The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-26
IT ALL HINGES ON WHITNEY
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS WAITING
 FOE BIM TO SPEAK.

FOE BIM TO SPEAK.
 If He Refuses to be . Candidate the Choice
 Lays Between ThAohsr and Lockwood-
 Frederick Cook is Not In tho Race After
 His Pullman Profits Became Known.
 New York. Sept. 25.-The Unitarians had finished their morning session and deserted Convention hall when the del- egatss to the democratic convention began to arrive at l2:so. By the time the convention was called to order there were 5000 people present, and only the rear rows in the gallery were vacant.
 Senator Hill entered the hall at 1:o6. He was given an ovation. Delegates stood in their places and cheered. He took seat In the Albany delegation half c dozen rows from the front.
 Mayor Gilroy and Burke Cochran were applauded when they entered a moment later and took seats in the front row with the New York delega- tion. General Dan Sickles and other fla miliar faces were welcomed by a lively clapping of hands.
 At 1:12 p. m. Senator Edward Mur- phy, jr., chairman of the state com- mittee, called the convention to order. He was given a hearty greeting He mittee as temporary chairman, David B. Hill. The encouragement was recelv- ed with cheers. Senator Murphy named Mayor Thomas F. Gilroy of New York city, and Congressman Daniel Lock- wood of Buffalo as a committee to es- cort Senator Hill to the chair.
 The appearance of the senator pro- duced hurricane of applause. Dele gates rose to their feet, waived their hats and yelled with enthusiasm.
 Senator Hill bowed his acknowledg- ments, and when permitted proceeded with his speech.
 He was loudly applauded at frequent intervals, and his praise of the Cleve- land administration sent one side of the hall wild with joy while there was silence in other quarters. Senator Hill said:
 The unterrifled democracy of the Elm pire state are assembled 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 vehehaE and unblushing effrontery. If vain So1ets olo hriv, vii haf 1,o 1o is indeed won before it is actually com menced; but we beg to remind them that there has not been a campaign in this state during the last tweiQ lplls, when they did not assnme in August and September that they had carried 1t, when in truth and in fact during that whole period, with single exception, victory was perched upon our banners on the first Tuesday of November in each year. We win our victories ,on election days and not by ,,exuberant bragadocio in convention halls.
 The unexpected victory of our oppo- nents last fall has turned their heads and rendered them arrogant and opin- ionated. They fail to recall the fact that the total vote boiled was nearly
 
 full vote of the state, victory which they themselves did not anticipate, and which their surprised and astute leaders the next day after election humorously attributed to divine providence and not to republican strength. With a united democracy and full vote New York is still democratic state, and if we are true to ourselves will this year resume her place in the democratic column.
 Our opponents by the vigorous beat ing of bogus political tom-toms and the insistance of petty and misleading local issues seek to divert the public atten- tion from the unenviable record they have made during their recent four years control of the federal govern ment The people, however have not forgotten the fact that 1t was a repub- lican administration which in that ill., fated year of 1890 saddled the country with unwise and vicious legislation, which has since crippled it's prosperity, endangered its finances and augment ed its public burdens. The people re- member that the Sherman silver bullion purchase law was the product of repub- lican statesmanship-aga, ,nst the enact ment of which every democratic con- gress voted-a measure fraught with injury to the business interests of the country, based upon no just or sound principle of finance, converting con- stitutional money metal into a com modity, hastening us to single rather than. bimetallic standard, and weak ening our national credit at home and abroad.
 It should be borne in mind that the financial panic of 1893 was republican panic-republioan in it's inception, con- tinuance and disastrous effects-a situ- ation largely induced by the results then existing and impending of that re- publican legislation, which democratic administration had no lot or parcel in enacting ,sanctioning or condoning, but which it unfortunately inherited from its predecessor. The people recollect that it was under a national democratic administration that the Sherman law was repealed, not as promptly as some of us desired 1t is sltrue, but nevertheless uncondition- ally repealed within eight months after our advent to power. We promised the | people in our Chicago platform that this l statute, which was eating out the vitals l of our financial body polite, should not l be permitted to endure, and the promise was redeemed, despite the adverse pre- dictions of our adversaries.
 When he had finished the delegates