The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-18
CONVENTION WAS LIVELY
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS HAVE 4
 GREAT TIME IN SARATOGA.

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 Convention Hall Saratoga, N. Y. Sept. H.-Clear skies and a bracing atmosphere gladdened the hearts of re- publican statesmen when they took a look around this morning. The confi- dent ones declared that the day was as bright as the outlook for republi- can victory. They shook hands with party workers from all over the state and the sentiment expressed everywhere was that the grand old party will have an easy thing in the Empire state this fall.
 Reform" will be the slogan of the campaign. All other issues will be let alone as much as possible, and the battle will be made on much the same lines as last year, when the party sur prised itself.
 MT. Platt, Chauncey M. Depew and other recognized leaders were loudly cheered as they entered the convention hall.
 Chairman Hackett called for order at 12:27 and introduced the Rev. Dr. Joseph Carey, Episcopal rector of Sara toga, who invoked the divine blessing.
 Hon. Jakes s. Sherman of Oneida was made temporary chairman. On taking the chair he was loudly cheer ed
 The following temporary secretaries were then named: John Kenyon, Reu- ben L. Fox, William B. Dodge, Charles A. Ball and Lafayette B. Gleason.
 Committees were then appointed on contested seats, resolutions, and per manent organization, and a recess was taken for dinner.
 After recess Senator Clarence Lexow of Rockland took the gavel as perma- nent chairman and made long speech.
 During recess the committee on reso- lutions had a protracted session. Ed ward Lauterbach of New York made a long argument in favor of more lib- eral laws for New York city. He urged that the subject so far as the metropolis is concerned be left to a vote of the residents. He was listened to for nearly an hour by the committeeman, mustt of whom were from up the state and had views entirely different from those expressed by MT. Lauterbach. They were opposed to anything in the nature of local option or that encroached upon the American sabbath.
 The seats in the hall filled up with outsiders anxious to hear MT. Lexow's speech and possibly one by MT. Depew until there were 5000 people present. At 3:55 the crowd got impatient and called for MT. Depew. He responded promptly and soon set his audience in roar. He said that the difference between republicans and democrats was that republicans knew how to point out mistakes when out of power and how to remedy them when in power, while democrats knew how to find out their mistakes when out of power and how to make more when in power.
 MT. Depew continued: we had the responsibility thrust upon us for the first city in the new world. Brooklyn stands redeemed. There may be differ ences of opinion as to the transforming of misrule into good rule in New York but in the opinion of all honest men the republican rule of that city has been a success. We have had the re- sponsibility of that great engine, the police power of New York, and it may be said we now have city in which any citizen may express his political opinion and may deposit his vote with out intimida tion. We have had thrust upon us the responsibility of the con- trol of the state"
 MT. Depew spoke half an hour and was given an ovation when he closed At 4:30 the convention was called to order again. As the committee on per- manent organization was not ready there was more waiting. To fill in the crowd shouted for MT. Fassett. MT. Fassett said in part
 q am here as a republican and one who believes in home rule. I am all ways ready fo help make the action of the republican party unanimous. did think much of coming here this wear until was told I was not to come. l then was anxious to be here"
 The committee on permanent organi- zation reported at 4:42, naming Senator Lexow for permanent chairman and named the temporary secretaries as the permanent officials.
 Chairman Sherman introduced Sena- tor Lexow and the latter made an ad- dress.
 Mir. Lexow concisely reviewed the his tory and work of the party, and de- clared that the party would continue to be the party of action and progress. He said this convention was both guar antee of purpose and a potent of victo- ". Here it was last year that the re- publican convention with rare unanim- ity named as it's choice for governor Levi P. Morton and announced to the people that the party was arrayed az gressively under the banner of good government and pure politics and under the leadership of one of the wisest and most patriotic statesmen of the times.
 Here it was that a democratic con vention, with equal if not greater unan- unity, certainly with greater vociferous- ness, chose David B. Hill as it's logical