The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-07
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
PRACTICALLY UNANIMOUS AND
HARMONIOUS CONTENTION

| MARTIN Schenck for state Engineer ana
Simon Ro-endnIe for Acknowledgements
The Platform Kcconnts the Achiever,erts
| OF tho Party aud Euiogizes the Ad-
| Manifestations OF Cleveland and Flower.
| SARATOGA. Oct. 6.-The emocratic State
| Convention OF 1893 has passed into history.
| whore 1t will be characterized as n typical
| Jeffersonian gathering Of tho people. distin-
| Ruished by free speech and ruled by tho ex-
| precision OF the will of the majority. Though
| nothing is known here OF the doings Of the
Republicans at Saratoga. 1t is none the less
| safe to wager that no such freedom was
allowed to the delegates there as was enjoyed
| by the Democrats at this meeting. Far from
| cut-and-dried was this Convention. Here the
bosses listened to tho proceedings with as
| much surprise as was felt by the hum blest
delegate. The surprise was over tho opposition
| to the nomination Of Judge Maynard for the
| Court OF Appeals. 1t was courageous Mug
| wump who opposed the will OF the Democracy
"a crossroads storekseper OF the name Of
| Weidenmann OF Manuel, Rockland county Hs
| got perfect liberty to air his conscientious
scruples against the nomination. aud he pro-
voked some good oratory by men not slated to
| figure In the programme. But the majority
| differed with him. and Maynard was ominated.
| as he should have been by grateful Democ.
| racy.
The Convention was belated nearly an houR
| by the inability Of the Committee on Creden.
| tials to get through its heavy work. The
new and cleverly designed Village Hall was
| almost bare OF ornament because, while tho
hall is new. tho villagers will not allow any
nails to be driven in its woodwork. Conse-
1uently three national flags. a portrait OF
Grover Cleveland. q portrait Of Vice President
Stevenson. and club banner bearing the
face OF Thomas Jefferson were the only
ornaments in the building. The pres.
| ence Of portrait Of Cleveland and the
absence OF any picture Of David b
Hill was in line with the same
conciliatory policy that prompted frequent
laudatory mentions Of the name OF the Presi-
dent, and never one mention OF David D. Hill.
except the unlooked-for one that slipped from
| the mouth OF q woman speaker who was per.
mitted to address the Convention.
Before the Convention met Ferdinand Levy.
the Register Of New York city sought the ed
vice Of the reporter Of THE SUN upon the ques-
| ton whether he should or should not intro.
duoe . resolution denouncing the conduct of
Pastor Stoecker. the Jew batter OF Ber-
lin. in giving expression to anti-SemitIc
sentiments in an interview published In
The Sun. Tho incessant and philanthropic
Register obtained the needed advice and did
not offer the resolution. The band played
i
between each squirt OF brass music. Upon the
stage marched five women. who attracted al
| most as much attention as dashing girl
reporter who sat among the scribes under tbs
droppings Of the platform. First and most
| conspicuous among these women was Mrs.
Lille Devereaux- Blake. President of the Wo-
man Suffragists of New York city. She IL
still dashing and attractive. and she knows
how to dress like a woman and not like
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Brooks Greenleaf. wife Of noted Rochester
Democrat. and herself a dyed-in- the-wool re-
former and President Of the State Woman SUI.
fraRist Association. The third woman was
Miss Harriette A. keyser. and the fourth was
tho only one who stuck to the name By which
she was christened. and called herself plainly
and honestly Miss Lucy A. Washington. Her
name Lucy looked wholesome and good
beside the giddy spelling Of the names
OF the others. who called themselves
Lille and Harriette and JEAN as II
they were sophomores from Wellesley
College. There were very many other women
In the hall. mainly young and pretty wives and
daughters OF summer cottagers and delegates.
AS II to vie with their beauty and bright colors,
local gambler sent In a huge floral cushion.
which the Convention could not refuse. but
would have been pleased not to have received.
Dry Dollar Sullivan sat with Henry d. Pur-
roy In the front row. and Edward Murphy. Jr.
abandoned the society OF his fellow chleftains
and went and sat with his Trojan friends In
the Rensselaer, delegation. The Lieutenant
Governor OF the State sat In the body Of the
hall. in one Of the seats of the Erie delegation.
That seems natural and proper in q Demo-
cratic Convention but there 10 no such spirit
OF equality among any other partisans In
America. Had 1t been a Republican or .
Populist or Prohibition meeting the Lieu.
tenant Governor would have sat on the
PLATFORM There was loud applause for Mr..
Croker when he arrived. and close observers
noticed Tim Campbell and Jimmy Oliver In
the hall for the first time. for both had been
SO modest as not to be seen on the previous
day. A man who attracted great deal OF at
tention was Judge Fitzsimmons OF New York.
d smooth shaven. clerical looking delega ate Ia
the front row. all In black. He attracted at
tention because OF his amazing resemblance
to John Wanamaker It is for none but sayants
to say how an Irish American came by the
lace OF pennsylvania Dutchman.
THE CONVENTION AT WORK.
The Convention work began when James W,
Rldgway OF Brooklyn came, in with the report
Of a hard seven hours work with the warning
delegations They seated the Garside faction
son straight-out delegates OF Yates. In the
fifteen other contests they recon mended thSt
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been made permanent Chairman. and Mr..
Ridgway announced all this as the unanimous
ofAlbany. a Muxwump, disputed the assertion.
and Nj. Ridgway said It was correct Ihereupon
the question Of the adoption Of the report but
as the unit rue In voting governed many OF
this tiresome msncnuvre. Even Tracey him.
self had to vote for the report under the unit
rule.
On taking the chair Mr., Lockwood thanked
himself unwilling to make another speech.
Ex-senator George Raines Of Rochester
inspired by Senator Hill. 1t gave great atten-
tion and praise to the work Of the Democrats
In the State Government and less to the work
OF the party in the Federal Government Even
the wisest Democrats must have boen aston
ished at the long record OF great and popular
benefits that the party has conferred on the
state In the short time it has been In power
will Of the majority. long stfed by an. unrep:
resentative Legislature, has at last found
the State OF Now York com pletelY out Of debt. 1.