Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-26
THE EMPIRE STATE Democracy Now in Conv sntion at
 Saratoga
TO NAME A STATE TICKET
David B. Hill Named for Tempo rary Chairman-HiS
 Able Speech.

SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 25.-The state democratic convention to nominate can didates for governor, lieutenant- governor ard court of appeals judge was cal ei to. order here today by Senator Murphy, chairman of the state committee. He named David B. Hill as the temporary chairman.
 Mayor Gilroy of New York and Hon. Daniel N. Lockwood of Erie escorted Sen
 ator Hill 10 the front of the platform and then occurred a remarkable ecene. Tue vast body of delegates stood on chairs, waving handkerchiefs and yelling them
 selves hoarse, as from different corners of the auditorium came demands of "Three cheers for Hilll'
 Pandemonium ragged for at least fve min- utes. Senator Hill stood pale and notion
 less, one hand resting upon the table, un- til the applause had subsided, and then at 1:20 o'clock began to speak, partially ex- tempore and partially from notes. He
 said:
 "Our opponents, by vigorous beating of
 bogus political tom-toms and the insist
 ence upon petty and misleading local is- sues, seek to divert the public attention from the unenviable record they made in their recent four years' cen trol of the federal government.
 fact that it was a republican adminis- tration which in that ill., lated year or 1890,
 saddled the country with unwise and Vii
 cious legislation, which has since crippled
 it's prosperity, endangered its finances and
 augmented it's publ burdens. The people
 remember that the Sherman silver bullion
 purchase law was the product of republican
 statesmanship, against the enactment ot
 which every democrat in congress voted-a
 measure fraught with injury to the bus
 mess of the country, based upon no just or sound principle of finance, converting a constitutional money metal into com modity, hastening us on to single rather
 than pimetallic standard, and weakening our national credit at home and abroad. "It should be borne in mind that the financial panic of 1893 was a republican
 panic-republican in it's inception, con tinuance and disastrous effects-a situation
 largely induced by the results then ex- isting and impending of that republican legislation which a democratic adminis- tration had no part or parcel in enacting, sanctioning or condonipg, but whicR it
 only unfortunately inherited from it's predecessor. FEr Hd~
 stThe people recollect that it was under | a national democratic administration that the Sherman law was repealed, not as promptly as some of us desired, It Is true, | but nevertheless internationally repealed
 
 | power.
 "We promised the people in our Chicago platform that this statute which was eat | ing out the vitals of our financial body | polite, should not be permitted 10 en- dure and the promise was redeemed de- | spite the adverse predictions of our adversa- | ries, We also declared in favor of repeal | ing the last law which invaded state | rights, menaced the liberties of the citizen. | multiplied federal officials, involved the l af millions nf | tinued sectional animosities and was as ill., | conceived, unnecessary and impotent for | the prevention of fraudulent practices aud | the promotion of pure elections as 1t was yexatious and offensive in it's enforcement. 'sI point to you the fact that the demo- | cratic party, although entrenched for four years with the distribution of all the ofd- . | cial patronage incident to the exerntion of l this powerful law, yet with patriotic self l sacrifice deliberately cast aside all the | power, influence and patronage involved | therein, subordinating temporary selfish | interests to the public good, wiped this | odious law from the statute books within | the first year of our administrator, and at | the ensuing congressional elections the spectacle will be witnessed, for the first | time in twenty four years, of state elec- l tions conducted as they of right ought to | be, without federal interference, dictation | or intimidation, without federal supervi- 1 sory marshals or other obnoxious federal | agents or instrumentalities,b but with state l officials selected or chosen by the people | themselves, according to the state laws and | usages, an exemplifcation of the principle l of home rule in states and vindication of | the doctrine of sovereignty of states as 1t | was recognized by our forefathers from the l foundation of our government until that evil day in the '60's when | the republicans, although a minority | party, owing to our own divisions, acci- | dently obtained control of the country. | We rejoice that with the democratic
 national ascendancy the country consist
 enty returns to the simple methods, the | sound principle and the correct adminis- | tration of public offices which character | ized the earlier and better days of the re- | public.
 stThe enactment of the Mckinley tariff | bill was the eliminating 2 atrooiJy of repub- | lcan recklessness in legislation, measure | so extreme, so selfish, so unreasonable, i, l that hazard nothing in asserting thai | conservative and fair-minded republicans | everywhere regretted the party exigsncies | which seemed to demand it's passage It | was the very personification of protection | ism run mad.
 "The Mckinley law has gone where tho | woodbine twineth, gone to stay, never to
 be re e-enacted again by any political party. | 1t is true that there was a vexatious and | unfortunate delay, which we regretted, oc- | casioned in part by the antiquated rules of | the senate, which tolerated unlimited de- | bate-rnles which we did not frame, but which we Inherited, and which by reason 1 of our slender majority we seemed unable
 to change, but which l trust in the near
 future will be abrogated; but thes tact | should be remembered that the record
 shows that we occupied less time, by some | -----------~-----~---~-~
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