The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-26
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A, I. MI GILL
The Chancellor Chosen
by the Democratic Con-
Ventlon for New
jerseys Next
Governor.
TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM
A Tidal Wave of Hope and
Courage Characterlzes
Today's Doings at
Trenton.
HYPOCRISY REBUKED
Allan [. MeDermott's Valedie-
tory a Singing Exposure
Of Republican Malice.
Leonard Kalisch Appeals to His
tory and Arouses Uproarious
Applause.
MAGNIFICENTLY HARMONIOUS
gwen the Cutler Boom Ielts Away.
Under the Warmth of the
Leonard Kalisch Appeals to His.
tory and Arouses Uproarious
Applause.
MAGNIFICENTLY HARMONIOUS
even the Cutler Coon lIelts Away
Under the Warmth of the
Chaneellor's Popularity-A
Rousing Platform.

The Democratic convention at Tren-
ton. at BIS o'clock, today, nominated
Chancellor Alexander T. McGan for
Governor on the first ballot.
Following is the full text of the plat
form adopted by the convention
The Democratic party of New Jersey,
in convention assembled, declare:-
That we reaffirm the National Demo-
cratic platform adopted at Chicago in
1892. and cordially indorse the admins
tration of President Cleveland, with
whose determination to protect the peo-
pie of this country from the evils ever
attendant upon a debasement of the Ma
tional currency we are in most earnest
Sympathy.
We congratulate the people upon the
revival of prosperity, everywhere evil
dent in our land, and we assert that the
Industrial depression with which we have
been afflicted during the past three
years is chargeable to the national legis-
lat.on enacted by the Republican party
The purchase of silver to be stored in
the Treasury. and the enactment of
unjust tariff laws, to enrich few favor
ties by the oppression of millions of
paralysation of our markets That
paralysis. with an empty national treas
ury. were the legacies received from
a Republican administration.
The battle against a system fostered
in violation of self-evident laws of po-
htical economy has been won Every
struggle against intrenehed wrong is at
tended by privation and suffering, but
these are never endured in vain. The
lesson of cause and effect has been thor
oughly learned, and we are willing TO
abide by the decision of an intelligent
people who are now entering upon a,
period of prosperity that will prove both
substantial and enduring.
We denounce -,laliciously false the
statements of the Republican State plat
form that the government OF New Jersey
has been conducted by the Democratic
party in a dishonest or extravagant man
ner. The Senate Committee, after an in
vestigation costing thousands of dollars
and involving the scrutiny of every ex-
penditure made under Democratic admin
istration. reported that. in the purchase
of supplies for the State there had been
extravaganza or malfeasance on the part
of two or theree State employees.
In the condemnation of those wrongs
every good citizen joins, but the at
tempt to charge the misdoings of a few
individuals upon the Democratic party,
or the Democratic administrations of
this State, is not warranted by the evil
denee, and is a violation of the rules
which common decency requires to con-
troll political discussion between citizens
of a State. The fact that our State is
without debt, that millions of dollars
fI,11
twelve years in the improvement of
State institutions, and that during that
time not dollar of State tax has been
levied upon the property of private own
ers. are, in themselves. a sufficient an
swer to the charge of extravaganza.
During the past twenty-five years the
Governor of New Jersey has been a
Democrat, and during that period the
finances of the State have been collect
ed, invested and expended with a care
and integrity that have resulted in CIV
ing New Jersey the deserved fame of
being the most economically governed
State in the Union. When an official
proves reereant to the trust reposed in
him. he is no longer a Democrat, and
the records of New Jersey show thar
the members of our party entrusted
with the administration of the law have
never allowed the plea of partisanship
to protect a dishonest official from prose
cution and punishment.
We favor the adoption of a constitu-
tional amendment that will render inn
possible any law for the legalizatjon of
gmbling in any form.
We charge that the course of the Re-
publican party IN this and other States
in dealing with the question of legaliza-
tfon of betting upon horse races, has
Peen characterized by trickery and de-
feit. AS evidence Of this we call atten-
fion to the course of the Republican Lee
tgislature Of New York, whose action in