The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-10
NEW YORK'S THIRD TICKET.
Everett P. Wheeler The Nominee for
Governor.

Those of the Saratoga Convention.
The Boilers Confident Up to the Last
Moment That Ex-seoretary Fairchild
Would Be Their Leader.
New York, Oct. 9-The third ticket
party. at a meeting held this afternoon at
the Offices of E. NJ. Shepard, decided to
nominate the following ticket:
For Governor-Everett P. Wheeler of
New York city.
For Lieutenant Governor-DanieI NJ.
Lockwood of Buffalo.
For Judge Of the Court of Appeals
Charles F. Brown of Orange county.
Mr.. Wheeler has announced his accept
ance of the nomination.
Mr. Shepard said that Messrs. Brown
and Lockwood would also accept their
nomination.
Promptly at 8 o'clock this afternoon
the halls of the Trinity building in this
city began to I'LL up with democrats prom
inent in the opposition to the regular
ticket Mr.. Shepard had given it out
early in the day that in his private office
in the Trinity building the committee of
nine, representing the reform element
of the Brooklyn democracy, would con-
fer with other democrats from up the
state and elect third ticket
1t was thought until the very last that
eX-Secretary Charles S. Fairchild would
be nominated for the first place on the
ticket as he was the choice of the ma
jority of the reformers but it was ap-
parent after the conference had been in
session some time that Mr. Fairchild
was not anxious to accept the leader
ship.
The doors were closed, and for two
hours the reformers discussed the sit
uation. 1t was long after 5 o'clock be-
fore Mr.. Shepard invited the members
of the press into his office and gave out
the selections that he had made. Mr..
Shepard said a detailed statement of
the proceedings of the conference would
he given out at $50 o'clock in the evening
together with the platform.
Mr., Shepard announced that ex-Secre-
tary Fairchild would be the chairman of
the campaign committee, and had agreed
to serve. The committee would be COM
posed in part of the following named
gentlemen, all of whom were at the con-
ference: Franklin D. Locke of Buff
falo. Edward NJ. Shepard of Brooklyn,
Henry A. Richmond of Buffalo, Seymour
Van Santvoord of Troy, Michael E
OConnor of Brooklyn, Robert A. Wieder-
man of Rockland county. Thomas G.
Sbearman of Brooklyn, John A. Beal of
New York, John Brooks Leav-
lit of New York, S. D. Ramsey
of Brooklyn and A. R. James of
Buffalo. Mr.. Shepard said that those
named constituted only about half. the
committee, which will be completed
with gentlemen who were with the re-
with gentlemen mho were with the re-
formers heart and soul, and who he had
no doubt would serve on the committee.
Mr.. Shepard was asked why Mr.. Fair
child had refused the nomination at the
head of the ticket. We'll" he said "Mr.
Fairchild is the leader of the state de-
mocracy, and if he accepted the nomina-
ton it would entail upon him the ne
cessity of giving up the leadership But
he has accepted the craftsmanship of the
campaign committee, and win be in this
fight heart and soul"
The platform of the Democratic Party
Reform Organization, the name adopted
by there formers, is as follows:
The delegates duly elected to the demo-
cratic state convention of 1894 by the
Democratic party in Kings county, hav-
ing been dishonesty and unfairly ex-
cluded there from by the vote of a packed
and interested committee, and d vote
under gag law in the convention, having
associated with themselves representative
democrats from other parts of the state,
adopt and publish this declaration:
We stand on the plain principles of
American freedom and of our historic
democracy-that each American citizen
has a free right to live his life, to do his
work, to hold his beliefs, to buy and sell,
and to pursue happiness, unhindered by
the government, so long as he respects
the rights of his fellow citizens.
New York is, and will remain, demo-
cratic state except when betrayed by I'M
scrupulous leadership, snap methods. cor.
rupt practices and ring rule, which are no
less undemocratic than immoral
The republican party has degenerated
into the tool of trusts-an enemy of the
people-using taxes to rob the many for
the few, preaching protection which has
produced cruel industrial depression, and
now eliminates in the religious intol-
GRANGE of the un-American Protective As
ISOLATION, which is utterly abhorrent to
genuine democracy.
Fit men only should be chosen for public
Office, and unworthy candidates nominal
ted by unworthy means should be defeat
ed at the polls The public service should
be manned throughout by honest men,
selected for merit, fairly paid, giving the
government a dollars worth of work for
a dollars worth of pay and in places not
political, secure in tenure during good SER
vice. We demand an efficient enforce
ment of the civil service laws and an eX-
tension of the classified service in state
and nation.
The constitutional convention has
sought to perpetrate in the constitution
OF the state a geTrymander apportion-
ment. contrary to the principles of rep
resentative and democratic government.
We blame for this danger to democracy
David B. Hill, whose political short sight
edness inforcing the nomination of May
nard threw the convention as well as the
legislature into the hands of our po-
htical opponents; and we ask fair-minded
republicans. with whom we voted against
Maynard, to vote with us against this UNI
lust and partisan apportionment.
We denounce the so-called democratic
senator, again candidate for governor,
who is a democrat when only democracy
means himself; who in the Senate of the
United States has opposed the demo-
cratic President voted against the para
mount principle of the democratic plat
form, excluded himself from the coun-
ellis of the Democratic party, and de-
meaned the democratic state of New
York: whose political career has been
built upon corruption; who has prosu-
tuted an able intellect to evil ends; who
planned and directed the political crime
rebuked in 1898 by majority of 100000
and who Is the arch enemy of good gov
crnunent and real reform.