The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-26

Of .his committee and convention is right
or wrong"
The question was put by the chair and
the Patterson resolution was killed and
the other resolution, giving the state
democracy one-fifth, adopted.
The Grace Fairchild people started to
leave the hall, and as some of them filed
out there was repetition of the scene in
the Democratic convention of 1894 at Sar-
atoga. They we're alternately cheered
and hissed. When the tumult bad sub
sided the report of the committee on per-
manent organization and the chairman
appointed John Boyd Thacher and James
n. Shepard tn escort Ex-Governor Flower
to the chair. Assuming he position OF
permanent chairman Mr.. Flower said:
| count myself out of active politics
but | am too earnest a Democrat to re-
fuse the call of my party if it needs my
services on such an occasion as this, and
| feel proud at being asked to preside
over the deliberations OF a convention
whose actions will as | believe, reflect
the judgment ana opinions of a majority
OF voters in the Empire state at the next
election. ........
In victory or in defeat, there is always
une sure and lasting satisfaction in being
Democrat. and that is the consciousness
of belonging to party which is, what
ever else may be said of 1t. the party OF
the plain people and the party which in
stinctively and naturally abhors politica
hypocricy and false pretense.
After giving details of what he called
''the contrast between Republican prom
ises and Republican. performances, the
speaker expressed himself on national is
sues as follows:
have alluded as yet only to matters
of state concern for in the coming cleo
ton those are the questions of paramount
interest but federal issues cannot and
Will not be ignored. Fortunately. for
the Democratic party the tide Is with 1t
here also. Every week improvement in
industry end commerce is q vindication
of that Dem mocratic statesmanship which
placed the finances of the country on a
sound basis by .epealing the Sherman
law and revived waning industries ny the
enactment of the Wilson bill To those
two beneficial measures every recent in
crease of wages, every recent advance in
business, every recent sale of American
securities in Europe, every recent OPEN
ing of mills. is distinctly due. The
hard times which followed the fright
caused by the Sherman law are rapidly
disappearing under favorable conditions.
and Our recovery from hardship and de-
preston credit must be given 10 the
party which had the sagacity to remove
the cause OF financial and industrial dis
aster and provide sound legislation under
which business ana manufactures can le-
ultimately prosper. Danger OF depreci-
ated money is gone. and the tariff duties
are no longer SO nigh as to restrict for
eigr commerce and over stimulate few
industries at the expense of the many.
The best proof that the Democratic posi-
tion on the tariff IS right is found in the
universal revival of industry since the
enactment of the new law. Our woollens
are already finding markets in England,
and our 1orn and steel mills are hum ming
with new business. Under such condi-
tions no Republican attack can under
mine the Dem Ocratic vantage ground.
The people will not oe so easily deluded.
nor can their confidence be shaken in
the integrity and intelligence of the
Democratic administration at whose head
is honest and courageous Grover Cleve-
land.
The contest we are beginning is the
preliminary contest for next years great
political battle in the nation. Democratic
success this fall will make Democrats
everywhere lift up their heads and buckle
on their fighting armor. Victory here
will do much to secure victory in the
nation. So let us Subordinate all selfish
or local interests and join each other in
restoring to power the party to which we
tlong and iu which we believe.
The platform declares for honesty in
public Office, no tainted legislators, no
corrupt traffic in legislation, clean men
forcement OF all laws. a proper observa-
ton of day of rest and an orderly Sun
day, notifications or repeal OF laws un-
supported by public opinion. no unjust
sumptuary laws, no blue laws, recogni-
tion of the fundamental American prin-
Ciple of freedom of conscience, home rule
in gexcise as we'll as in otner matters
within reasonable limitations established
to protect the interests of temperance
and morality aud an amendment OF the
excise and other laws by the Legislature of
the state which will permit each mu-
nicipality expressing its sentiments by
popular vote of a ma ajOrity OF its citizens
to determine within such proper legisla-
tive restrictions as shall be required by
the interests of the entire state what
may est suit its special necessities and
conditions honest elections. compulsory
official accounting of expenditures by
political committees as well as candi-
dates personal registration OF voters as
Il safeguard against fraud, federal taxa
ton for revenue only, no government
partnership with protected monopolles,
no meddling with the present reform OF
tariff to the injury and unsettling OF
business and industries, sound money,
gold and silver the only legal tender. no
currency not convertible into coin, grad
ual retirement and extinction of the
greenbacS currnCy, no free and unlimited
coinage of silver, strict construction of
the federal constitution. rigid mainte-
narce of the reserved rights of the state,
no force bill, no entangling alliance with
foreign nations, the vigorous enforce
ment of the Monroe doctrine, no jingo
ism.
Wa reaffirm the Democratic national