton by the very men who sit in shiver-
with power. The Democratic party is
one whose creed ever has been strict
Interpretation of the constitution and
| the confinement of government to few
specifically granted powers"
| He commends these contrasted facts
to his fellow countrymen for meditation :
"The Republican party neither trusts
the people nor obeys them. 1t now re-
quires another upheaval at the ballot
box like that of 1870 to be convinced
that the wicked work of the billion
dollar congress must be repealed, and
| the peoples will obeyed. We are ad-
vancing to the final renewal of the
nations verdict on the mad, insensate
reign of autocrats and plutocrats,
whereby their verdict, now scoffed at,
shall have efficient execution in the
election of both branches of the federal
congress and federal executive,
obedient to the sovereign peoples
will. The Sherman silver law
transforms the federal coinage power
of silver and gold into an instrument
for the gradual expulsion of our gold,
for the establishment of an exclusive
basis and permanent reduction of every
American dollar by thirty per cent. or
more, below the level of it's true value,
during the whole period of our free BIZ
metallic coinage from 1892 to 1873"
Turning his attention to the tariff,
the senator said "The cause of tariff
reform has lately made great practical
advance. Secretary Manning in his re-
port of 1886, advised congress to begin
practical tariff reform by single act
an act for free wool. One year later the
secretary's report was writ large in the
message of the president. Now, five
years later, one of our most enlightened
economists, David A. Wells,
writes the chairman of the ways
and means committee that
the path of progress which Secretary
Manning blazed first and alone, is the
true path. 1t is the maxim of sound
policy, better fitted to win the elections
than lose them; better dividing into
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