The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-26

tncefeu-
Saratoga, n. Y, Sept. 25.-The state
Democratic. convention to nominate
candidates for governor, lieutenant
governor and court of appeals judge.
was called to order here today by
Senator Murphy, chairman of the state
committee.
He named David B. Hall, as tempo
rary chairman.
Mayor Giiroy, OF New York, and Hon.
Daniel Lockwood, of Erie, escorted Sena-
tor Hill to the platform, and there oc-
CURED a remarkable scene. The vast
body Of delegates stood on chairs, wav-
ing handkerchiefs and yelling them
ipf the audience came demands of three
cheers for Hill" Pandemonium reigned
for at least five minutes.
Senator Hill stood, pale and motion
less, until the applause had subsidized
and then at 1:2o began to speak, par
tally extemporaneously ana partly
from notes. He said:
1.-The unterrified Democracy of the
Empire state assemble here today
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, renewed this year
with extraordinary vehemence and I'M
blushing effrontery. If vain boasts
alone could bring victory, their battle
menced; but we beg to remind them
that there has not been a campaign in
this state during the past twelve years,
when they did not assume in August
and September that they had carried it,
when in truth during that whole period,
with a single exception, victory has
perched upon our banners on the first
Tuesday in November each year. We
win our victories on election days and
not by exuberant bravado in the con-
Vention halls.
Undismayed By Boasts.
1.-THE unexpected victory of our op-
ponents last fall has turned their heads
and rendered them arrogant and
opinionated. They fail to recall the
fact that the total vote polled was
nearly 100000 snort of a full vote OF
the state. The victory, which they
themselves did not anticipate, the sur
prised and astute leaders the next day
after the election humorously attri-
burod 10 divine providence and not to
Re blican strength. With united bat
ter and united vote New York is still
a Democratic state and, if we are true
to ourselves, will this year resume her
place in the Democratic column. Our
opponents, by vigorous beating of bogus
\ political tom-t0mS and lnSiStence upon
fpetty and misleading local issues, seek
Ito divert public attention from the
= unenviable record they made during
the recent four years control of the
Federal government The people, how
ever. have not forgotten that it was a
Republican administration which in
that Inflated year, 1890, saddled the
country with the unwiSe and vicious
legislation which has since crippled its
prosperity, endangered its finances and
augmented its public burdens.
A Republican Panic.
"People remember the Sherman silver
bullion purchase law was the product
of Republican craftsmanship, against
the enactment of which every Demo-
crat in Congress voted. 1t should be
borne in mind that the financial panic
was a Republican panic in its inception,
continuance and disastrous effects.
cit was under a national Democratic
federal election laws were repealed
Why. IN the first year Of our admins
tration and in ensuing congressional
elections the spectacle will be witnessed
for the first time in twenty-four years
of state elections conducted as they
ought to be. without federal interfer-
en2e, dictation or intimidation.
The eliminating Atrocity.
"Sshe enactment of the Mckinley
tariff was the eliminating atrocity OF
Republican recklessness in legislation.
1t was the very personification of pro-
tectionisIu run mad. 1t was the inau-
guration Of a huge scheme of govern
mental partnership with private bust
ness interests. The reaction which fol-
lowed in the elections Of 1890 and was
reiterated in the elections of 1892, was
the natural and legitimate expression
of the popular Indignation at the party
which had basely surrendered to the
mercenaries wiChin its own ranks and
:. had bartered away the public good for
L&selfsh greed. We promised the people
'Sthat il intrusted with power, this
vicious, un-American and Objectionable
law should be repealed, and we rejoice
today in the fulfillment of that pledge
The Mckinley law has gone where the
woodbine twineth,' gone to stay, never
to be re-enacted again by any political
party. Without retracting a single
word which have uttered in the Sen
ate in criticism of a measure while en-
gagged in the effort to perfect it and
render it more acceptable, now that il
has been passed and become a law, il
must be considered as a whole, treated
largely as party measure and con-
tra4ted with the Mckinley law Unin-
fiuenced by any personal disappoint-
ments or any pride of opinion, / may
be permitted to speak of the measure
as il is-nothing extenuate, nor set
down augl1t in malice. OF its strictly
tariff features, it may truthfully be