Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-09-28
WILLIAM G.. WHITNEY
HE MAY BE NOMINATED BY NEW
YORK DEMOCRATS.

At the Opcnik & Of the Convention
Senator Hill Is Given an Ovation
and as Temporary Chairman De-
ivcls an Address,
Saratoga, N. ~, Sept: Ex-senator
Murphy called the state Democratic
convention to order. Senator Hill was
named for temporary chairman amid
Intense enthusiasm.
Mayor Gilroy of New York and Hon.
Daniel l.. Wood of Erie escorted Sen
Rtor Hill to the foot of the platform,
and then occurred a remarkable scene.
The vast body of delegates stood on
chairs, waving handkerchiefs and yell
Ing themselves hoarse, as from diff
ferent corners of the auditorium
came demands Of "three cheers for
Hill" Pandemonium reigned for at
least five minutes. Senator Hill stood
pale and motionless, one hand resting
on the table, until the applause had
subsided, and then began to speak,
partially e1tempore and partially from
notes. He said:
1.-THE unterrified Democracy of the
Empire State assemble here to-day,
undismayed at the premature boasts
and assumed confidence Of our adver-
saries. We are not unaccustomed to
their annual and moss-covered game
of political bluff, although renewed
this year with extraordinary We
hemence and unblushing effrontery.
If vain boasts alone could bring vic
tory, their battle is indeed won before
it is actually begun, but we beg to
remind them that there has not been
q campaign in this state during the
past twelve years when they did not
assume in August and September that
they had carried it, while in truth
and in fact during tiat whole period
with a single exception, r'c'ory las
perched upon our banners On the first
Tuesday of Novalnb " in each year.
We win our Victories ,n election days
and not by exhuberant braggadocio in
convention halls.
1.-The unexpected victory Of our cp.
ponents last fall has turned their
heads and rendered them arrogant
and opinionated. They fail TO recall
the fact that the total vote rolled was
nearly 100000 short of the full vote
of the state, victory Miich they
themselves did not anticipate, and
which their surprised and astute lead
ers the next day after election hunlor
ously attributed to Divine Providence
and not to Republican strength.
with a united battery and united
vote New York is still a Democratic
state. and il we are true to ourselves,
will this year resume her place in the
Democratic coIuuan. Our opponents
by the vigorous beating of bogus po
itical tom-toms and the insistence
upon petty and misleading local issues,
seek to divert the public attention
from the unenviable record which they
made during their recent four years
control of the federal government
The people, however, have not forgot
ten the fact that it was a Republican
administration which, in that Inflated
year of 1890, saddled the ccTntry With
unWise and vicious legislation, which
has since crippled it's prosperity, en-
dangered it's finances and augmented
Its public burdens"
1.-THE administration of President
Cleveland has been clean handed,
economical, painstaking and patriotic,
The various departments of the nation.
with success, and the Democratic
party as a whole is entitled to the con
fidence of the masses of the people,
whose interests it endeavors faithful
ly to serve. The Democratic party
stands in this state as it has even
stood, for the religious liberty which
is guaranteed them by our constitu-
ton, and l arraign the Republican
party for it's covert sympathy with and
encouragement of proscriptive
spirit which attempts to set up u re
ligious test as a qualification for Of
fetal preferment in this land of the
free, and which is propagated by
certain political organization which
deserves execration at the hands OF
every fair-minded man, but which the
Republican state convention last week
distinctly refused, though earnestly
urged, to condemn"
After the appointment of the usual
committees the convention adjourned
until tomorrow.
The situation as regards candidates
fol- governor remains unchanged. II
anything the tide has turned in favo,
of William G. Whitney.
bohemian Catholics.
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