The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-07
new YORK POLITICS.
Both Parties Held Their State
Conventions Yesterday.
THE NOTORIOUS JUDGE MAYNARD
NOMINATED BY DEMOCRATS.

The Democracy of the Empire State Give
Cleveland But Cold Comfort-Their
Delegates But Putty in the Hands of
Dick Croker-Scathing Denunciation of
Maynard by the Republicans.
Syracuse, NY, October 6-Bright skies
and bracing air greeted the assembled
Republicans of the state when they
awoke from their slum bers this morning
At 12.22 p. m., Chairman William
Brookfield called the assembled delegates
to order, and, when silence was secured
announced the opening prayer by Rev.
DR.. G. H. Bachman of Syracuse.
AT the conclusion of the invocation
the chairman of the state committee s.an-
nounced the roll call, after which Chair
man Brookfield announced the nomina-
tion of Hon. P. W. Cullinen of Oswego for
temporary chairman.
Mr.. Cullinen was then escorted to the
platform and addressed the convention.
After dwelling at great length upon
the history and achievements of the
Republican party, he continued:
The administration of = President
Harrison, illuminated by the genius of
Blaine, was fitting climax to the
memorable history of the Republican
party which preceded it. It might be
justly termed the golden age of the re-
public, for at it's close the civil rights of
our people were enjoyed in their most
perfect degree; the fruits of labor re-
ceived the greatest reward, and prosper
ity attended, every enterprise, and at
fireside, workshop, field and altar, rest,
labor and devotion were enjoyed with
an unequaled degree of happiness.
1t is not long from March 4, 1898, to
October 6, 1893 and yet we have seen
this picture change to one of another hue
too familiar to require portraiture and
exciting serious alarm for the future.
But it is not my province to dwell up
on the spectacle at Washington which
humiliates us as a nation before the
whole world We are called together to
nominate state officers and draft a plat
form expressive of our faith and appeal
ing to the people to right the great wrong
perpetrated by the theft of this state in
1881. That crime must not go unpunlshed;
and yet today the Democratic party at
Saratoga in state convention assembled,
with an effrontery born of reCklessness
and contempt for the sacredness of our
civil institutions, has determined to
nominate the chief agent in that crime
for the office of judge Of our highest
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loves his country above his party if the
nominee would have been considered if
not for his connection with that crime
The crime with which Isaac III Maynard
is charged is not petty, but a serious
one against the people of the entire state
It was not a crime committed on the
spur of the moment, or when tumultuous
action prevented the mind from being
reinforced by opportunity for usual de-
liberation before conclusion. But it was
crime, the result of premeditation and
deliberation, and the perpetrators. with
sufficient intelligence to have full con-
ceptlon of its magnitude and its conse-
quences
AS the sworn officer of the state
charged with the duty of advising and
directing the state board of canvassers in
the discharge of their official duties, he
violated the sanctity of his oath by
fragrant misconduct. Shall it be said to
the everlasting disgrace of our state that
promotion to The chief bench of justice
follows as reward for this crime?
After the appointment Of committees
recess was taken until $50 p. m. by the
convention.