St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-25
SOME SORE SPOTS.
TAMMANY LEADERS NOT WORK
ING HARMONIOUSLY AT
SYRACUSE.
KINGS COUNTY THE CAUSE.
OBJECTIONABLE TERMS MADE
WITH THE STATE DEMOC-
RACY.
KINGS COUNTY THE CAUSE.
High Praise for Grover CIevc4
land and His Presidential
Performances.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 24-This
has been a crucial day with the
Democrats of New York state, gath
cred here for their party convention.
The formal proceedings in the con-
vention hall today were brief and
OF the cut and dried type, but, as is
usual at political bodies of this sort,
the happenings of greatest interest
We're behind the scenes. In the con-
vention hall Perry Belmont deliv-
cred the speech which he had pre-
pared, but deprived the opponents
of the national Democratic admin
lstration of a chance to display their
feeling by omitting a denunciation
of the third term idea contemplated
were the usual cheers for the party
leaders when their names were men
toned, and many of the leaders of
the state were in the city, conspicu-
Gus among them being Senator Hill
and Senator Murphy, ex-Gov. Flow
er, Charles S. Fairchild, of the state
Democracy, and the Tammany men
from Gotham, although Croker, if he
took any part in the councils, did so
by wire, since he was in New Ha-
ven, many miles away.
Behind the scenes, in the councils
of the principal committees, there
We're battles under way which en-
OF the various candidates for places
on the ticket. The length to which
the party should commit itself on
the question of more liberal Sunday
excise laws was a bone Of conten-
ton, and some feeling was stirred up
over the minor contests for represen-
tation, but the only bitter issue was
that between the state Democracy of
New York city and Tammany, where
the former claimed a fractional rep
resentation of one-third, and the lat
ter asserted it's claim to the sole
control of the party machinery in
the metropolis. The result was prac-
tically a victory for Tammany, al
though the state Democracy got
small part of the loaf.
TRUE DEMOCRACY
The following is the platform so far
as adopted by the committee tonight:
The Democratic party of the state
of New York, by its delegates in con-
vention assembled adopts this declara-
ton Of principles:
I'VE hold that self-government is the
foundation principle of American lib
erty and of a true Democracy. We
therefore oppose paternalism, social
ism, and the control of one class by an
other. Each citizen has the right to
order his own life, provided he re-
spectS the rights of others of the COM
monweal, voiced in just laws, and
each community must maintain the
same right as the charter of its politi-
cal we'll being.
1--WE believe that the political life of
New York state will be made healthy
If our state officers and legislators shall
state, rather than to strive to rule
the nation or to administer the cities.
We therefore upheld home rule for
cities and other local communities
throughout the state. We advise vot-
ers to scrutiniZe most carefully the
character, record and political opin-
ions of candidates for the state senate
and assembly, and thus lberate our
great state from such silent, secret
and sinister influences as dominated
the legislature of 1895.
1--WE assert that self-government and
home rule in cities involve local option
require local public sentiment for their
fair enforcement. The Republican pol
icy of ruling New York and other
great cities from Albany has utterly
failed; it has corrupted the legislature
and demoralized the cities; its sole de-
fense of uniformity of law throughout
the state falls before the ridiculous
fact that it is today a crime to sell
a drink, but not crime to shave at
one end of the Brooklyn bridge, and a
crime to shave but not crime to
drink at the other.
1.-The Democratic party does not
waver in its hostility to sumptuary
legislation, and to every interference
of the majority, however benevolent or
exalted their motives, with personal
liberty, except when necessary to Sc
cure public order or decency, or the
equal rights of citizens. To the liquor
are applicable considerations of public
safety, order and quiet We recog-
niZe therefore, the necessity and the
right Of proper regulations for sun
general business is suspended and
large numbers of people, especially
women and children, are passing in the
streets. What special restrictions of
the various and widely differing cons
munities of this state should be left
to its citizens to determine.
SOUND ON CURRENCY.
eve favor a sound currency and a
safe banking system, which can be
based only on .an honest dollar of
single standard of value, the standard
of the civilized world. We oppose the
free coinage of GO cents worth of sill
yer into a dollar. The government
should go out Of the banking business,
and should limit itself to safeguarding
banking methods, which will extend
throughout the country the money ad-
vantages of the cities The legal
tender notes, born of the necessities of
a struggle for national existence,
should be withdrawn. Their presence
in the currency is a menace to the
steadiness of business. and prevents
the due use of the silver dollars al
ready coined.
eve believe the people will permit
no steps backward in tariff reform.
Reckless Republican legislation left
to the Democratic administration
legacy of ills, eliminating, just as
Republican president left office and
long before any Democratic law had
happily disappearing as the results of
Democratic national administration
become evident. Returning prosper
ity, reviving industry and increasing
wages prove that tariff reduction,
meagre though it has been, and not tho
nostrum of cheap money is the true
cure of the evils which extortionate
taxation has brought upon our nation;
and we congratulate the country that
it has a Democratic president who will
veto reactionary measures, and will
enforce for the next two years truce
in tariff issues.