The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-10-03
TAMMANY A WINNER
TURNED The STATE DEMOCRACY
DOWN At SYRACUSE.

Left the Convention Hall in Body
Nomination. Put Through Rapidly and
. Platform Adopted.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 27.-The
Democratic convention has finished its
work by nominating the following Off
GERS: Secretary of state, Horatio G,
King of Brooklyn; comptroller, John B.
Judson Of Gloversville; state treasurer,
D. G. Dow of Cobleskill; attorney gen.
eral, Norton Chase of Albany; state en-
gineer, Russell R. Stuart of Syracuse;
court of appeals, John D. Teller OF
Auburn. It then adopted the resolu-
tons and its platform of principles.
Within two hours after the close OF
the convention the town was deserted
by the delegates. There has been abso-
lutte lack of enthusiasm, for up-country
delegates are angry that an understand
ing was not arrived at with the State
Democracy people, and Tammany.
while exultant at the State Democracy
defeat, is still quite disgruntled at the
platform declaration en- excise.
The Slate Broken.
Never at any political gathering did
so much depend on the admission OF
contesting delegations. and never were
plans so rudely broken as when the
State Democracy refused to enter the
convention. The ticket had been
looked upon in part as: Augustus
Scheu of Erie for comptroller, Daniel
Griffin of Watertown for attorney gen.
eral, Merton Chase of Albany for Sec
rotary of state, and J. B. Judson of
Fulton for treasurer.
At 8 o'clock, one hour before the
time set for the meeting Of the con-
vention, the slate was unchanged and
the platform very little changed. Half
an hour later Daniel Griffin, who had a
clear field for attorney general, had de-
clined to run, and Augustus Scheu,
who was slated for comptroller, with
every chance in his favor, had declined
to allow his name to be used. Judson
was transferred to the comptrollership;
D. G. Dow Of Schoharie was
Slated for State Treasurer
and Norton Chase was put on the slate
for attorney general although he had
never been mentioned for the office.
The platform, too, had been cut until it
had become much abbreviated mes
sage of few declarations and many semi
colons. The nominations were rapidly
put through by the convention and with
no great enthusiasm. The results de-
tailed were all because of the with
drawal of the delegates Of the State
Democracy.
Various reasons were given for the
sudden changes in the slate. Mr..
Scheu, who had been turned down in
the comptrollership fight, was very
bitter. He said that the personal en-
nifty of one of the leaders was the cause.
A friend of his stated that the reason
was that Herbert Bissen refused to
nominate him and Mr.. Scheu would not
run unless the nomination was made by
a Cleveland adherent.
Cause of the Boiling.
The convention was slow in meeting
and it was IL 20 when the gavel of the
chairman fell, and the report of the Gre
dentials committee called for The
Queens county contest was settled with
out debate. When the contest be-
tween Tammany and the State Democ-
racy was reached, however, the result
was different. The committee reported
the resolution adopted at its morning
session, allowing State Democracy del
egates one-fifth Of vote each, and
then there was trouble. Delegate Pat
terson Of Kings county offered substi-
tute in which the State Democracy was
accorded half the representation of Tam
many He made brief speech in sup
port of his substitute and when the
vote was taken it was rejected. The
report of the credentials committee was
adopted, and the State Democracy dele
gates left the hall in body. This cpl
sode over, the convention proceeded to
business and the above ticket was NOM
mated by reclamation.
The Platform.
The platform adopted lays down the
following propositions: Home rule;
economy in public expense; honesty in
public office; equal and honest enforce
ment of all laws; equal taxation; indi-
vidual liberty; honest elections; honest
reform in civil service; earnest and lib
eral promotion of agriculture; improved
highways; beneficial and needed legisla-
ton in the interest of labor; opposition
to combinations, trusts, and monopolies;
improvement and the maintenance of
the canals of the state; federal taxation
for revenue only; no meddling with the
present reformed tariff to the injury and
unsettling Of business and industries;
sound money legislation, as gold and sill
yer the only legal tenders; no currency
not convertible into coin; gradual re-
tirement and extinction of the green
back currency; no free and unlimited
coinage Of silver; strict construction of
the federal constitution; rigid mainte-
nance Of the reserved rights Of the
states; no force bills; no entangling al
liances with foreign nations; the vigor-