Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-25

session the matter was carefully consid-
cred. Mr.. Patterson was there, and pre-
sented his resolution for a third. 1t
was defeated by a large majority. and
give them one-fifth. Tammany objected
and voted against 1t. We consider it fair,
and We consider 1t especially fair, because
both parties object to 1t. II 1t is an insult
to offer one-fifth, it is an insult to offer
one-third. CHisses and groans.)
1--WE had great respect for the gentlemen
Of the contestants, but We had also to
consider the question of the democratic
party of the state. l move the adoption Of
a resolution indorsing our attitude"
UNFOLDING Tammnny.
Senator Charles Guy of Tammany took
the stage. One of his first assertions was
that Tammany had upheld tine democracy
for one hundred years.
A voice in the back-"Who slaughtered
Winfield Hancock"
The chair-'The gentleman will cease his
interruption"
State Senator Guy and Thomas F. Grady
spoke for the Tammany democrats. The
latter said that the state democracy, with
the German reformers to help them, was
less than one-fifth. Yet they gave them
fifth.
'a1'hey ask for a half. 1t is surprising
a matter now of conscience. not politics.
What would they do If they had a th:rdo
I venture a prediction that If for any
motive they scorn the offer made here from
that moment they will be without con-
stituency. / had supposed that after our
decision last night the kicking and cutting
would be over. Tammany to the number
Of 109,0OO will decide whether the action Of
this committee and convention Is right or
wrorg.
The question was put by the chairman,
and the Patterson resolution was killed and
the other resolution, giving the state de-
mocracy one-fifth, adopted.
State Democracy BOltcd.
The Grace-Fairchild people started to
leave the hall, and as some of them filed
out there was a repetition of the scene In
the democracy convention of 1894 at Sara
toga.
They were alternately cheered and Kissed.
When the tumult had subsidized the report
of the committee on permanent organiza-
ton was read, and the chair appointed John
Boyd Thatcher and James n. Shepard to
escort Ex-Governor Flower to the chair
The Nominations.
The following is the full ticket nominated:
For secretary of state, Horatio c. King
of Kings.
Controller, John B. Judson of Fulton.
State treasurer, d. c. Dow of Schoharie.
Albany.
State engineer, Russell Stuart of onon-
daga.
Judge of court Of appeals, John G. Teller
of Auburn.
Charles S. Fairchild of New York said,
when lie left the convention today:
THE AssC ciated Pie IS can announce that
we will have ticket of our own on all
local issues"
"Will you affiliate with the republicans?"
Il don't know as yet We have not yet
made q decision"
The Platform.
The platform makes following declara-
ton of principles and policy:
1. Home rule, the first essential condI-
ton of good municipal government; local
jurisdiction and control over purely local
affairs; no legislative meddling.
2. Economy in public expense. No pub
lie money for private purposes or political
jobs; strict audit of official expenditure; a
low tax rate.
3. Honesty in public office: no tainted leg
islature; no corrupt traffic in legislators,
clean men and free agents.
4. Equal and honest enforcement of all
laws; proper observation of day of rest
and an orderly Sunday; notifications or re-
peal of laws unsupported by public opinion;
no unjust sumptuary laws; no blue laws;
recognition of the fundamental American
principle Of freedom of conscience; home
rule In excise, as we'll as in other matters
within reasonable limitations established
to protect the interests of temperance and
morality; an amendment of the excise and
other laws by the legislature Of the state
which shall permit each municipality ex-
pressing its sentiments by a popular vote
of majority Of it's citizens to determine
within such proper legislative restrictions
as shall be required by the interests of the
entire state what may best suit it's special
necessities and conditions.
8. The attempts of prominent republican
politicians in the large cities of the state
to repudiate their own platform are re-
newed evidence of their hypocrisy and dis
honesty on the excise question and of their
desire to deceive the people.
6. Equal taxation; no unjust discrimina-
ticn; no favored interests; no partial legis-
lation; home rule in methods of strictly
local taxation.
Z. Individual liberty: the right of all citi-
Gems to equal opportunities before the law
equal and exact justice to all men.
8. Honest elections; compulsory official
accounting Of expenditures by political
committees as well as candidates; personal
registration of voters as safeguard
against fraud.
8. Practical and honest reform in the
10. Intelligent and liberal promotion of
agriculture.
II. Imp owed highways of travel through
out the state in the interest Of our citizens
riders.
II. Beneficial and needed legislation in the
interests of labor; opposition to combina-
tions, trusts and monoplies. in restraint
Of competition in trade; Improvement in
and the maintenance Of the canals of the
state, in accordance with the time-hon-
ored policy of the democratic party.
49, Federal taxation for revenue only; no
government partnership, with protected
monopolies; no meddling with the present
reformed tariff, to the injury and unset
ting of business and Industries.
IA. SouI.d NOR ey; gold and silver the only
legal tender: no currency not convertible
to coin; gradual retirement and extinction
of the greenback currency; no free and I'M
limited coinage of silver.
10. Strict construction of the federal Con-
stitution: rigid maintenance of the reserved
rights OF the states; no force bills.
IT, No entangling alliances with foreign
nations; the vigorous enforcement of the
Monroe doctrine; no jlngoism. We reaf-
firm the democratic national platform of
1892, and congratulate the people that
democratic legislation and democratic ad-
ministration have successfully brought the
country out of the disastrous financial and
Industrial condition into which 1t was
plunged by the ill-conceived acts of the re-
publican party. We indorse the admins
frof of