The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-25
WITH HILL
AS CHAIRMAN.
The Democratic Convention
Began Its Work To-Day
in Saratoga.
THE SENATOR'S LONG SPEECH.
He Asked for Unity, Praised
Cleveland and Denounced
the A. P. A.
NO CANDIDATE YET SELECTED,
Gayn0r's Friends Think There Is
Hope, but Others Look
to Whitney.
NO CANDIDATE YET SELECTED,


Sept 25.-At LIS o'clock this afternoon
the Democratic State Convention was
called to order by Senator EDWARD
Murphy, Chairman of the DemoC ratio
State Committee. This was three
quarters Of an hour after the appointed
time.
Delegates began to arrive slowly.
There were very few spectators present,
and the hall was not as well filled as
last week at the Republican Convention,
because there are fewer delegates in
the Democratic contingent
All the cheering was principally for
Hill. He received an ovation when he
entered the hall and again when he
assembled the platform to preside as
temporary Chairman.
Senator Murphy. Lieut.-Gov. Sheehan,
Daniel N. Lockwood and Gen. Daniel e.
Sickles were also enthusiastically APP
plauded
Hill Escorted TO the Platform.
The Convention got down to business
at once after Chairman Murphy called
for order. He named Senator Hill for
temporary Chairman, and appointed
Mayor Gilroy and Daniel N. Lockwood a
committee to escort him to the platform.
iiiii itdi SpeSSii liciii man
uscrpt. 1t lacked the force and effect
and the eloquence of the Senator's other
oratorical efforts delivered extempo-
raneously.
The audience was prepared to hear
great speech and listened attentively
Mr.. Hill was expected to sound the key
note of the campaign. They were dis
appointed who expected to hear a speech
made up of catch phrases, calculated to
arouse enthusiasm. instead of serious
argument.
The Senator's Speech.
Senator Hill said:
THE unterrihed Democracy of the
Empire State assemble here to-day, UNI
dismayed at the premature boasts and
assumed confidence of our adversaries.
I'VE. are not unaccustomed to their
annual and moss covered game OF po-
litical bluff, although renewed this year
with extraordinary vehemence and I'M
blushing effrontery.
III vain boastings alone could bring
victory, their battle Is, indeed, won be
fore X Is actually commenced; but we
beg to remind them that there mas not
been a campaign in this State during
the past twelve years when they dld
not assume in August and September
that they had carried 1t, when; In ruin d
and in fact, during that whole period,
with a single exception, victory mas
perChed upon our banners on the hrst
Tuesday of November in, each year
We win our victories on election days.
convention halls.
Nothing to Boast OF.
THE unexpected victory of our oppo-
nents last Fall has turned their heads
and rendered them arrogant and opin-
donated. They fail to recall the taGt
nn s the total vote f pSed " Td 9Se 9 sat
victory which they themselves ga not
anticipate, and which surprised their
s sstHte leader who the next Gay a''t t9
pivine Providence and not to Repun-
hcan strength. ,.,. 49,, ,,,u
vote New York is still Democratic
State, and If we are true TO ourselves
will this year resume her place IN the
Our o Set 'i by the vigorous beat
ing OF bogus political tom-toms ana the
insistence upon petty ana m.s!eauilmIg
attention from the unenviable record
four years. control OF the Federal Gov
ernment.
Vicious Legislation.
The people, however, have not for
gotten the fact that II was Repupu-
can Administration which, in that Ill
fated year of 1880, saddled the country
with unwise and vicious legislation
which has since crippled Its prosperity,
Gtthsuangered its finances. and augmented
ltS public burdens.
The people remember that the Sher-
man silver Purchase law was the pro
uuct of Republican craftsmanship
AGAINST the enactment of which every
Democrat in Congress voted-a meas
iIe Iraught with injury to the business
interests Of the country, based upon NJ
yust or sound principle of finance, con
tnDetrVng a constitutional money meta
sI oo commodity Fastening us to {
sihSIe rather than bimetallic standard
S Snu weakening our National credit a
hoile and abroad.
at should be borne in mind that tn
financial panic of 1893 was a Republican
oone-hepubiican In Its inception, c)ntinu
ance and disastrous effects-a situation
aIg.ly induced by the results theI
csn sung and impending of that Republl
81 legislation, which Democratic AID
nrthlstration had no lot or parce II
u,ihaicung, sanctloning or condoning, bu
f%nICh II only unfortunately inherlte
from Its predecessors.
Repeal of the sherman Law.
me people recollect that 1t was unde
Nauohal Democratic Administrator
lIUN(llliIsd on As,ie,,IL ,aaoI